Salt Lake Telegram | 1926-03-18 | Page 3 | China to Lift Taku Blockade

CHINA HINA TO lifT J AKU Agrees to Comply With Ultimatum to Avoid Extreme Measures By RANDALL GOULD United Press Pres Staff Correspondent PEKING March I 18 China China has agreed to comply with the foreign powers' powers ultimatum demanding opening of or the Pel Pet river to navIgation navigation navigation tion the American legation announced announced announced an an- today Nationalist commanders of the Taku forts torts agreed to the terms tenas and the foreign office sent a note to the po powers vers acquiescing to the principle principle principle prin prin- ciple that free tree communication be between between between be- be tween Peking and the sea must be maintained The crisis it was announced announced an an- flounced at the legation is past and therefore It Is not likely that thero there will wUl be a a. display of foreign naval force Hundreds of stud students paraded In Peking today bearing banners which protested against foreign imperialism The demonstrations expressed ed the the students' students dissatisfaction dissatisfaction faction with the vigorous foreign moves tb open the river and prevent prevent prevent pre pre- vent the tho Taku forts torts from firing on foreign shipping In In Its note to the powers the foreign office complained that the ultimatum went beyond the scope of ot the Boxer protocol which guarantees guarantees guarantees guar guar- free access from fron the sea to Peking It Is essential however the Chinese note said that there be no recourse to extreme methods method TIE TSIN March 18 AP It AP-It It ItIs Is semi officially announced that I the national peoples people's army and the troops of Marshal Chang Tso Tso-Lin Manchurian Man Man- I n- n dictator have accepted ed the demands of the great powers that the they cease cense their warlike operations around Taku bar In the Pet Pel river Apparently river traffic between Taku and has been re reopened reopened reopened re- re opened in part at least as French and Italian gUnboats went out over I th the Taku bar this morning from and the American gunboat Asheville went to Taku from Tien TIen- tsin which is thirty-seven thirty miles milea up the Pel Pei river rl The customs boats are standing by by- at Taku In readiness to restore the leading H lights In the channel