Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-02-03
CHINA BREAKS
NEGOTIATIONS
WITH BRITAIN.
Apprehension Felt By For
Neigners Pending N e W
Year Celebration.
FALSE CHARGES
Posters Depict Slaughter
By British Armed Troops
January 3.

HANKOW, Feb. 2 [0-General un-
easiness prevails among the foreign
community here as result of the
statement of Cantonese foreign min
lister Eugene Chen yesterday suspend
ing treaty negotiations with Great
Britain until British forces have been
withdrawn from Shanghai to which
the British have not agreed.
The apprehension of foreigners was
heightened because today marked the
beginning of one months idleness
during which the Chinese will cele-
brate the advent of their new year.
Anti-British illustrated posters
falsely depicting great slaughter of
unarmed and peaceaDie Chinese by
British armed troops and British
cannon during the January riot
again are making their appearance.
These accusative cartoons are untrue
as to the facts. Not single shot
was fired that day by the British who
defended their concession district
against coolie mob of thousands.
Although a rumber of foreigners were
injured with sticks or stones, the
positive assertion is made that not
one ChlneSe was Killed.
LONDON, Feb. 2 R)-The British
government tonight cabled fresh in
structions to owen OMalley, the
British charge at Hankow in an eff
fort to break the deadlock which
developed in the lo-Chinese
negotiations there when the Can
tonese foreign minister Eugene Chen
questioned the right of Great Britain
TO dispatch a Shanghai defense force
to the far east.
Shorn of technicalities, it is ad-
mitted in competent official quar-
ters, that the whole Chinese situa-
tion is at a standstill over the issue
of the troops now on the way. There
is no likelihood that the expedition
will be recalled but there is pos
sibility that it, may be partly di-
verted to Singapore and Hongkong,
or that an agreement may be reached
with the Chinese authorities regard
ing the length of its stay at Shanghai
The foreign office maintains that
the negotiations between Charge
OMalley and the Cantonese minister
have not been broken off, explaining
that Chen merely has refused to sign
the draft agreement dealing with the
fu:ure status of the British conces-
sions at Hankdw and KSukiang
W here recent rioting ocurred.
WASHINGTON, Feb. Q P)-While
the Chinese situation again marked
time today so far as the American
government was concerned new
congressional iron was thrust into
the fire by Representative Somers,
democrat, New York, in the form of
q resolution proposing to put con-
gress on record as favoring negotia-
tions for new treaties with the rival
factions in China, independently of
each other, if necessary.
The proposal goes considerably be-
yond Secretary Kellogg's announced
proposal of readiness to negotiate
with a delegation to be appointed by
agreement between the Peking and
Cantonese leaders and there is no
indication that the state department
i'll adopt tie course suggested in it.
DIR. Alfred Sze, Chinese minister
in Washington refused to comment
until he had an opportunity to study
the Somers resolution. In a recent
statement he urged that an American
treaty negotiation delegation be nam
ed without waiting overtures from
China as an evidence of desire to
restore to China diplomatic equality
Pending developments in connec-
tion with American hopes of concil-
iating Chinese nationaliStic aSDira-
tions through treaty discussions, at
tentiOn here was centered largely
upon the rupture in British Can
tonese negotiations at Hankow.
Secretary Kellogg does not regard
the action of the Cantonese in break
ing off these negotiations as having
much bearing upon Ame rican- Chinese
relations. 1t has been understood at
the staee department. that the negotia-
tions revolved around the future
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