CHEESE CRISIS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLI, Issue XLI, 19 July 1920, Page 8

CHEESE CRISIS.

JAPAN NOT PAii'ICIPATING

FIGHTING KEteOMED.

aiSle i.B*i3 -* a^ss a f toe; *?r-> v r^—ct P' right (Receieved July 19. 9.20 a.m.) TOKIO, July 7. The Foreign Office has issued a communique denying thai. Japan was participating in the preFc-nt 'troubles in China. Japan was ui.untaining strict ##eatrality in the iinternal feuds in %hiria.; PEKIN, July 17. Fighting between tuo. troops of rival factions broke out ;.t Kwainhud. The ~ wounded are arriving lure. The capillj 'tal!"is qiiiet. •_•/•,■■) iThe-mediators sent out to attempt to reconcile the conwowng parties returned to Pekin tit.-if mission having failed. ,-■ Aixiessage from T'Mitsm states that a train bearing ftnviji.it military commander^ is ■■proceeding <n the direction of Yangstun. Ix i.v.kyd at Peisang, wh<esre: the 'command*.-;- of the Ghichli forces stated that h>.> was forced by th e Japanese troops r^sa-d at Yangtsun to remove. Ms, troons iv. ro miles distant from either side of i-iio railroad, thus creating a four mil;- Japanese front. „, -He- added that he- was compelled to ;".'. yetre^i; to 'Peisang to avoid a China- ' iTapanese 'incident. i .:«*.. .v«.: : , •:r NEW YORK, July 17. The New York Times Washington correspondent says that the State Department has been advised that owing tdf Hifti|4ry^troubles b,vtween the con-f-teMßnl. |#tions,,iri China, railway. " telephonic, and ralegrapliic communications have been interrupted between Peking and Tientsin. -(Received July ;9, 9.35 a.m.) Vi■'-'■•' PEKING, July 16. Chihli circles stai c that the Anflue troops, which attacked the Wupeifu troops south of Liuli'io, sustained defeat. There were 600 casualties. FightIng was resumed later, and a brigade of 13 frontier divisions was outflanked and surrendered. A report, from the same source states that two • brigades of Enkouchang's surrendered to . . ,the Chihli forces. Later messages ■. state that fighting which started Jast" night continues on the Peking-Tientsin railway, and that wounded continue to arrive from Liulihonli. Liuliho diplomats are considering necessary measures, in -view of the severance of the railways and telegraph communication since yesterday.