BRITAIN’S ATTITUDE.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 253, 25 September 1939, Page 8

BRITAIN’S ATTITUDE.

FOREIGN MINISTER

RELATIONS WITH CHINA. NEAV YORK, Sept. 23. The Chungking correspondent of the New York Times says that the British Ambassador (Sir Archibald Clark Kerr) and a number of his staff, are leaving Shanghai on September 28 for Chungking and will stay there at least two months. The greatest significance is attached to the move as an indication of the importance of the relations between China and Brita.in in the immediate future. Up to the present the United States Ambassador lias been the only one resident in Chungking. The correspondent adds that the Soviet Embassy spokesman emphatically denied that negotiations for a Cliinese-Japanese peace are proceeding in Chungking with a Soviet mediator, or that the Soviet Ambassador is visiting Shanghai to discuss the prospects of settlement. The Chinese appear confident that whatever plans Germany and Russia have in the Far East they will not be disadvantageous to China. The Shanghai correspondent of the Associated Press of America states that tlie Chinese recaptured Ivaoan and annihilated the Japanese, who occupied the city. The Chinese forced the enemy to' retreat throughout the Kiangsi front.

JAPANESE APPOINTMENT.

TOKIO, Sept. 23, Admiral Kichisabura Nomura, who was naval attache at Washington when President Roosevelt was assistantSecretary of the Navy, has been appointed Foreign Minister. He will concentrate on improving American and Japanese relations.