Tue " Peking and Tientsin Times" of the Lith ult. tells us that it had wired two d before to a reliable informant in Newchwang. with the view of learning the real condition of affairs at the port which the Russian have seized, and had received in reply the following telegram "Russians still patrol the streets, police the river, issue proclamations, control the native customs, and bank foreign duties. The officials smile, foreigners frown, native enquiries elicit reply leaving when St. Poters-burg orders, always to-morrow and to-morrow, Chinese merchants are anxious and trade is dull: disquieting rumours abound but nothing tangible, many cargoes of coal for railway arriving. Expectant T oral Ti has passed north to Kinchow."
'The following are our contemporary's comments on the above dispatch "From the above it is clear that nothing which can be called evacuation' has at any time taken place, Whether Russia has or has not " fow hundred soldiers posted in the Foreign Settlement of Newchwang or a few miles out of it, is a secondary matter. So long as the administration of the place is in her hands, and long as the finances of the p passing into her hands, Newchwang is practically, technically, and diplomatically ocoupied' by a, and can at no time be described as evacnated, The evacuation of a place signifies its absolute desertion or handing over to some other control an emptying out of what has previously filled it. Between filling to overflowing and emptying out there are of course many variations of degree, and these variations it appears to amuse Russia to illustrate. "Thus at one moment she takes her troops
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