CHINA AND THE POWERS.

New Zealand Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 4308, 18 March 1901, Page 5

CHINA AND THE POWERS.

. i FRICTION WITH THE RUSSIANS. j THE SEIZURE OF A RAILWAY ’ SIDING. | A , COLLISION IMMINENT. I (Received March 16, 6.1(3 p.m.) ; LONDON, March 15. i The force protecting Mr Kinder’s ‘ siding at Tientsin has been strongly rc- ; inforced. Trouble is imminent unless ’ the Russians retire. j The respective guards of both nation- ' alities are in close proximity to ono i another. • Later news states that the Russian I es are entrenching at the, siding. The Hongkong Regiment is confronting them with fixed bayonets, and 1 awaiting instructions. (Received March 17, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, March 16. A Reuter message states that the Russians have occupied the railway siding which Mr Kinder was constructing at Tientsin. Major-General Barrow hesitates to act in General Gaselee’s absence, and is consulting Sir E. M. Satow, the British. Minister. The Russians consider they are victorious in tho matter. The Russians declare that the siding interferes with a projected road through territory’ conceded to Russia. In the House of Commons, Lord George Hamilton (Secretary of State for India) said tho authorities on the spot at Tientsin were dealing with the sidinadifficulty. ** The British officers throughout the operations in China., he said, had shown such excessive conciliation that it was unnecessary to. specially instruct them in tho mater. \

THE RUSSIAN OCCUPATION OF MANCHURIA. (Received March 16, 6.16 pan.) . LONDON, March 15. Admiral Alexieff, commander of the Rufiian troops in China, has reinstated the Tartar General Tseng-chi as Governor of Mukden, with a guard of 4000 Cossacks to support him. [Tseng-chi,whoheld the chief military command in Manchuria, was dismissed by the Chinese Government in February for sanctioning ah agreement with Admiral Alexieff. It was stated at the time That Russia had compelled China to reinstate him.] (Received March 17, 5.5 p.m.) BERLIN, March 16. Speaking In the Reichstag, Count von Bulow (the Imperial Chancellor) said Qprmany was indifferent as to the future of Manchuria, Ho thought it undesirable that China’s resources should bo diminished. Li Hung Chang’s beautiful promises and Chinese promises and sophistries wore insufficient to secure the evacuation of tho province of Chili until he poaco conditions had been substantially fulfilled.

THE PUNISHMENT OP ANTIFOREIGN LEADERS.

(Received March 18, 0.55 a.m.)

LONDON, March 17. M. do Giers, the Russian Minister in China., lias vehemently declared that he would sooner lose his right hand than have any more decapitations. AUSTRALIAN VOLUNTEERS. (Received March 16, 6.16 p.m.) LONDON, March 15. Eighty Australians have volunteered lor tho Pekin-Shanhaikwaii railway service for a period of half a year.