The Archive · 1923

Peking Rejecting Control of Railways

Peking, Aug. 15.

At a meeting held at the Waichiaopu yesterday, the following decisions relative to the Lincheng Note were reached for submission to the Cabinet (1) Acceptance of the demands for compensation; (2) dismissal of the named officials will be postponed for consideration with the local authorities; (3) the Government will do its utmost to prevent a recurrence of such an outrage; (4) foreign supéfvision of the railway police and guards will not be acceded to as involve ing an infringement of sovereignty.—Reuter.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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