CHINESE QUESTION.
GERMAN DEMANDS. (I'.Y ELECTRIC TELEfiBAPH.—COTBIGHT). Washington, Juno 25. The United States Consul at Cheefoo advises the authorities here that Germany has claimed exclusive railway rights at Shantung, and demands the division of tho railway from Tientsin to Shanghai. Shanghai, June 2G. M. Paveloff, the Russian Ambassador in Pckiu, in his recent protest against the Hongkong aud Shanghai Bank loan to the Chinese Government for railway extension, declared that the loan must not be granted under any circumstances. London, Juno 26. Reuter's Pekin correspondent states that some difficulty has arisen in connection with the negotiations between tho French and Belgian Ambassadors and tho Chinese Government for a right to construct a railway connecting Pekin with Langkan, in the Yang-tse-Kiang Yalley. China refuses to concede the Belgian demands, urging that if she yielded it would place the great trunk line under the influence of Prance and Russia, a result which would be inimical to Great Britain.
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Waikato Argus, Volume IV, Issue 307, 28 June 1898, Page 2
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156CHINESE QUESTION. Waikato Argus, Volume IV, Issue 307, 28 June 1898, Page 2
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