CHINA AND THE POWERS.
THE SEIZURE OF MANCHURIA. AMERICAN PROTESTS. LONDON, January 9. Influential American papers protest against Russia’s .seizure of Manchuria as inimical to Americans trading. interests, and urge the co-operation of England, Japan, Germany and America, with the view of combatting Russian aggression. Count von Wald'er.see, Commander-in - Chief of the allied forces, has declined Russia’s proposals to .restore the North China Railway to Germany, because the suggested terms of transfer over-rode existing British rights. LONDON, January 10. Count von Walder.see explains that the Boxers at Sze-hai-c.han, the scene of the latest fight, terrorised the district, and threatened Yen-king and Chan-ping, a town twenty miles north-west of Pekin. The Pekin correspondent of “The Times” (Dr Morrison) .states that the German Minister has suggested that Prince Chun, aged seventeen, brother of the Chinese Emperor, should be appointed Envoy Extraordinary to Berlin. The Prince is willing to go. The Chinese" authorities had previously secured the assent of Prince Su to go to Germany. If both are sent the advantage to China of her reparation to Germany will be v all the greater. LONDON, January IT. The Emperor and the Dowager-Empress have instructed Liu-Kun-yi and Chang-Chih-tung to proceed to Pekin or meet the Ministers of the Powers elsewhere and try to secure modifications of some clauses in the peace terms, which they declare it would be impossible to accept. The Dowager lias telegraphed to Peikin promising the severest punishment on the conspirators indicated in the Note of the Powers, but on no others. A Chinaman from Si-ngau-fu, where the Dowager and Court have taken up their abode, reports that eighty-five thousand Chinese troops are! continuously drilling with modern arms. Anti-foreign feeling is also stated to be 1 acute. LONDON, January 12. „ Several reports are current to the effect that Russia has yielded to Lord Salisbury’s protests against the North China Railway terms.
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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1507, 17 January 1901, Page 31
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