FAR EAST FIGHTING

Greymouth Evening Star, 10 March 1933, Page 12

FAR EAST FIGHTING

COUNTER-ATTACK PREPARATIONS [BY CAHLB — i'KEHH ASHJS < <IP YHT. I SHANGHAI, March 9. It is reported that the Chinese are making feverish military preparations inside the Great Wall, with the intention of launching a counter attack on Jehol. There is increasing tension. Foreign observers are prepard for any such eventuality, and both the Chinese and Japanese authorities have been informed that extensive British and other foreign interests in North China cannot be ignored. The Japanese intend to issue a demand for the- Chinese to make a withdrawal within a specified radius of Tientsin. The Japanese are pointing out that they cannot stand idly by watching plans mature for their down fall, and state they must take suitable action for self preservation.

TRIBUTE TO JAPANESE

SHANGHAI, March 8

A Tokio message states that an in dependent and reliable American ob server, who wii nesssed the occupation of Jehol, testifies to the orderliness of the Japanese 'mops. staling they carefully avoided interference with civilian inhab I'a;■ is, while the Chinese retreated withou offering any st j-jons military oppo. ition.

DESIRE FOR PEACE

GENEVA. March 9 Notifying Japan’s intention to continue to participate in the Disarmament Conference, a Japanese communication to the Chairman states that Japan’s determination to continue to the establishment of permanent and universal peace remains unshaken. The communication says: “We must, nevertheless, acquaint the Conference with the fact that, we consider it indispensible to effect various important modifications in the national defence of the Japanese Empire in view of the changed conditions in the Far East. All of the relevant circum-

stances should be taken into account

in any future discussion of the disarm a men t question.

JAPAN AND HOLLAND

THE HAGUE, March 9

After inspecting the Krupp munition works at Essen, Germany, M. Matsuoka spent two days at The Hague, where he saw various diplomats.

He informed .journalists that he was greatly interested in the emigration of Japanese to Dutch New Guinea, where, he said, there was plenty of room for settlers. It would be excellent. he said, if a nou-aggression treaty between Holland and Japan were to lie completed, in order to demonstrate Japan’s peaceful intentions towards Holland. M. Matsuoka said that an AmericanJapanese war was absolutely out of the question. The interests of both the countries lay in mutual peace and friendship. He added that it was the armament firms that were solely responsible for the talk of an armed conflict between these Powers.