The Trouble in China.
I— o • London, February 18. Count Von Waldersee has issued a general order to the allied troops to prepare to inarch to Taiyuen or further in the spring, in order to exercise pressure on the Imperial Court. The order is interpreted in Home quarters as intendod to frighten the Court into submission. The Russv.-Chinese Bank has undertaken to construct for China the railway from Lake Baikal to Port Arthur, on the condition that it is entitled to work the line for thirty years. A railway from Kaikhta, in the vicinity of Baikal, to Pekin is also projected. Miss Chapman and Miss Way, Australians belonging to the Inland China Mission, who were some time ago reported as having been massacred, have arrived at Hankow under a Chinese escort. Chang Chintang has beheaded eight alleged Boxer leaders of the Hankow mobs.
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Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 111, 21 February 1901, Page 3
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143The Trouble in China. Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 111, 21 February 1901, Page 3
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