CHINA AND THE POWERS.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1506, 10 January 1901, Page 31

CHINA AND THE POWERS.

THE DEMANDS MADE BY THE- ' POWERS. MUTINOUS SEAMEN. TROUBLES OF THE “HANDY MAN.” LONDON, January 3. The Chinese Government- has notified the foreign Ministers that it is able to guarantee the performance cf the Powers’ demands,. Li Hung Chang is willing to banish the offenders named by the Ministers t-o- the north-western frontier of China. They will be beheaded if they return. Russia is retaining complete military control of Fengtein, the most important province of Manchuria. She allows the resumption of Chinese civil administration under Russian protection. Niu-cliwang and some other places will not be restored to China until Russia is satisfied that pacification' is complete. “The Times” says this agreement is utterly irreconcilable with Russian professions t-o China and the Powers. A. French gunboat lias arrived' in the West Hi ver. near Canton, owing to attacks on property belonging to Catholics. • A defective cartridge -caused an explosion at Reitang, while a salute was being fired. Five Germans were killed and fourteen wounded, five mortally. HONGKONG, January 4. 'The crew of the British battleship Barfleur mutinied at Hongkong, and threw the gun-sights overboard. They- complain of the unfair treatment to which they have been subjected with regard to loot- in China and of. the severity of the petty officers. Fifty of the crew have been placed in irons. LONDON, January 5. _Tlie Pekin correspondent of “The Times” (Dr Morrison) states that Great Britain c s complacency lias 'led Russia to claim possession of the Slmn-hai-kwan workshops, the retention of half the Shan-hai-kwan-Tientsin railway rolling stock for the New-chwang section of the line, besides holding a lien on Tientsin within the city wall to cover the cost of repairs and transport, A correspondent of the “Daily Express" says that if Count von Waldersee„ the Cominaiicler-in-Ohief, accepts certain conditions, the railway will be transferred) to him and by” hfi- fi retransferred to the British. PARTS. Jaiinar y 0. The journal ‘He Temps” states that the Russian protectorate over the Lengthen district of Manchuria- will ultimately mean that all Manchuria will be Russian. That, it is pointed out, is radically irreconcilable with the policy of the European concert, the principles of the Anglo-German agreement, or even with Russia’s own declarations. LONDON, January 6. Major-General J. W. G. Tulloch, with whom are associated General Baluchi and companies of Australian and Japanese troops, is advancing to Kaloyiiig in order to punish local reactionaries Hvho recently sent insulting messages t-o a patrol of allied troops, and fired upon it with smokeless powder. , The German expedition towards Lieu-chen-hsien has returned to Tientsin. The officer commanding reports that he destroyed two thousand rffles and great quantities of ammunition, in addition to capturing forty-three Krupp guns. Reuter’s, correspondent reports that •the Empress Dowager has executed Yuhsien, Governor of Shan-si. Thirty thousand Chinese regulars, adds the correspondent, are with the Imperial Court at Bi-ngan-fu, capital of the province of Shan-si. LONDON, January 7. Li Hung Chang, who has been suffering from influenza, has had a relapse. The Empress Dowager has telegraphed to General Feng-tze-tsoi to bring the entire Yunnan army, consisting of 15,000 men armed with modern weapons, from the Yang-tze northwards.