TENSION IN FAR EAST

Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 30 April 1934, Page 7

TENSION IN FAR EAST

JAPANESE! ACTION FEARED. TREATY VIOLATION SUGGESTED. (United Preac Association—By Electrio Telegraph Copyright.) SHANGHAI, April 29. Following a stormy session in the legislative Yuan at Nanking for the purpose of discussing Japan’s threatened interference in China proper, it was decided that the signatories of the Nine-Power Pact be informed through their diplomatic and consular representatives of the tension in the Far East and that China’s fears of Japanese violation of the multi-lateral treaty were likely to lead to a fresh crisis, which it was within the power, of the signatories to avert bv prompt action. A Foreign Office spokesman quoted a report from Mr. Yokohama, Japanese Consul at Geneva, of a statement made there to the Press on April 23 on Japan’s China policy, which did not contain any reference to India, the Philippines, or the Dutch East Indies, as previously reported in the Press. The spokesman regretted the reference by the Foreign Office to the “use of force” had been misinterpret-j ed abroad. He declared no belligerent meaning was attached to the words. .: . The sookesman intimated that he was not at present publishing. Mr K. Hirota’s statement to Sir F. O'. Hindley British Ambassador, but was leaving the matter to Sir John Si mop’s anticipated statement in the House of Commons. -n ix The British Ambassador will sail today for London, via Vancouver leaving Mr Charles Dodd as charge, f d’affaires.