THE CHINESE WAR.

Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 7 January 1901, Page 4

THE CHINESE WAR.

(by electric telegraph—copyright.) (per press association.) Paris, January 9. Temps states that Russian protectrate over Fingtient will ultimately moan that all Manchuria will bo Russian. That it points out, is radically irreconcilable with the policy of European concert principles of the Anglo-German agreement or even Russia’s own declarations. Received this day at 9 a.m. London, January 0. Major-General J. W. S Tulloch, with whom is associated General .Baluchi and companies of Australian and Japanese troops, is advancing towards Kaoliyang in order to punish the local reactionaries, who recently sent an insulting message to a patrol of the Allied troops and hred upon it with smokeless powder. The German expedition towards Licnchenghsu returned to Tientsin. The o(llccr commanding reports that he destroyed two thousand rifles and great quantities of ammunition in addiI tion-to capturing 43 Krupp guns.’ Reuter reports that the EmpressEowager executed Yul Hsien, and that thirty thousand Chinese Regulars arc with the Imperial Court at Singinfu.