Brussels, Nov. 1 China may upset international efforts to secure an armistice in the present Sino-Japanese hostilities through her demand that signatories of the Nine-Power Treaty take joint action against Japan, reliable quarters said here to-day, China's demand, informed observers said, would be most embarrassing to British, French and American delegates to the Nine-Power Conference Who have virtually agreed that the conference should endeavour to arrange a truce preparatory to the opening of negotiations for a permanent peace, American - quarters here believe the conference agenda would include two days of opening speeches, after which China would be invited to state the conditions under which she would agree to cease hostilities, Later a fresh invitation will be extended to Japan to join the conference, enabling her to explain her case and state her terms of settlement, it was learned, If Japan refuses to send a delegation to the conference, observers predicted, the powers will approach Tokyo independently to ascertain Japan's conditions for halting the war,
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