TO-DAY'S CABLE NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XL, Issue 7533, 6 May 1903, Page 5

TO-DAY'S CABLE NEWS.

Affairs in Manchuria.

(Per Pr^ss Association—Copyright) deceived to-day at 7.25 a m LONDON, Yesterday. The text of the demand on Manchuria declares that Russia is entitled to guard the neighbourly relations of China against alien interference stipulates that China shall not open any treaty ports in Manchuria, or permit new Consuls without the assent of Russia, the employment ot foreigners in Chinese administration is not to extend to the affairs of North China where Russian interests predominate, and such positions must be entrusted there to Russians alone, instancing mining advisers, who must be Russians, in Manchuria and Mongolia. M. Plancon, Charge d'Affaires at Pekin, who signed the Russian demands on April oth, now denies demanding anything as a preliminary to evacuation, but states the conditions required were necessary for Russia's protection. M. Lcssar, Russian Minister, is hastening back to Pekin. NEW YORK, Yesterday. Tho New York Tribune scouts M. Cassine's suggestion that special Mancburian concessions arc sought by America and declares the Americans have no desire to sneak in a specially prepared side door. They want to enter by the front door, open to all tho world.