PEACE NEGOTIATION

Hokitika Guardian, 22 May 1933, Page 5

PEACE NEGOTIATION

JAPAN AND CHINA

MONROE DOCTRINE AIMED AT

(United Press Association—By Electric

Telegraph-Copyright.)

GENEVA, May 19,

The Nanking Government have informed the League of Nation-; that the Japanese general s toff are conducting peace negotiations with Nanking on lines envisaging the cessation of Chinese warlike ,in North China, and inclusion jn a iionwar area of the Chinese provinces north of the Yellow River, and of the Japanese .abrogation of unilateral treaties in favour of reciprocal treaties with China in order to maintain an Asiatic Monroe Doctrine.

The Nanking Government opposes these Inegdtiatious .as being an attempt to coerce the Nanking Government to violate China’s territorial sovereignty and the integrity of Manchuria, contrary to the League resolution and the Nine Power Pact.

RAILWAY STATION BOMBED

AN OUTRAGE A[T TIENTSIN

SHANGHAI, May 20

Following an attempt made to einate Huangfu at the Tientsin railway station, a bomb explosion wrecked part of the building. It killed two persons outright, and injured five others. It occurred just as . a train arrived from Peking, when th. e platform was crowded with alighting passengers and the guards were removing the luggage A fire wa, 3 started, and it swept through the building. The escaped. It was a little later that the shoot- | ing began in the (native city. Groups of plain clothes men, formerly followers of Shisyushan, a former Kuominchun general, tried to gain control! of the electricity, but they wore eas-! lily beaten by the police, acid fled in disorder, throwing away their pistols.

FIRING OUTBURST IN TIENTSIN TIENTSIN, May 20.

There was an outburst of firing here in the Japanese quarter. It followed an attempt by ' Chinese plain iclothes i men to secure control there. The attackers fled after two hours 0 f stubborn fighting. ' Japanese planes circled over the j city of Tientsin during this morning, but they dropped no bombs, though they were fired on by the defenders.

CHINA A VICTIM OF AGRESSION

(Received May 22 at 9.45 a.m.) LONDON, May 21

The 'Chinese legation at London hag issued the Nanking Government’s reply to Mr Roosevelt, stressing that China \vtos the victim of aggression. It say' that cities were destroyed, and'men, women and children slaughtered. No Government, therefore, was more lanxiciis to see all countries enter a pact of non-aggression.