THE OIL DISPUTE

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIV, Issue 283, 27 October 1934, Page 2

THE OIL DISPUTE

3.45 P.M. EDITION

NINE-ROWER TREATY

PROVISIONS OF ARTICLE.

(United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) (British Official Wireless.) Received October 27, 11.35 a.m. RUGBY, Oct. 26. Representations to the Japanese Government with regard to the proposal to establish a trade monopoly largely financed by Japanese capital in Manchukuo have been made by the British Ambassador at Tokio. The British Consul has made representations on tlie same subject to the Manchurian Foreign Office. It is understood the United States representatives have taken similar action.

According to the newspaper reports the foreign interests affected regard the proposals as not in accord with Article 111 of the Nine Power Treaty. By Article 111 the Powers agree “not to seek or support any arrangement which might establish in their favour any general superiority of rights with regard to commercial or economic development in any designated region of China”; and secondly, “any such monopoly as would deprive any other Power of tlie right of undertaking any trade or industry in China, or of participation with tlie Chinese Government, or with any local authority, in any public enterprises, or which is calculated to frustrate the practical application of the principle of equal opportunity.”