JAP MIGRANTS

Grey River Argus, 10 March 1933, Page 5

JAP MIGRANTS

To Dutch New Guinea PEACE OBJECTS PROFESSED ("Times” Cable.) LONDON, March 8. The. Japanese Embassy describes as groundless, the “Daily Herald” report that M. Matsuoka has abandoned his visit to Holland. Dutch Airlines officials said the story that Dutch aviators spotted concealed aerodromes in Japanese rubber concessions in Borneo was probably a fantastic invention of an imaginative journalist. (Received March 9 a t 7-15 p.m.) THE HAGUE, March 9. After inspecting th 0 Krupp munition works at Essen, Germany, M. Matsuoka (tho Japanese delegate to tho League of Nations) spent two days at The Hague, where he saw various diplomats. He informed journalists there that ho 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 non aggression treaty between Holland and Japan were to be completed, in order to demonstrate Japan’s peaceful intentions toward Holland. M. Matsuoka said that an AmericanJapanese war wa s 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. JAPAN’S DEFENCES. CHANGES PROPOSED. (Aus. & N.Z. Cable Assn.) 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 tho changed conditions in the Far East. All of ths relevant circumstances should be taken into account in any future discussion of the disarmament question. C-' * *’