PEACE TERMS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 76, Issue 115, 18 May 1933, Page 7

PEACE TERMS

CHINA AND JAPAN AGREEMENT EXPECTED EMISSARIES GO NORTH (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) Received May 17, ll). 10 p.m. SHANGHAI, May 17. With the departure of Nanking emissaries northward bearing term> designed to stop the present hostility in the Peking- area, it was announce to-day that the Chinese and Japanese had virtually agreed to terms for a cessation of the hostilities along linesimilar to the ‘stoppage or the Chapei fighting last year. The exact nature ol the proposals were not divulged. Chinese troops, under General Ho chukuo, commenced evacuating Tang shan on Monday night, while Japan ese troops are now stared to have Litt Kaiping en route for Tangshan. The Chinese forces are concentrating at Lutai, 30 miles west of Tangshan. The foreign concessions at Tientsin are receiving a huge influx of Chin ese refugees. The exodus of Chinese from Peking is now reaching 3000 daily. JAPANESE BOMB TOWNS HEAVY CASUALTIES RESULT MONGOLS JOIN MANCHUKUO <SHANGHAI, May 16. Tangshan was heavily bombed and the cement works and cotton mill severely damaged. Miyun was also bombed, and th«city swept with machine-gun fire, with heavy casualties. The Chinese are making pieparations to evacuate Tangshan. A Japanese message from Harbin states that Chinese Mongol troops at Kalgan, within the province of Chahar, have declared their allegiance to Manchukuo, whose officials have already loft to take control. CHINESE IN FLIGHT LOOTING EN ROUTE THE JAPANESE ATTITUDE SHANGHAI, May 16. In view of the numbers of Chinese fleeing towards Tangshan, loot ing en route, Japanese sources report that the British manager of the Tangshan mines has decided to suspend operations in the meantime. The Japanese Legation has issued a statement that should the Chinese discontinue their provocative acts the Japanese will quickly return re the Great Wall and resume their regular work of maintaining peace in Manchukuo. “Unless the Chinese army alters its attitude, the counter-attacks will be kept up.”