It is reported in local mandarin circles that as a result of the appeal of the Shanghai Taotai ind Ningpo gentry and notables here, the Waiwupu hss sent down instructions to the former to make a strong demand on the Russian Consul-General for the persons of the two Russian sailors of the cruiser Askold guilty of the murder of Chou Séng-yn on the 15th instant. The Shanghai Taotai also instructed to state that, if the Russian Consul-General still continues to shield the guilty sailors and refuse to hand them over for trial according to international law, the Chinese authorities ction to be a deliberate attempt at violating Chinese neutrality the part of the Russinns, in which cannot unilertake the responsibility of protecting in future fleeing for safety into Chinese jurisdiction, Furthermore, that if at any time anything should happen to the Russian shipe now interned in. Shanghai the burden of responsibility must rest on the Russians themselves, and not on the Chinese authorities, A similarly strongly worded dispatch, it is stated, has also been handed to the Russian Minister in Peking by the Waiwupu.
A Reported Sate of Contraband, We understand that the Shanghai Taotai has received intimation from a certain source that a certain firm has been busily engaged in getting contraband and warlike stores for some of the Russian ships interned here and that his Honour is engaged in finding out the truth of these assertions.
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