Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 December 1897 — GREAT BRITAIN ACTS. [ARTICLE]

GREAT BRITAIN ACTS.

Bquadron to Make a Demonstration at Che Foo. According to a special dispatch from Shanghai, the British squadron will make a demonstration at Che-Foo, on the north coast of the Shan-Tuug as a warning. It is supposed that Great Britain intends to oppose the division of China without consulting her. It is reported in London that Russia has offered-China a loan to pnv off the indemnity of the war with Japan, and it is believed, says the dispatch, that Japan and England are acting in concert to preserve China from disintegration, favoring the idea of a protectorate over central China, with a capital at Nanking. A German-Chinese commission has been arranged, according to a dispatch from Shanghai, to settle the boundaries of the occupied district at Kiao-Chou, and it is evident, therefore, that the occupation will be permanent. The same dispatch says it is rumored in Shanghai that the British intend to occupy Talien-Wan, south of Port Arthur, in order to guard the Gulf of Pi-Chi-Li. The correspondent at Tokio says there is no excitement there over the news from Port Arthur. The press is calm and the public is indifferent. It is rumored also, the dispatch alleges, that a large Russian military force is coming overland from Siberia. • Andree would be very foolish to come back at this stage of the game. Every week odds to his drawing power on the lecture platform.