Affairs in China.
SALISBURY’S CAUTIOUSNESS. MERCHANTS INDIGNANT. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright London, Feb. 7. The Times’ Pekin correspondent complains that Great Britain has neglected the opportunity to foreclose on the PeltinShanhaikwan railway. He adds that China was willing to allow the foreclosure, but Lord Salisbury did not desire the responsibility. British merchants arc furious over the matter.
A BIG INDEMNITY. By Telegraph. Press Association. Copyright Received Feb. 8, 12.19 a.m. London, Feb. 7. The Ministers of the Powers who arc discussing the question of an indemnity, estimate that China can easily pay four millions annually interest and sinking fund on a loan to cover an indemnity of eighty millions sterling.
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Gisborne Times, Volume V, Issue 33, 8 February 1901, Page 2
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