CHAOS IN CHINA.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XIV, Issue 45, 1 February 1924, Page 5

CHAOS IN CHINA.

NO ORGANISED STATE.

WORK AHEAD FOR THE POWERS.

London, Jan. 30. Tlie Pekin correspondent of “The Times’’ says chaos reigns supreme in China. The country is no longer an organised state but a congeries of weak principalities in which neither treaty nor moral obligations to foreigners are respecaed. The. position is steadily drifting into an impasse in which the interested Powers will be compelled to supplement their relations with the fictional Pekin Government with direct dealings with th© ; de’ facto rulers. Such action would probably divide the country into spheres of interest and lead to international complications. The position, however, is by no means irremediable. Unity among the Powers and a joint policy designed to secure tha observance of foreign rights and treaties would far to relieve the situation, even if it did not result in an improvement of the general political position.—(“Times. ’ ’)

A DOCTOR CAPTURED.

Pekin, Jan. 30.

Dr. Thompson, while travelling to Pekin to band over the belongings of Brigadier-General Pereira, who w*as killed by ibandits. was himself, captured by bandits on January 24th at Paotowchen. —(Reuter.)