JAPAN’S CHINA POLICY

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIV, Issue 118, 3 May 1934, Page 9

JAPAN’S CHINA POLICY

Need for Singapore Base SIR R. KEYES’S WARNING By Telegraph-Press Assn. —Copyright LONDON, May I. Sir Roger Keyes, condemning the London Treaty of 1931, declared that Japan attended the. naval conference;, with her tongue in her cheek, ano added: “1 tell you as a naval man that Japan is untouchable. We must have a base at Singapore to protect Australia and New Zealand, and 1 thank God that we shall have it in two years' time. “The battle of the navy must be fought out on the Downing Street front against the Treasury and against the Government. The Air Force, tlir Army and the Navy must lie brought up to proper defensive standard.” SIR J. SIMON’S REVIEW British Official Wireless Service RUGBY, May 1 Sir John Simon’s statement in the House of Commons on the diplomatic exchange with Japan is generally regarded by the Press as having set the recent exposition of Japanese policy in proper perspective. Referring to Sir John Simon’s reaffirmation of the British policy of assisting the progress of China to the greatest possible extent in the spirit of international co-operation and ol working for peace, prosperity and harmony in the Far East, ‘‘The Timos 1 ' says: “There never was more need than to-day to work for this objective.” UNAFFECTED BY CRITICISMS KOBE, April 2. The Foreign Office to-day informed the War vice-Minister that Japan’s policy was unaffected by the criticism of third Powers, adding that the recent unofficial statement represents the basis of a real China policy.