Deal Result of Political Events in North Peiping, Nov. 1.
A Sino-British journal, the "Peiping Chronicle," which hitherto staunchly supported the Nanking Government, passed into new hands to-day, when Messrs, W. Sheldon Ridge and Partners sold their interests outright to a Chinese business man, Mr. Wilfrid A. C. Chao.
Mr. Ridge announces his retirement from the post of managing editor. which he has held for five yea:
The transaction is the direct result of the trend of political events in North China, which rendered the position of the old management untenable. The journal] was suppressed for ten days in August, while six Chinese members of the staff were arrested or abducted at different times in the past two months. Al were subsequently released owing to the efforts of Mr. Sheldon Ridge—
Reuter,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.