FAR EAST PHASES

Northern Advocate, 9 November 1934, Page 5

FAR EAST PHASES

MANCHURIAN REGIME. SIR J, SIMON’S STATEMENT. [British Official Wireless.l (Received 1.30 p.m.) RUGBY, November 7. The Foreign Secretary, Sir John Simon, was asked in the House of Commons if he could state whether the Japanese Government still stood by the principles of the open door as applied to Manchuria, and whether the Government creation of an oil monopoly was an infringement of that principle. Replying, Sir John Simon said that the British Government had communicated its views on the proposals for a monopoly to the authorities in Manchuria and to the Japanese Government. He had not yet received a reply to this communication, and would prefer in the meantime not to pronounce conclusions on the matter.

Replying to another question, Sir John Simon said that in view of the strictly commercial non-political character of the Federation of British Industries’ unofficial mission to Manchukuo and Japan, the question of the British Government’s approval of the mission had not arisen. The Government’s attitude towards the question of recognition of the present regime of Manchuria continued to be governed by the principles embodied in a resolution taken by the League of Nations Assembly on. February 24. 1933.