CHINA'S DESTINY

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18898, 26 June 1923, Page 7

CHINA'S DESTINY

FOREIGN INTERVENTION * OPPOSED. BRITISH AND AMERICAN FRIENDSHIP VALUED. Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright SHANGHAI, June 24 (Received Juno 25, at 8.5 p.m.) The General Chamber of Commerce, representing the principal commercial and financial interests, adopted a resolution, opposing foreign intervention _in Chum. It also requested the provincial officials to exercise the utmost care in the protection of the life and property of foreigners. The chamber declared that the Peking Cabinet’s attempt to function without a President or a Premier was illegal. The resolution urges the immediate convocation of a conference to tackle the problems of the hour. The Chinese press is apprehensive of foreign intervention and the possible alienation of the sympathies of the United States and Great Britain. —A. and N.Z. Cable. A recent message from "Washington stated : —Mr Hughes has notified the leading Powers that the commission of inquiry into the improvement of Chinese laws with a view to withdrawing extra territorial rights, will meet at Peking on November 11. The commission was authorised at the Washington Arms Conference. It will include all the Powers participating in that conference, also Brazil, Denmark, Norway, Peru, Spain, and Sweden, all of whom have extra territorial rights.