FIGHTING IN CHINA

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 19 May 1928, Page 5

FIGHTING IN CHINA

MEDIATION SUGGESTED. THE BRITISH REFLY. AUGHT BE MISUNDERSTOOD. (UNITED I'M ESS ASSOCIATION—BY ELECT!! I' TELEGRAPH—COPYRIGHT.) (BRITISH OFFICIAL WIRELESS.) RUGBY,. May 16. The question was asked to-day in the House of Commons whether, in view of the development in the Far East, the Foreign Secretary would consider offering to the contending parties in China the good services of this country in bringing the civil war to a close. Mr Locker-Lanvpson, Foreign Undersecretary, replied that, while his Majesty’s 'Government were anxious to see the re-establishment of peace in China, anv attempt at, mediation would), particularly! at the present, juncture, bo extremely delicate and 'would, ne feared, be misinterpreted. His Majesty’s Government felt therefore that they could not take any step of this nature unless definitely" invitee to do so by both sides. Replying to a question in the House of Lords this evening, Lord Uushendun, British representative on the Council of the League of Nations, said Sir Austen 'Chamberlain, Foreign Secretary", lead not allowed the state of affairs in China to go for so long without considering whether the League of Nations could take any part in bring ing about peace, but there was no such thing as a Government in China. The Nanking political committee had addressed a telegram to the SecretaryGenera] at Geneva, but the political committee was not, a member of tne League of Nations. At the present moment the British Government had no locus standi on which it could sup port the application of the Nanking political committee.

MAJOR ENGAGEMENT DEVELOPING.

(AUSTRALIAN PRESS ASSOCIATION—(UNITED SERVICE.) TOKIO, Afay 17. The Northerners’ action with Feng Yu Hsiang and the Shansi troops in the neighbourhood of Wangatu, on the Pcking-Hankow line, opened yesterday, and is reported to be developing into a major engagement, a decision in which the Japanese expect within p week. The Peking population is panic, si rieken. RECOGNITION OF NATIONALISTS. AN AMERICAN PROPOSAL. WASHINGTON, May 17. Representative (Black introduced a resolution advocating United .States recognition of the 'Chinese Government and the United States participating in a revision of the treat, ie? between Chinn and the other Powers. TWO TROOP TRAINS COLLIDE j THREE HUNDRED SOLDIERS KILLED. SHANGHAI, Atav IS. Two troop trains bearing defeated Shantungesc to Manchuria, collided. Three hundred troops were killed.