London vid Bombay, 14th June.
The "Times" in a leading article suggests that the Government of Great Britain should make a pro rata reduction on the claims, and thereby increase the confidence of the Chinese in British justice and fair play. The Chinese will then contrast the British and American attitude with that of effusively friendly States. We are ready to let the Chinese Government exclusively construct the Peking-Great Wall railway, but are bound firmly to resist the conquest of Chinese railways by Russia—Reuter,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.