Failure to Meet Obligations on Two British Issues: Pressure on Peking London, Mar. 10.
In reply to Mr. W, Forrest (Lib.), Mr, G. Locker-Lampison, Under-See: retary' of State, said that despite their public anriow Frineipal and interest of the German issues on the Tientsin-Pukow Railway loans of 1908 and 1910, and the Hukuang Railways loan of 1911, the Chinese Government, with twif_ing exceptions, had failed to do s0, and also, since that date, they had suspended' the service even of validated bonds, holders of these German issues had been without results, and the Chinese Government had given no satisfactory reason for differentiating between British and German In the meanwhile the situation was changed by the recent default on two British issues, and H.
ister was pressing' the Chinese Government to make good their! default on the loans in question—Reuter.
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