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Show MACDONALD TO LEAVE. British Minister at Pekin Is Going to Tokio. London, Sept. 20, 4 a. m A dispatch to the Times from Shanghai, dated yesterday, asserts that Sir Claude Maxwell Max-well MacDonald will become British minister at Tokio and will be succeeded succeed-ed at Pekin by Sir Ernest Mason Sa-tow, Sa-tow, the present British minister at the Japanese capital. "This," says the Times correspondent, correspond-ent, "is disappointing to Britishers in the far east, as they had hoped that a stronger diplomatist would be sent to Pekin." ' . , It is probable that Vice Admiral Seymour Sey-mour will meet Sir Claude MacDonald at Tien Tsin. Reports from Nankin point to the increasing activity and influence of the anti-foreign party. The manner in which the Yang Tse Viceroys have been ignored by the throne in reference refer-ence to peace negotiations, while imperial im-perial edicts ordered the Manchu leaders lead-ers to resume the control of affairs, is capable of only one interpretation. Shanghai reports seem to show quite a shower of edicts regarding negotiators, negotia-tors, to which little importance is attached. at-tached. According to the Daily Mail's St. Petersburg correspondent. Russia will claim an indemnity of 100,000,000. A Washington special says: "The change of front on the part of the United States government regarding regard-ing Russia's evacuation proposal was due to the fact that Mr. Conger and Mr. Tower confirmed information1 ' obtained ob-tained by the British minister in St. Petersburg, showing that Russia's proposal pro-posal concealed a well-designed plan to seize Manchuria." |