The Trouble in China.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 158, 4 June 1901, Page 3

The Trouble in China.

London, May 80.

Vienna newspapers complain that the Chinese problem is still unsolved, and the reactionary mandarins are still unpunished. Of all the Powers that intervened, Russia alone derived advantage. May 31.

The Emperor has issued an edict announcing that China agrees to the indemnity as previously cabled, with interest at the rate of four per cent. China asks to pay the indemnity in forty instead of thirty years. . Thirteen thousand Chinese troops occupy (.Jhili province. Count Von Waldersee, in a letter to Li Hung Chang, says that if order is maintained and the inhabitants protected, the Allies will evacuate Paotingfu and Pekin. He adds that China is now afforded an opportunity of showing her ability to stand alone, and winning the Allies’ respect. The Kaiser- restricts the German forces in China to a mixed garrison brigade and has dissolved the headquarters staff. It is improbable that the Allies will appoint one genetal-in-chief in succession to Count Waldersee.

The Tientsin correspondent of the Standard, states that the Court is holding Prince Ching and Li Hung Chang responsible for the departure of the allies by a given date. The reactionaries intend to represent the withdrawal as a result of the court’s behest, and a renewed outbreak of the troubles after the withdrawal is seriously feared.