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CHINA OVERLAND TRADE REPORT.
or has Yunnan to either Power in the past or in the | Whether there has
not been right to be interested. The Government, future should be extended and rendered an international war,
while diplomatic no doubt, prefers to discourage curiosity in common to both Powers, and they engaged relations between China and Germany (as such matters, but it is certain that, without to use their influence and good offices with between China and any other Power) are this curiosity on the part of the unofficial the Chinese Government for this purpose. in their present state, no apology such as element of the community, neglect and pro- Treaty obligations, theu, preclude France Prince CHUN Conveys could be accepted, crastination would be the portion of several from exclusive action in Yunnan. But the The signature of the Protocol is the vital questions. The subjects brought up Times correspondent sees no urgency in the material sign of China's atonement for her in the questions before the Council to-day British line across the Burma-Yunnan frou- violation of interuational ethics. The are the settlement of claims, survey, expen- tier, the great field for our commercial work | murder of Baron yoN KETTELER, grave diture and revenue in the New Territory; being the Yangtsze Valley. He admits, outrage though it was, was but a small the discontent in the Police force and Gaol however, that while the energies of England part of China s offence.
staff the collapse of buildings in the are directed to this region her attention The edict which the Ministers' meeting Colony and the precautions taken against should not be diverted from Yunnan. He has approved forbids the import of arms, such accidents; the applicability of the proceeds to quote in this connection certain and presumably also ammunition, into Venice Plague Convention of 1897 to Hong- words from the pen of M. LEROY BEAULIEU: China. The terms of the compact between kong; the detailed answer to the question It is curious to observe how, in France. the Powers and China already forbid this, asked by Mr. EDWARD Osborne at the Sani- so soon as we have acquired a new colony, but the issue of an ediet confirms the Chi- tary Board meeting on the 8th inst.; and we no longer think of its resources, but nese Government's attitude in the matter. the question of the succession to Mr. R. D. rather dwell on the wealth of the sur- At present, we know, in spite of the strenu- ORMSBY in the presidency of the Banitary We have but a few days ago rounding country to which it affords us ous efforts of the Powers, arms-smuggling Board.
the Hon. J. H. STEWART access. Then, on becoining possessed of on a large scale is proceeding both in Central discussed this, we forget the good features formerly and in South China. This edict brings with Lockhart's report on the New Territory "emphasised, and desire that which is still it a correspondent pressure on the Chinese for 1900, commenting on the unsatisfactory further away, thus for ever leaving the authorities to use stronger methods to detect state of the revenue derived from our exten- substance for the shadow." As may be and stop the underhand conveyance of arms_sion on the mainland. The discontent in seen, Captain FERNAND BERNARD makes into the Empire, while binding them to the Police and on the Gaol staff has received substantially the same observation. This check the formerly lawful importation as considerable attention in the Press of the Of course, is obvious that the Colony The question of the Venice Con- perpetual craving for advance on the part well. of the extremists of the French colonial | stoppage of the import of arms and am. vention and the exodus of sick Chinese from
irom abroad will net party is a dangerous factor in the situa- munition
disarm the Colony during a time of epidemie is of tion in South China. Great Britain, as China. From all accounts it is clear that the utmost importance to all engaged in the writer whom we began by quoting exceptional business prevails in the Chinese business in Hongkong. Finally, the manner says, can have no objection to French arsenals at the present time. An official in which Mr OSBORNE was put off at the projects for the industrial and
in the Chinese Government employ re. Sanitary Board, with a meagre abstract from mercial development of Yunnan, but thently told an interviewer that the factories the documents for which he asked, has becu railway avowedly constructed for this pur- re working at full pressure. night and noticed by us, and has aroused no little in- pose must not be made an instrument for day, and some hundreds of rifles are dignation among those who expected that the the stealthy absorption of the hinterland of | probably produced daily. This fact has Government would makeat last some attempt British Burma. It wou'd obviate the caused alarm in many cirel s, including to justify its sneers at the Sanitary Board's risk of this if we could hope for any pro- some of the best informed as a rule. Dr. manner of carrying out its duties, expre-sed gress in the near future with the Burma.
