The Archive · 1892

The Ministerial Crisis in

M. Ribot is forming a Cabinet, and will combine the offices of Premier and Minister of Foreign Affairs.

[M. Ribot was Minister of Foreign Affairs in the late Cabinet of M. Loubet.—Ep.}

ANOTHER RIOT A'l ICHANG, News was received on Sunday afternoon by wire of a riot having occurred at Ichang on Friday sreaing. on the arrival of the Chéntai, or Provincial Brigadier-General. H.M.S, Esk landed a force of bluejackets for the protection of the Europeans, and no foreigners were injured. All is now quiet.

Our Ichang correspondent hinted in his last letter that some more trouble might be expected, with the large number of students now in the city.

Special Telegram to the North-China Daily News.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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