The Trouble in China.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 127, 23 March 1901, Page 3

The Trouble in China.

London, March 10. Field-Marshal Count Von Waldcrsee authoritatively intervened with the view to ending the mutually hostile nnitnde of the British and Russians at Tientsin. ft is expected that 10,000 of tho French troops in China wilt shortly re! urn. The New York Herald’s Tientsin eonv-spomfent states that General Wygack declined Count Von Waldersae's compromise. March 20. It is semi oilicially stated in Beilin tli it Count Von Wahlersee, with the view of ending the spectacle of discord, in,-dialed for military reasons, and insisted on the withdrawal of even soil'd patrols at the siding. The s.-uieuient of ahe dispute is outside his sphere. Lord George Hamilton states that t’na sentries on both sides remain in their previous positions. They hove received strict orders not to assume the aggressive No disturbance is anticipated. A Reuter’s message states that both commanders at Tientsin siding await orders from their Governments.

The Russians state that their orders are to lire if anyone commences work.

The English troops in the trenches originally outnumbered the Russians. There are now twenty-one in the trenches, which are 45ft apart.

The Right Hon. A. J. Balfour, speaking in the House of Commons, said the mission of H.M.S. Plover to the Elliot and Blonde Islands in January to suppress Chinese pirates was in pursuance of article 52 of the Treaty of Tientsin,

[The Treaty of Tientsin was signed in 1353, an 1 ratified by a convention signed in 1830. This treaty formed the basis of the relations between Great Britain and. China, and by it additional ports in China were opened to British trade, provision was made for the permanent residence of a British representative at Pekin, and Kaulun, opposite Hong Kong, was ceded to Britain.]