THE FAR EAST.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 11198, 22 August 1898, Page 2

THE FAR EAST.

— -• ... I Press Association—By . Telegraph—Copyright.' '• f nwTkOTvT'" a j in ; n' -i -v, - •<• N? ' AugU3t: f I9:"V ; Considerable activity has been-nianitested cat the Foreign Office since the wiiMiwal of the recent negotiations, witli Pekiu. . - Sinoe CHina decjihed'to accept British aid , Lord Salisbury is seeking an agreement with j Russia direct: •■ ~\ .■••'.

NEGOTIATING WITH RUSSIA

The Vienna Neve Ereie Presse states that England needs diplomatists of the bad old school. The new and honest system of the Sir Philip JUurrie_s and the ..Sir- Clfiude Macdonalds incalculably injures British interests. 1 LONDON, August 21. Reuters Pekin correspondent states that the - members -of the Tstfng-li-'Yanien are favourably disposed to the proposal to transfer the concession held by a Chinese syndicate for the, extension -of .'the.f ailwavfront Tientsin to Chin Kiang to the Anglo - German Syndicate. ' , ~,.., . ~ •; -' '. "'" •"' • BERLIN, August 20. .Prince Bismarck's last conversation .with Count. Herbert, his son, referred to the as-" founding development' of Russian Asiatic policy. If England, he said, ' became wedded to the French horse and the.Russian Germany need not,rush in with a pitchfork, but; should serenely watch the stiff-shirted. lords, crunched, .till they' cried aloud fo God. . '..'■' " .. . . ",

SHANGHAI, August 21.:.. : The slaughter1 of rebels in Sb^thern China continues. Many^ corpses of. those killed float past Wuchaii. '■* , . .' '.