OPPOSING ARGUMENTS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21347, 23 November 1932, Page 11

OPPOSING ARGUMENTS

ATTITUDE OF CHINA'

JAPANESE DENOUNCED

"TEETH OF FEROCIOUS LION"

By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright

GENEVA, Nov. 21

In presenting Japan's case in connection with Manchuria to the Connc'l of the League of Nations to-day Mr. Matsuoka, in his speech, followed the general lines pf the Japanese memorandum. He asked the League to outlaw the Chinese boycott proposal. The Japanese wero not hostile to tho Chinese. Japan believed that China's ma:n desire was for peace but that the Chinese were misled, terrorised and misrepresented. We do not want war. We do noti want niore territory. Wo are not aggressors. We desire deeply and earnestly the welfare of our great neighbours," said Mr. Matsuoka. " Japan cannot consider any alternative to Manchukuo, because possibly it would lay the entire situation in the Far East open to serious disorders."

Dr. Wellington Koo (China) said that although Mr. Matsuoka had mad© Japan appear as meek as a lamb she had the teeth of a ferocious lion. Her traditional policy had been to interfere with Chinese unification. While complaining abroad of a disunited China, Japan's policy had seriously menaced the peace of the Far East and had disturbed the remainder of the world.

China would be content to learn from the Council whether the Kellogg Pact covered the invasion of Manchuria. Dr. Koo and Mr. Matsuoka are both American graduates and spoke in English throughout.