THE FAR EAST.

Otago Witness, Volume 25, Issue 2321, 25 August 1898, Page 13

THE FAR EAST.

NEGOTIATING WITH RUSSIA.

LONDON, August 19,

Considerable activity has been manifested at the Foreign Ofnce .since the withdrawal cf the jecent negotiations with Pekrn.

Since China declined to accept British aid Lord Salisbury is seeking an agreement with Russia direct.

The Vienna Neve Freie Pr&ssc states that England needs diplomatists of the bad old school. The new and honest system of the Sir Philip Curries and the Sir Claude Macdonalds incalculably injures British interests.

August 21

Renter's Pekin correspondent states that tlio members of the Tsuug-li-Yamen are favourably disposed to the proposal to transfer the concession held by a Chinese syndicate for the extension of the railway from 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 astounding development of Russian Asiatic policy. If England, he said, became wedded to the French horse and the Russian elephant Germany need not rush in with a pitchfork, but should serenely watch the stiff-shirted lords crunched till they cried aloud to God.

SHANGHAI, August 21. The slaughter of rebels in Southern China continues. Many corpses of those killed float past Wuchau.

SYDNEY, August 22,

Eastern news stales that the rebellion in the Kwangsi Province of China has practically ended. The rebels were driven out of the city of Yunyun with a loss of 1000 men. The mob looted and destroyed the Mission Station at Changsu. the missionaries barely escaping with their lives.