MORRISON, in telegraphing to the Times in the memorandum on the Colony's Petition Yunnan scheme. But as this is considered that immease quantities of arms and to the Secretary of State. highly improbable by those best acquainted ammunition are being manufactured at the expected that satisfactory replies will be with the state of affairs, all that remains Chinese arsenals and also imported from forthcoming to-day on all these points, but for us is to grow reconciled to the fact, while abroad," seems to share in the alarm. We the only way in which information can be A watching that the home authorities do not
are not here in a position to judge the 'gained is by pressing repeatedly for it. throw away by apathy the privileges cou- grounds for such fears. The fact that the continued refusal, as in the case of the ferred on Britain as well as on France by Court has yielded so far as it now has seems, explanation asked for by Mr. Osnonne, tells the agreement of the 15th January, 1896.
however, to agree ill with the supposed its own tale. The manner in which Mr. warlike intentions. Nor can it be denied WuITEHEAD's questions will be met to-dy that the Court will require armed sup-'will be watched with extreme interest. porters to cope with the insurrectionary clements which will receive fresh encourage,
NEARING THE END OF NEGOTIATIONS.
(Daily Press, 30th August.)
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The last stage in the negotiations between the Powers and China appears to have been reached. An Imperial edict against the import of arms into China has been accepted by the Ministers, and on Wednesday night two more edicts, of a nature not specified, were expected. On the issue of these, the representatives of the Powers are prepared to sign the Protocol, and peace will have been established between China and the rest of the world. Theoretically, of course, there has been no war, but the divergence between theory and fact in this crisis has been great. It was on diplomatic and com- mercial grounds eminently desirable not to recognise the existence of any rupture, and the fiction, aided by the curious apathy which co-exists with the homogeneity of China, has served its end. The signature of the Protocol will mark the netual restora-
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tion of that peace between the various nations concerned which has been assumed never to have been broken. With the signature of the Protocol, too, the Mission | of our recent visitor Prince Cnus to Berlin, will be able to achieve its object, for there can be little doubt that the London Daily News correspondent is right in attributing the Prince's delay at Baslo to political rea- sons, the Kaiser declining to receive the Mission until the Protocol has been signed. The Kaiser could not do otherwise.
It is not to be
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ment from the withdrawal of the Powers' | THE CRISIS: TELEGRAMS. forces. A Chinese Government with ill- armed or unarmed troops will not be in a position to meet rebels such as are known to menace Chibli. Nevertheless, if, as appears to be the case, the Times correspondent sees grave danger is the situation, we should naturally be disinclined to question. authoritative an opinion.
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QUESTIONS BEFORE THE LEGIS. LATIVE COUNCIL.
Daily Press, 29th August.)
official answers,
Shanghai, 28th August, 9.50 p.m. A Peking despatch to-day states that the Ministers' meeting has approved of the Imperial edict forbidding the import of Two more edicts are expected to- night, when the Protocol can be signed.
arms.
Information reached Shanghai last week The questions to which the Hon. T. II. by native craft that the C.M.S. Heinfung had WHITEHEAD is to request replies from the
been aground for fire days on the shonla to the Government at the meeting of the Lægiska- į nerth "of Shaweishan. She anchored daring tive Council this afternoon involve points the recent typhoon, but kept her engines of the utmost importance to the Colony, I going to relieve the strain on the anchors. and whatever may be the character of the | In spite of this, however, she dragged both the effect of calling renewed anchors and drifted on to the shoals. It is public attention to these points en but be feared that she will not be able to get off until next spring tides. The work of refloat- salutary. The meetings of the Legislative ing the C.M.8. Kiangkwan, which is ashoro Council are too often untroubled by ques- on the top of the river bank near Tanglin tioners, and the Opposition has practically Pagoda, is to be commenced at once, mays the been an unrepresented party of late. The NC. Daily News of Monday. The necessary appearance on the list of "Business" of a tackling has already been sent up river and long series of questions is a welcome sign an attempt will be made to launch the boat on rollers. Two dredgers have been at work of change from recent stagnation. All the
in aground in the Yangtaza, near Christmas subjects with which Mr. WHITEHEAD's for some time round the Talee Maru, which Island. Several feet of mud have been cut queries deal are more or less familiar to our readers, and there is not one of them in away all round her and it is hoped that by which the public of Hongkong has not every ꞌ this means she may be refloated,
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