BOUND TO FAIL

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 15, 19 January 1927, Page 9

BOUND TO FAIL

FOREIGN INTERVENTION

(Sydney Sun Cable.) (Received 19th January, noon.) TOKIO, 18th. January. Japan's China policy, announced in the Foreign Minister's speech to. the Diet, involves the strict protection of Japan's legal rights in China, which he declared could not bo abridged or modified.

"This conceded," he said, "the Chinese may fight for their long desire to establish such a form of government as seems Feat to themselves. Any form o£ foreign intervention seeking to impose any foreign-made plan upon, the Chinese is bound to fail.

<rJapan is agreeable to the collection, of sur-taxes, provided the spirit of the Washington Treaty is observed and provided that adequate provisions are made reasonably to ensure that additional revenues do not go to the civil war or the private use of any faction. Provided that such guarantees are given, the resumption of tho Customs Conference is desirable. At the .conference Japau would welcome responsible representatives of both the North and the South within the CHineso Delegation."

Baron Shidehara denied the possibility of a Eusso-Japanese clash over Manchuria, where, the Soviet policy was one of trade only, the same as Japan's.

He regretted that America had not adjusted the question of immigration and discrimination, but ho was glad that a true understanding of Japan's pacificism was growing among Americans.

The Premier, in a speech, said that Japan's naval plans would only prevent a diminution of strength below the factor of safety while the matter of the reduction of the term of conscript service would be pushed.