CHINESE TURMOIL.

Hokitika Guardian, 15 July 1925, Page 3

CHINESE TURMOIL.

[Australia & N.Z. Cable Association.]

CHARGED WITH BRIBERV. (Received this day at 11.25 a.in.) TETON, July 11. Eugene Fortuunt-off, a Soviet consul tatc doctor, was remanded on a charge of offering a bribe to a public official in connection with the Dosser case. The police assert he offered a municipal policeman 10,000 dollars to sign a document declaring that Ik forged Dosser’s certificate by .instru: lions from bis British superior officer, lie pretended to comply and the police arrested I'ortunatolf when he attended the trvst with ten thousand dollars in bis possession, which the police seized. Dosser, examined, declared the certificate was a forgery and denied a

lira,neb of the Communist party existed in .Shanghai.

DIFFICULTIES JN CHINA. LONDON, July 11

Ambassador Flenriau at a reception to the French colony on the occasion of the national fete commemorating the storming of Bastille, in referring to the position China said the existing system of treaties could not be touched without exposing foreigners in China to the greatest dangers. Agitators who excited good 'Chinese against foreigners would not engage in deadly work unless encouraged from outside. He hoped all the Governments concerned would unite to defend the nationals, not merely now by concerted measure- for immediate protection, but in the future by retaining a guarantee of old treaties until China was able herself completely to assure the safety of lives and property of all residents of China, lie concluded with the statement that a world pence depended on an Anglo-French Entente.