CHINESE AFFAIRS.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXI, Issue 8781, 8 April 1907, Page 2

CHINESE AFFAIRS.

Press Association —Copyright. London, April 6.

Britain’s suggestion that inasmuch as the local authorities arc not hlameahlo, China will compensate Dr. Homo and F. Eadie, who w'ere attacked by Chinese pirates last year, has been accepted. Horne receives a thousand pounds sterling and Eadie a hundred. The Times Pekia correspondent reports that China’s indefinite postponement of negotiations for an AngloGerman loan for the Tientsin-Yan.tzo trunk line, the construction whereof ■would have employed large numbers of the famine stricken, is attributed to aversion to foreign capital and supervision, although the Chinese government sanctions pitiful appeals to foreigners for relief of the districts.