CHAOTIC CHINA.
' NO UNITY ' REMAINING. POWERS MUST ACT. . o#x SBE3B Assccutrosr copjaiaßs-.) snias.") ' LONDON, January SO. The Peking correspondent of "The Times" says that chaos reigns supreme in China. The country is no longer an organised State btit a congerie3 of weak principalities, in which neither treaty nor moral obligations to foreigners are respected. The position is steadily drifting into an impaesd in which tho interestedPowers will be compelled to supplement their relations with the factional Peking Government with direct dealings with the de facto rulers in various parts. Such action would probably divide the country into spheres of interest and lead to international complications. The position, howarer, is by no means irremediable. < Unity among th© Powers and a joint policy designed to secure observance of foreign fights and treaties would go far to relieve • tho situation, even if it did not result in the improvement of tho general political position. _________ Additional cables •will "ba found oa page 13.
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Press, Volume LX, Issue 17986, 1 February 1924, Page 9
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