Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1933-01-09
CHINESE REPORTED
READY TO DISCUSS
/ TRUCE WITH JAPAN
Toxic Commander Is Said TO
Have Named Major to Meet
With Gen. Ho.
AvIATORS DROP BOMBS
ON TROOPS IN JEHOL
Rumors American Agents Have
Been Seeking to Settle Con-
troversy Are Denied.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
TOXIC, January 9.-Marshal Chang
Hsiao-Liang, military ruler of North
China, was reported today to have in
timeted his readiness to negotiate an
,armistice between japanese and Chinese
forces at Shanhaikwan.
The Rengo Agency and other jap
anese news dispatches from Tientsin,
China, reported the marshals apparent
readiness and said Japanese expected
the parleys to be opened shortly.
A Rengo dispatch from Chinchow,
Manchuria, said the Chinese have ex-
pressed their readiness to negotiate an
armistice and that Gen. Nakamura,
japanese commander, named Mai. Chu-
jiro Niura to meet with Gen. Ho Gnu
I1uo, the ousted Chinese commander at
Shanhaikwan. The parley will open
near that city, the dispatch said.
(After the battle of Shanhaikwan,
Chinese official reports said, Marshal
Chang served notice on the japanese
that he did not care to deal With them
and requested that they send any
communications to the Marking gov
ernment)
Watch Chang's Troops.
Japanese military leaders, however,
were closely watching movements OF
Marshal Chang's troops south of Shan
haikwan and in Eastern Jehol Province.
Despite Japan's professions Of eager
ness for localized settlement at Shan
haikwan, a foreign Office spokesman
indicated that Japan intends to insist
on terms likely to have far-reacnlng
effect in North China, involving treatleS
to which other powers, including the
United States, were parties.
Any settlement, said the spokesman,
must include a revival of restrictions
on Chinese military movements en-
bodied in the military provisions OF the
Boxer protocol These we're contained
in identical notes exchanged between
japan, France, Britain, Italy and Ger
many and China from July Is to 10,
1902.
to station or march troops within seven
miles of Tientsin, port of Peiping, and
gave commanders of foreign garrisons
along the Peiping -Shanhaikwan rail-
way the right to exclude Chinese troops
from zone two miles on either SIDE
of the railway.
The United States did not partici-
pate in these notes. although 1t signed
the general protocol, sharing the right
to station troops along the railway.
Investigator Dispatched.
Although authoritative non-Japanese
quarters believed it was impossible to
enforce these long ineffective provisions
without military force, the government
spokesman declared Japan had no in
tention of invading North China fol
this purpose.
He expressed the hope that other
powers would agree with Japan con-
corning "the need" of reViving safe
guards by which the powers three de-
cades ago sought a common shield
against Chinese disorders.
The spokesman said he was certain
had the provisions been respected, that
the Shanhaikwan clash would have
been avoided, since the Chinese would
have been barred from the zone where
the trouble began.
The general staff dispatched Mai
Gen. Miro UmeZu from Toxic to Tien-
tsin to investigate the ShanhaikWan
clash. 1t was officially announced he
would investigate the present military
situation and attempt localized settle
ment.
A foreign Office spokesman said
We are confident Chang Hsiao-
LANG military ruler of North China
does not desire to fight and that his
Warlike statements of troop movements
are for domestic Chinese consumption.
Despite the fuss made by the Chinese
press, the situation actually is quieting
down and we are optimistic concerning
prospects for peace in the immediate
future"
A japanese air squadron dropped
bombs today on Chinese troops at
Peichangyingtze, Province of Jehol, To-
Gated go miles north Of Shanhaikwan.
They were identified as Marshal Chang
Hsiao-Liang's 10th and 18th BrigadeS
and were reported heading for the
Manchurian Railway, apparently to cut
of the japanese troops which have &C.
cupied Shanhaikwan.
Regiment Sent to China.
Gen. Nobuyoshi Muto, Japan,s SUI
preme representative in Manchuria, was
reported to have sent one cavalry regi-
nent to Chinhsi, near the Jehol border
in preparation for eventualities and an
other cavalary brigade was reported tt
have arrived at Chinchow and taken or
supplies, after which it proceeded toWarc
Chinhsi and Shanhaikwan.
Japanese military leaders previously
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