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| rowid | 14215 |
|---|---|
| date | 1905-02-04 |
| page | 2 |
| column | b-d |
| title | |
| description | Empress Dowager has a new foreign-style building in the Summer Palace. Russians purchase land from Mongolian people in the north of Shanxi and Shaanxi provinces. Public speech becomes a subject of army training in China. Proposal to remove the position of imperial commissioner in Yunnan and other provinces. China to send a prince to the international fair in Belgium. Chinese ambassador to Japan has been ordered to investigate Chinese student communities in Japan for secret societies. Beijing students under investigation for revolutionary activities. Russian troops near Xinjiang, northwestern China. Ma Yukun is training his troops with German methods. Governor of Sichuan province insists to build railway by through self-reliance. Proposal to turn Manchuria into a vassal state. Chinese ambassador to Russia declines to pay the Boxer indemnity with gold. China to set up two more ministries (boards): security and navy. Liu Yulin has been appointed ambassador to Britain while Zeng Guangquan ambassador to Korea. |
| source | China |
| page_url | http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/page/26800625 |
| trove_id | 26800625 |