AFFAIRS IN CHINA.
: + Uileottio Telegraph— <'opyright— United Proßß Association ) THURSDAY ISLAND, Jan. 13. Dr Morrison, the Times correspondent at Pekin, has arrived on a holiday visit to Australia. He states that affairs m Northern China are 1 veiy quiet. Seven out of eleven foreign ministers at Pekin ar© at present absent from their legations. The one great question before which all else pales at present is the falling of the dollar, which is lower than ever before-. Siitm, another neighboring State, hay- < my adopted a gold standard, intensified China's dilemma. She has to pay the Japanese indemnity m. gold. There is a strong Boxer movement m far western China. Great unrest m the three southern provinces is causing considerable anxiety and hampering trade. Russia, now practically owns Manchuria, and w making wonderful progress m opening up the country and establishing herself firmly. British development at Weihaiwei progresses satisfactorily, and tfhere. is every probability that it will become a great manufacturing centre. The Chinese as a people take lfo interest m Australian legislation towards then* exclusion, but the Japanese feel interested, resenting restriction as against the spirit of the alliance with Great Britain.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 9639, 14 January 1903, Page 3
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