TREATY WITH CHINA

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 30 July 1928, Page 7

TREATY WITH CHINA

SURPRISE MOVE BY U.S.A. TARIFF AUTONOMY RESTORED. DE FACTO RECOGNITION. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph Copyright.) (Australian Press Association —United Service.! WASHINGTON, July 28. It was announced on Friday that the United States had signed a treaty with the Chinese Nationalists, restoring Chinese tariff autonomy. Officialdom minimises the degree of diplomatic recognition involved, but it is admitted if, is a form of de facto recognition.

The surprise move of Mr. F. 13. Kellogg, United States Secretary of State, in negotiating the treaty has startled the diplomatic world, according to despatches received here, and persons close to the administrations conceded that it is possible that this unexpected gesture will react, perhaps unfavourably, upon American l-elations with other Powers in the Far East.

It is considered particulai'lv significant that the United States should have chosen this time to advertise its friendship for the because it comes when the relations between Tokio and Nanking are at breaking point over Manchuria, and when Japan, supported by Britain, is attempting to command observance by the Nationalists of so-called unequal treaties which the United States has now moved to replace, as far as American interests are concerned, with other agreements. PEKING, July 28.

A stir has been caused in diplomatic circles here by the unexpected announcement that America had signed a treaty with the Nationalist Government. The importance of the event lies in the fact that this is the first time a foreign Government with large interests in China has demonstrated its readiness to deal with the Nationalists on a. question concerning the country asi a whole.

The treaty amounts virtually to a full recognition of the Nanking regime as the Government of China.