The Trouble in China.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 146, 7 May 1901, Page 4

The Trouble in China.

London, "May 2. General Wegack, the Russian com* wander, is* absent from the generals* conference at Pekin, which is discussing the terms of peace. The Cologne Gazette reports a sanguinary battle near Mukden. The Russians sustained fifty casualties, and four, officers, including General Zerpithski, were wounded. The Viceroy of Canton has abolished the privileges of the Manchus, who henceforth will be treated similar to the Chinese. May 3. The Foreign Ministers’ Committee at Pekin recommend a 4 or per cent loan of £70,000,0 00, guaranteed by the; Powers to cover the indemnity of £65,000,000; or otherwise that each Power shall accept bonds to cover its, indemnity. The committee is unanimous in recommending an effective five per' cent ad' valorum maritime Customs imports tariff, and the assignment of the native Customs to the service, she indemnity duties to be on flour, blitter, cheese, foreign clothing, spirits, but not to interfere with thelikia duty or the land tax. A majority of the Ministers-recoin-, mended a.ip per cent Customs duty, but Britain, America and Japan apposed this. May 5. A Reuter message states that the German bridge oyer the Peiho river near the southern end of the British concession at Tientsin impeded the traffic of the, river, and the British tug Ewoyesterday touched the bridge. The Germans fired* wounding two of the crew. The Standard’s Shanghai correspondent states that Rus-ia demands eb compensation for the rejection of the Manchurian convention a rectification of the Kulja frontier, the cession of a strip of territory in Western Tibet, and the concession of a gold mine south of-; he Amur river, ‘ '