The Trouble in China.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 147, 9 May 1901, Page 3

The Trouble in China.

London, May 5. Russia favours reduction of the Chinese indemnity, but is anxious to throw the burden of payment upon the import trade. The China Association, Shanghai, strenuously denounces the proposal that the import tariff should be 10 per cent. Fifty cases of loot claimed by General Frencky, of the French forces, have been restored to the Chinese at Pekin, including theImperial bronze lions. London, May 6. The Russians claim that theyhave annihilated two bands of Chinese troops in Manchuiia, and that they have defeated and are pursuing a third band. Twentysix Russians were killed and seventy-five wounded in the engagements. A court martial at Tientsin sentenced a Frenchman to six mouths’ imprisonment for wounding a British officer in the English settlement. Count Yon Waldersee will probaly return to Europe about the middle of June. The Shanghai Chamber of Commerce has protested against the proposal to increase the Chinese tariff to ten per cent, China suggests to the Powers the complete opening of Manchuria to the enterprise of the world. Japan and England approve of the proposal, and America suggests that the principle should: be applied to the whple of the Chinese Empire. May 7. Two Germans patrolling in Paotingfu in December last upproyokedly murdered two Chinese. ThS Germans were court-martial led' and sentenced to death. They are now awaiting, the Kaiser’s decision in -regard .to their sentence. Duringfracas amongst the, European • ".soldiers at Taku , a Gsrman sdldier.Ediot.dsad a Russian naval,lieutenant, who bad atiapded him with .a dagger,-