FAR EAST TROUBLE

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21392, 17 January 1933, Page 9

FAR EAST TROUBLE

GENEVA DISCUSSIONS INFLUENCE OF JAPAN COMMITTEE'S RESOLUTION ALTERED TO MEET OBJECTION By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Received January 10, 7.;i0 p.m.) LONDON, Jan. 35 The Geneva correspondent of the Times states that it is understood that the resolution of the Sub-committee of Five, which the Committee of Nineteen will consider on Monday, has been amended to meet Japanese objections. The sub-committee's recommendations, based on the Lytton report than Mancliukuo should hot be recognised and that a gendarmerie should be established to keep order there, have been pushed so far in the background as barely to be discernible.

The Japanese attitude is likely to be conciliatory but dilatory. Cynics suggest that the conciliatory tone will be maintained until the present phase of the Jehol operations is completed a fortnight hence, after which the Japanese policy will depend upon the ground gained at Geneva in the meantime.

ORDER FOR GUNBOATS

SERVICE IN MANCHURIA CONSTRUCTION AT TOKIO (Received January 16, 6.15 p.m.) TOKIO, Jan. 16 The Kawasaki dockyard has received a contract from the Manchukuo Government- to build three light draught gunboats for river service.

NO HOPE FROM LEAGUE

THE CHINESE VIEWPOINT REGULAR WAR LOOMING (Received January IG. 9.45 p.m.) LONDON, Jan. 1G The Geneva correspondent of the Manchester Guardian states that the Chinese delegation lias advised the Government that nothing can be expected from the League. China must defend herself against Japanese aggression. A regular Sino-Japanese war seems almost inevitable.

China may leave the Disarmament Conference, as there is a feeling that disarmament is impossible in the present conditions. If China leaves Geneva, she will inevitably be forced to buy arms from Russia, whose influence over China would become predominant.