DEALING WITH CHEN.

Wairarapa Age, 20 April 1927, Page 5

DEALING WITH CHEN.

NEXT STEP BY FIVE MORE VIGOROUS NOTE. LONDON, April 18. Official circles state that the British, French, Italian, Japanese and American Ministers at Pekin have reached •omplete agreement as to the next step the respective Governments should take in view of the unsatisfactoriness of Chen’s reply to the Nanking Note. Probably the five Powers will dow send a joint Note of a mdre vigorous tone, possibly with a time-limit for compliance. The Note would probably have been already dispatched but for the resignations of the Japanese Cabinet. The advent of a Conservative Government is expected in Tnkio, the effect of which will be to stiffen the Japanese policy in China.—(A. and N.ZA jjpVTET PROFESSIONS. ''** WAR AND DISARMAMENT. (Received Tuesdav. 7.30 p.m.) LONDON. April 18. 4 'The Times” Ri73 correspondent states *hat M. Rykoff. officially reporting on international relations before the Pan-Union Congress of Soviets, stressed possibility of the Soviet being involved in a war in China, since the Imperialists were doing their utmost to provoke the Soviet to military action in that country. He reprated that the Soviet had no intention»of joining the Leageu of Nations. though it was willing to consider radical disarmament proposals if direct- . ed by an organisation of workmen and peasants.—{London “Times.”) 9