TEMPORARY TRUCE

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 121, 25 May 1933, Page 11

TEMPORARY TRUCE

WAR IN NORTHERN CHINA

BOTH SIDES TO WITHDRAW

LULL IN HOSTILITIES

United Tress Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. SHANGHAI, May 2i. It was definitely announced at Peking last night that a temporary peace agreement had been reached between the Chinese and Japanese representatives, causing a lull in all hostilities. Prior to this announcement, it was stated that tho good offices of Sir Miles Lampson, the British Minister, had been solicited as an intermediary, as the Chinese had submitted a concrete truce plan. The meagre details available indicate that the Japanese must withdraw outside- the Great Wall and the Chinese must remain beyond, a line south of Yenehing, Changping, Shunyi, Kaoliying, Tungchow, Hsiangho, Lingtingehon, and Ningho. '1 According to Japanese reports, all the conditions laid down by them have been accepted, though it is emphasised that the agreement is only temporary, but it is expected to form a basis of ultimate peace. The tension at Peking and Tientsin has been considerably relaxed. Refugees from an area nine miles outside Peking were pouring into the city (throughout yesterday, trains bringing over 13,000 in a short time. Philanthropic societies are arranging camps and other forms of relief. Tokio officials confirm that armistice negotiations are proceeding between Mr. Nakayana, Japaneso Councillor at Peking, and General Huangfu. A formal agreement will probably be signed at Mijrun tomorrow stipulating that both sides will not pass a. line from Ningbo to the sea along the Lutai railway, to | Tungchow, fourteen miles from Peking, the line probably terminating-at Kalgan. Tho Chinese, yesterday, started to withdraw. A report that the Japanese occupied Tungchow is contradicted.