Accuses Britain, Russia Of Anti-Japanese Feeling

Northern Advocate, 30 April 1940, Page 6

Accuses Britain, Russia Of AntiJapanese Feeling

(Received noon). LONDON, April 29. The Tokio correspondent of the Associated Press of America, quoting the Dcmei News Agency, says General Itagaki, ex-War Minister, and now Chief of Staff in China, said the conflict was caused partly by Japan’s boastful insults to China, the worship of things Occidental and the Chinese dependence on Europe and the United States. He accused Britain and Russia of fomenting anti-Japanese feeling and claimed that one of the army’s objectives was to destroy the illusion of an anti-Japanese Chinese regime, instigated by Britain, France. Russia and the United States. He added that an armed peace could be expected in Europe shortly, when Japan should expect interference by third Powers, seeking something they could not find in Europe. It is considered the most conciliatory appeal yet made by the Japanese Army to settle the Sino-Japanese differences to the Pan-Asia movement, to combat Communists and end Britain's position of monopoly in East Asia.