AFFAIRS IN CHINA

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 15 September 1926, Page 9

AFFAIRS IN CHINA

BRITISH SHIP ENTERS CANTON

FIRST FOR A YEAR

ASSURANCE OF NO INTERFERENCE,

BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT, Received 12.50 p.m. to-day. PEKING, Sept. 14. A TTritisli steamer lias entered Canton for the first time rineo the Boycott and the institution of strike pickets a year ago. She berthed without interference, and is the forerunner of many others, and. the partial restoration of the Hong Kong—Canton trade, since the assurance given by the Chinese Minister of Foreign Affairs and the cessation of interference with British steamers. . ... The Chinese are anxious to utilise British vessels again. The first steamer to test the force of the British proclamation threatening to treat pickets as pirates proceeded witnout an escort of the naval patrol. The absence of the Red Army in the north is responsible for the cessation of ant i-British activity.

FRENCH INTEREST

QUESTION OF INTERVENTION

Received 1.10 p.m. to-day. PARIS, Sept, 14

The newspapers freely comment on the Chinese imbroglio. The Honnne Libre remarks that the United States laissez fa ire policy results in an illogical position, because events necessitate measures. The United States rejects in principle the Anglo-France-Japanese agreement. America would he greatly mistaken if she delayed necessary action to restore order. On the contrary, the Volante says that declaring war might be a prelude to a terrible conflict. The Pacific urges strict neutrality, and says it would bo i noipportune- for France to intervene, possibly provoking a Chinese invasion of French. IndoChina.