DIRECT HELP.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 182, 4 August 1939, Page 7

DIRECT HELP.

U.S. JAPAN'S BEST ALLY

American Senator Praises Ending Of Treaty.

NATIONALS MALTREATED

NEW YORK

August 3.

The Under-Secretary of State, Mr. Sumner Welles, announced to-day that the State Department had lodged another protest in Tokyo at the mistreatment of American nationals in China. He said he was without information concerning a list of 600 cases compiled by the American Consular authorities at Shanghai of Americans mistreated by the Japanese in China.

Mr. Welles (let-lined to comment on a report that the Japanese Embassy counsellor. Mr.'Y. Siima, was leavinWashington to report to the Foreign Office in Tokyo concerning the abrojjation by the United States of the 1911 treaty with Japan.

Mr. Welles also stressed, when asked whether the State Department had pointed out to Japan that the antiBritish campaign in China seemed to have grown into an anti-foreign movement, that it had been the constant policy of the United States to steer its own course in the Far Eastern crisis.

In Congress. Senator Lewis B. Schwellenbach (Democrat. Seattle) praised the denunciation of the 1911 treaty. "We, more than any other nation in the world, are directly assisting the continuation of Japan's activities in China," he said. "Were it not for the assistance of the United States, Japan's campaign in China would probably have collapsed many months ago.

'•The fact is. we are her most important ally. There has never been in the history of the world, civilised or uncivilised, a more ruthless and frightful campaign of conquest than that which Japan has been waging in China for two vears."

The Ottawa correspondent of the "New York Times'' says the former Canadian Minister to the United States. Mr. W. D. Herridge. in a speech, urged that Canada should take immediate steps comprehensively to terminate economic relations with Japan. There was no basic friendly association between the democracies, the English and French-speaking nations, and fascism, and Japan.