TROUBLE IN CHINA

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 15 July 1925, Page 5

TROUBLE IN CHINA

NO INTERFERENCE WITH TREATIES

'By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.)

LONDON, July 14

Ambassador Fleuriau, at a reception to the French colony on the occasion of the national fete commemorating the storming of the Bastille, in referring to the position in China said that the existing system of treaties could not be touched without exposing foreigners in China to the greatest dangers. Agitators wiio excited good Chinese against, foreigners would not engage in the deadly work unless encouraged from outside. It is to he hoped that all Governments concerned would unite to defend nationals, not merely now by concerted measures for immediate protection, but in future by retaining the guarantee of the old treaties until China is able herself completely to assure the safety of the lives and propers/ of all residents of China, lie concluded with a statement that world peace depended on the Anglo-French entente.

DOSSER CASE

PEKIN. Julv 14

Eugene FortunatofT, Soviet consulate doctor, was remanded on a charge of offering to bribe a public official in connection with the Dosser case. The police assert he offered a municipal policeman ten thousand dollars to sign it document declaring that he forged Dosser’s certificate bv instructions of his British superior officer. He protended to comply and the police arrested Kortiuiatffo. when lie attended a tryst with 10,000 dollars in his possession. which the police seized. Dosser examined, declared t lie certificate a forgery. He denied that a branch of the Soviet Communist party existed in Shanghai.