The Trouble in China.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 157, 1 June 1901, Page 3

The Trouble in China.

London, May 28. Another indication o! tho speedy return of tho Court to Pekin is that tho China Merchants Company of Shanghai is transmitting a tribute of rice to Tientsin. The Times correspondent at Pekin reports that the British peace proposals are likely to be adopted as the basis of an edict in which the Chinese indebtedness will, be admitted at 450,000,000 taels [about L145,000,000], plus interest. The Allies will then begin the work of evacuation, and China will willingly comply with the terms laid down. Count Von Waldersee has reduced the area of foreign occupation. The Morning Post states that a Yunnan syndicate has secretly projected a loan, having secured tho right to construct a railway from Seoul to Pingyang. The French Government support the project, but the contract awaits the sanction of the Emperor of Itorea. The German quarters at Pekin are to be experimentally entrusted to the Chinese authorities for a fortnight. 5 May 29. The Standard's Shanghai correspondent states that 4,000 Kweiohau insurgents entered Szoohuen, causing a panic. 3,000 Yunnanese troops threaten to join them. Negotiations are passing between, the Allies in China with reference to the appointment of a successor to Count Von Waldersea as Oommander-in-Chief. China objects to pay 4 per cent interest on the indemnity. May 30. Ministers favour China’s immediate resumption of administration in the Chi-U province* Count Yon WalderaeC urges that the provincial government should remain in Tientsin until the troops are withdrawn.