Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 April 1901 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

It is stated in Paris on good authority that a secret treaty Inis been concluded between China aud Japan with regard to Manchuria. British war office lias ordered that any officer or soldier who displays Any token of surrender in presence of the enemy shall be court martialed. A special dispatch from Hongkong says two Chinese steamers came into collision between Canton and Wu-Choiv, and that seventy Chinese were drowned. Paris journal says the Chinese minister to Russia was thrown downstairs by Count Lamsdorff's lackeys and fatally injured, after insulting the count. "The police of this city/* says an Amsterdam correspondent, “recently learned of a contemplated attempt upon the life of Nlr. Kruger. One of the persons arrested is said to have made a confession.” Japan has issued an ultimatum to China that Russia must be ejected from Manchuria, the alternative being that occupation of that province shall become international instead of solely Muscovite. A-census Of population of the Sav moan group has been taken. The number of Samoans in Upolu -and other islands under the German government is 32,000, while the population of the six islands under the United States government is returned at 5,800.