Peking, Oct. 13. It is stated in official Chinese ci cles, that the Japanese Government will send two prominent officials, one of them a former president of the South Manchurian railway, to negotiate with the Chinese Government about the administration of the Shantung railway. It is considered here to be probable that a Chino-Japanese agreement about Japanese control over the Shantung railway and the mines worked formerly by Germans in Shantung has already been concluded.
General Chang Hsun will return very soon to Hsuchowfu.
The Chinese press ix convinced that Russia will also build a railway from Taonan to Tsitsihar as a branch line of the bar-Aigun ported by messengers from Tsingtao, that the Japanese have advanced their positions somewhat. Serious engagements have nat occurred in the last few days. S.M.S. Jaguar and the Austrian-Hungarian cruiser Kaiserin Elisabeth have been
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