Complications in China
Telegraph, Press Association. Copyright Shanghai, December 20. It is reported tbat the British-China fleet will winter at Waibaiwei, tbe Chinese naval station on the north coast of the Shantung Peninsula. It is stated that China has invited Great Britain to assume the protectorate over the Valley of Yangtze Kiang and Si Kiang, on the West River, The Government officials at Pekin have advised the transfer of the capital to Naakiu, the capital of the proviuce ot Kiangsu, and a former capital of tbe Chinese Empire, sitnated considerably further inward and to the southward than Pekin. Berlin, December 21. The Foreign Office professes to regard a Russian entrance into Port Arthur as a foregone conclusion, as the continna. tion of the policy of co operation with Germany in Eastern Asia. It in reported here that Great Britain will occupy Quelpart Island, 52 miles south from the southernmost point of Korea. Tokio, December 21. A large Japanese erjuadron has left Nagasaki bat its destination is not stated.
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Feilding Star, Volume XIX, Issue 150, 22 December 1897, Page 2
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