CHINESE TROUBLE

Hokitika Guardian, 11 August 1928, Page 3

CHINESE TROUBLE

NANKING AGREEMENT SIGNED. Australian Press Assn.—United Service (Received this day at 8 a.m.) SHANGHAI, Aug. 10. An agreement covering the Nanking incident, was signed by Britain and China. Sir Sidney Barton, British Consul-General at Shanghai, journeyed specially to Nanking for this purpose. Doctor Wang, Nationalist Minister of Foreign Affairs, reported that Barton discussed the revision of the SinoBritish treaties. The text of the agreement is not published yet. JAPANESE REQUEST. (Received this day at 8 a.m.) TOKYO. Aug! 10. The usually reliable “Hockinshimbun” understands Japan is considering a plan to ask the United States to exclude China relations from the scope of the Japanese-American Arbitration Treaty, negotiations for renewal, which are now under way at Washington. A newspaper states the plan is strongly supported bv the general staff and a section of the Privy Council who insist on Japan’s right to exclude general Asian relations, including Australia. from the scope of the pact, since United States under the Monroe Doctrine, excludes Latin American relations. Such plan, if carried out, might have the greatest influence in the future of the 1 whole of the Pacific area, since it would be practically equivalent to a declaration of the Japanese Monroe Doctrine for Asia and Australasia, so far as United States is concerned.