TRUCE DECLARED

Hokitika Guardian, 27 May 1933, Page 5

TRUCE DECLARED

AT PEKING GATES

OFFICIAL SIGNING ON MONDAY. United Press Association —By Electrio Telegraph—Copyright) TOKIO, May 25. It is officially confkmcd here that a preliminary ■agieemeut for an armistice has been concluded with a delegate appointed by General Ho yes-t.,.-day. The formal signing wi::j >•- as Hwaiju, close to Peking, on Monday, 29th inst.

CHINA SAVED FROM DISASTER. A LONDON PRESS OPINION. LONDON, May 26. “The Times” says : A truce >at the gates of Peking has saved the Japanese from an embariv.issing success. It may well have saved the Chinese Centra] Government from a complete disaster. The political effects cannot easily .be foreseen.

ISOLATION OF VLADIVOSTOK. ■JAPAN BLOCKING RAILWAYS. LONDON, May 26. “The Times” Riga correspondent fia.y s; :—“The 'Soviet claims that it h-s received authentic .information that Japan ha B decided withi, n a few days to isolate 'V.ladivostock from Manchuria bfy blocking the Chinese eastern railway, and removing the ra:.ls. The Soviet add,? that Japan falsely alleges, as a pretext, the violation of Treaty rights, asserting that Russia seized the railway (rolling stock, and that therefore Japan is compelled to prevent any further departure of locomotives and wagons. The Soviet states that Japan’,? real object is to force down the market value of the railway, which Japan hopes to acquire cheaply from Russia.