CHINA.
PEKIN BEING REDUCED TO ORDER. ADVICE TO KING EDWARD. RUSSIAN TACTICS..
ATTEMPT TO ACQUIRE RAILWAYS.
(United Press Association) LOND N, February 10. Seventy thousand Chinese Mahommedans are gradually returning to Pekin. The Allies have adopted precautions against disturbances. The residents of Shanghai urge King Edward to refuse to leceive a commission from China congratulating him on his accession until the massacres of Christians and other outrages have been expiated. A detachment of Germans is investigating the recent massacre of converts near Yenhing. "The Times" Pekin correspondent reports that Russia offers to purchase the northern Chinese railways north of the Great Wall as part payment of the indemnity. The offer hae been made despite the written pledge of the Tsung-li-Yamen and Bir Claude Macdonald that China shall not alienate the Shan-hai-kwan, Nm-chwang and Siuminting railways.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXXV, Issue 33, 11 February 1901, Page 2
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135CHINA. Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXXV, Issue 33, 11 February 1901, Page 2
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