JAPANESE ATTITUDE

Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 154, 28 December 1936, Page 7

JAPANESE ATTITUDE

FORTIFICATION QUESTION

ISLANDS IN PACIFIC

NEW YORK, December 26. The Tokiq correspondent of the "New York Times" says that the newspaper "Asahi Shimbun" states that Japan is not prepared to renew Article 19 of the Washington Naval Treaty concerning fortifications in the Pacific, but desires a new agreement, adapted to changed conditions. This will be the substance of Japan's reply to Britain. She will point out that the treaty forbids Japan to fortify islands within 500 miles of her shores, but allows the United States to' fortify Hawaii, 2400 miles distant. There has also been technical improvement since,: 1922, enormously enlarging the striking power of fleets and making the article unreasonable. «

PASSENGERS HELP

CONTROL OF STEAMER

STRIKE BY MEMBERS OF LIMERICK'S CREW

HONOLULU, December 27. Six passengers have joined the officers and stewards in handling the New Zealand freighter Limerick, which has sailed for Auckland. Thirty-one members of the crew struck in protest against the use of non-union stevedores for unloading the vessel on December 21, and remained ashore despite the advice of the British Consul. The volunteer passengers will take two-hour tricks at the wheel and aid the four officers, 10 engineers, and 5 sailors who remained on duty. A spokesman for the strikers predicted that the Seamen's Union in New Zealand would support them. The immigration authorities declared that the strikers would be subject to deportation to New Zealand in sixty days.