CHINESE AFFAIRS.
I [Br EtiECTBTC TB.SaSAPH— COPJTBieHT.] (Proponed Transfer of the Capital. (Pbb Pbbss Association*.) Received December 21, 6 p.m. Shanghai, December 20. It u stated that China haa invited Great Britain to assume tbe protectorata over the valley of Yangtse Ki idr and Si Kiang-, ou the We it Kiver. The Government officials at Pekin have advised the transfer of the oapital ts Nankin, the capital of the province of Kiangau v and a former capital of tbe Chinese Empirv, situ.'ed considerably further inward and to the southward than Pekin.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XXIX, Issue 12287, 22 December 1897, Page 2
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91CHINESE AFFAIRS. Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XXIX, Issue 12287, 22 December 1897, Page 2
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