Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 February 1899 — RUSSIANS AND CHINESE AT WAR [ARTICLE]

RUSSIANS AND CHINESE AT WAR

»'■ . Collision Said to Hove Bees Canoed by a Quest ion of Taxes. A dispatch from Pefcm states that a conflict occurred between the Russians and Chinese at Tafienwan. About 100 Chinese are reported to hare been killed. A question of taxes is said to haTe led to the collision. Another account of the collision at Talit nwan says that 300 Chinese were killed by the Russians. The reported conflict between Russians and Chinese at Talienwau is believed to , be fraught with possibilities of fresh troubles between England and Russia. Of late Russian re-enforcements hare been pouring into the garrisons at Talienwan and Port Arthur, ostensibly beranse the natives are growing restless. England, who is ensconced just across the Straits of Pecbili, at Wei-Hai-Wei. has viewed with jealous eyes the Russian occupation in the I.iao-Tuug peninsula. It is not unreasonable to expect that England will make the killingof Chinese a ground for breaking up the peasant Russian-Chjnese relations. \ Russia occupied Talienwau something over a year ago. shortly after the occupation of Port Arthur. These moves of Russia caused great excitement in England. and at one time seemed about to resnlt in war between the two countries. In the end. however, the British Government contented it«elf with occupying 'Wci-Hai-Wci. when Japan gave up that port, whh h bad been held as security for the payment by China of the war indemnity. There have at varlius times been reports of friction between the Russians and Chinese in that region, through -which Russia is now building the Manchooria extension of the Siberian Railway.