AFFAIRS IN CHINA.
LORD SALISBURY NEGOTIATING WITH RUSSIA By Telegraph.—PressAssociation.— Copyright. London, August 20. Since China declined British aid, Lord Salisbury has been seeking an agreement with Russia. Considerable activity is manifest at tho Foreign Office. ■■■_ Tho New Free Press, a German paper, states that England needs diplomatists of the bad old school. The new and honest system of Sir Philip Currie and Sir Claude Macdonald incalculably injures British interests. London - , August 21. Reuters l'ekin correspondent states that the Sung-Li-Yamen is favourably disposed to the proposal to transfer the concession held by a Chinese syndicate for the extension of the railway from Tien-tsin to Ching-Kiang, to an Anglo-German syndicate.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 10837, 22 August 1898, Page 5
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