STRICTLY NEUTRAL

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 30 April 1927, Page 9

STRICTLY NEUTRAL

GERMANY’S CHINA POLICY.

BUT WILLING TO HELP. SETTLEMENT OF DIFFICULTIES. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. Received 2 p.m. to-day. BERLIN, April 29. Dr. Stresemann, in an interview, said said that Germany hoped to facilitate a settlement of the difficulties in China by observing a meticulous neutrality. The perplexities arising from the common desire of all Chinese groups for emancipation from unequal treaties did not affect Germany, who had already cancelled hers. All the Powers appeared to be willing to meet China’s legitimate and rational demands. Germany's policy, therefore, in no way conflicted with the Powers.

This was not the first time in recent history that an intelligent and industrious people had freed itself from China’s dormant centuries’ old state and began organising life on the modern pattern. It had always proved disastrous when economically advanced nations attempted to Exploit and ferment turmoil during the transition periods for their own political aims. Such rivalries usually caused international, complications, which often became the source of warlike conflagrations. It ought to be possible for mankind to learn from experience and to assure the continuance of the statesmanlike caution which the Powers interested were now showing in China, in order to produce a compromise equitalde to all parties. The vast majority of Gorman people approved of the policy of strictest neutrality, as instanced by the fact that German merchants and shippers voluntarily decided not to transport arms to China. Germany was ready to support efforts in China and elsewhere aimed at peaceful consolidation of the economic and political situation.