The Trouble in China.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 94, 10 January 1901, Page 4

The Trouble in China.

London, January 6

Major-General J. W. G.Tulloch, with whom is associated General Baluchi, and companies of Australian and Japanese ttoops, is advancing on Kaoliying in order to punish local reactionaries who recently sent insulting messages to a patrol of allied troops, and (ired upon it with smokeless powder. The German expedition towards Lienchenghen has returned to jTientsin. The oliicer commanding the expedition reports that he destroyed 2000 rifles and great quantities of ammunition, iu addition to capitaing 43 Krupp guns.

Renter's Agency reports that the Empress Dowager caused Yui tlsien io be executed, and that 1)0,000 Uhinese regulars with the Court uro at Binganfu. January 7. Li Hung Chi;ng has had a relapse. The Dowager has telegraphed to General Fongtzetsai to bring the entire. Yunnan force, consisting of 15,000 men »rmed with modern weapons, from the Yangtze northwards.

The Times' Pekin correspondent states that at the instance of Chang Chingtu, Viceroy of Liang Hn, the Imperial Court has instructed the Chinese Envoys to delay signing the proposals, in [order to secure amendments and the removal of the arti-.le blaming the Chinese Government for the attacks on the Legations. Chang Chingtu points out that undti" the proposals there was a prospect of 10,000 troops of the allies being stationed between Pekin and the sea.

The Chinese Envoys replied that it was impossible to recall the assent of the Emperor to the proposals. They announce that tbey are ready to sign. The Envoys attribute the action of Chang Chingtu to his enmity towards themselves, and point out the similarity of his present action with his denunciation of the Shiewtoscki Treaty, between Japan and China, in 1895.

January. 8,

Prince Shenn has been appointed Vice-President of the Ministry of Commerce, with a view to the revision of Chinese commercial relations with the Powers.

Count Von Waldersee appreciates the Governor of Shantung's energy in protecting the Germans, and has refrained from sending European troops to carry out repressive operations in Shantung. Paeis, January 6.

Le Temps states that the Russian protectorate over Fingtient will ultimately mean that all Manchuria will be Russia. That, lit is pointed out, is radically irreconcilable with the policy-or'the European Concert, the principles of the Anglo-German agreement, or even Russia's own declarations.