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FRIDAY, MAY 11, 1928.
CHINESE ROUTED AT EGYPTIAN CRISIS
TSINAN.
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Four or five persons massacred, one wounded seriously and 27 miss- ing, of whom two are believed to have been slaughtered.-Toho.
EXPLAINED.
HOW THE NEW TREATY WAS KILLED.
TIME AND EXPERIENCE MUST DO THEIR WORK.
Chang Teo-lin's Decision.
Shanghal, May 10. Latest telegraphic messages from Peking state that Marshal Chang Tso-lin has decided to aban- WHÁT BRITAIN HOPES. don his position at Peking and Proting. All the Ankuochun forces will be withdrawn from the Peking-Hankow line to Manchuria. Nam Chung Pao.
London, May 10.
In the House of Commons to! day, Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, the Labour leader, raised the question of recent events in Egypt.
Heuchowfu Conference.
Sir Austen Chamberlain, the An overnight cable from Chinese Foreign Secretary, said the recent sources says that Messrs. Tan crisis regarding Egypt aroso not Yen-kai, Wu Tae-hul and Chang out of the rejection of the Treaty Ching-kiang, have left Nanking for which he had negotiated with Sar- Hauchowfu, to attend an impor- wat Pasha, but out of circum- tant conference with Marshal stances which had already too Chiang Kai-shek.
The conference will be devoted often produced a crisis before the Treaty was thought of and which, to problems pertaining to the unless more wisdom were brought Japanese affair and to the question to the direction of Egyptian policy of conciliation with the Peking in the future, would inevitably Gavernment.
produce such a crisis again.
A Tsinanfu message says that Mr. C. T. Wang, who is still at Teinanfu, has commenced negotia- tions with the Japanese.
The move for the unification of
His Majesty's Government had concluded their examination of the proposal and their comments and Huggestions for the Reply to the United States was already on its way to the Dominions Governments. China to deal with the Japanese,
He had tentatively suggested a meeting of jurists but withdrew is making considerable appeal to the proposal immediately he learned popular opinion and sentiment in it did not commend italf to one of Peking and Marshal Chang Teo-iin the Governments concerned. They is being further arged to conciliato would therefore now proceed with the Nationalist Government, through ordinary diplomatic difuzOn Wednesday afternoon, it is mals.
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which should be substituted for the unilateral declaration which at present regulated Anglo-Egypt- ian relations.
Sir Austen explained how his negotiations with Sarwat Pasha for the Treaty came about." He stated. General Yang Yu-ting. | did not propose the Treaty Sar When the reply from the Domin-Chief of Staff of the Fengtien wat Pasha proposed the Treaty to
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Sir Austen Chamberlain dealt with Mr. Kellogg's peace proposals at considerable length, and said that while there had been some's nations in the past which had deliberately worked for war, at a in order to solve some problem in moment convenient to themselves, their favour, war had never been an instrument of policy in this country within any time that we could contemplate when discussing the Europe of wo-day.
Both because it was in conson- ance with the general policy of all British Government, and because it was a move, forward in the direction to which the present British Government had devoted all its efforts ever since it eame into power, in international rela- Govorament the British tions, welcomed the American proposal and hoped it would be brought to a successful conclusion,
Reason For Delay.
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Chungkiang, May 10. The 6.8. Kintung, owned by Messrs. Butterfield and Swire, has arrived here without in- cident.
Her cargo is being unloaded by coolies, although the so- chlled Boycott Society has made attempts to get them to refuse to handle it.
Considerable assistance is being given in the work by the local than, a large guard being established on the fore- shore. This guard is prevent- ing the members of the Boy. coll Society from interfering with the work of unloading the ship--Naval Wireless.
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Sarwat Pasha, in the first busi- ness interview with him, offered explanations regarding the recent crisis which had occurred in Anglo-Egyptian 'relations,
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Recognising the Facts. He thanked. Sarwat Pasha for the explanations, but said he was lesa interested in explanations or coinments on the past than in ques- tions of what the present and future relations were to be, and whether they were always to con- tinue in the way they had done, or whether the time had come, or was coming, when Egypt would cognise the facts, and, by re- cognising those facts, enter into the arrangement of a Treaty with Britain in substitution for the British unlateral declaration which would at once strengthon Egyptian liberties and secure those interests for the British Empire which suc- cessive British Governments had declared that this country must always maintain.
Sarwal's Offer.
In three days time, Sarwat Pasha came back to the Foreign Office with the draft of a Treaty which he offered.
