JAPAN AND NANKING

Press, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23194, 4 December 1940, Page 9

JAPAN AND NANKING

STATEMENT BY CHIANG KAI-SHEK 1 “ RECOGNITION WILL LENGTHEN WAR” (Received December 3, 10.30 p.m.) CHUNGKING, December 2. Marshal Chiang Kai-shek expressed the opinion that the recognition byJapan of the Nanking Government insults the intelligence both of the Japanese and Chinese people. “It is a great blot on the national prestige of Japan,” he said, "becafise it will prolong instead of shorten hostilities.” Marshal Chiang Kai-shek blamed Prince Konoye, the Prime Minister of Japan, for Japan’s plight, first for starting the w T ar between China and Japan, second for signing the AntiComintern Pact, third for defining Japan’s policy for a new order, and fourth, for recognising the Nanking Government, all of which would prolong the hostilities. Apparently addressing his remarks to Washington, Marshal Chiang Kaishek urged that a firm policy should be continued in the Far East in spite of the European war. He termed Japan a “potentially boundless curse in the Pacific.” EXPLOSION IN U.S. FACTORY (Received December 3, 9.30 p.m.) TACOMA (Washington), December 2. Dynamite blew up in the mixingroom of the Columbia Powder Company, killing four persons. This was the second explosion in this area in a fortnight. The Federal Bureau of Investigation is inquiring into the cause. DEVICE TO AID NIGHT PHOTOGRAPHY J RELEASE TO ROYAL AIR FORCE WASHINGTON, December 2. The Army Air Corps has released to the Royal Air Force a magnesium light device enabling photography at night over enemy territory.