Foreign Troops in Shanghai.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 182, 30 July 1901, Page 3

Foreign Troops in Shanghai.

Lo'.-.r-ox, July 26. in the House cf Ounimon*, Lord Cranhoume sta:cd '±>\t no date hftd been lixrd f<>r the evacu:i(.ion of Shanghai by lorciga troopa, bub there was no reaeon to think that, . the Powers concerned deair.id tit at the occcpalion shouid bo permanent. A good deal of nii.-'upprchoji.dori eeeiriß to htivp bssn occasioned, saya ihe Daily flrprens of rec-nt riats. by M-- Honry Norni*n's Boinov/hat bekted discovery that Gcniiar. troops are garrisoned :n yhfiiiEihrd. These -Oorman troops have l>een garrieonud in the Gorman sewlr>m?nt fit Shanghai for ih 3 pa«t *df;ht luoijlhs, (iernjany having been empowered to take thin eourae by the terms of the Anglof jfinnan agrecmont, undai' which Rusßia'a position in Miinchuria is defined, Germany iss established in Shantung, and (treat, iiritain viitualiy ah-ndous ber claim to a monopoly in the Yaug-sfcze Valiey. Not only Germany, b.it Givat Bi i ain and France h*ve troops in Shanghai and tbyre is, in fact, nothing new in thrt eitivitiuii to which Mr Norman c&llsd attention. Lord Cianbo.i'ne told the laaL-named gentleman that the Go■n«rnment had had no statement from the tierman Government bearing on tho retention of their troops at Shanghai.