Drummond Anti-Christian Literature Chinw Branch of the Royal A:
Society The Hunan Publications We have received from the North some interesting information in reference to the diplomatic situation in Burma which is of special interest at the present time when the Chinese are being charged with fomenting disturbances on the Burma frontier. 'I'he recent fighting with the Cochins at Sadone is alleged, we see, by the Rangoon correspondent of the Times, to be due to the action of Chinese officials on the frontier. Chinese emissaries, it is said, urged the tribes to stockade their villages and to resist. Furthermore the same writer states that Chinese troops are overruning the rans-Salween Shan States which were tributary to Burma, and he goes on to add what indeed is very obvious, that a definite delimitation of frontier between the two countries is very desirable. Now on this it has first to be noted that the Rangoon correspondent of the Times, a local barrister, is much more at home in attacking British officials in Burma than in dealing with questions arising in districts so remote from his ken as American Silver Legislation.... 464 Anti-Foreign Placards near Shanghai... 464 the Chinese frontier, and it should also be remembered that he has made his Question des Phares sur In Cote de me - os we ' 4 letters for seven years a vehicle for Lighthouses on the China Coast accusations, sometimes of a most absurd Official Advice to Mis i character, against the Chinese authori-'The Lan Ho Bi 408 Disappearance of the Gompradore of ridge ties in Yunnan. We do not say that the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank... 469 the latter are immaculate—very far The Bering Sea Arbitration...... 4 69 from it—our only surprise is that so The Report of the United StatesCoinage Committee 4 0 many years have passed without any disturbance with the Chinese on this long and unsettled frontier. But if we enquire why in the year of grace 1892, seven. years after the annexation of Upper Burma, the frontier of Burma is still unsetted the answer. is one, we R. v. Lo Ping-chang venture to think, which will surprise Watkins most of our readers, and it is to this
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