A DEADLOCK

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 10 July 1925, Page 5

A DEADLOCK

SITUATION IN CHINA

HOLD-UP TN NEGOTIATIONS

CHINESE, CREW LEAVES SHIP

BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYEIGHT Received July 10, 11 a.m. PEKING, July 9. The- situation continues to be a deadlock. It appears that the Chinese Government desires that negotiations regarding the last eight of the thirteen demands, as well as the revision of the so-called unequal treaties, be taken simultaneously with the first five demands. It is understood the Powers insist that the five demands arising directly from the Shanghai incident be discussed first. Meanwhile the agitators continue to urge negotiations with Britain alone. The Chinese crew of four hundred, belonging to the Empress of Russia, went ■■shore at Kobe without leave. The vessel is negotiating to engage a Japanese crow to replace the Chinese. — Reuter. CHINESE SITUATION. ANTI- BRITISH PROP AG ANDA. PEKIN, July 8. Owing to the Shanghai strike and the disturbed condition of the country generally, the Customs revenue for the six months ended June 30 declined one an.d a half million taels. Shanghai reports that the situation there continues more hopefu. Matters are quiet, with the exception of further kidnapping of tramway and other emp'oyees. such as foreign residents employed as house servants. There were numerous cases of confiscation by strikers of milk, vegetables and other foods supposed to be for foreign consumption, these goods being distributed to strikers and students. Coolies confiscated a hundred cows at the railway station and took them to the union headquarters in Chinese territory. The tram service is somewhat curtailed in Peking. LONDON, July 9. The Daily Telegraph publishes a facsimile of a. poster displayed in Pekin depicting John Bui 1 with his foot planted on a Chinese baby.