CHINA UNMOVED

Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 81, 2 October 1940, Page 9

CHINA UNMOVED

LEADERSHIP IN ASIA

NO RECOGNITION OF JAPAN

"NEW ORDER" INVALID

(Received October 2, 3 a.m.)

LONDON, October 1.

In no circumstances will China recognise Japanese leadership in the establishment of the so-called "Greater Asia," nor will she ever recognise the validity of the "new order," declares an official statement issued in Chungking in connection with the tripartite pact. The statement adds: "The pact clearly seeks to invalidate the legitimate rights of third Powers, both in Europe and In Asia —a policy against which China has always striven. The pact can never affect China's position and her legitimate rights, nor can it ever tend to affect the policy of the China National Government." "MEN OF LARGE CALIBRE." The "Nichi Nichi Shimbun" (Tokio) says that joint technical commissions will be established soon in Tokio and Berlin to implement the tripartite pact. It says that owing to the importance of the commissions, which would be divided into political, military, and economic categories, "men of large calibre would be appointed." A Shanghai message says that Socony Oil and other American com-j panics are forbidding their employees' to bring' dependants to the Far East. Several companies have received in-j structions from New York to keep commitments to the • lowest possible level. Shipping companies have been flooded with applications mainly for American women and children planning to go to the United States.