Revrer told us in a telegram received here at the end of February that the Times has said in a leading article that "the Chinese Government cannot be allowed to ignore Sir Claude Macdonald's protests." The sentence occurs in the issue of the Times of the 27th of February, the article being headed The Chinese Northern Railways Directorate," and the last paragraph of it
ply to a question put to him in the House, Mr, Brodrick stated on Friday night, in re that the matter was being closely watched by Sir Claude Macdonald, and he gave it clearly by oars and sails, they could continue 2 pay their regular blackmail to the to be under ste be rood that, in vie engagements entered' into by the Chinese at, in view of the formal On the 2nd of March there is another leading article our attention to which was also drawa by Reuter. The following is the last paragraph of it Inthe meantime, the Chinese Government is doing its best to' convince everybody that effective occupation in one shape or another is, the only thing that can secure any rights worth speaking of. The usual shufiing i going on about the promised opening of Nanning fa; and by exempting from likin nothing but the restricted area of the foreign settlement itself the Chinese are reducing the concession to insignificance. In the same way the opening of the inland waters to navigation, which was represented as a great triumph of our diplomacy, is being rendered worthless to our traders by obstructive regulations. The fact is that the Central Government is now, since the triumph of the Empress Dowager, more retrograde than ever and more hopelessly
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