THE FAR EAST.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 603, 3 September 1909, Page 5

THE FAR EAST.

DISPUTES BETWEEN CHINA AND JAPAN. CENERAL ADJUSTMENT. THE FA-KU-MEN RAILWAY INCIDENT. lUy Telcerarh -I'rcaa Association -GooyrlKhU Peking, Scptembei 1. The negotiations bctv.ecn China and Japan to settle outstanding disputes with regard to Mauohunnn railways and other matters aro concluded i Duma agicos not to construct the Hsin-miu-tun to Fa-ku-men railway extension without consulting Japan, and agrees that tho latter shall be entitled to woik tho Fushun and Youtai mines.

INDIAN SURVEYOR KILLED IN CHINA

DIPLOMATIC PRESSURE London, September 1. , Router's Agency states that tho Chiucso Government his declined tho suggestion that Sir J. N. Jordan, tho British Mimstoi at Poking, should investigate tho circumstances of the death of Ah'Hazrah, a nativft Indian surveyor attached to Lieutenant Clark's meteorological expedition, who was killed by j Chraeso near Lan-chau, tho capital of Kansu Province.

. [Aii Hairah, a native surveyor of tho'lndian Survey- Department, attached, ro a,, scientific I expedition conducted by '<& wealthy-American/ named Clark, was killed /on June2l in a .dis-' putewitksonio country people near. Lan-ohau, :the capital. of Kan-suprovince. -.It was'subsc'.quently. reported' that' the Viceroy•:of..Kan-su had been.dismissed.- Ho■ asserts':that tho members ofr the expedition, .while rescuing another, .comrade (Mr. Sowerby, ; an : interpreter), attacked, ./tho Chinese; killing. one , and' wounding. \too. The i' British' and : .American .Legations. decided ■ that' the.expedition' had:bettor■ return at/onco to Peking, and the British Legation demanded the return of the Indian's body and full-repara-tion', for his ; death. ; Today's. cablegram, indi•catos that the British Embassy;is;trying to. force the : the uhinesoGovernment, ..whose. general, policy: in; such cases, is '. procras--v.?-'..;. ■•.■'.•"-'.'•-•'•;.■:'.'.' •>'■• "'•^/v'- 1