THE FAR EAST.
Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. ST. PETERSBURG, August 22. (Received Aug. 23, at 9.25 a.m.)
Russia is offering great inducements to her people to colonise Manchuria and Ta-lien-Wan.Bay. Thousands of peasants are proceeding to those territories on the completion of their term of military service. SHANGHAI, August 22. (Received Aug. 23, at 9.25 a.m.)
Herr Eugene Wolff, the traveller and correspondent of a German newspaper, on hearing that 13 Chinese had been arrested for the murder of German missionaries at Kiao-chau, entered the court into which they had been taken and, flourishing a document purporting to show that he was a special German envoy, tried the prisoners in the presence of the mandarin and the provicar* of the mission, and acquitted them. When Bishop Anzer returned to Shangtung from Berlin be asked what punishment the criminals had received, and when told that they had been acquitted he was astounded. The German Government have ordered an inquiry into the matter-
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 11200, 24 August 1898, Page 2
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160THE FAR EAST. Otago Daily Times, Issue 11200, 24 August 1898, Page 2
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