CHINA AND JAPAN

New Zealand Times, Volume XL, Issue 9003, 27 March 1915, Page 7

CHINA AND JAPAN

FIVE MORE ARTICLES AGREED TO By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright PEKIN, March 26. At a conference between representatives of Japan and China five more articles were agreed to. China undertakes to appoint Japanese advisers and instructors to the various' political, financial, military, and police departments, and promises preference to the Japanese in connection with railway loans. CHINESE BELLICOSE (Received March 26, 7.30 p.m.) PEKIN, March 26. Certain Chinese sections an Shantung are bellicose towards Japan. Yuan Shi-Kai is urging them to refrain from overt actions. An anti-Japanese boycott is afoot a* Shanghai. “ . ; GRAIN FOR ALLIES (Received March 26, 8 p.m.) COPENHAGEN, March 26. Fifty 'thousand tons of grain ar# ready at Archangel for shipment to Britain 1 and France. , FRENCH ARMY SCANDAL By Telegraph—Pros* Association—Copyright (Received March 27, 1 a.m.) PARIS, March 26. Desclaux has been sentenced to seven years’ imprisonment and military degradation, and Mada'mo Bechoff to two years’ imprisonment. I [A recent message stated: —A courtmartial has opened to inquire into charges against Desclaux (Chief Axmyj Paymaster and M. Caillaux’s ex-see- 1 rotary) and six others of having mis- j appropriated army provisions and sup-! plies for the benefit of Dcsclaux’s friend, Madame Bechoff.] WILL HE RETURN? By Telegraph—Frew Association—Copyright (Received March 27, 1.30 a.m.) , | AMSTERDAM, March 26. i Herr Liebnecht has been ordered to join the Landsturm in Lorraine. His friends do not expect him to return alive. ALLIES’ AEROPLANES BUSY AT HEYST. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Received March 27, 1.30 a.m.) AMSTERDAM, March 26. The Allies’ aoroplahes dropped bombs on the brossworks at Heyst. Several Germans were killed and many wounded. HIGH PRAISE new' ZEALANDERS A PATTERN FOR COLONIAL TROOPS. By Telegraph—Prow Association—Copyright (Received March 37, 1.30 a.m.) LONDON, March 26. > The “Daily Telegraph’s” Cairo correspondent pays 1 a tribute to the excellent training which the Australasians have undergone. All are sound marchers. The New Zealanders are • specially fit and a pattern whereon..all.... colonial troops should be modelled, AMERICAN SUBMARINE BELIEVED TO BE LOST. By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright .. (Received March 27, 1.30 a.m.) NEW YORK, March 26. '' The American submarine F 4 is missing. It is believed she has been lost with all hands. She sank and failed , to reappear, off Honolulu harbour. There were twenty-five, of a crew aboard.