Britain Angers Japan

Northern Advocate, 30 July 1938, Page 7

Britain Angers Japan

(Received 10 a.m.) LONDON, July 29. The Japanese Foreign Office spokesman. Mr. T. Kawai, said the public was justifiably indignant at the threatening anti-Japanese tone in the debate on China in the British House of Commons, says a message from Tokio. Mr. Kawai said the theory that a threat of force would stop the conflict showed lack of knowledge of both the situation and Japanese psychology. The Japanese have launched on the north bank of the Yangtse River a new' drive towards Hankow. Three columns are aiming at Taihu, a place of strategic importance 40 miles north of the river. Coinciding with Viscount Halifax’s warning to Japan in the House of Lords, “The Times,” in a leader, says: “Japan’s position is such. that she cannot safely continue indefinitely to flout the interests of third parties. “There is internal trouble in Manchuria, tension on the Russian frontier, and the economic barrier at home persists in a slow', inevitable decline. which no predictable developments can arrest within the next few years. “Japan’s threats to Britain are partly accidental, partly instinctive and partly deliberate, and Lord Halifax's warning is timely.”