REBELS STILL HOLD OUT.
BUSH FOR CONCESSIONS.
BRITISH FIRMS SUFFER.
Times-Sydney San Special Cable. (Received August 26, 6.40 p.m.)
London, August 25.
The Pekin correspondent of the Times says that the situation is not encouraging. Nanking despite internal dissensions is still holding • out against three Government armies. The flabbiness of the provincial administration is provoking isolated risings. ,
The country is flooded with depreciated notes, and the scramble for concessions is recommencing.. Any one possessing a little cash is able to obtain railway contracts and orders for war material. British enterprise is suffering.
CLUMSINESS OF NORTHERNERS. A cablegram dated Peki.-a, August 18, says that the unspeakable slowness and clumsiness of the northerners have put a premium on outbursts of defiance of. the central government, and that the chaos is liable to become chronic if not dealt with in a more purpose-like manner.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume L, Issue 15390, 27 August 1913, Page 9
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