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Star (Christchurch), Issue 17345, 27 September 1924, Page 2

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j OBVIATED BY ARMS AND DIPLOMACY. _ CHANG SIGNS AGREEMENT WITH SOVIET. Bv Telegraph—Pre.-B Association—CopyTieiit I Bydner “ Sun " Cab,*. (Received September 2/. i*.3o a.m.) REKIN. September 26. i Marshal Chang-Tso-lin announces that his success in arms ami diplomacy j will obviate the necessity of bombing j the President’s Palace at Pekin. Ho lias signed an agreement with the Soviet ensuring the safety of his roar from Russian attack, and providing that the Chinese Eastern Railways shall all remain under joint Russo Chinese control. Chang-Tso-lin in r*.i turn recognises the Soviet. I Chang-Tso-lin is now moving on Jo- . I hoi. w Inch In* hopes to captur cm a low j J days. j Replying to an earlier warning from | the British Minister against the dropI ping of bombs on the President’s Pali ace. Marshal Chang said that the iorj eigners need not- fear as he was having tile latest- sighting iiinaralus installed in his ’planes and had complete and accurate maps of Pie kin. ARMY AT HANG-CHOW. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright j iteuter'a Telwrr*n** REKJ.N, September 26. j The army in Fu-kien, under Gener-j al Sun Ohuan-fang, has arrived in Hang-chow. NOT AGAINST PEOPLE. j By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Received September 27 t 11.25 a m.) REK 1. N, Septe niber i>'•. General Wu Pei-fu concludes his proclamation regarding Oh an g Tso-lin, with a declaration that lie will direct his three armies against the guilty, and not against the people, to punish one man. When this is done tranquility will, bo established, and tho peoples, both the Chinese and foreign, will pursue t-heir vocations peacefully and without hindrance. e ‘The day my work is accomplished,” he says, “will bo when the country will enjoy everlasting peace and order.”