When the diplomatic note, which Teaked out a few days ago, ordered the suspension of the Shanghai Municipal authorities charged with the responsibility for the Shanghai student shootings, Mr. Fessenden wrote the Council's reply. The reply had the effect of causing the resignation of the French and tal-ian Ministers from the Diplomatic Commission and a split in the Dip-Tomatic Body, Great Britain and Jay the French, It navians on the other.
According to reports from London to-night, an important conference was held in London, attended the American, French and Japanese Ambassadors and Austen' Chamberlain, British forezn minister, at which it was decided to up-hold Mr, Fessenden's opinion establishing the supremacy of the Shanghai municipality's position and ordering a new judicial inquiry into the whole Shanghai trouble. This reversed the French viewpoint that Shanghai is subject to diplomatic control and coercion.
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