The Trouble in China.
London, March 26. Sir Robert Hart advised Li Hung Chang to provide an indemnity by means of stamp duties and taxes on horses and native opium. Britain opposes any increase in tariff at treaty ports. March 27. H.M.S. Terrible has been ordered from Amoy to Taku. The text of the Chinese decree published Bays that a powerful warning was given to China on the 18th February of the extreme danger of making secret treaties involving territoiy without the approval of all parties. Several newspapers and New York merchants complain of Mr Hay's recent refusal to protest against Russia's action in regard to Manchuria. An Imperial edict, published at Singanfu, orders that the Manchurian Convention is not to be signed on the da.v fixed by Russia. Enthusiasm is shown at Hantow, and the notables and gentry are protesting against the Convention, and are raising funds to oppose liussian aggression. Toino, March 28. Marquis Ito, tho Promier, in addressing his parliamentary supporters *s& Yokohama, said that it was impossible to deny* that Japan felt the complication in'Qhiffa created by Russia, or to igfuWfWtOTS'clouds on the horizon. '% 1 " I T*
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Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 130, 30 March 1901, Page 3
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191The Trouble in China. Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 130, 30 March 1901, Page 3
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