PROVE AN UTTER FAILURE.

Shannon News, 22 May 1923, Page 4

PROVE AN UTTER FAILURE.

—t PRISONERS APPEAL FOR USE OF TROOPS. BETTER DEATH THAN MISERY. (Received Monday, 8.5 p.m.) NEW YORK, May 21. The ‘‘Chicago Tribune's" Peking correspondent states that reports from Linchcng indicate that negotiations Avith the bandits have utterly failed. The bandits have withdrawn their prisoners and retreated further, allegin ; that the Government is not since! e concerning the withdrawal of troops. The Government negotiators are returning to Pekin. Letters receivtd from the various prisoners indicate that they avc re undergoing privations and misuse by the bandits and suggest that the Foreign Governments should utilise troops to effect a rescue, claiming that CA'en if the bandits kill the prisoners as they liaA-e threatened, it Avould be better than continued misery. demand:; steadily growing. WANT POWERS’ GUARANTEE. (Received Monday, 7.40 p.m.) WASHINGTON, May 21. The State Department has received “ informaturi that the diplomatic Corps in Pekin adA'ised that the bandits threatened to shoot tAvo foreigners of the Government troops were not AvithdraAvn by Tuesday. Ihe bandits further demand that six Foreign PoAvers guarantee the Chinese Government’s accessions to the band its’ demands.