CHINA.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 110, 7 May 1903, Page 3

CHINA.

HANOHUBIAN question. BUBSIAN DEMANDS. AHBRIOAN POLICY, m FBXSB ASSOCIATION. Losdok, May 5. The text of the demands aa to Manchuria declares that Russia is entitled to guard her neighbourly relations with China against alien interference. It is stipulated that Ohina shall not open treaty ports in Manchuria or permit; new Consuls without the consent of Russia, The employment of foreigners in the Chinese administraton is cot to extend to afiairs in North Ohina, where | Banian interests predominate. Such positions must be entrusted there to Russians alone, instancing mining advisers, who must be Russians in Manchuria and Mongolia, M. PlaucoD, Charge d'Affiira at Pekin, signed the Russian demands on April sth, He now denies that he is demanding anything as the price of a preliminary evacuation, but states thit the conditions required were necessary (or Russia's protection. M. Lessar, Russian Minister, is hastening back to Pebin. The New York Tribune ecou's M. Oassini's suggestion that special Manp.. churian coceeEsions were sought by America, and declares that Americans have no desire to sneak in by a speci-ally-prepared side door. They want to enter by the front door, open to all the world.