16th Aug NEWS PROM GERMANY, The '*Ostasiatischo Lloyd" issued yesterday morning the follo (Special Cable service of " Der Ostasiatische berlin, 13th August, 3.20 p.m.
ports sufficient to carry an arm; Russia has chartered a number of trans: tien to Vladivostoci, "of 126,000 All the Powers, with the exception of France, have now consented to the appointment of Graf von Waldersee to the supreme command of the allied forces in China. France is preparing an answer defining hor attitude.
On the occasion of the departure of the French expedition to China, M. Loubet, President of the French Republic, made a speech at Marseilles in which he expressed satisfaction that France would now be able to participate in the punishment of rebel-hous China as far her interests in that country demanded.
All German'sailors on board the ships of the German squadron in East Asia whose term of service has expired have received orders to remain at their posts.
In the ship-building yards Weser-wert," near Bremen a new protected cruiser of the Niobe class was launched to-day and christened Ariadne, FACTS FROM TIENTSIN, A conversation which a representative of the "North-China Daily News" had with a gentleman recently returned from Tientsin has resulted in the learning of many interesting facts in connection with the condition of affairs in the North. Since the taking of Tientsin native city, things have quieted down there considerably. There is, of course, no business in' Tientsin though the banks are doing a little. The reports as to the ruined condition of Tientain are absolutely wrong. It is practically no more in ruins than Shanghai. A sugar godown was ruined, and in the French Settlement there had been heavy damage, though this last was done by the defenders, for the most part, to prevent the Chinese
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