Army, and General Chang Hauch- Jiang, son of the Peking Dictator,
That was a serious friendly offer left Peking for Tehchow, to confer
It re- with Marshals Sun Chuan-fang and by the, Eyptian Premier. Chang Tsung-chang regarding the quired the usually serious and proposed truce with the Southern-friendly consideration on the Iri-
It had been asked why there had been delay. The Government had to consult and he was sure the Government of the United States recognised this, and would take no unbrage at it-the Governments of the British Dominions in other ers. parts of the world.
In a matter of this kind the palicy of the whole empire must be done. We want all to sign the engagement and not to leave one portion of His Majesty'a Dominioné out.
THE CIVIL WAR. Fenglien Not Fighting, but South
on March North,
tish side, and he considered with the Cabinet how much of Sarwat Pasha's proposed Treaty could be accepted, what variations might be made, and what could be suggested for the fulfilment of the purpose The Nationalist troops are ad-which Sarwal Pasha and the British vancing on all siden, though it is Government had in common. largely due to the fact that they have not encountered any Fengtien No Mental Reservations.
troops. The Northerners appear to We, like other nations, we, like have ceased action, but it appears Germany which has already the Nationalists are resolved that replied, have undertaken certain pending a definite settlement. It will be better to be on the safe side and engagements already..
to continue the advance.
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That is not all.
Treaty Killed,
Sarwat Pasha went back to Egypt with the conviction that he had ren- dered a great service to his country. The it was profoundly to be regretted that wisdom was not there. decision of the Waid was favour- able, and the Treaty was killed by
them.
In these circumstancer, he agreed
In the atmosphere of Geneva it
The further retreat of the Feng so easy to make large and generous declarations, to proposa tien Army on the Tientsin-Pukow high sounding and specious reso- and Peking-Hankow lines is report- lutions, and even to vote for them, ed and they have abandoned Shun with Mr. MacDonald's opinion that but when one sat down privately tell, near to Shihchiachwang, the negotiations would be useless until
strategic point.
time and experience had done their and talked with those who had That the Northerners have no work. Meanwhile, he hoped that supported one, It was found some- times that they had signed or vof-intention of fighting is confirmed it might be possible, at any rate on by another cable which says that the aide of the British Government, ed only with mental reservations the Kuominchun troops are very to conduct Angle-Egyptian relations which made their intentions quite near Tehchow which they expect to without these recurring criale and:
The other than the verbal form which take without resistance. had been publicly accepted. Northerners are likely to abandon
Peace could not be preserved by Tehchow. aigning a declaration which, be Earlier Tsinan neios will be found cause it was signed with different on Page 8. interpretations and meanings, would lead to misunderstandingu.
Realising the new obligations United States Government to im- which they were asked to under-pair the engagements of those take in the service of peace was who had already laid the founda- it not obvious that they should tions of peace and reconciliation take a little time for considera-in Europe, whether by the League Convenant, with its larger ob- ligations, or by the Treaty of Locarno.
tion?
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All Sign in Same Spirit, Our object, and the object of the United States, was to nego
without the necessity of resorting to grave warnings or even the mov- ine of ships.-British Wireless.
Italy Replies to US. Proposals. New York, May 10., Italy's reply to the United States' proposals for outlawing war have been received by the State Depart- In the course of his statement, ment-Reuter's American Service. Sir Austen added that Nahas Pasha, the Egyptian Premier, had asked Lord Lloyd, the British High Commissioner, to convey to him Diminishing Difficulties. Having regard to the number (Sir Austen) his gratitude for the tiate a document which all signed of Powers already addressed by conciliatory and friendly spirit which had inspired the happy solu- in the same spirit, which all sign the United States, to the difficulty tion of the recent crisis-Reuter.. ed meaning the same thing, and of bringing by correspondence six which all signed with the samo Powers readily and easily into goodwill, the same heartiness and agreement, and to the tendency, the same determination to main which often arose in correspon-gested that, as in the case of Lo tain it. He did not think time had dence, of magnifying differences carno, the way might be smoothed instead of diminishing them, he for them, and differences, if there The Government had been great- had thought some other procedure were any, reduced to a minimum, if a meeting of jurista took place, ly helped in their consideration of would perhaps have led more this problem by the remarkable quickly and more surely to the in which they could exchange opin- lons and arguments. But as soon and very interesting speech re-end which they desired.
as he learned that the proposal did cently delivered by Mr. Kellogg His mind reverted naturally to not commend itself to one of the himself before an American nu- the procedure which was em governments concerned, he with- ployed so successfully before drew it, and they now proceeded, That speech showed quite clear and at the conference of therefore, by ordinary diplomatie ly it was not the desire of the Locarno, and he had tentatively sug- channels-British Wireless."
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