PEACEMAKERS.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 3 December 1929, Page 5

PEACEMAKERS.

BRITAIN AND AMERICA. BEING MADE TO CHINA AND RUSSIA. XARLY SETTLEMENT EXPECTED. £By Telegraph-Press Assn.-Copyright.) (Official Wireless.) RUGBY, Dec. 2. For the- first time since it was signed, arising out of the Kellogg Antiwar Pact has been taken, the British Government co-operating with the United States Government in the issue ■of-a joint representation to the Chin«bo andlSoyiet Governments, in ; regard to. the situation in Manchuria, calling the. attention of those Governments to their obligations under the Pact, and expressing the hope that it will be possible in. the near future to come to an agreement between themselves |upon .-a method for resolving by. peaceful means the issues over which they are at present in controversy. ■When this aetion was announced ia the House of Commons, the Hon. A. Henderson, Secretary for Foreign Affairs, replying to questions, said that Appeared to be reason for believing that an armistice had been arranged. According to a telegram from the British Consul-General at Mukden, the Mukden authorities had sent to Moscow a telegram accepting the Soviet terms «ior re-opening negotiations, and Chin- *«« negotiators had left Harbiu for Hag&cosk, .