Sailors and Soldiers Policing Interior and Exterior London, Feb. 16, The Times," in a leader, reviewing the policing of the Yangtze and remarking that a greater sense of security in China is illustrated by the departure of the 2nd Battalion, of the Coldstream Guards from Shanghi it is quite in keeping with the anomalous conditions in China that the coast region is policed by soldiers and the interior by sailors."—Routed, treaty or agreement purporting be made by any Chinese authority with a foreign government, cor poration or individual without the Participation of the Nationalist Government is of no validity what soever.' The declaration was duly Published in both the Chinese and foreign newspapers in Shanghai and-must have been brought to the knowledge of the Imperial Japanese Government.
"If it in true as reported that Chang Tso-lin has approached the South Manchuria Railway for a loan of Yen 6,000,000, the Nationalist Government feels constrained to d clare its opposition, at the same time solemnly announcing its absolute refusal to recognize the validity of any loan contracted by the Northern militarist "I¢ the Imperial Japanese Government aims at the removal of all obstacles in the way of Sino-Japanese relations as well as the prot motion of friendly feeling between the people of the two nations, the: Nationalist Government trusts that} the Tmperial Japanese Government, will prevent such a transaction by, the South Manchuria Railway"—Kuo Min.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.