The Archive · 1921

CHINESE POLITICS

THE MILITARY PACT ABOLISHED

Agreement Signed by Military and Naval Officers of Both Parties Peking, Jan. 27.

Chinese and Japanese military and naval authorities at Peking signed an agreement this afternoon, abolishing the Sino-Japanese Military Pact, which was signed in May, 1918, and provided for Sino-Japanese military co-opera tion to guard against the penetration of enemy influence in the Russian Far East, and was to terminate with the end of the War.

Notes will be exchanged tomorrow or on Saturday by the Foreign Minister, Mr. W. W. Yen and the Japanese Minister, Mr. Obata, officially declaring the abrogation of the Pact, which will be final.—Reuter.

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