PEACE TREATY

Waikato Times, Volume 128, Issue 21366, 10 March 1941, Page 6

PEACE TREATY

INDOCHINA DISPUTE JAPANESE MEDIATION FRENCH AGREEMENT ! (United Press Assn. —Elec. Tel. Copyright) TOKIO, March 8 A peace treaty settling the dispute between Indo-China and Thailand will be signed provisionally tomorrow. j An informed source said the French probably saved virtually all the rich ! province of Cambodia by offering | Thailand a corridor to the Chinese l frontier in the north instead. | The Japanese favoured the corridor | for military reasons and therefore ! persuaded Thailand to accept it in j place of the Cambodia rice districts | which Thailand coveted. It is reported that the French j agreed to give up a thin western strip of Cambodia and sections of the Laos Province west of the Mekong River. in spite of reports from Tokio that j Thailand and French Indo-China | would sign a provisional peace tomorrow, officials at Hanoi to-night maintained reserve, indicating a belief that peace was not yet fully | assured. Minister for Berlin A Berlin report says the Japanese Foreign Minister, Mr Matsuoka, will i shortly visit Berlin at the invitation of the German Government, after which he would proceed to Rome. Informed circles in Tokio said Mr Matsuoka would probably leave in the middle of next week for Berlin, Rome and Moscow for talks bearing on collaboration on the three-Power pact. CHINESE SUCCESS WITHDRAWAL OF JAPANESE STRONG COUNTER-ATTACK (United Press Assn.— Elec. Tel. Copyright) (Received March 10, 1 p.m.) CHUNGKING, March 9 The China Central News Agency states that the Chinese counterattacked in south-west Kwangtung on Saturday and recaptured Tinpak and Shuitung. The Japanese withdrew their ships and left 200 dead. SHANGHAI. March 9 The Domei Agency said the Japanese withdrew from Tinpak, Shuitung, Laichow and Pakhoi. after accomplishing their purpose of destroying Chungkong.