JAPAN WANTS NEW ORDER IN FAR EAST.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 300, 20 December 1938, Page 11

JAPAN WANTS NEW ORDER IN FAR EAST.

ASIATIC POLICY. Activities Of Other Powers To Be Limited. WORLD'S TRADE BARRIERS. Independent Cable Service. (Received 11 a.m.) TOKYO, December 19. Hachiro Arita, Foreign Minister, told the foreign Press that Japan wished to establish a new order of co-operation and co-ordination in East Asia, which was necessarily a measure of self-defence in the facc of Customs barriers throughout the world. Activities of other Powers, therefore, would be subject to restrictions necessary for economic security of Japan, China and Manchukuo. The provisions of the Xine-Power Treaty were not applicable under present conditions and should be replaced by a new order.

The commander of the Japanese unit involved in the Cliang-kufeng lighting on the Soviet-Manchnkuo border, alleges that Soviet troops are concentrating 011 the Maiu-hukuo border. A Tientsin message says Japanese military authorities in the week-end began stopping supplies of vegetables and meat for the British and French Concessions, both of which are encircled by Japanese troops.

INSULTS ALLEGED. Moslems Pledged to Resist Japan. SUPPORT FOR CHINESE. (Received 12.30 p.m.) LONDON, December 19. The British United Press Chungking correspondent says that Kweilin Moslems circularised co-religionists throughout China alleging that the Japanese had destroyed their mosques and insulted tlioir faith. The circular pledges wholehearted support to Marshal Chiang Kai-shek in resisting Japan. It appeals for the world's Moslems to maintain their coreligionists' freedom in China. PIG IRON DISPUTE. AUSTRALIAN DEADLOCK. (Received 10 a.m.) SYDNEY, this day. There are no further developments in the Port Kembla pig iron dispute. The Waterside Union will review the position on Wednesday regarding the refusal to load iron for Japan.