The Trouble in China.
London, May ,14. A Pekin correspondent reports that China asks for a reduction in the amount r.f the indemnity fixed hy the Powers, if refused the reduction she will bo willing to pay tlurty annual instalments of fifteen million tavla each, to he drawn from the likin, sub' tax and native customs, an d asks that the maritime customs should be increased one third. May 15. China dffers to pay annually an indemnity of 10*000,000 taels Pom the rail tax, 3,000,000 from naiive customs and 2 000,000 from likin. Genera' Gaselee’s despatches acknowodge the great support, of the Australian Brigade in China after the departure of the We’sh Fu'dliera, and be describes their conduct, and bearing as admirable and refers to the valuable services of Captain Gillespie, who had’ charge of the brigade, and Commanders Connor and Tickell. May ,16. General Liu attacked and dispersed 1000 B'-xcra twenty miles south ot Paotingfu. St. Petersburgii, May 15. Prince Nichtomsky, writing to the newspaper Viedomostt, says that the relations between Russia and japan are daily becoming more strained.
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Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 151, 18 May 1901, Page 3
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