TENSION EASED

Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20253, 23 July 1937, Page 8

TENSION EASED

4.30 O’CLOCK EDITION

CHIN A-JAPAN DISPUTE. RUMOURS OF A SETTLEMENT. DEMANDS SAID TO BE MET. United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright. (Received July 23, 3.15 p.m.) LONDON, July 22. Though the Japanese and Chinese armies are still standing in North China within striking distance and English and American residents of Peking have been warned to assemble at safety points the moment an alarm is sounded, the situation is reported to be easier, In consequence of an understanding or at least a truce pending a settlement which is believed to have been reached between Tokio and Nanking. This report comes from the Daily Telegraph’s Tokio correspondent, also from Shanghai, which adds that the terms have not been published for fear of exciting publio opinion, but it is understood that all Japan’s demands have been met.

The Daily Telegraph’s Tokio correspondent says it is impossible at present to say which side is making concessions, but the Japanese War Office to-day ordered the suspension of a shipment of war supplies to China. The thirty-seven Division of the ■Chinese Twenty-ninth Route Army began to evacuate Peking to-night. •Chinese troops still hold Wang Ping, the Marco Polo bridge at Loukouchlao, and Papaoshan. Traffic has been resumed on the Peking-Hankow railway. A report from Tientsin states that the Japanese have arrested Tsai Shutung, a former officer of the Chinese Army, on suspicion of being involved in a plot to assassinate the Japanese Ambassador.