THE CHINESE SITUATION

Timaru Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 3559, 7 May 1901, Page 2

THE CHINESE SITUATION

THE CHINESE INDEMNITY. United Press Association —Per Electrio Telegraph—Copyright. Received 9.6 a.m., May 6th. LONDON,' May 5. Russia reduction of the Chinese indemnity, but is anxious to throw the burden of payment upon the import trade. The China Association, Shanghai, strenuously denounces the proposal that the import tariff should be ten per cent. Fifty cases of loot claimed by General Frencky, of the French forces, have been restored to the Chinese at Pekin, including the) Imperial bronze lions.

SENTENCE ON A FRENCHMAN. Received 12.30 a.m., May 7th. LONDON, May 6. A court-martial at Tientsin, sentenced a Frenchman to six months' imprisonment for wounding a British officer in the English settlement.

Count Von Waldersee probably retnrns to Europe in the middle of June.

CHINESE SUGGESTION ABOUT MANCHURIA. Received 12.37 a.m., May 7tli. LONDON, Ma/ 6. The Shanghai Chamber of Commerce has protested against the proposal to increase the Chinese tariff to 10 per cent. China suggests to the Powers the complete opening of Manchuria to the enterprise of the world. Japan and England approve ;j and America suggests that the principle be applied to the -whole of the Chinese Empire. THE RUSSIANS~IN~MAN CHURIA. ANNIHILATING THE CHINESE. Received 12.30 a.m., May 7th. LONDON, May 6. ' The Russians claim that they annihilated two bands of Chinese troops in Manchuria, and that they defeated and are pursuing a third band. Twenty-six Russians were killed and 75 wounded in the engagements.