NO AGREEMENT

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19768, 16 February 1927, Page 7

NO AGREEMENT

DISCUSSIONS FAIL CHEN WILL NOT SIGN ANOTHER BREAKDOWN CRITICS BLAME MOVEMENTS OF TROOPS CBy Telegraph—Per Press Assn.—Copyright.] Received Feb. 15, 11.5 p.m. LONDON, Feb. 15. It is announced from Hankow that the agreement between the Nationalist leader Chen and Mr Edward O’Malley has not been signed. It is believed that negotiations have been completely broken off. “News of the breakdown of the negotiations created astonishment in official •circles, ” says the '‘Daily Express. ’ ’ On the contrary, the diplomatic correspondent of the “Daily Herald” makes grave statements on the subject, declaring that the official hope all round would seem more than balanced by the fear that something might happen at the last minute to prevent Chen’s signature. “It was impossible,” says the correspondent, “to avoid a conclusion that this anxiety was not unconnected with new military movements, which appear to have been ordered at such a critical and delicate moment without consultation with the Foreign Office. These movements cannot have been exactly helpful to Mr O’Malley.” Arms for the Chinese The diplomatic correspondent of the •'Daily Telegraph” says Berlin admits that quantities of German arms are reaching China, but points out that they aro'no longer German, and consist chiefly of goods surrendered to the Allies, from whom private dealers bought them for next to nothing and are now selling them for a good price to China. The German Government has no power to hold up this foreignowned material in transit across Germany. British Troops at Shanghai. The Shanghai correspondent of the •'Daily Express” states that thousands of British residents, the majority of them women, stood for hours in drizxling rain to watch the Durham and Gloucester regiments land. They came ashore all smiles, with the music of drums and fifes. The Chinese were sullen, but cheer after cheer was raised by the British residents when Admiral Tyrwhitt took the salute opposite the Yokohama ipecie bank. Will Never Yield to Force. The Geneva correspondent of the •'Daily News” says that Chao-Sin-Chu, Chinese delegate to the League of Nations' has issued a statement to the effect that if Britain renounces the old treaty and enters into a new treaty on the basis of absolute equality and reciprocity there will be no need to send troops and no fear of a continuance of the boycott, but China’s 400,000,000 people will never yield to arms.