CHINESE AFFAIRS.

Waikato Times, Volume 103, Issue 17385, 23 April 1928, Page 5

CHINESE AFFAIRS.

JAPANESE ON THE ALERT. MORE FRIENDLY RELATIONS. WITH PEKING GOVERNMENT. (By Telegraph.—. Press Assn.—Copyright.) (Australian Press Association.) TOKIO, April 21. The Japanese Government continues to take a serious view of t.he situation in China. Official advices indicate that the co-operation between the southern forces is better than was expected. This may mean the fall of Peking and the withdrawal of Marshal Chang-Tso-lin, the northern war lord, into Manchuria before midsummer. Japan hopes conciliation can be effected, or some truce under the terms of which the Nationalists will not advance north of Tsinan. It is announced that Japanese reservists at Tsinan have formed an emergency corps armed with sporting rifles and shotguns to protect. Japanese nationals. Three companies of Japanese troops have arrived at Tsinan from Tientsin. Advices from the chief port of Shangtung, Tsingtao, state that the Wcihai of Ihe Chinese naval squadron, with aeroplanes, left there on Friday to launch an offensive on Haichow. about 12b miles south of Tsingtao, in the Kiangsu province. The War Office announces that Commandant Makano, of the Telegraph Corps, is now cn route to Tsingtao. Despite the fact that the Foreign Minister of the Peking Government on Friday formally protested against the Shantung expedition to the Japanese Minister. Air Yoshizawa, it is'noticeable that all despatches from China now indicate that I lie Peking Government is suddenly becoming most friendly to Japan. The Mukden authorities yesterday returned all the South Manchurian railway rolling stock which has been in dispute since it was lent to the Chinese Taonan-Anganchi line.