THE CRISIS IN CHINA.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 11537, 23 November 1900, Page 5

THE CRISIS IN CHINA.

THE DOWAGER'S WAR . EDICT.

SUPPLIES FOR SINGANFU. ASSURANCES OF VICEROYS' NEUTRALITY. By Telegraph.— Association.— Hongkong, November 22. The Dowager's warlike order is attributed to General Tungfuhsiang. London, November 22. The Times' Shanghai correspondent states that Lukhwani declares lhat he sent only strictly necessary supplies to Singanfti. He gives assurances of the stability of the Viceroys' neutrality. GERMANY AND CHINA. DISCUSSION IN THE REICHSTAG. THE KAISER'S NO-QUARTER SPEECH Berlin, November 21. In the Reichstag Herr Bebel, referring to the cruelties said to have been perpetrated by German soldiers in China, satirised the Berlin newspapers for their " moral indignation" against English atrocities in South Africa. Herr Gossler, the Prussian Minister for "War, defending the Kaiser, said what the troops were doing in China was merely in retaliation for the Huns' invasion of Europe. The Chancellor, Count von Bulow, speaking in the Reichstag, said he assumed moral responsibility for the Kaiser's speeches. He declared the speech delivered by the Emperor at Bremerhaven was extemporaneous. Believing that the Europeans at Pekln were massacred, the Kaiser spoke as a. soldier and not as a diplomat. THE PEIHO FROZEN. Hongkong, November 21. The river Peiho, north of Tung Chau, is freezing. | . THE CHINESE INDEMNITY. London, November 21. The Washington correspondent of the Times states that, politicians imply that the Powers are asking an impossible indemnity from China in order to make partition inevitable.