AMERICANS TO BE EVACUATED

Horowhenua Chronicle, 23 May 1928, Page 5

AMERICANS TO BE EVACUATED

IN CASE OF EMERGENCY IN NORTH CHINA.

DEMAND FOR ARREST OF MURDERERS.

(By Telegraph-Press Assn.-Copyright.) Received This Dav, 8.55 a.in. WASHINGTON, Mayy 22.

It is authoritatively stated that the Government has decided upon the evacuation of all Americans from North China in case of extreme emergency in the increasingly menacing military situation.

Plans have already been completed which provide for the withdrawal, not only of civilians, but of American armed forces, also. The first step would be to remove the Legation and all civilians to Tientsin, followed by the withdrawal of American troops to that city. The State Department announced today that it sent a Note on May 15th to the Chinese Nationalist Foreign Minister, at Hwangfu, demanding that the murderers of the American missionary, Dr. Walker Seymour, be arrested and executed. The Note was delivered at the National Bureau at Shanghai for transmission to Hwangfu. It also demands the arrest and punishment,.of the officers responsible for looting the American mission.

JAPANESE INTERVENTION NORTHERN FACTOR WOULD CREATE BUFFER STATE. [By Telegraph-Press Assn.-Copyright.) (Australian Press Assn, and Sun.) Received This Day, 12.15 a.m. TOKIO, May 22. Negotiations between Chang-tso-lin and the Japanese legation at Peking for Chang’s orderly withdrawal into Manchuria- appear to have broken down, the foreign office here stating that Chang’s agent approached the Minister, Yoshizawa, at Peking on Tuesday with a proposal that the Northerners would immediately withdraw int(4 Manchuria provided Japan would stop the Nationalist advance on Peking and guarantee that the Peking—Tientsin area would not be allowed to fall under Nationalist control. Yoshizawa refused, declaring that such a step, would be a violation of neutrality. Changes desire is apparently for a sort of buffer state for the Peking— Tientsin area which would be between the Nationalist domain and Manchuria. The War Office advice substantiates this analysis, declaring that a majjor battle is* already developing between the southern... and northern forces with preliminary fighting now under way between the Shansi army, which is part of the southern attacking force, and the northern troops. The War Office states that about two hundred thousand northern forces are opposing two hundred thousand attacking southerners along the line from Nankow Pass, around Pekipg, through Taotingfi and Tongchow, which is about sixty miles southward of Tientsin.

BOYCOTT OF JAPANESE GOODS

JAPS RETALIATE

(By Telegraph-Press Assn .-Copyright.) Received This Day, 12.15 a.m. SHANGHAI, May 22.

Japanese merchants having decided on a retaliation of the Chinese boycott yesterday, decided to refrain from purchasing Chinese export goods until the boycott is lifted.