Manchuria - No progress has yet been made in the
negotiations between Japan and China for a settlement of the Man- churian dispute. The Japanese Government is curbing the evident desire of the army in Manchuria to act vigorously against disorderly Chinese troops and the bandits who take advantage of the political unrest. The Chinese Government at Nanking has sought the sympathy of Washington but has received a non- committal reply. The Council of the League has, it is understood, made inquiries on the spot through the Spanish Consul. Meanwhile, in China a new boycott of Japanese goods is spreading. In the Yangtse valley the lives and properties of Japanese residents are said to be endangered, and several Japanese gunboats have been sent up the river. It Must be said for the League that its intervention has 'at any rate lowered the temperature of the quarrel, and neither at Nanking nor at Tokio is there any desire to push the matter to an extreme.
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