A satisfactory solution of the dispute between the interned member: of the Chinese so-called "Lone Bat talion" and the Municipal authorities is awaited with the return of Mr. C. S. Franklin, Chairman of the Shanghai Municipal Council, from holiday on September 13. The way towards a settlement has been paved, it is understood, at a series of conferences between Mr. Vu Ya-ching a member of the Council, and General Hsieh Chin-yuan, the commander of the interned unit. These negotiations have now been completed.
A sanguinary riot of the "Lone Battalion" took place at their camp near Kiaochow Park on August 11, just preceding the first anniversary of the "Shanghai incident," and caused several deaths and the injury of scores of the Chinese soldiers and M their Russian guards.
The trouble, which had long been brewing, came to a head over the unauthorized
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