CHINA'S CIVIL STRIFE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LVII, Issue 17475, 20 May 1920, Page 5

CHINA'S CIVIL STRIFE.

NORTH AND SOUTH RIVALRY < *£•■ OVERTURES FOR PEACE. TH& JAPANESE SPECTRE. By TelegraDh—Press Association—Copyright. (Received 12.30 a.pi.) ~ A. and N.Z. NEW YORK, May 18. The correspondent. of the New York Evening Post at Peking states that, following repeated offers of the Northern Government to resume peace conferences; the Southern Government telegraphed that it would accept the offers provided 1 that the Northern Government agreed to the abrogation of the 1918 UhinoJapanese military pact. The Northern Government replied that the withdrawal of allied troops from Siberia nullified the pact, and pointed out the necessity of an , immediate pence, to save China economically as well as politically. 0 JAPAN'S ENCROACHMENT. BRITISH TRADERS COMPLAIN. Australian -and N.Z. Cable Association, (Reed. 12.5 a.m.) SHANGHAI, May 17. The British Chamber of Commerce of 1 Shanghai, at its annual meeting, adopted [ a resolution favouring China's claim to , Shantung • Mr. A. ,W. Burkill, chairman of the directorate of the Chamber, ( said that Japan was taking deliberate steps to control the whole of the land surrounding the harbour, docks and wharves, and railway terminals of Tsingtau, and every obstacle was being put in the way of other nationals (acquiring any property in the business centre. A MISSION FROM FRANCE. , CLOSER RELATIONS SOUGHT. • £ustralun md N.Z. Cable Association. » (Reed. 11.30 p.m.) PARIS, May 18. M. Painleve, a former Prime Minister I of France, has gone to China on a mis- ' sion to establish closer relations between France and China.