CHINA AND POWERS

Greymouth Evening Star, 17 February 1930, Page 5

CHINA AND POWERS

TERRITORIAL AGREEMENTS. - (By Cable—Press Asan.— Copyright.; SHANGHAI, February 14. Wang, Chinese Foreign Minister, states that the respective Foreign Governments have approved of a pioviisonal Court agreement, which will be formally signed on February 17. The agreement has also been reached between the Government and the British Minister regarding the retrocession of Weihaiwei. The draft has already been initialled. This is the step towards the return of all the leased territories held by' foreign Powers in China. It is also the first definite move towards the recovery of the international settlement at’Shanghai. THE NEXT CAMPAIGN. SHANGHAI, February 14. Preparations are now afoot for Spring hostilities among China’s warring factions* As a result, the Government is now busy commandeering all the available tonnage for the transport of soldiers northward to meet the latest threat, coming from Yenhsishan, the Shansi war lord, who has hitherto been neutral, but now despairs of the Government’s ability to unify the country.

FRENCH FORCE AnACKED. PARIS, February 15. There is intense indignation at the news that two French officers and three non-coms., at Yen Bay, IndoChina, have been murdered in their beds by a handful of native desperadoes, who planned an attack on the barracks. The desperadoes, thereafter, threatening the death, pressganged a number of men of the regiment. They captured two wings of the barracks ,and ran up the Red Flag. The battalion commander called on the Loyalists, who counter-attacked at dawn, and recaptured the buildings.