Saigon, Mar. 7.
'The engagement is ' announc: to-day between Bao Dai, youthful Emperor of Annam, and Miss Yuen Hu-hao, a member' of a wealthy Cochin-Chinese family.
"The wedding will take place on April 20. Emperor Bao Dai is 21 years old.—Reuter.
Trouble over a long-outstanding question is likely to arise between auch Catholics and the people of North Shensi, according to Chinese reports received here from Sian ta-
The cause of friction dates back to the Boxer Uprising of 1900. ig said that Catholic churches in the Sanpien region, North Shensi, were to receive Tis, 1,500,000 as compensation for losses they sustained during the Boxer upheaval The local authorities, however, wore unable to raise the entire sum, ind therefore presented the Catho-Tieg with two tracts of land of 280 Jand 80 square li respectively, as a alanee. The land was to be returned to the Chinese government in 1916.
According to Chinese reports, negotiations since that year have been met by refusal on the part of the Catholic prieste to return the land.
further alleged that Chinese, {he {families living on the land are forced contribute to the church, and are subject to laws promulgated by the ed Catholic authorities, A delegate from the Sanpien trict has now arrived at Sian, capital fof Shensi province, to ples cial intervention, and considerable agitation appears to be.under way] there against the "tyrannical Catho-
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