SOWING TARES

Evening Star, Issue 21966, 28 February 1935, Page 11

SOWING TARES

POSITION IN FAR EAST - JAPANESE OFFICIAL’S COMPLAINT Prws Association—By Telegraph—Copyright TOKIO, February 27. The ‘ Foreign Spokesman,’. outlining Japan’s policy with regard to China, said: “ There is no possibility of Japan returning to the League of Nations, but it is absurd to suggest that Japan is persuading China to withdraw from the League or expel European and American advisers, or that Japan is making China participate in the formation of An Asiatic bloc in compensation for Japanese financial help to China. Such reports are entirely baseless. Japan’s attitude to , China is most friendly, and the Sino-Japanese relations are improving. We hear arguments advocating mobilisation of the signatories pf the Nine-Power Treaty, asserting that Japan had violated that treaty, and raising the question of the open door in Manchukuo. Such arguments may be wilfully advanced to bring about disturbances on the peaceful* horizon of East 'Asia. We fail to understand the real motive behincT such moves. We cannot but' entertain-the Suspicion that those critics, while talking of the importance of peace in East Asia and friendly SinoJapanese relations, are in reality desirous of disturbing the tranquility of East Asia and machinating to cause an estrangement between China and Japan. Japan is endeavouring to. maintian and promote peace in East Asia.”