TROUBLE IN CHINA

Hokitika Guardian, 18 January 1927, Page 2

TROUBLE IN CHINA

NEW FORTIFICATIONS. LONDON. Jan. 17

The “Daily Mail's” Shanghai correspondent says: The authorities here are now placing barbed wire in position in the foreign settlement against a possible attack by the Cantonese. Steel crates are being created in the French Concession, blocking each street. 11ANKOW NEGOTIATIONS. LONDON. Jan. 17. The “Daily Telegraph’s” diplomatic correspondent says that numerous telegrams have been received from Mr O'Malley, the British representative who went to Hankow. The telegrams have not disclosed any definite progress in the conversations between Mr O’Malley and Eugene Chen (representing the Canton Government). BRITISH CUSTOMS OFFICIALS. LONDON, Jan. 10. The news from the Foreign Concession on the Shanecn River “Island,” opposite to Canton City, is disquieting. Some of the highest British officio's in the Chinese Maritime Customs have communicated with London, expressing their concern as to the future of their administration unless the .1 reatv Powers adopt a firm attitude. The Customs officials recall the rapid decline in the authority and prestige of the Powers in recent months.

CHINA'S EQrAI.rTY. PEKING. Jan. 17

' ' Belgium has decided immediately to negotiate with the Peking Government for" a new treaty on an equality basis, thus abandoning Belgian rights under the former Belgo-Chinese treaty.

ER \NCE’S ATTITUDE. PARIS. Jan. 17

The “Matin.'’ in outlining France’s poliev as to China, says: “The Powers agreed to the establishment of a two and a half per cent surtax and to the possibility of modifying the extra territorial regime, but tins is not an opportune moment to make a concerted declaration regarding Chinn. Ihe c.efeneo of Shanghai, however, is quite another matter