Danger of Mines Above Boom Still Very Great:
Attempt Being Made to Solve the Problem London World Parleys to Aid China Called London, Jan. 12.
The International Peace Campaign announces to-day that a conference to organize a world boycott against Japan and aid for China, will be held in London on February 11.
Viscount Cecil, President of the APORTS from London to the effect that the Senior British Naval Officer in Shanghai had been formally notified by the Japanese authorities that Japan could no longer permit the passage of non-Japanese merchant vessels up the Yangtze river were discounted in Shanghai yesterday. Both the shipping companies concerned and the Japanes authorities considered the London report, which was issued by the Diplomatic Correspondent of "The Times,"-to be slightly exaggerated and said that it did not exactly present the present situation in its correct light.
The "North-China Daily learned yesterday from an unofficial but highly reliable source that the whole question of navigation on the Yangtze river above the Kiangyin boom is now the subject of amicable negotiations between the British and the Japanese naval authorities. Slight differences are being rapidly smoothed out, and it is understood that a solution of the whole matter which will be mutually satisfactory is expected to be reached within a day or two 3 In point of fact, the two major British shipping compa) concerned, the Indo-China Steam Navigation Ca. and the China Navigation Ca., are not contemplating the opening of anywhere near
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