The Disarming of Pao Vu-lin and His Men: Pledge Given {o Diplomatic Body Flouted and Ministers Insulted Peking, Jane few shots which had resulted in It will be recalled that the Nai king Government and the Shansi and Kuominchun Generals had agreed to allow General Pao Yulin's Northern troops to march out of Peking for Manchuria with the honours of war, but when they reached Tungchow, 14 miles from Peking, on Friday afternoon the Kuominchun forces there refused to allow them to proceed and demanded that they accept the San Min principles and disarm. They accord-casualties, General Pao Vu-lin's men had surrendered to overwhelming numbers and had been disarmed.
After making a protest and attempting, unsuccessfully, to arrange settlement on the spot, "the misters proceeded to Nanyuan and interviewed the Kuominchun Gen ral Han Fu-chu, who had previously- agreed to allow General Pao's The Ministers urged him to keep ingly returned to Peking, thus|his pledges but General Han Fu. marching 80 miles in the tropical chu adopted a very truculent stand heat, and encamped for the night and declared that the matter did Manifesto Demanding Revision of Treaties on Terms of Absolute Equalit; All Foreign Troops Must now Quit Nanking, June 11, The Manifesto of the Government. Coaneil to. the Foreign Powers drafted by Mesers. Wa Tez-hui, Tsai Yuan-pei, Vu Yiu-jen, Chu Chi.
Jehing, and Ting Wei-feng, is now completed, It tx as follows:—
The Unequal Treaties understanding: and friendly relax tions between Chinese and foreigners, the Nationalist Government candidly inform the Powers that all foreign troops must be immediately withdrawn from Chinese soil in order to avoid misunderstanding and arouse mutual suspicion. The re. cent Tsinan Gneident.is one case 1, The sole purpose of the National Revolution of the Nation-list Government being to reconstruct a modern State of China, and the military stage of the Revolution now being completed, it is the earnest desire of the Nationalist Government to embark upon its programme of reconstruction which however, proving conclusively the futility and extreme danger of despatching troops to Chinese territory. The their armed forees to whatever Chinese territory their nationals happen to be residing at will be to compel the Nationalist Government to close the foreign cannot be effectively carried out in face of various existing restrictions imposed upon China by the unequal treaties. The Nationalist Government recognize the time for the negotiation of new treaties has arrived and believe that the Foreign Powers are of the same opinion in view of their repented declarations, singe 1926, in favour of negotiating new treaties. The Nationalist Gov-
[ernment declare that all new treaties, must be on the basis of equality and mutual respect; for the result of the abolition of a mere part of the obsolete provisions of the old treaties will not be satisfactory to either foreigners or Chinese, Foreign Troops Must Withdraw 2, The most effective guarantee for the peace and security of all foreign nationals and their property for the Tsinan Incident, the Nationalist' Government adhere to its previously announced proposal of submitting the case to an Interna tional Commission of Inquiry or an Internationa) Tribunal for final decision,
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