IN THE FAR EAST.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 235, 3 October 1936, Page 12

IN THE FAR EAST.

"THE POSITION IS OMINOUS."

PACIFIC CONFERENCE.

"The position in the Far East is cej: tainly ominous," declared the Hop. p re( i W. Davis, an Australian delegate to the Institute of Pacific Relations conference • who passed through Auckland to-day on' his return from Yosemite, • California where the conference was held." "It ; s ' possible that if China will recognise Manchukuo as an independent State under Japanese control matters can be settled," he said. "The conference tried but did not succeed in getting any clear definition of Japanese policy from the Japanese members." Mr. Davis said the conference had no object apart from mutual education and the discussion of Pacific relations. It was significant that in a discussion on the economic policy of the Sonet Republic, the statement had been made by Soviet representatives that as Russia was self-contained, and did not require either markets or raw materials from the rest of the world, her mission in the world was entirely pacific. . : It seemed clear also from the discussion, he said, that the Chinese had made real advances in the development of communications, and that they were now in a position to put up a far better resistance to external aggressioih Dur. ing the discussion on the changing balance of forces in the Pacific, with special relation to China, Russia and Japan, it was revealed that Russia had put herself in a position to defend her eastern possessions, and it seemed also that China had reached the limit 'of hir tolerance of Japanese control. "The position in the Far East is certainly ominous/' he reiterated.