CHINA AND THE POWERS

New Zealand Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 4311, 21 March 1901, Page 5

CHINA AND THE POWERS

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THE RAILWAY SIDING DIFFICULT’/. ;.T VON WALDERSEE INTERVENES. LONDON, March 19. Field-Marshal Count von Waldersee, commander-iii-eliicl of the allied army in China, has authoritatively intervened with the view of ending tho mutually hostile attitude of the British and Russian troops in the dispute over the railway siding which Mr Kinder was forming at Tientsin, b'u.b when the Russians claim to be trenching upon the rights contained in tlxeir new concession. Tho Tientsin correspondent of tho ‘‘New York Herald” states that MajorGeneral Wogack, commander of the Russian force at Kinder 1 ' siding, declines Count von Waldersso’s proposal for a compromise. (Received March 21, 1.11 a.in.) LONDON, March 21.

It is semi-officially announced in Ber. lin that Count von Waldersee, with a view to ending the spectacle of discord, mediated between tho British and Russians, and insisted, for military reasons, on tho withdrawal of even small patrols at tho siding. The settlement of tho dispute is, however, outside his sphere. Lord Goorge Hamilton, Secretary of State for India, states that tho sentries of both sides remain in _ their previous positions, but have received strict orders not to assume the aggressive. No disturbance is anticipated. A Reuter’s message states that both tho British and Russian commanders at Ml- Kinder’s siding at Tientsin await orders from their Governments.

The Russians state that their orders are (.o fire if anyone commences work. The English troops iu thp trenches originally outnumbered ihc Russians. There are npw twenty-one in the trench, cs, which are forty-five feat apart. I’Aju.NCH TROOPS TO WITHDRAW. . LONDON, March. ID. It is expected that ten thousand of tho French troops in China will shortly return. feU PRESSION OP PIRATES. LONDON, March 10. tho Right Hon Mr Balfour stated^ in tho House of Commons that the mission of H.M.S. Plover to the Elliot and Blonde Islands, off the Chinese coast, in January to suppress Chinese pirates, was in pursuance of Article 52 of the Treaty of Tientsin.