ANTI-WHITE CAMPAIGN

Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 30, 4 August 1939, Page 9

ANTI-WHITE CAMPAIGN

AMERICAN PROTEST

NATIONALS IMPERILLED

WASHINGTON, August 2

The Assistant Secretary of State. Mr. Welles, announced today that the State Department has lodged another protest to Tokio against mistreatment of American nationals in China.

A message from Tokio states that the United States Charge d'Affaires, Mr. Dooman, has protested to the Japanese Government against the conversion of the anti-British campaign in China into an anti-white campaign imperilling American residents.. He requested Japan's immediate intervention.

The United States Embassy in Peking has protested against the thirty-third, bombing of the Lutheran Mission at Kiohsen, in Honan Province, within! five months. One of six bombs made a direct hit at the mission, killing six j Chinese patients and wounding one. Mr. Welles said he was without information concerning a list of 600 cases compiled by the American consular authorities in Shanghai of Americans being mistreated by Japanese in China, and he declined to comment on a report that the" Counsellor in the Japanese Embassy, Mr. Suma, was leaving Washington to report to the Foreign Office in Tokio concerning the abrogation of the 1911 treaty. INDEPENDENT COURSE. Mr. Welles also stressed, when asked whether the State ' Department had pointed out to Japan that the anti-Bri-tish campaign in China seems to have grown into a movement against foreigners, that it has been the constant policy of the United States to steer its own course in a Far Eastern crisis.

In Congress today Senator Schwellenbach praised the denunciation of the 1911 treaty. He said: "We, more than any other nation in the world, are directly assisting the . continuation of Japan's activities in China. Were it not for the assistance of the United States, Japan's Chinese campaign 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 Japan has been waging in China for two years."