NEWS FROM CHINA

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1510, 7 February 1901, Page 20

NEWS FROM CHINA

TERMS OF PEACE

[LONDON, January 29. A Reuter message from Shanghai states 'that clauses have been arranged in the agreement for peace restoring •Manchuria to China, and conceding the reinstatement of Chinese authority m •Tientsin. v- u Prince Ching expressed to Mr it. 14. Conger, the United. States Minister at Pekin, his regret that the allies wouid •not surrender the Forbidden City. 3t was impossible for the Emperor to rectum until his residence was prepared. He did not object to the missionaries continuing their work. Chinese reports state that the allies discovered 900,000 taels in the Summer Palace .at Pekin. They are applying the amount to the payment of the troops. The correspondent of the ‘‘Daily News 5 announces the execution of Prince Oman, a noted anti-foreign leader, besides Yuhsien. v . . . Arrests have been effected in the Japanese quarter of Hsu-tung and Chihsin, a notorious Boxer leader, and a membqr of the Tsun g-1 i-Yam en. LONDON, January 51.

The Chinese assert that Russia re - quires an indemnity of thirty million taels (£610,000,000) for restoring Manchuria.

Field Marshal von Waldetrsee demands fivd million taels (£1,660,000) for the murder of Baron von Ketteler, who was killed at Pekin*

While Chinese stores of gunpowder' at Shan-hai-kwan were being destroyed ail explosion occurred, which killed forty Japanese and injured two British soldiers.

The missionaries at Pekin have submitted a demand for adequate protection ■of missionaries and distribution of relief to converts equally with others by the Chinese authorities.

The “Standard’s” Tientsin correspondent states that a strong German force, with a month’s supplies, has left Pekin for Shan-shi, a Japanese vanguard preceding it.

[LONDON, February 1. With regard. to’> the announcement made yesterday that a strong German force, with a month’s provisions’, preceded by a Japanese vanguard, has left Pekin for Shan-shi, the movement is attributed to a reported massacre of eonwefts seventy miles from the capital. The Germans are demanding a heavy monetary indemnity for piracy and the wounding of Getrmans on the West river.