ANGLO - CHINESE AGREEMENT.
CHAGRIN OF RUSSIAi By telegraph—Press Association— Copyright. LONDON, May 18. Morrison states that IYL. UesJar protested that the agreement disregarded the prior rights of Russia concerning the railway from Pekin to the Great .Wall, signed by Li Hung Chang. 'Hie foreign Office, being frightened, memorialised the Dowager, blaming Yuanshikai Huyufan, with the result that a secret edict was issued, censuring both ; it ordered them to be punished, and degraded two steps. Sir E. Satow emphatically refuses Ching’s request to revise the agreement to appease Russia. The agreement is unassailable. This preceded M. Lessar’s interview, at which the feeble Ching staled that the Chinese unanimously approved of the agreement to enable China to retain in her own hands all extensions in the metropolitan province. A
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Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 420, 20 May 1902, Page 2
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127ANGLO – CHINESE AGREEMENT. Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 420, 20 May 1902, Page 2
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