Affairs in China.
PRINCE CHUN'S MISSION. AN IMPERIAL EDICT 1 . Berlin, August 80. The Emperor insists on Prince Chun's ultimate obeisance. The Prince, who is on an expiatory mission to Germany, remains at an hotel on the Swiss side of the Bhine. General Boepfur, who has been sent to receive him, is staying at a hotel on the German side. The Kaiser disapproved Prince Chun's proposed address, on the ground that it was not expressive of the expiatory character of his mission. London, August 29. . News from Pekin states that an Imperial edict has been issued prohibiting the importation into China of fire-arms, ammunition and machinery, but implying that they may be locally manufactured. The edict is regarded as a voluntary act of the Emperor. It mentioned that merchants clandestinely imported certain goods, and referred to disturbances created by brigands. At a meeting of the foreign Ministers, Sir Ernest Satow, the British representative, proposed to return the edict. He was over-ruled, but it was decided to ask that the objectionable portions of the edict should be eliminated. An appendix was added to the draft protocol, the Ministers informing the Chinese envoys that the prohibition of the importation of firearms applied equally to official imports,
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Woodville Examiner, Volume XIX, Issue 3302, 2 September 1901, Page 4
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