THE CHINESE WAR.

Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 8 January 1901, Page 3

THE CHINESE WAR.

Rassia's Aggressive Policy.

China will sign all Conditions.. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH —COPYRIGHT.) (per press association.) Received this day at S 20 a.in. London. January 7. Tlie Cologne Gazette states that Britain originally wished (ho Anglo-German agreement expressly to exclude -Manchuria in its scope. - The Times says the Anglo-German agreement does not a fleet British rights and interests in Manchuria. Paris, January 7. Petite, a Parisian organ of the French Minister of Agriculture, states that the Emperor of China and an influential party favour extending the protectorate of the Czar over the whole of Northern China. French interests, the newspaper says, are confined to South China. . " London, January 7. The Vienna correspondent of the Daily Telegraph states that Russia completed in 181)1) an agreement with Li J lung Chang for a gradual assimilation of Manchuria by Russia. At the same time Russia arranged treaties, securing the neutrality of the Shah of Persia in the event of hostilities and allowing the Cossacks in Persia, Bokhara and China to actively co-oporatc in carrying out Russian plans. The Times’ Pekin correspondent states that at the instance of Chang Chitting, Viceroy at Tianghu, the Imperial Court instructed the Chinese envoy to delay signing the proposals in order to secure amendments and removal of the article, blaming the Chinese Government for attacks on the Legations. Chang Chitung pointed out that under the proposals there was a prospect of ten thousand troops of the Allies being stationed between Pekin and the sea. The Chinese envoys replied that it was impossible to recall the assent of the Emperor to the proposals, and have announced that they arc ready to sign. The envoys attribute the action of Chang Chilling to his enmity to themselves, and point out the similarity of the present action with his denunciation of the Shimonoscld' treaty between Japan and China in 1895,