China.
Hu Yu Few ex-Governor of Pekin the member of the progressive section who., .was recently appointed a member of the T*ung li-Yam^n, or Chinese Board of Foreign Affaire, has been dismissed from office. He counselled the punishment of the soldiery for attacks upon foreigner?, but the Dowager Empress rejected the advice, fearing the commandant of tha soldiery of Kiang-Su the provinse to the north of the mouth of the Yane-tae River. Lord Charles Beresford, addressing the China Association at Shanghai, said that Great Britain's policy of drift had allowed the " open door " -fcobeainolutely sbut. Her sphere of influence in thfi Yang-tse VaUey was purely mythical. The " Daily Telegraph " saya that the accession of Dowager Empress of China was due to a desire to defeat the projected Chinese- Japanese
alliance, whioh Great Britain favoured as a meaas of resisting Russian aggression.
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Manawatu Herald, 24 November 1898, Page 2
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141China. Manawatu Herald, 24 November 1898, Page 2
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