The Chung Foo News Agency sends out an_ interesting piece of news, dated Peking March 21:—A circular telegram declaring the lapse of the Military Compact has been drafted and will be submitted to the Joint Office of General Staff and War for decision.
It is provided in the Military Pact that it will become ineffective on the date of the signing of the peace treaty of Europe, and there is no other binding them.' The Government has decided publicly to declare its abrogation. Now a few days ago it was reported that the Southwest had sent to Peking proposing to make peace on the one condition that the military Pact with Japan (the nominal object of which was to regulate the manner of China's cooperation in Siberia against the Allies) was abrogated. More recently we have received a private report from Peking, that the Government is withdrawing all Chinese. troops frou the Siberian maritime province, that when it has done so it will announce that it has acted in accordance with the policy of withdrawal followed by all the Allies and that the Pact is at an end. It remains to be seen whether the Pact is really to be dissolved by such simple means and whether the Southwest will accept this as a fulfilment of its conditions.
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