Geneva Informed of the Deadlock: Mr. Quo Tai-chi's Wire to Dr.
W. W. Yen Geneva, Mar, 31, Dr. W. W. Yer delegate' at Geneva, has just been Informed deadlock at the Shanghai the' Chinese Foreign Affairs to-day, Dr. Yen was formed that the Japanese were adamant in. refusing to withdraw completely, and, that it was therefore futile to continue the armistice discussions, Miles Lampson, the British Minister to China, reports further warlike incidents in the region of Taiteang.—Reuter Tokyo, Apr. 1.
The General Staff has instructed its representatives at the Shanghai armistice conference to make confessions in respect of the points to which" the Japanese forces will agree to withdraw, The General Sta agrees to shorten the line originally demand-fed and to abandon the claim to hold the Woosung Forts and Kiangwan-
However, the Japanese _representatives at the conference have been instructed to declare that they cannot specify a date by which the withdrawal should be completed, as this is "entirely dependent upon Nanking, Apr. 1.
General Tsai Ting-kai, commander of the 10th Army, declared to-day that the attaches little importance to} the line to which the Japanese troops withdraw, but that it is absolutely essential that a time Timit must be fixed within which the withdrawal is to be, accomplished.
the Central Hotel, General 'Tsai granted an interview to news-revealed that wus Kompo Chinese have been working as plainciotkes wen within the Chinese ines. General Tsai, while condemning this deplorable conduct, was Hot +o Litter as might have' been expected, attributing the action of the Kompo men to lack of education.
Genctal Chang Chu-chung, the commander of the Fifth Army, also has come out of the front line for a brief visit to the capital. He is staying at the Central Military Coliege—Urited Press.
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