SITUATION IN THE EAST.
Electric Telegraph— Copyright— United Press Aasooiation. LONDON, June 12. In the House of Commons, Lord Cranborne stated that Germany m September landed troops at Shanghai to assist m keeping order. It is understood that it is intended to maintain the garrison, at any rate for the present. - He was unaware whether any explanation had been furnished the British as to Germany's intentions. The House received the last sentence m dead silence. Lord Cranborne, replying to a deputation representing Chambers of Commerce, said that the enterprise of traders was pre-requisite to the maintenance of commercial ascendancy m China. Great Britain was securing lull opportunities. One thing to avoid was international swagger. Great Britain's well-defined treaty right would be pressed courteously but firmly. Tlie watchers of the recent relations with Russia had seen them pressed with no small success. Renter's Pekin correspondent states that the day after telegraphing the edict ordering all archives to be destroyed, the Imperial library m the Forbidden City was set on fire. Li Hung Chang m the meantime denied receiving a telegram conveying the edict. Mr Rockhill, act-ing-American Minister, however, possesses a translation thereof.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 9171, 13 June 1901, Page 2
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