CHINA PLEASED

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 204, 29 July 1939, Page 9

CHINA PLEASED

BY AMERICAN ACTION.

FIRM STAND DESIRED

TO STOP LAWLESSNESS. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—-Copyright!) Received July 2D, 10.45 a.m. CHUNGKING-, July 28. The Foreign. Minister (Mr Wang Chung-liui), referring to President Roosevelt’s denunciation of the United States-Japanese Commercial Treaty said, America’s sense of justice had always secured the unswerving faith of Hie Chinese, who welcomed Washington’s announcement, as an indication of the United States’s desire to maintain its position and prestige in the Pacific.

The Minister hoped President Roosevelt's action presaged a more definite American intention to do the utmost possible to stop international lawlessness and restore peace and confidence. America could exercise a decisive influence in this respect without resort to war.

Peking reports that the anti-British campaign has been intensified, and the city is flooded with posters.

BLOCKADE OF JAPAN.

SIGNIFICANCE TO BRITAIN

OUTSPOKEN NEWSPAPER

NEW YORK, July 27,

The New York Daily News, with the largest circulation in America, has a significant editorial on the abrogation of tho treaty with Japan. It states that the abrogation has “cut tho United States in on the -Svljite war,’ which Japan is fighting with, the British in China.

“We cannot say wo deplore the State Department's action,” tho newspaper adds. “It seems to us that the times continue appropriate for Americans and Britons to com*dor the advisability of a certain ‘whole-hog’ move which has been suggested for the deflation of the Japanese military caste.

“Wo mean a joint Amcrican-Bni-tish long-distance naval blockade of Japan, keyed to Singapore, Hawaii and the Aleutian Islands. Such a blockade would, in all likelihood, be bloodless, since tho Japanese navy could npt conic out in force iar enough to try to break it.” The New York Times in a leader says: "To each of the three protagonists a great.drama is now being played in Asia. The abrogation carried a message of capital importance. WOULD SUPPORT BRITAIN.

“To China it cannot fail to bring encouragement in a dark hour. . . . “For the British Government the action has a message of no less significance than that to the Government of China. It notifies Britain, that if she adopts a stronger policy irr the face £>f Japanese pressure she will stand not alone. . . . For the British arc r!b unaware that tho first lino of defence of their own Imperial interests in Asia lies in China. “Finally, to the Government of .lapan tho action says that we still take our promises seriously; that we still regard ourselves and Japan, too, as bound by tho terms of the Nine Power Treaty, which pledges mutual recognition of the 'independence and territorial and administrative integrity of China, and that wo still intend to use that influence. “We can, by means which are short of war, make certain - that this independence and integrity are respected. EARLY REPRISAL. Tho New York Herald-Tribune, in n leading article, says: “Short of an ultimatum to Japan severing diplomatic relations unless she gave prompt evidence of respect for tho treaties .she has signed, it was the only correct thing to do. “The very resentful official reaction in Tokio to Mr Hull’s notification is extremely interesting as a confession that Japan intends to deserve six months hence all the punitive restrictions on her trade with the United States which the expiration of the treatv will make possible “It does not seem likely that the Japanese army will wait six months to experiment with some reprisal measures, which Tokio is in such haste to think up, and, once they start, as their tactics against the British give us good reason to know, no one iii the State Department will have time to waste on redrafting the commercial treaty ivitli Japan. MOVE WELL-PREPARED. The Washington correspondent ol the Associated Press of America intimates that the decision to abrogn e the treatv was not sudden, but had been studied for a considerable time. Officials had been carefully checking American sentiment toward Japan oi several months, and they came to the conclusion that Japan’s actions one by one had been adding a few blocks of American opinion against her. Thov believe that Japan by now has affronted, injured or damaged missionaries or missions of practical)} t'Verv American religious gioup lc P r ® sented in China and lost the syn - pat hies of most of them. Thev think by now that Japan has damaged all American companies having branches or interests in China, and lias aroused their resentment Repeated protests by the American Cli.kibeis of Commerce in China attes viewpoint.

INFORMATION EXCHANGED.

U.S., BRITAIN AND FRANCE

Received .Tulv 29. 11.15 n-m. WASHINGTON, July 28. Tltc Secretary of Stale (Mr CordeH Hull) disclosed to-day that the Unite States had exchanged'P fo, „ "f ?" ancc the situation with Britain < A p since the treaty abrogation hut the e had been no consultation ’®’ titutthe suhsecnient conversations constant ed inertly the usual exchange on situalions of this hind.

REACTION IN CANADA.

AIR HEPBURN’S FEARS

vtt 4 r* at? a FALLS, July 28. ' The Premier of Ontario (Mr Henhur.D, in n public address to-daj sai. “The Canadian people hare lw » K anil apathetic lor too long, then

lure is not as secure as the past lias aluavs been. . “When Japan completes her conrmost, of China she will turn to Canada. T was in British Columbia m 1938, and tl,o people out there take a most serious view of the problem.” He confessed that when he was a member of the Federal Parliament he opposed measures to strengthen Canada’s national delence. but ho said he had since changed Ins view concerning- the “Japanese menace.”