CHAOS IN CHINA
DRIFTING TO IMPASSE
REGIONAL PRINCIPALITIES
POWERS MAY HAVE TO STEP IN.
(CMIIIB PRISf ASSOCIATION.—COPTKICIT.) (PDBLIEHED IN THE TIMES.) (Received 31st January, 10 a.m.) '> LONDON, 30th January. The Pekin correspondent of "The Times" says: "Chaos reigns supreme in! China. The country is no longer an organised State, but a congeries of w.eak principalities in which neither treaty nor moral obligations nor foreigners are respected. "The position is steadily drifting into an impasse in which the interested Powers will be. compelled to supplement their relations with the fictional Pekin Government by direct dealings with the de facto rulers. Such action would probably divide the country into spheres of interest and lead to international complications. "The position, however, is by no means irremediable. Unity among the Powers and a joint policy designed to secure the observance of foreign rights and treaties would so far relieve the situation, even if it did not result in an improvement in the general political position.,"-
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Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 26, 31 January 1924, Page 5
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161CHAOS IN CHINA Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 26, 31 January 1924, Page 5
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