DIFFICULTIES SETTLED

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 672, 25 May 1929, Page 9

DIFFICULTIES SETTLED

JAPANESE MARINES SOON TO LEAVE CHINA COMPENSATION ARRANGED (Australian and N.Z. Press Association) SHANGHAI, Friday. The outstanding difficulties between China and Japan over the Hankow questions have definitely been settled according to an official statement issued by Rear-Admiral Yonai, Commander of the Japanese Yangtse Fleet. The Japanese marines, who have been stationed at Hankow since April, 1927, are to be withdrawn on May 31, a day prior to Ifce funeral of Sun Yat Sen, as an appropriate mark of respect to the late founder of the Kuomintang (Nationalist Party). Further, the Japanese have agreed to compensate the families of the coolies who were killed by their marines. The Chinese have ordered the immediate cessation of anti-Japanese activities. All goods seized are to be returned. They have also prohibited further seizures. Although the Nanking Government has decided to carry out the arrangements for Sun Yat Sen’s funeral on the original date, and by so doing to postpone the punitive expedition against the “Christian General,” Feng Yu-hsiang, there is a possibility of the plan being upset in the event of Feng continuing his destruction of the railway.