The Archive · 1903

Notes on Native Affairs

The Ninghai Case. vince, dispatch states that Governor Nich _A Hangchow, capital of Chekiang proof that city has received a telegram from Peking informing him that the French Minister has been reportedly asking for the punishment of the officials of Ninghai and the perpetrators of the murder of the R.C. priest, Chu, in that city about two months ago, and that the Inst time the demand had been made by the French Minister that official had included a threat that he would send a French warship to inflict the necessary punishment if the provincial authorities of Chekiang did not do 80 speedily.

The Russian Movements in Chinese Turkestan, which were chronicled in these ' Notes" yesterday, have according to another Peking dispatch been denied as usual at St. Petersburg. It appears that the Waiwupu, upon receiving the telegram containing the complaint of Governor Pan Hsiao-ssu, immediately instructed the Chinese Minister at St. Petersburg to demand explanations from the Russian Foreign Office. The reply elicited was the usual Russian one in such cases, namely, that the Russian F. O. knew nothing of the sending of Russian troops into Kuldja, all such matters being in the hands of Admiral Alexeieff.

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