There appears to be a party of anti-British agi work in Shanghai just 1 The ther day the Chinese papers printed x story that the British Minister in Peking had threatened the jchiaopu that he would shut up the Legation and withdraw recognition if satisfaction in respect of the out rage on Mr. Bessel were not forth-jooming. The truth of the report is most doubtful, the purpose of ug it not at all. On Saturday the "Sineanpao" published the fo cussion of Sino-Bvitish fairs lis dee Clsene! Assoristion for the ds gied to(send another telegram call of H.
averament demanding the Binieer Sie, Ronald Foreign Affuirs to demand the ear, West the mit Ecliation of all treaties unfar to China and the withdrawal of the British troops There are no British troops of any' kind in Tibet, as the yao" probably knows and could certainly have ascertained quite easily. As for the "Citizens! As: sociation" ete, we make bold to say. that it fk precisely the same sort of thing us hundreds of other so-called tions that we have heard of—no organization at all. really, but a handful of well meaning youths, under a high the dupes of a few pro:
agitators' of the cast of
owners of the Yih Lo Lee property those" wh tried fob ju North Suachuen Rai Extensisn lof Tls. 50,000. "OF course publicity very thing" that trouble, makers of this 'i a respectable paper like the Sizcanpao," which knows more about them than any forei should give it them.
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