"THERE CAN BE NO FAR EAST MUNICH."

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 173, 25 July 1939, Page 7

"THERE CAN BE NO FAR EAST MUNICH."

CHIAM'S RETORT/. British Aid For Japanese Unthinkable. BREAK NINE-POWER PACT. United Press Association.—Copyright. .-' I Received l.:jn p.m.) LONDON, July 24. Commenting on the agreement between Britain and Japan, Marshal Chiang Kai-shek .said it was unthinkable that Britain should associate herself with Japanese aggression in an invalid and inoperative agreement helping in the destruction of the Nine-Power Treaty. He added that he was convinced there can be no Far Hast Munich, and *aid: "It is incredible that Britain is i.eally compromising with Japan. China is calmly confident of destroying the enemy and will maintain the value of her national currency and supply of foreign exchange." A Peking message says that while the Tokyo Press is celebrating the agreement with Britain the Japanese authorities in North China are intensifying the anti-British movement. All British firms have been notified that they must leave Tsinan. The anti-British campaign Is in full swing in Shanghai. Weihaiwei and Canton, with a demand for the expulsion of the ••shameful British." The Japanese-controlled Shanghai Creater Municipality arrested 12."> Chinese overseers of the Settlement's sanitary system. British Steamer Boarded. Japanese Custom* officers boarded the British steamer Hsiangwo, en route from Tientsin to Tangku. searched her for two hours, and confiscated silver'bullion valued at £lr>o,ooo. Three of the Chinese crew were arrested. The owners of the ship, Jardine. Matheson and Company. Limited, stated that they were unaware that the illegal currency was on board. The British escort vessel Sandwich has -one to Tangku as the result of a Chinese attack on Jardine. Matheson's premises. Six hundred Chinese took part in the rioting, and also stoned the premises of the Asiatic Petroleum Company and the Kailan Mining Company, causing considerable damage. The British Consulate protested to the Japanese Army headquarters. A Japanese spokesman in Tokvo, commenting on the anti-BritUh demonstrations at Tangku. Tsinan and Tsingtao. said that, while the Japanese Armv sympathised with the movement, it did not condone violence or damage to property.