Canton, Feb. 25. The Customs incident was closed to-day by the surrender of the goods seized by the strikers and a reassuring proclamation that all formalities must be complied with.
Permits to load and discharge cargoes will be issued at noon to-morrow—Reuter's Pacific Serv "Mfers ax is usually the ease, 2,950 -ases_ of kerosene vil recentiy_imported into Canton, said to be from Hongkong, by the Yee Chang Chan} The consignment will be worth something like $30,000 to the Strike Ser-view.
No Intervention talk The Foreign Secretary repu the negative to a question in the House of Commons to-day as to whether there hac been a conference by. cable between London, Washington, Paris, Tokyo and Rome with regard to a' suggestion for armed tervention in China.—Reuter.
Hongkong, Feb. 25.
Owing to the impossibility of discharging cargo at Canton following the closing of the Canton Customs, vessels are now remaining idle in the ports of Canton and Whampoa. The Canton Government, through the Chinese Superintendent of the Customs, is reported to have requested the' Commissioner Customs there immediately to open the Customs House, proposing as solution of the matter that the eight cargo-boats, seized by the ike Committee, shall be released and that cargoes imported in future! shall first pass the Customs House under the protection of the Canton Government and then pass through of the Cargoes is_ observed] take no objection to this propo the affair will possibly be settled before long.—Eastern News Agency.
"It is difficult to share the optimism of the Eastern News Agency that a solution can be effected along these lines—Ed.
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