JAPAN’S POLICIES

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIV, Issue 210, 18 August 1934, Page 10

JAPAN’S POLICIES

Attacked in Chinese Press Chinese newspapers of Shanghai, Nanking, Peiptng and other large centres hive displayed a powerful impulse toward national unity of China since the recent Japanese “trial balloon” Foreign Office statement, construed as an effort to establish a protectorate over China. Although the Chinese Press is fnr from noted for its strength and independence, virtually all the papers have published critical analytical surveys of the national strength and weakness, with a great deal of specific assault upon corruption, nepotism, allegedly weak-kneed tactics of the Government, and similar matter. Typical of these editorials is the appeal of the “Chung Hua Jih Pao,” or ‘ China Daily News,” in urging polices of peace and economic development. Japan’s recertt assertion of “responsibility,” with subsequent backingdown as regards interpretation of control over the actions of other powers, : was merely a testing effort to ascer- . tain international reactions toward the ■ Far East situation. Secondly, the result having proved I that the powers generally are opposed |to Japan's claim to hegemony over I Asia, the Japanese will doubtless in future deem it more profitable to continue its plans in China by the medium of “undeclared warfare,” continues the paper. The Jih Pao finally concludes that, realising the magnitude of internation- ' a! opposition to her domination over , China. Japan will probably start secret i negotiations with the powers concerned for partitioning “the wealth of the Far East ’ so as to appease international opposition to her aggressive designs in China. Every Chinese citizen must therefore be prepared for future develop-

meats, declares this organ, and economic difficulties in other parts of the world render fresh efforts at economic exploitation of China by foreigners inevitable.