CREATED BY PESSIMISTS

Hawera Star, Volume LI, 30 May 1932, Page 7

CREATED BY PESSIMISTS

RUMOURS OF PLANS FOR WAR DENIAL BY JAPANESE NO DESIGNS ON RUSSIA PROTECTIVE MEASURES ONLY (United Pro-st* Association— By Electric Telegraph Copyright.) Received 11.45 a.m. to-day. GENEVA, May 29. “I believe there is no imminent dan-o-ei- of a Russo-Japanese war, said Air Tsuneo Matsudaira, the Japanese Ambassador, in an interview. “The motion is only a nightmare created by pessimists with an exaggerated imagination. Japan has u intention of making trouble unless Russia takes the offensive. Japanese troops were sent) to Harbin and linien pao only to protect Japanese lives anci property from Chinese bandits and will be withdrawn when tlieir purposo is accomplished. . „ , _ “It is absurd to think the Japanese will use White Russians to assist them in Manchuria. The White Russians inability to change the development of Russia was proved many years ago and conimonsense should show the impossibility of Japan invading Russia.’’ Interrogated concerning the Communist allegation that the Great Powers were preparing to- make war on the Soviet under Japanese guidance in order to -ruin the five-year plan and save Japan’s financial and industrial supremacy, Mr Matsudaira replied that the pretension was absolutely unfounded. “It is so much out of the question that- I cannot reply seriously to it,” he said-.