NEGOTIATIONS FAIL

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 61, 23 May 1928, Page 6

NEGOTIATIONS FAIL

JAPANESE AND NORTHERNERS. CHANG WILL NOT WITHDRAW. United Presjs Assn. —B v Electric Telegraph Copyright. (Received 12.15 p.m.) TOKIO, May 22. Negotiations between Cliling Tso Lin iutid the Japanese Legation av Peking for Chang's* orderly withdrawal into Manchuria, appear to have broken clown. The Foreign Office here stUtes Ghana's agent approached the Minister, Baron Yoshisuiwa at Peking on Tuesday night with ■& proposal that the Northerners would immediately withdraw into Manchuria provided Jar)m would stop the Nationalists' advance ,011 Peking, and guarantee the Peking-Tientsin area which would not be allowed to fall under Nationalist control. YosWzawa refused, declaring that such a step would be aj violation of neutrality. Chang's desire is apparently for a sort of buffer state for the PekingTientsin urea, which would be between the Nationalist Domain and Manchuria. , , The War Office advices substantiate this, analysis, declaring that -a, major battle is already developing between the Southern and Northern forces with preliminary fighting, now under wav between the Shangsi Army which is 'part of the southern attacking force and the northern troops.. The War Office states that about -iwd hundred thousand of the Northern Forces "'re opposing 220,000 _ attacking- Southerners along the line from the Nankou Pass around Peking through Paotin'gfr and qiiMgehow, which i s about sixty mileis southward of Tientsin.—Australian Press Association.

CHINESE BOYCOTT. JAPANESE RETALIATE.' United Press Assn.-— By Electric Telegraph Copyright. (Received 12.45 p.m.) SHANGHAI, May 22. Japanese merchants having decided to retaliate, the Chinese boycott yes-tei-ilw decided to refrain from purduimaa Chinese export goods until the boycott, is „lifted-Australian Press Association.