China.

Manawatu Herald, 18 September 1900, Page 2

China.

The Japanese have arrested and handed over to the German military authorities the assassin of Baron von Ketteler, the late German Minister in Pekin. M. de Giars, the Russian Minister at Pekin, with his staff, has proceed to Nagasaki, in Japan. Great Britain's reply to the proposal to withdraw from Pekin is a firm refusal to do so until a satisfactory settlement with China is effected. RUSSIA'S CHANGE OF FRONT. The German authorities have declined to withdraw their troops from Pekin, tearing a massacre of 1000 Christian converts. Japan has offered to withdraw her superfluous troops. The Russian Government now admits that the allied troops cannot withdraw until the termination of the peace negotiations and the re-instalia* j tion of a Government able to maintain order. The Russian troops at Pekin are being steadily reinforced, and there is every indication of an extended stay. ALLEGED DESIRE FOR TERRITORY. Dr Morrison, " The Times" correspondent at Pekin, stated in a despatch dated the 4th inst., that it was believed in the best informed circles that Russia and Germany were acting in accord. Russia seeks the definite alienation in her favour of all the Chinese territory north of the Great Wall, while Germany desires to annex the provinces of Shantung, Kiangsu, and Yang-tse (?) "The Times" confidently hopes these rumours are only a invention. Similar but less sensational reports are current in Shanghai. NEGOTIATIONS FOR PEACE. The allies, in their negotiations with Prince Ching for an armistice, are proceeding on the basis that Tientsin shall remain neutral, while Manchuria and the Liao-tung peninsula shall occupy the position of buffer States. The allies are to garrison the treaty ports in order to protect foreign residents. They have also demanded that the leaders of the Boxer movement shall be executed. The latter condition is proving a difficulty, but the Yang-tse Viceroys support it. Li Hung Chang admits the justice of the demands, but contends that the allies must compile a list and denounce the leaders to the throne. LI HUNG CHANG. ' Li Hung Chang has sailed from Shang-hai for Taku. EXPLANATIONS FROM BERLIN. The authorities at Berlin have made a semi-official announcement that Germany's action in the Yang-tse district is restricted to the despatch of two gunboats to Hankow for the protection of Germans and the maintenance, internationally, of the opendoor policy. MISCELLANEOUS^ The town of Tulif, south-west of Tientsin, surrendered to a patrol of Bengal Lancers without resistance. The place was then looted and burned.