THE OPEN DOOR IN CHINA.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 99, 29 April 1938, Page 6

THE OPEN DOOR IN CHINA.

CLOSED BY JAPAN

(To the Editor.)

At the present time Japan is feeling that she has. no friend in the whole world, eo she again says that she ie willing- to allow the open-door policy in China. Since Germany and Italy and Japan have signed a three-rower pact against Communism many people eay that Germany and Italy are Japan'e friend-, but tine is very far from the truth. Each country is closely watching the other and trying to use the other for its own benefit. Xow Japan i* feeling her position in China verv awkward, so the is trying to get help from other countries by promising the open door. If a bank is strong and has plenty of money it pave what interest it wishes and doe* not mind if more j»eople do not invest money with it. but if a bank is weak and wants more luisinese it promises more interest on investments to try to irkLuoe people to invest their money with it. Xow I say that Japan will always use the open door in China for her own benefit only. When the Japanese Igot into Manchuria the British Oil Company (closed down, the American banks and Rus-sian banks closed down, and a German iron btit=inesrt with fifty yeans' history in China had to close, its doors. When the Japanese got into Peiping they made the Customs regulation to suit Japan. When they pot into Shanghai they stole everything, particularly young boys from I three to twelve yea n> of age, and sent them to Japan to be reared a* Japanese and trained to be soldiers for the future. In Shanghai now !there are all Japanese goods and all ships must fly the Japanese flag, which all goes to prove that wherever .Tapau goe<= she will only use the open door for herself and close it to other nations. If Japan used the open door in her own country for the whole world I would believe that phe was friendly to the world, but when ehe the door in Japan but makes a loud noise about an open door :n China. I know that this is just another of her ways of trying to conquer China for her own eiide. Y. S. CHAU, Chinese Missioner.