THE CHINA MAIL, JULY 14, 1987,
CHINA READY FOR PEACE
WITH HONOUR
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North China, when he arrived in Tientsin to-day.. Reuter.
JAPAN WILL NOT WELCOME MEDIATION
KWANGSI OFFER
Army Ready To Proceed STOP PRESS
To North China
Kweilin, To-day.
General Chung-jen, Pacifica- tion Commissioner of Kwangsi, has telegraphed to General Chiang Kai- shek in Kuling. urging the Nanking. Government to resistance to Japan- ese aggression.
He said it was perfectly clear
TOKYO, TO-DAY. INTERVIEWED TO-DAY, A FOREIGN OFFICE SPOKES- MAN SAID THERE WAS NO VITAL CHANGE IN THE NORTH CHINA CRISIS. HE ADDED: “THE FUTURE DEPENDS EN-that the Lukouchiao Incident was stage-managed, initiating Japan's TIRELY ON CHINA'S ATTITUDE.”
systematic conquest of China, and ASKED IF MEDIATION BY BRITAIN AND THE UNITED that the present trouble round the THE outskirits of Peiping might be liken- SERVE ANY USEFUL PURPOSE, STATES COULD
Incident SPOKESMAN SAID THAT JAPAN WOULD NOT WELCOME ed to the September 18 ANY OUTSIDE MEDIATION AND PREFERRED TO PROCEED which resulted in the loss of Map- WITH THE MATTER IN HER OWN WAY.--REUTER.
KAWAGOE NOW IN
TIENTSIN
In Long Conference With G.O.C.
Tientsin, To-day.
journal says that China must needs be the main subject of discussion, and it is to Japan's interest as much as Britain's and ⚫ that orderly Government
the security it brings should vast prevail throughout the Chinese markets.
A
Conflict in the northern provinces The Japanese Ambassador, Mr. S.
from just now would utterly blight this Kawagoe, arrived by plane
the paper Tsingtao at 11.10 this morning and encouraging prospect, has since been in conference with says, and it is to be hoped that
of moderation
and the new General Officer Commanding counsels
foresight will prevail alike in Nan- Japanese troops in North China.-
king and Tokyo.-Reuter. Our Own Correspondent.
STRANGE FORMOSA REPORT. Taihotsu (Formosa); To-day. According to Japanese reports, the military authorities here have in- formed Japan that the defence plan has been completed and that they await further orders. Correspondent.
Our Own
SHIPPING SILVER SOUTH
Shanghai, To-day.
An unconfirmed report states that a large consignment of silver was shipped by Shanghai bankers Hong Kong on the "Empress Russia.".
CABINET RETURNS TO NANKING
Crisis Breaks Up Kuling Holiday Scheme.
Generalissimo
Nanking, To-day.
Chiang Kai-shek,
churia. Unless the whole nation was united in determination to de- fend China's sovereign rights, the Japanese Government could not be The 29th brought to her senses. Army is fighting single-handedly, and should the Central Government desire to make use of the Kwangsi. army, he and his fellow-soldiers are only too ready to die for China.- Da-Dao.
RAY OF HOPE FOR PEACE WITH HONOUR
Embassies' Warning To Nationals
Peiping, To-day.
TEL. 20022 or 33993,
CHIEF FACTORS IN NORTH CHINA CRISIS
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unless wiser
After a meeting yesterday be that it looks on balance that some tween Chin Teh-chun, Mayor of form of fairly large-scale hostili-
expected Peiping, and Mr. Kato, First ties can be Secretary of the Japanese Em- counsels prevail at the eleventh bassy, a high Chinese official said hour. there was still a ray of hope for peace with honour.
China'
He gave the assurance, however, Chairman of the Military Affairs that the Hopei-Chahar authorities Commission and President of the would never sacrifice Executive Yuan, has instructed all
sovereign rights. to
the Ministers and Chairmen of all
He said that yesterday's fighting of
committees to return to Nanking outside the walls of Peiping from Kuling so as to be in closest due to a misunderstanding when This is interpreted as indicating touch with affairs in the Capital in
two Japanese lorries took the the serious view which is taken of view of the crisis.-Our Own Cor-
worng turning. Our Own Corres-respondent. the situation.
pondent.
CHINA A PAWN IN JAPANESE POLITICS
London Comment On
ATTACK ON GATE
Thousand Men Make Assault
Developments tachment of
London, To-day.
was
The British and other Em- hassies have warned their na- tionals residing outside the walls of Peiping to withdraw within the city, where martial law last night... was rigorously enforced.
MORE TROOPS
more
The Army will be reluctant to retire gracefully without at least a punitive expedition against General Sung Cheh-yuan's forces, whom Tokyo can depict inaccur- ately, but without stretching the imagination, "bandits steeped in Bolshevism.
na-
Developments on these lines evoke delicately related stresses.
CHEANG'S WISE OPPORTUNISM
Chinese Firstly, outraging tionalism to the point where it ceases to be amenable to General Chiang Se- Kai-shek's wise opportunism, condly, the extent to which the Cen- tral Government effectively. ces the 29th Route Army with
town troops from furthe
Peiping, 1.40 a.m. Two more groups of JapaneseThirdly, the ability or This morning at about 1.15, a de- troops totalling 1,100, arrived at
to force of the Chinese Communists tachment of over a thousand Fengtai from Kupeikou by road the Government's hand, and Japanese • soldiers made a surprise yesterday afternoon with tanks and attack on Ta-Kung Gate, outside armoured cars. Yung-Ting Gate of the old city of
CLASH AT GATES Peiping was aroused at 1.05 this morning by the thud of trench mor- tars and other artillery, to realise that another clash was going on at its gates.
"China is made the pawn in the Japanese political game because
using field-guns. A the soldiers are seeking to impress Peiping. the new Japanese Government," severe fight is going on.-Da-Dao, according to a leader in the "Daily
TIENTSIN MOVEMENT Telegraph" to-day which says that
Tientsin, 3:53 a.m. high the game is being played fo
company of about 2,000 Japan-
Machine-guns and. rifles joined stakes which are nothing less than.
ese soldiers passed over the Ching-briskly in the fighting, which is the Democratic versus Fascist ideas.
the nearest to the old capital hitherto, "It is Japan's concern and it Kiang Bridge, heading for ought not to cause international north this morning at about 3.30 but the clash died down after half
a.m. Cavalry headed the proces-an hour. Reuter. sion, with artillery in the middle, and the infantry brought up the
complications," the article con- tinues. -
Alluding to the impending Anglo-Japanese conversations with the object of restoring the cordiality which existed before the Army rushed Japan into the Manchurian adventure, the
EARLIER REPORTS ON THE SINO-JAPANESE
CLASH WILE BE
FOUND IN PAGE NINE
rear.
At about 2.30 a.m. guards were EDE.- posted in the vicinity of the Y.M.C.A. Building in Tung Road.— Da-Dao.
קי
JAPAN'S AIR FORCE
Tientsin, To-day. According to information receiv- ed here from a foreign source, there are at present over a hun- dred Japanese planes in the aero- drome in Shanhaikwan. Only 32 tiave come over to Tjeĥtsin, and the rest are standing by -Da-Dao.
DEATH
Fourthly, the possibility of the Chinese air force playing a pro- minent part in the hostilities.
"HOW LONG? Such problems suggest the gen- eral question, How long can Nan- king pull the trigger without the gun going off?
The situation shows every sign of needing sooner or later some such solution as the Ho-Umetau_agree- ment of 1935 provided the former
crisis, though China is in a position to be more particular about terms than she was then Reuter.
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