NOTE TO POWERS
CHINA'S DEMAND. Gunboats Must Be Completely Withdrawn.
PRESENCE ILLEGAL.
(Australian and N.Z. Press Association.)
(Received 11.30 a.m.) SHANGHAI, July 13. The complete withdrawal of foreign gunboats is demanded in a Note being drafted by the Nationalist Governiijod# and to be addressed to Britain America, Japan, France and Italy. ' The demand is reported to be based on the present absence of military opera- ' tions iu the interior, making the further presence of foreign warships in Chinese waters illegal.
JAPAN'S POSITION.
BRITAIN'S UNDERSTANDING.
(British Official Wireless.) (Received 11.30 a.m.)
RUGBY, July 13,
Replying to-day 111 the House of Commons to a question regarding the Japanese status in Manchuria, the foreign Secretary, Sir Austen Chamberlain, said His Majesty's Government regard Manchuria as being part of China and do not recognise Japan as having any special interests in that territory other than those conferred by treaty and those referred to in Baron Shidehara's statement at the Plenary Session at the Washington conference in February. 1922. *
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Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 165, 14 July 1928, Page 9
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