MANY ACCEPT.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 251, 22 October 1937, Page 7

MANY ACCEPT.

NINE-POWER PARLEY.

Japanese Attitude Revealed By Spokesman.

OTHERS SHOULD KEEP OUT.

United Press Association.—Copyright

(Received 12 noon.) LONDON", October 21. It is authoritatively stated that Italy's acceptance of the invitation to the Nine-Power Conference is most probable, though the report that a reply has already been sent to Brussels is unconfirmed.

New Zealand's, Australia's, Holland's and China's acceptances of invitations to the conference have been received at

lirtissels. A Tokyo message says the invitation was handed to the Foreign Office bv the Belgian Ambassador. The Japanese Press says the chances of unqualified acceptance are very slim, because the meeting is called at the initiative of the League, with which Japan is not cooperating.

It is contended that the dispute would be better settled between China and Japan, and that intervention further complicates the situation.

The Japanese Embassy spokesman at Shanghai for the first time indicating Japan's attitude at the Nine-Power Conference, said: "We must push back the Chinese from Shanghai before negotiating for peace."

Mr. Norman Davis, head of tlie American delegation to tlie conference, interviewed before he sailed from New York, answered in the negative a Japanese correspondent's query as to whether he intended to brand Japan as an aggressor at the conference. He added: "We shall sit down at the conference table like intelligent, peaceloving, human beings seeking a peaceful solution."

Mr. Davis also denied any intention of inviting Russia and (iermanv to the conference. He expressed the hope that Japan would attend and help to make the conference a success. The United States was without previous commitments, but Mr. Davis admitted that he had outlines of a plan in his mind which, however, he was not able to divulge yet.

Mexico has announced her intention of being represented at the Nine-Power Conference as an adherent to the treaty.

ITALY CLAIMS CREDIT.

WARNING AGAINST OPTIMISM.

(Received 2 p.m.) LONDON, October 21. The new non-intervention development led to a day of activity at Whitehall. Interest in to-morrow's resumption of the sub-committee centres in the expected statement from M. Maisky. No light on it has been from Moscow, where the Press merely criticises the weak tendencies of the French and British Governments. The easinpr of the crisis favourably affected the Paris Bourse. Rome newspapers enthusiastically praise their Government's policy, representing Italy us having forced the other Powers to return to the British July proposals, but Signor Gayda in "Giornale d'ltalia," warns against optimism.