12 SEPTEMBER 1925, Page 2

The relations between the United States, China and span are

complicated by the dispute over the rights and the desires of the three nations in regard to wireless telegraphy. The Japanese station of Messrs. Mitsui at Peking, the Chinese National Company and the American Federal Company are in disagreement over rights of transmission across China. We trust that this will not be allowed to influence greater matters. We thank- fully record the release last week of the missionaries held by bandits in the interior, but two British journalists from Hong Kong have been outrageously treated in Canton by the strikers and fresh riots are reported in Shanghai. * * * *