CHINESE SITUATION.

Waipukurau Press, Volume XXII, Issue 20, 16 February 1927, Page 8

CHINESE SITUATION.

-«> LANDING OF TROOPS. By Telegraph —Press A.ssn. —Copyright. LONDON, Feb. 14. The “Daily Express” Shanghai correspondent states that thousands, of British residents, the majority of them women, stood for hours in drizzling" rain' to watch the Durham and Gloucester regiments land. They came ashore all smiles, with the music of drums and fifes. The. Chinese were sullen, but cheer after cheer was raised by the British residents r NO SURRENDER TO ARMS. LONDON ,Fcb. 14. The 11 Daily News” Geneva correspondent says Chaoh Sin Chu has issued a statement that if Britain denounces the old anti enters into a new treaty, on the basis of absolute equality and reciprocity, there will be no need to send troops and no fear of a continuance of the boycott, but China’s 400,000,000 will never yield to arms. GRAVE PRESS ASSERTIONS. LONDON, Feb. 15. The news of the breakdown, of the Hankow negotiations created astonishment in official circles, says the “Daily -Express.” On the contrary, the “Daily Herald’s” diplomatic correspondent makes grave: statements on the subject, ...declaring .that official hope all round would seem more than balanced by the fear that something might happen at the last moment to prevent signature. “It was impossible,” says the correspondent, 11 to avoid the conclusion that this anxiety was not unconnected with the new military movements, which appear to have been ordered at such a critical and delicate moment without consultation with the Foreign Office. ARMS FROM GERAIANY. LONDON, Feb. 15. The 1 ‘ Daily Telegraph’s ” diplomatic correspondent says Berlin admits that quantities of Gorman arms are reaching China, but points out that they arc no longer German, and consist chiefly of goods surrendered to the Allies, from whom private dealers bought them for next to nothing, and are now selling them for a good piice to China. The German Government has no power to hcld-up this foreignowned material in transit across Germany.