Shanghai, May 20, The chances of an agreement! between 'China and Japan for the cessation of hostilities in the north was optimistically commented upon by Dr. C. T. Wang, former Minister jot Foreign 'Affairs, in' an interview with press representatives yesterday morning. He agreed that, with the arrival in Peking of Mr. Huang Pu, through whom such an arrangement was being made, there was a. tendency towards the easing of the tension in Peking and 'Tientsin, eclating that the arrangement lof @ truce was far from a fundamental solution of the outstanding 'Sino-Japanese issue, Dr. Wang star led. that the course' China. was par-issuing was reasonable in the present, circumstances. The understanding. now being sought in the north was
ties, he emphasised, and the Mannly for the cessation of hea Jehurian problem would not be discussed, as there existed no common
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