FINANCIAL HELP FOR CHINA

Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21806, 11 June 1936, Page 13

FINANCIAL HELP FOR CHINA

BRITISH AND JAPANESE CO-OPERATION PROPOSAL DISCUSSED IN TOKYO (UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION —COPTBIGHT.) (Re.eived June 10, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, June 9. The Tokyo correspondent of the “Daily Herald” says that Sir Frederick Leith-Ross, in a long conference with Mr Arita (Japanese Foreign Minister) urged co-operation between Japan and Britain in a loan for the benefit of China. Mr Arita replied that China must discard her reliance on wesj/irn powers before Japan would co-oper-ate in economic assistance. ALARMIST VIEW NOT JUSTIFIED

INTERNAL TENSION IN CHINA ♦ JAPANESE INVESTIGATING SMUGGLING (BRITISH OFFICIAL WIRELESS.) RUGBY, June 9. | Replying .to a question in the House of Commons on the Far Eastern situation, the Under-Secre-tary for Foreign Affairs (Lord Cranborne) said that signs of tension had recently appeared in the relations of the south-western provinces of China with the Central Government, but there seemed no sufficient reason at present to take an alarmist view of the position. Regarding smuggling in North China, the conversations were being continued between his Majesty’s representatives in Japan and China and the governments to which they were accredited. The Japanese Government had dispatched an official of the Foreign Ministry to examine the situation on the spot. Lord Cranborne added that he understood that the Japanese garrison in North China was being reinforced, but he was unable to give the actual figures. ,