AFFAIRS IN CHINA.
AMERICANS OBJECT TO AGGRES
By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright London, Feb. 20..
The American Government strongly ob jects to Count Waldersee’s activity, es pecially {he proposed expedition to Taiuenfu.
An Imperial edict has been issued declaring that the action of the princes and officials in resisting proposals to suppress the Boxer movement imperilled the safety of the Court. The edict admits that the previous sentences on the offenders were inadequate. Prince Tuan can accordingly be banished from the province of Sinkiang. The foreign Ministers yesterday decided that China’s reply to the Powers’ demands was unsatisfactory; and determined to insist on compliance of the original demands. The German Commissariat in China has been ordered to have one thousand transport waggons in three weeks’ time for an eighty days’ expedition. "
Colonel Hoffimeister has been sent with an expeditionary corps to Inomakwa, north-westward of Paotingfu.
The German naval authorities are engaging pilots for an expedition on the Yangtse.
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Gisborne Times, Volume V, Issue 44, 21 February 1901, Page 1
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