AFFAIRS IN CHINA.
By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright Ilongkong, Aug. 29. Ail Imperial edict has been issued, prohibiting the importation into China of firearms, ammunition, and machinery, but implying that they may he locally manufactured. Tho edict is regarded as a voluntary act of tho Emperor. It mentioned that merchants were clandestinely importing certain goods, and referred to disturbances created by brigands. At a meeting of Foreign Ministers, Sir E. Satow proposed to return the edict, lie was overruled, but the objectionable portions were eliminated. An appendix was added to the draft protocol of tho Ministers informing tho Chinese envoys that tho prohibition applied equally to official imports.
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Gisborne Times, Volume VI, Issue 201, 31 August 1901, Page 2
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