THE CRISIS IN CHINA.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CV, Issue 12429, 19 February 1901, Page 5

THE CRISIS IN CHINA.

TTJN G-ETJH- SI AN GP S SENTENCE. United Press Association—Ey Electric Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON. Feb. 17. Li Hung Chang has informed the Imperial Court that the foreign Ministers consent to the suspension of' Tung-f uh-Siang’s sentence until the Court has the power to inflict the sentence of death. BLUFF. .(Received Feb. 18, 11.6 p.m.) LONDON, Feb. 18. Count Waldersee bas issued a general order to the troops to prepare to March to Tai. yuen or further, in the Spring, to exercise pressure on the Imperial Court. The order is interpreted in Homo quarters as intended to frighten the Court into submission. MORE RUSSIAN METHODS. (Received Feb, 19, 12.20 a.m.) JLONDON, Feb. 18. The Russo-Chinese Bank has undertaken to construct for China a railway from Lake Baikal to Port Arthur. The condition is that it should be entitled 1 to work the line for thirty years. A railway from Kaikhta in the vicinity of Baikal, to Pekin 1 , is also projected. SAVED FROM MASSACRE. Miss Chapman and Miss Way, Australians belonging to the inland China Mission, who were sometime ago reported! to be massacred, have arrived at Hankow under a Chinese escort.