THE CRISIS IN CHINA.

Otago Witness, Issue 2330, 27 October 1898, Page 13

THE CRISIS IN CHINA.

LONDON, October 17. France threatens to invade China unless the Tsung-li-Yamen releases [owing to a word being dropped in transmission the person whose release is referred to is not known]. The Japanese Government have warned the Tsung-li-Yamen of the peril of taking extreme measures in the present crisis. The Tsung-li-Yamen has entreated the Dowager Empress to allow nothing to happen to the Emperor. | The Standard, states that 40,000 Rusasaaa troops are now stationed at Port Arthur. October 23. Mr Asquith, speaking at Keighley, said that the highest and worthiest task of statesmanship was to establish permanent and workable intercourse between Great Britain and Russia in the Eaut. SHANGHAI, October 20. At the instance of Sir Claude Macdonald the Dowager Empress consented to an examination of the Emperor. He was found cheerful, though weak, and in an ansemic condition. He is in no immediate danger. Five hundred troops have been despatched from Canton to Sunon, beyond Kanlung, on the strength of a report that the population are arming to resist the extension of British territory in that district. In connection with the Kiao-Cb.au frontier settlement, Germany obtained from China a concession of the Loisan Mountains and Tahatur Harbour, with a sphere of influence extending over 50 kilometres of surrounding territory. The British-Chinese Corporation contracted for the construction of a railway connecting Suchou, Hangshou, and Ningpo on terms identical with those on which they contracted to construct a railway connecting Shanghai, Suchou, and Nanking. A mob at Paklung killed and burnt a French missionary and several converts. France claims an indemnity for the outrage. October 21. The Anglo-German agreement recognises j the Yangtse Valley as England's railway sphere, and the Shantung and Yellow River as Germany's sphere.