Japan’s Mandates Over Islands

Manawatu Times, Volume 59, Issue 271, 19 November 1934, Page 7

Japan’s Mandates Over Islands

PREPARED FOR EVERY EVENTUALITY. United Press Association. —By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. TOKIO, November 16. Vice-Admiral Sankichi, who yesterday succeeded Admiral Suetsugu as commander of the combined hattk fleets, declared there is not the slightest question of Japan holding her mandates regardless of leaving the League of Nations, and if the League or anybody else tries to recover the islands they will find the Imperial Navy fully prepared for every eventuality. He said the Navy would reject all treaty actions and fictitious parity such as was broached at London, and they would be satisfied with nothing except a full and actual equality.

Germany and Japan IMPORTANT DEVELOPMENT. TOKIO, Nov. 16. The recent influx of German correspondents, while there were hardly any two years ago, is exciting comment, and is regarded as presaging an important Japanese-German development, such as German recognition of Manchukuo or of a Japanese-German defensive entente. The Japanese Ambassador at Berlin, Mr Nagai, who has just returned to Tokio on furlough, said a feeling was prevalent in Germany, that a tacit Japanese-German understanding exists, particularly with regard to rendering mutual assistance if the Soviet interferes with or attacks either Power. He added that Germany was now ready to support t Japanese possession of the mandated islands.

Stark Economic Drive MEETING ENORMOUS INCREASE IN POPULATION Per Press Association. TIMARU, Last Night,. At a gathering of Rotary Clubs of Christchurch, Timaru, Oamaru and Dunedin on Saturday night, Mr. Frank Milner, C.M.G., rector of Waitaki Boys’ High School, was prompted to make reference to the ominous statement in the cable nows by the new head of the Japanese Navy. Last year Mr. Milner attended the conference of the Institute of Pacific Relations at Banff and it was made clear by the attitude of the Japanese delegates that, behind Japan’s aggressiveness, was a stark economic drive. Japan had to meet an enormous increase in population and this could only bo done in four ways. Intensive scientific agriculture had proved a failure; the Japanese were not an emigrating people; birth control, while tolerated by the Government, was not practised by the people; and the only one other solution was increased industrialisation. To do this Japan had to have raw material; if it did not get it, the children would starve and Japan would fight, and there was no more heavilyarmed nation in the world to-day. Japan had a powerful case, but if the nations stood off, an explosion would

come. He suggested co-operation between Britain and America, who should ea.ll Japan to a friendly conference. Mr. Milner said he had asked the New Zealand Government, if representations on these lines had been made and had been told that the Government knew nothing of it. The Royal Institute of International Affairs wanted New Zealand to speak. If it waited the wourld would again see the hideous sacrifice of youth. 'Jflie problem demanded the best statesmanship in the 1 world to-day,