CHAOS REIGNS SUPREME.
POSITION IN CHINA. Received January 31, 11.10 a.m. LONDON, Jan. 30. The Times's Pekin correspondent says that 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 respected. 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 the 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 the observance of foreign rights and treaties, would go far to relievo the situation even if it did not result in an improvement of the general political position,—Times.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIV, Issue 930, 31 January 1924, Page 5
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146CHAOS REIGNS SUPREME. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIV, Issue 930, 31 January 1924, Page 5
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