CHINA'S REPLY NOT CON. CILIATORY

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 106, 6 May 1915, Page 8

CHINA'S REPLY NOT CON. CILIATORY

WITHDRAWAL FROM AGREEMENT. (By Telegraph. —Press Association.— Copyright.) (Received May 6, 2.45 p.m.) LONDON, sth May. Other reports state that an ultimatum will be issued in forty*eigbt hours. The Chinese and Japanese Embassies t are ignorant of the matter. The latter states that China's reply was decidedly , unronciliatory in tone. China has with- ' drawn from the substantial agreement ' which the 'delegates had already con- j ceded. During the negotiations at Tokio a telegram from China demanded that o, pledge of absolute restoration of Kiaoohnu should be inserted in the protocol. Japan averred her willingness to return the port, but said the question must await a post-bellum settlement. China also demanded that Japan should pay indemnity for all damage done to Chinese interests consequent on the war, and that China should be included in the peace conference.

The Rev. R. Scott- West, who has been elected President of the New South • Wales Presbyterian Assembly, was formerly in charge of St. David's Church, Auckland, being well known among the older Presbytoriaus of New Zealand. Ho was born in the Old Countvy, and as a 3?oung man came out to the Dominion, fc>t. David's being his first charge. From Auckland he went to Sydney, and ho is at present a lecturer at the Theological , College there.