Deadlock Reported With Japan Owing to Treaty Revision tanking, Sept.
An informal statement made by a reliable source to-day is to the effect that unofficial negotiations with the Powers, excepting Japan, over the proposed seven-stade tariff have almost concluded, with results favourable to China.
The Nationalist authorities, however, have not yet obtained understanding with Japan, the negotiations om treaty revision and other important rs being at a deadlock Therefore, it is further said, it sains far from possible for the Ni tionalist Government either to carry vat the official promulgation of the new tariff, or to put it iz force as from October 1—Toks, Mr. Chen Shih-chang, missioner of Reconstruction for Kiangsu Province, has resigned. construction of a government now. In building a government which can its own, an army must be created. The units we have seen of Nationalist China's army, bespeak failure. stupid, oF And what is worse, ney look undernourished and unhealthy. It is evident that they are not being properly looked after by the commissary department, nor is the medical service doing anything for them, Their ages vary from mere boys to some who look too old to be invective service. The officers are well set-up, as a role, better nourished, and well clothed. They know how to move their men in a semblance of military order.
The pathetic part of a transfer of men such us this is that little or no preparation is made to care for the troops in the places to which they are assigned. They try temples here, ancestral halls there, an abandoned foreign-owned school in another blaze; and wherever they go, the people try to have them sent If the army is a sample of what nationalism can do, that movement is already a failure, A Communist with Atty dollars can certainly buy fifty men! For not one of the sol-diets seen on the march recentl, ooked ax though he had been able dollar his own in many The average citizen simply gives way when the military approach.
here fs a general feeling of unrest and anxiety which pervades a city newly occupied by troops. "Are they fighting again in Nanking This is a question asked over und over again by the ignorant It ie only possible to carry on from day te day. To plan for future development, as yet seems but madness The following statement regarding disbandment at Hankow was Published by the Kuo Min News Agency on Sept. 16:—
The Headyuarters of the Fourth Group Army announced yesterday the beginning of the second stage lof the reorganization and disbandment of troops. The 2nd and 14th are to be amalgarcated to Sth Division under General while the 35th Division 17 and With Independest Divisions will be combined and reorg o the 6th Division under The 8th Army and the Sth Independent Division will be formed into two independent sttalions under the respective command of Generals Wa Shang and Ho-ting. A Gendarmerie Force will also be organized of the re-ing troops under the command of Generals Lu Taping and Ho Chien—Kuo Mia, that he has examined all the cases and thas found that most of then are not curios, Therefore, he says, hho is inclined to release them, Upon receipt of General Chang Pei-mei's statement the Association for the Preservation of Cultural Objects wired General saying that everything of scientific interest, whether curios or not, should be retained until the Associ tion's experts have examined them.
The Association also proposed that the cases should be brought to Peking; that all materials of, archological interest. should be tained by China and that, of Femuining specimens, those' witha duplicates, should be' retained and those with duplicates divided between China and the United State The Association also propose that all specimens retained by China should be properly eatalorued for. study, in which connection it suggested' that special facilities should be granted to the organiza~ tion responsible for their discovery.
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