The Archive · 1935

Affair Considered Purely Local

Tokyo, June 3.

Akira Ariyoshi, Japan's new Ambassador to China, will hot include the settlement of the north Chim dispute in his negotiations with the Nanking Government.

This was indicated to-day by a spokesman of the Foreign Office, who said that the north China difficulties are regarded as a local problem, ar' ig Out of the violation of the Tangku Peace Agreement, concluded between the Chinese administration and the Japanese military authorities in north China, The settlement of the dispute, he added, should be made locally and within the delimitations of Treat to Send Treo}

Peiping, May 29.

In a strongly-worded representation, the Japanese Army representa tives in North China to-day warned, the Chine: the Great Wall if Chinese intrigues continue unabated, "As most of the anti-Japanese activities in North China allegedly have originated Peiping and Tientsin, the Army further may be obliged to place the two cities within the demilitarized zone, the Army's representation declared, Amo "on both sides of the Great Wall, acts of anti-Sapanese terrorism centred in Tientsin, and the alleged Chinese plots in Manchoukuo, All these acts, the communique charged, served as an indication of Gen. Chiang Kai-shek's anti-Japanese activities, The recent assassination of two! Chinese editors in the Japanese concession in Tientsin, it is claimed, was an obvious violation of the agreement reached between China and, foreign Powers following the Boxer rebellion, and was both an antiforeign act and a provocative gesture, aimed ay the Japanese Army.—

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