INFLUENCE OF BERLIN.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 148, 26 June 1939, Page 7

INFLUENCE OF BERLIN.

Axis Policy Taking Effect

In Tientsin.

BRITISH CAPITULATION?

Independent Cable Service.

LOXDOX. June 19.

Japans attitude in Tientsin is the poi'ty of the Rome-Berlin-Tokyo tuangle. declares the Italian newspaper Re.g.mo fascista." The paper adds: This pohcy will result in a solution of the ( h i nose -Japanese hostilities or in a complete British capitulation in the rar Kast."

"Ciornale d'ltalia" declares: "The Italian policy in China will never be dissociated from the historical realities which have united her policy with Japan."

t.erman newspapers, which comment on lientsin for the first time to-dav. all applaud Japan's action. The •'National Zoitung." owned by Marshal Ooering. says: "Signor Mu«solini recently declared that the Powers of Order would reply in all parts of the world, to Britain's encirclement policy. Tientsin is part of the world."

NEARLY ENDED.

British Patience Sorely Tried By Japanese.

HINTED LINE OF REPRISALS

Independent Cable Service.

LOXDOX, June 25

The Foreign Secretary. Viscount Halifax, who spent the Week-end in London, told the Japanese Ambassador bluntly that Britain was nearing the end of her patience, and attacks on Britons must cease.

It is believed the Government has reprisals ready, including the closing of nil British Empire ports to Japanese shipping, prohibitive tariffs upon Japanese goods, and an attack on Japanese currency, but Britain hesitates to adopt them because to be effective they would need to be on an enormous scale and might precipitate a state of war. The concentration of a fleet in the Far East, however, is very likely.

The "Sunday Express" editor ially says the whole of Japan's industrial life would be paralysed if she were prevented from importing, over seas controlled l>y the British Fleet, raw materials for her plants and factories.

Although Japan would suspend the payment of loans to Britain, the fact is £50.000,000 of her £7.1,000.000 {fold reserve has already disappeared, leavingonly £25.000.000. Japanese hanks and financial houses depend for goodwill and credit facilities on the London market.

NO FORMAL DEMANDS.

British Government Will Not

Submit To Dictation.

MR. CHAMBERLAIN SPEAKS,

LOXDOX, June 25,

Referring in a speech at Cardiff last evening to tbe situation in China, the Prime Minister. Mr. Chamberlain, said the Japanese Government had not yet made such formal demands as had the authorities in Tientsin, where, if the issue were confined to the original subject, it should be capable of settlement by negotiation.

"But I am bound to add that no British (Jovernment can submit to dictation from another Power concerning its foreign policy," the Prime Minister proceeded. "I trust we are correct in supposing that no such intention is in Japan's mind, and f trust, therefore, that Japan does not intend to condone the acts of her soldiers at Tientsin nor to challenge British rights and interests in China."