STATE OF MANCHUKUO.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LII, Issue 229, 27 August 1932, Page 7

STATE OF MANCHUKUO.

JAPANESE POLICY. NEAV YORK, Aug. 25. Unofficial AVashington opinion is that no answer to the speech on Japanese policy made in the Diet- by the Foreign Minister, Baron Ucliida, will be issued. It is generally considered to be a statement of Japanese policy regarding the new State of Manchukuo intended primarily for the League of Nations and, in 'a larger sense, a defence of its policies before the world. The expressed intention to recognise Alanchukuo raises important problems, even to a suggestion of Japanese violation of the Nine Power Treaty if the League of Nations’ Commissions finds that the formation of the Manchukuo State was not spontaneous. FIGHTING IN JEHOL DISTRICT. PEKIN, Aug. 25. Fighting in the Jehol district continues sporadically, though Japanese aeroplanes are no longer bombing villages. Baron Ucliida said that the Japanese Government was arranging early formal recognition of the new State. of Manchukuo, which they are convinoed was necessary to stabilise conditions leading to peace in the Far Fast. Japan had exercised patience for 20 years deemto China’s provocative attacks, which had cumulatively grown worse, eventually necessitating decisive action for the protection of Japan’s rights. Ho insisted that Japan’s action would not violate the Kellogg Pact or any other pact. Japan was absolutely guiltless of territorial designs in Manchuria or anywhere.