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Show SILVER PROPOSITION GAINING IN FAVOR Powers Look More Kindly on English En-glish Idea Regarding Chinese Indemnity. LONDON, June 4. The Times' correspondent corre-spondent at Peking notes a greater disposition dis-position on the part of the foreign Ministers Min-isters to view with favor Great Britain's proposal that China pay her indemnity on a Fllver basis for nine years and in gold thereafter leaving the question open whether China shall ultimately pay the difference. He says that even if the United States accepts payment of her indemnity in silver it should be remembered remem-bered the $36,000,01)0 which the United States claimed exceeded her actual losses and leaves a wide margin in her favor, although not so large as in the case of some European. |