CRISIS IN JAPAN

Feilding Star, Volume 9, Issue 3847, 1 October 1932, Page 5

CRISIS IN JAPAN

A Very Dark Picture CONDITIONS IN THE ISLAND PLIGHT OF THE PEASANTS FARMERS IN A FRENZY LANDLORDS AM) TENANTS ARE CONSTANTLY CLASHING THE LYTTOX REPORT TO SOLVE THE MANCHURIAN i PROBLEM By Telegraph—Press Assn —Copyright (Aust. and N.Z. Cable.) (Received Oct. 1, 0.55 a.m.) London, September 30. "The Lyttoix report on the suqirotno crisis in tiny Chinese and Ja’pa.n a,, conflict will .possibly be dfj,cisiv« for the world’s hope of cl 3 'armamoiit and poakie,” says Um fjL.ntdic'ster Guardian in the first of a, (scries of cpeeia.l articles dealing with ’'Japan in Manchuria. APPAI LING CONDITIONS ' “Tine financial crisis in Japan is appalling and it is generally expected that Japan will be unable to meet her foreign obligations. The • present indebtedness of her peasants ,t s about 6503 million yen, with an Satinnal interest, of from 10 to 40 per : fcent.. equalling in value, the ofitire !i annual agricultural production.” PITY THE CATTLE Tile .ja.po.nes;? peasants live oil grass roots and tneir rattle feed on i Buii entrails, which are normally used for fertilising the land. Thousands ; oi" peasants arta starving to etc a tit Bind tlieto ax» eoustagit riot. s a.m«vr,g s t, 'tenant* and landowners, which re;sulk in conditions being aggravated. L NO CHANCE OF CAMPAIGN “Japan i s not rich enough to cmn- ; yui'r. Mtincbumu, avd b.i a;efore tho ■Lyiton rc-pcrt to the League of Nai’tionp will bring matters to. a head.”