China and Japan

Manawatu Times, Volume 60, Issue 276, 22 November 1935, Page 7

China and Japan

Independence of Province DECLARATION POSTPONED United Press Association.—By Electrlo Telegraph.—Copyright. PEKING, Nove: her 20. A declaration of the independence of tho northern provinces is indefinitely postponed following a message from Nanking that the Central Government is negotiating direct with the Japanese Ambassador. Japan’s Expansionist Aim BRITAIN NOT LIKELY TO INTERFERE. LONDON, Nov. 20. The Sun-Herald understands that Britain is not likely to interfere in Japan’s latest expansionist aims in China and that recent AustralianJapanese efforts at goodwill have influenced the British policy. Britain certainly will not embarrass Australia and will avoid complications iu the Far East likely to entangle herself, New Zealand, India, Singapore, Hong Kong and Malaya. Britain’s passivity is supported by Government newspapers which declare it far better for Japan to be busily engaged in her own neighbourhood than further afield. Radical newspapers, however, demand British intervention. The News-Chronicle says that once again Japan’s bloodstained sword is raised and another big slice will soon be carved from China’s mutilated body. China will probably bow to' the threat of force. Britain’s past policy coupled with Japan’s careful choice of the moment rci ’.ers British action impossible. The Daily Express says that Japan is laying her plan of a new world. The Yellow men will dominate this scheme when they will first master China, and then cast their mantle over all Asia and then conquer the whites until they become lords' of the earth —as at least according to their plan. Chinese Leaders Hold Japs Off Received Thursday, 10.50 p.m. LONDON, Nov. 21. The- Times’ Peking correspondent says instead of the expected proclamation of the autonomy of North China failure attended Major-General Doihara’s mission because the majority of the Chinese leaders failed to meet him, advancing various excuses. The scheme now depends ou the outcome of the conference .between Chiaug Kai iShek and the Japanese Ambassador, Ariyoshi, at Nanking. The Japanese military authorities learn that Nanking intends to adkero to peaceful methods of settlement but asserts that the autonomy movement instituted by the northern Chinese leaders is bound to continue. The northern populace, however, do not desire a greater measure of self-goveru-rnent under Japanese tutelage. Meanwhile the Japanese militarists are promoting a policy directed to a pro-Japanoso regime assured of Japanese support.