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pgACE CONFERENCE AT SHANGHAI. CHINESE DEMANDS. -jKOB SKIRMISHING REPORTED. ,__, rE ES3 ASSOCIATION-BT ELECTiIO . (gteeivcd Marclx loth, 5.5 p.m.) SHANGHAI, March 12. fit Peace Conference efforts have •Aed a deadlock over the Chinese fStaee on unconditional Japanese •Atowal from the occupied area. *fh*rt has been some minor skirmish- . , t wmo of tho outer points, tte Jfayor of Shanghai has resigned. •frMgh tension in the Settlement is : ajpfcg, and the curfew period has ! the necessity for volunteer ' tbe Japanese are still responthe maintenance of order in ft* ownpied areas of Chapei, the Soti authorities refusing any assistuH while the Japanese remain. B» Japan" 6 Bince the cessation of lartjKHM have been occupied in buryChinese dead, in some cases llLjjr tipping the bodies into aban{jjttl trenches and covering them with • Apt l«ye r of earth. -jjjobe message, dated March 11th, gites that the League Commission flflsafor Shanghai this afternoon, with « entourage of ten Japanese attached ' ■fcf&qm. IJ° r( l Lytton stated that he ''iKftr«l ■wonderful hospitality in fjljeybnt was looking forward to the (ifastt Teraion besides viewing things ggt are actually happening. IJfACE PROSPECTS MORE \; REMOTE. \ flUeerred March, 21th, 12.5 a.m.) V v ' SHANGHAI, March 13. ' ! ''fli WBgn»tton of the Mayor (Geni«iit%nieteAen) was due to a conflict HITIKKIm .between Chinese Governafter he had promised ;fljeWt«ti-Japanose agitation would are growing hourly HASDEB EFFORTS p" : &PBOYED. si? * ' ■ ' * - I CO;OPERATION. J , . I a, made a statement Ified approval of the is Assembly's rosolummission to negotiate nese dispute, which nited States co-opera-ement Mr Stimson in itions of the League common attitude toi disturbances in the iction has expressed a which is found both t and the League ,ction will go far tointo terms of interrinciples of order and lerlie those treaties, States Government is j earnestly in this ation officials inforresolntion "strong and ire particularly gratispecifle reference to id treaty. However, ieated that United n would be limited to I that the Consulinningham, at Shangiructed to oppose the iral issues and to seek olitical conditions as >anese military withkT PEACE. fE'S EFFORTS. IN ADOPTED. ICUL WIEELBSS.) tUGBT, March 11. of the League of le resolution, drafted ng for consideration y the League of the dispute. There were >r the resolution and t China and Japan reission at which the bed was preceded by > General Committee, panese delegate, Mr t he fully agreed with principle of the resorted that Japan bad ibition against, any ! the League. Her had been necessary nals and property in legate, Dr. Yen, said rom voting because he instructions from his certainly supported ives of the folio r tig ether with tho prcsiand representatives tes represented on the "ill form a committee for Eastern situation: hoslovakia, Colombia, r, Sweden. The comr'not later than May ! REVOLT. ? PICERS KILLED, jftrrison nt the town Japanese officers and

two civilians, and captured the Japanese Chief of Staff. They also looted four Chinese banks, a large pawnshop, and other premises, including a Russian trading corporation, released prisoners from the gaol, and machinegunned the streets. The British manager of the Customs House and his wife nio among those in danger in the neighbouring Soviet town of Blagovyeschensk, across the Amur river, where they are taking refuge. . AN ANTI-JAPANESE DEMONSTRATION. DIS ORDER IN CHICAGO. (Received March 13th, 5.5 p.m.) CHICAGO, March 12. Four policemen were shot and wounded to-day, as they attempted to quclla demonstration in front of the "Tribune" Tower on North Michigan iuDune h t the demonBoulevard. It "■""kj a g a inst the stratum nga d S located- in the Japanese Consulate, the occll . Tower, as a P™J es 5 \ ter was pation of gf^^JSTKori** arrested, and a ™e n.iured as the charged the crowd.