Jap. Consul-General Is On Way To N.Z.
(Received 10 a.m.) , SYDNEY, April 15.
There;; arrived in Sydney yesterday by the Atsuta Maru, New Zealand’s fijrst Japanese Consul-General, Mr Kiichi Gunji, en route to Wellington. He told a representative of the. “Sun”: “There is no great war now against China, It is all over, A little guerilla fighting remains, but it may take a long time for the country to settle down,” Mr Gunji emphasised that Japan wanted Chinese co-operation—nothing more. Japan would increase her markets if China would co-operate. The new Consul-General said he was proud to be the first representative of Japan, in that capacity, in New Zealand, with whom Japan was anxious to expand her trade. No Territorial Ambitions. He told the “Sydney Morning Herald” that Japan had no territorial ambitions in China, which was now under Communistic rule, and Japan was in the vanguard of the fight against Communism in the Far East. Japan, he added, was most’ anxious to increase her overseas trade, in order to provide employment and sustenance for her increasing population. Mr Gunji intends to visit Canberra and Melbourne before he goes to Wellington.
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Northern Advocate, 16 April 1938, Page 5
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