Oct, 2, NEARLY four weeks have passed since Rear-Admiral Cameron went up from Ichang to Wanhsien with H.M.S.S. Mantis, Teal and Widgeon, not, it was as carefully pointed out, with any bellicose intention, but asa matter of ordinary routine. Mr 'A. P. Blunt, now at the Consulate in Chungking, went with] Admiral Cameron and, we understand, visited Yang Sen on the way.' There has been some vague talk of negotiations; but nothing whatever has come of them to produce a satisfactory of affairs on the upper river. Indeed very much the reverse.
Thus on September 30 Reuter's correspondent at Ichang reported that ships were being commandeered indi ser by! Yang Sen to convey troops. On October 15 he reported that Captain Robbe, of the French gunboat, had obtained a promise from Yang Sen that French ships should not be molested: in spite of which promise two French ships were immediately commandeered at Chungking and filled up with troops for Wanhsien, Another ship,-just then starting up river, was instructed by Captain Robbe to turn back, she saw any danger of being commandeered; but when her master tried to do so, two men armed with revolvers appeared lon the bridge and forced him to go on. Reuter's message concluded by saying that all ships bound from Tehang to Chungking had been stopped. Thi tion is still practically changed, we understand.
As regards the boycott, counts vary. Our Tszeliutsing correspondent writing yesterday fand our Chengtu correspondent to-day both report that people jate, if anything, making special efforts to be friendly. But both these centres are remote. Also] may be conjectured. that the Chinese there have had sufficient taste of Bolshevist propaganda to set them against student disorders of any colour' and have their own reasons for ishing to keep the peace. telegram from Hankow of: the
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