AFFAIRS IN CHINA.
WHOLESALE DEATH SENTENCES.
By Telegraph—l’ross Association—Copyright London, May 8.
An Imperial edict fins boon issued directing tho punishmont of fifty-three Chinese provincial officials, sentencing them to death.
INDEMNITY FINED AT 65 MILLIONS.
By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright London, May 9. Tire Foreign Ministers have informed China that the indemnity is fixed at sixtv-livo million pounds. Pekin, April 8. According to expert opinion, China would be able to pay from .£20,000,000 to £1*0.000,000 sterling without crippling her financial resources, while tho amounts which tho Powers at present demand aggregate from .£80,000,000 to / * .£100,000,000. The North China Daily News states that tho Oriental Association at Tokio,
replying to a telegram sent by a previous mooting of Chinese at Shanghai appealing , for (jii in stopping the ratification of the lvUSs?Chineso treaty, telegraphed saying that Japan had ready forty modern warships, and if China stood firm against the ratification of the treaty, Japan wouia held her in her difficulties.
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Gisborne Times, Volume V, Issue 103, 10 May 1901, Page 3
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