HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.
A BIG GERMAN SURPLUS. JAPS. DECIMATING THE CHINESE IN FORMOSA. (Per Press Association.) London, July 20. The Times' Hong Kong correspondent writes that the Japanese are decimating the Chinese in Formosa. Over sixty villages were burned and a thousand people killed. In the course of an interview, tne Hon James Bryce thought Lord Salisbury over cautious, almost timorous, in framing the proposals for arbitration with America. He declares that nine tenths of the best Americans approve of the treaty. Li Hung Chang states that China will balance equally the French and I British commercial rights in the southwest provinces of China. Berlin, July 20. The German surplus for the year is | eleven million marks.
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Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 18, 21 July 1896, Page 2
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117HOME & FOREIGN CABLES. Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 18, 21 July 1896, Page 2
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