AFFAIRS IN CHINA.
PEE PRESS ASSOCIATION. London, March 24. j The Times' Shanghai correspondent 1 says tha'. a latgo shipment sent; from there, after drnwbnek on import duties | had been obtained, Wt-re neat; to Port Arthur, and entered China duty free j via the Niuchwang railway. This is a r breach of the promise given by Russia i in 1899, that no goods should enter by j the latter route until protection of the . I Chine e revenue had been arranged. A Belgian syndicate is asking for a conression of the Sbanghai-Suchm-Nanking railway, which was coucao'ed to Great Brifaiu in 1898, but which Ml through owing tn trouble". Great B itHin recently resumed negotiations, but only hilf-heirtedly, and they were result!- ts. The Kwangsi rebels have captured K&uchau. M. Pelcasse includes among French interests the railway, which was originally Belgian, Leading Japanese newspapers suspect France of territorial designs in Yunnan, and Russia in Manchuria.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIV, Issue 89, 26 March 1902, Page 3
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154AFFAIRS IN CHINA. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIV, Issue 89, 26 March 1902, Page 3
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