CHINA & JAPAN

Hokitika Guardian, 3 December 1938, Page 5

CHINA & JAPAN

A HGLD-UP

TO JAPANESE OBJECTIVE.

(United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright).

LONDON; Dec. 1

“The Times” Hong Kong correspondent says:'Refugees report a Japanese retirement from the Hong Kong border, for which reason they hesitate to return to their homes.

Japanese face opposition in South Shansi, which threatens to hold up the drive towards Sian. Traffic on the Tunghai railway which lias been the Japanese objective for months past, is not yet stopped. A quarter of a million Chinese oppose the Japanese advance in North Honan.

JAPANESE INTENTIONS

TOKIO, Dec. 1

“The Japanese plan for a new order in the Far East means mutual aid, politically, economically and culturally, the abandonment of maxims hitherto regarded as sacrosanct, and the relation of China and Manchukuo hereanent,” commented General Arita, on taking over the Foreign Ministry. He did not repeat the assurances to the AmbassadorsHhat Japan would adhere to the open door. Recent .authoritative utterances suggest that China’s role will be as agriculturist, supplying raw materials, Manchtikuo’s heavy industries, coal and iron, and Japan’s as general mentor and military protector. The trade returns for January to October reveal that Japanese exports to New Zealand and Australia totalled eighty million yen, a decline compared with 1937 of five per cent which is the smallest, the next lowest decline being 30 per cent to Europe and the greatest 54 per cent to the Dutch Indies. £IOOO FOR, REFUGEES. . WELLINGTON, Dec. 2. A decision to send another £IOOO to China for the relief of refugees was made by the joint council of the Order of St. John and the New Zealand Red Cross Society Far East Relief Committee in Wellington yesterday. The decision was made in response to a cablegram from Hong Kong stating that the South China refugee problem was assuming alarmingly distressing proportions and that there were hum dreds of thousands of people homeless and starving. COST OF WAR. (Independent Cable). (Received this day at 9.25 a.m.) TOKIO, December 2. Cabinet approved the Budget of £217,000,000, from which the war department will get £29,000,000, and the navy £38,000,000. The cost of the Chinese war, will, it is estimated, reach £294,000,000.