JAPAN’S OBJECTIVE

Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 102, 24 January 1933, Page 9

JAPAN’S OBJECTIVE

Domination of China

M. HERRIOT IS FRANK

Return to Rule of Force

By Telegraph—Press Assn.-—Copyright.

(“Times” Cable.)

(Received Jan. 23, 9.15 p.m.)

London, Jan. 23.

The Paris correspondent of “The Times” says that M. Herriot, ex-Prem-ier, in an exceptionally frank article in the journal “Excelsior,” declared that the Chinese version of events in Manchuria seems more credible than the Japanese one. “While the white races are speechifying,” he says, “Japan is preparing to dominate China and ultimately establish yellow supremacy over the whites.

America’s absence from the League of Nations prevents the League playing its proper part and if it continues helpless the eifect will be disastrous, resulting in a gradual return to the rule of force instead of the rule of law.

HOPE ABANDONED

Sino-Japanese Conciliation

Geneva, Jan. 22.

■ The Committee of Nineteen has abandoned hope of Sino-Japanese conciliation, though any interim compromise proposals will be considered pending reference of the situation to the Assembly of the League of Nations, which must decide early in February whether conciliation is actually hopeless.