POSITION IN CHINA

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 100, 30 April 1927, Page 10

POSITION IN CHINA

LOOTING CONTINUES

SECOND NOTE DELAYED

NANKING NEGOTIATIONS

(Received 30th April, 2 p.m.)

. LONDON, 29th April. Official messages received in London report that despite .the British Consul s protests and Chiang Kai-shelc'a explicit orders to the' contrary the commander of the Sixth Cantonese army ha s billeted troops in the British Consulate and in British residences at Chiukiang, and the troops have looted the buildings in which ttfey are billeted. The British Consul's further protests hitherto have been unavailing The "Daily Telegraph's" diplomatic correspondent says that owing to dX vergences between Washington and the' other Protocol Powers, their Ministers 111 Pekm are still marking time with the elaboration of the second Note to Chen If dispatch of the Note is much longer delayed Chiang Kai-shek may have evicted tho Cantonese Government from Hankow before it is sent. The problem is to realise whether it should Be addressed to Chiang Kai-shek: