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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 40, 17 February 1904, Page 3

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SIJfRTXO OF THE NAKANORA MARU. TORPEDOED AFTER THE COLOURS HAI) BEEN STRUCK. (Received Fct). 16, 11.30 p.m.) LONDON, Feb. 16. The JnfKuiose did not use torpedoes in the Chc'inuJpl«o tight. Thorp is great imlig'imtkin at Tokio over the torpedoing and sinking •of the steamer Nafconora Maru, wiUi • 84 of the crew and passengers, after flag..bqa htvulfld down and

colonel li:av s notio. } FRANCE'S TK-XHKII " SrSCKl'Til- 1 BILITIKS." v (lteceiveil Feb. Hi, 11.-IT p.m.) J LOXHON. t'« 1). Hi. " Mr HtnulK'.v says tint llnssia.'s a*- <' wilt to thi> I'DMlitiiiiis iuip.is,\l by 1 the Xoti- issued by Colon. 1 Hay. ' I'mitt*! States Secretary *oi' State, '' lVC'iU'.'lilii; tile ili'tegrity of Ma'iKlliiria *' is inferred fitwu tin' met Hint M. " Delcaaso. French llials'ler ii»ir foreign AlTtvirs. has pas*i>.l Colonel Hay's proposal tjiat tie i><■! 1 ts fkoulJ n>.:pe.:t (Jiina's iieiiti'iil'ity ami hor administrative entity. The latter itoraso was iksed instead of "lorntonal in driVrtmee to French luisot-pliibiHlies, t»l----thoikgh it was iuvd.M-sto<.;l t!v.»t Man- 1 churia was .1 as thw real eropc for tiho o;*'ratian oi tho nvsitrality cI•AUSi'H. J China's rights, stipulations, ami ' existing treaties are not projtudieul J Eng-lanid, while fro I to assent to the NoU\ dowrow a more explicit deiinltion 01 its propo. i >tl-;. 1