MANCHURIA.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 221, 14 October 1903, Page 2

MANCHURIA.

SITUATION BECOMING ORIIIOAL. FIB PEESS ASSOCIATION. LotDoK, Oitober 12. The Daily Mail s .ales that the Admirals of the China, Australian, and East Indian squadrons held a conference at Singapore en questions of naval concentration ar>d strategy in the Fat Est. It is r.ild-d tiiat such conferences take place annually. , Peking, October 12.

The Chinese taoiai oa returning to Niuchwang to arrange for the assumption cf his authority on the promised Russian evacuation, was ordered amy by the Russian adoiinistiation. The General in command at Niuch<rang being absent in Russia, and not expec'ing to ru'u?n, has rented hit house for the winter. He will now, however, return with bis family. Officials openly declare that the Russian occupation of Manchuria ia permanent.

Received 13,10 26 p.m. Pekin, Ootober ?2. The Russian Garrison Band, playing national airs, csfcentatiously paraded the foreign settlement on Friday. An exodus of Chinese merchant from Yalu Valley has commenced, and numbers are arriving at Übefee and Shanghai Berlin, Ootober 12. The correspondent cf the Jurter Zeilung n ports that the J»pa# uese havd occupied Masamphoei. OF TREATY RIGHTO. Receive') 14. 110 a.m. London, October 13. An apparently officially inspired statement is current in London to the ff-ct that the various Powers who have treaty rights with China affecting their position in the Chinese Empire, including Manchuria, will require that wh it ever may be Russia's arrangement with China such rights shell be maintained unimpaii it, but if their > 'ißhts a.e re-pec ed it is probable neither Jap'in nor any o'her power will be dispsed to thwart Kursia to safeguard her peculiar interests in Manchuria, or threaten p aci.