The negotiations for a loan to Corea from Ginsburg & Ca., agents of the Russo-Chinese Bank, will end in failure.
As for the indemnity claimed by the Seoul Electric Railway Company (managed by Colbran and Bostwick), negotiations have not yet been settled. Dr. - Allen, Minister, had consequently to. comm: dicate with the Corean Government that the concession would be resold. The Foreign Department, Seoul, notified its objection thereto and informed the foreign Ministers to that effect.—" Kokumin."
Tieatsin, 18th November.
It is reported that two American experts will be engaged for the Imperial Chinese Mint, now in course of erection at Tientsin.
Tt has been ascertained that German merchants are smuggling ammunition and other articles of war into China.
The Taku Dock, which has been held by the Rxssians since the Boxer Disturbance, was handed over to the Chinese the day before yesterday.—Tokio Asahi."
London, 19th November.
Glasgow and an Anchor liner has been here has been a serious conflagration at burned.
The funeral of the late Prince Edward of Saxe-Weimar took place to-day. Tt was an "Novoe Vremya" publishes a dispatch emanating from Tokio, declaring that the Japanese Press wholly disapproves of the Government's new naval programme.
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