CHINESE AFFAIRS

Otago Witness, Issue 2895, 8 September 1909, Page 24

CHINESE AFFAIRS

LONDON, September^ I. ' ; Renter states tEat _ China has declined , the suggestion of Sir J. N. Jordan,- the -British Minister at .Peking to. investigate th© .circumstances surrounding- the death, of j Haiarah; a "native of' Ibdja, and a surveyor attached bo* lieutenant Clark's meteorological expedition, who were, killed by the Chinese near Lanchau. The Manchuxian negotiations are concluded. China agrees not to construct the Hanmintum-Fakumen railway without consulting Japan, and v agrees to the latter being entitled to work the Fushun-Yentai mines. • September 2. The American Charge d' Affaires supports Sir J. N. Jordan's firm demand for reparation for Mr Sazrah's murder. Hazrah was a surveyor in the Indian service, but the- leader of the expedition was an American. The expedition left Peking some months ago for frontier work, with a large number of followers, iiiclud- | ing several Sikhs. Mr Sowerby, an interj proter, was captured when Hazrah was killed, and when the Board of Foreign . Affairs demanded a Teport from the j Viceroy of the Province, "the latter pro- ' tested that the expeditions had taken the j law into its own hands by rescuing Mr I Sowerby. The' viceroy was dismissed. i =====