China.

Manawatu Herald, 1 December 1900, Page 2

China.

NEGOTIATIONS FOR PEACE. The foreign Ministers have agreed that China must recast her commercial treaties with foreign nations, and accept a measure of foreign control as guarantee for the payment of the war indemnity, which the lowest estimate already fixes at sixty millions 'sterling. Mr Conger, the United States Minister at Pekin, has been instructed not to sign the demands made by the foreign Ministers upon China until President McKinley has examined them. FRENCH POLICY DISCUSSED? During a discussion in the Chamber of Deputies on the colonial vote, M. D'Estournelles de Constant, who has held diplomatic appointments at several foreign Courts, denounced unmeasured colonial expansion. He said that unless she were careful France would provoke another Fashoda in Yunnan. M. Francois, a retired China diplomatist, condemned the imprudent French intrigues in Yunnan, and said France must remain a Continental Power. She was unable to aspire to the empire of the sea. ADVICE. Li Hung Chang, writing to a friend at Shanghai, said — "Keep quiet; sit tight ; do nothing. Foreign devils will fight amongst themselves." MILITARY OPERATIONS. In connection with the expedition composed of German and Italian troops recently sent to Kalgan, ioo morth-west of Pekin, it is now reported that the Germans have withdrawn from Kalgan. MILITARY RIOTERS. Thirty French soldiers at Shanghai in revenge for the British assaulting some Frenchmen, created a disturbance in the English settlement. They defied the police and bayoneted several civilians.