PEACE IN CHINA

Taranaki Daily News, 27 May 1933, Page 7

PEACE IN CHINA

ARMISTICE CONCLUDED QUIETUDE ON ALL FRONTS COMPLETE DISASTER SAVED EYES TURNED TO RAILWAY ALLEGATIONS BY SOVIET By Telegraph—Press Assn. —Copyright. Rec. 7 p.m. Tokio, May 26. It is officially confirmed that a preliminary agreement and an an 'ice have - been concluded with China. The formal signing took place at Hwaiju, close to Peking. All fronts in North China are reported quiet, and the exodus of refugees from Peking has slackened. Railway traffic is becoming normal. While disposed to accept the Japanese assurance that they do not intend to occupy Peking forcibly, the Chinese believe that the Japanese military will not hesitate to do so if it becomes necessary for bargaining purposes. "The truce at the gates of Peking saved the Japanese from embarassing success which may well have saved the Chinese Central Government from complete. disaster,” says the Lon-on Times. “The political effects cannot -sily be foreseen.” , The Riga correspondent of the Times says the Soviet claims to have received authentic information that Japan has decided within a few days to isolate Vladivostock from Manchuria by blocking the Chinese eastern railway and removing the rails. The Soviet adds that Japan falsely alleges as a pretext for l’ e violation of treaty rights that Russia has seized the railway rolling stock and therefore Japan is compelk > prevent the further departure of locomotives and waggons. The real object is to . force down the market value of the railway, which Japan hopes to acquire cheaply, says the Soviet.