The Trouble in China.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 120, 7 March 1901, Page 3

The Trouble in China.

London, March 3. The Chinefe peace envoys are afraid not to support Russia's demands in Manchuria, although aware that this will mean the loss of the province and probably cause trouble with the other Powers, since only Russian Chinese will be allowed to trade in Manchuria except at the greatest disadvantage. Ching solicits the foreign Ministers' . advice on the matter. i The total number of missionaries murdered in China was loi adults and iit'ty-two children. (Seventy adults and twenty-eight children ; were Kngiish; the rest are staled to be Swedish and American. March 1. Tho TinV'3 Pofcin .-'•atos that .Japan has notified China .ha.t as Kuseiu is receiving territorial and commercial advantages, fapao. rei{.tires an equivalent. A ;a:ii oi'it::i U ren->rc from St. Petersburg states >lf.it tliore is a apjo=a! treaty between China an 1 i;nss ; a. hat thai, Cis solely intended iO S ee tie fc! 10 (XKlliieOMS ()(" tliC restoration oi Miinchuria to China. i:i order to encourage Li Hung •'h ,-.•..;■ 10 sign the M inohuriau ' 'oiiveulaoii, al. !)e Ciers declared :.*i;i;, .'i-issia. wiil not gargetovo in • iiie !''iters' dentin is for the execu-tion-of ion provincial odficials. ■Tita»-ali 5. in. the House of Commons, the Marl of ' Iraubourtio stated that the i.lusso-i'hiiiosi) Manchuria agreoiU'iit was engaging the earnest, ;!t!et;t.in:i of Inataiu and the other Tin. l Imperial Court is returning to P, bio. A n escort has been ordered to Bonan from Shantung. Cauis. *'u r !i:ch o.

In tho Chamber oi Fvnu'.ies, \f, T)o ! c isso, replying to a tpiestio.i. said that the Allies neither studied nor decided upon the proposed expedition to the. interior of China. l''ranc-) would not participate! iu euy such expedition without weight of iv.ismis or first coii-rPtiug tho (Mriiii'ior. The ! r ri:nch rrooos re;;!:/:■•] -o .secure the hoal s-'-ttlomeni which v,-ou!d not i)o deir:meni.ai to Franco's ':: <■'- rests.