JAPAN'S OBJECTIVE

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22823, 2 September 1937, Page 11

JAPAN'S OBJECTIVE

SUBJUGATION OF CHINA HOW BRITAIN WOULD SUFFER LONDON, August 31 Sir Arthur Willert, formerly of the editorial staff of the Times and for years head of the Foreign Office News Department and Press Officer, in a copyright message to the North American Newspaper Alliance, says he considers that Japan is making a colossal bid for the entire subjugation of China. This, says Sir Arthur, will disastrously affect Britain's foreign interests and, if successful,- will mean the launching in grim earnest of Japan's "Asia for the Asiatics" policy. This would involve a great attack by milit--arist upon democratic countries. Britain cannot at present risk armed strength in the West in order forcibly to support protests in the East. The change in the balance of pdwer in the Pacific really arose, says Sir Arthur, when Sir John Simon lailed to adopt the suggestion of Mr. H. L. Stimson, President Hoover's Secretary of State, for a strong stand by Britain and America to protect China when Japan began to dismember her in 1932. BANDITS' RAID FRENCH SEMINARY WOUNDED MAN ABANDONED PEKING, August 31 The Chinese irregulars who raided the French seminary at Heishankow »yesterday, learning of the approach of rescue troops, evacuated the .seminary, abandoning .a wounded Brother. They carried off 10 prisoners, who included an Irish priest. The British Embassy is co-operating with the French to secure the release of the captives from whom the bandits are demanding large ransoms. DRUGS FOR HONGKONG RUSH BY AIR LINERS (Received September 1, 0.5 p.m.) British Wireless RUGBY, August 31 Air liners of Imperial Airways which are operating on the route between Singapore and Penang and from Penang to Hongkong, were used recently to rush urgently needed drugs for use in hospitals in Hongkong. Refugees have been arriving there in large numbers in the last few weeks. CANTON AIR RAIDS HONGKONG. August 31 The two air raids by Japanese on Canton, capital of Southern China, caused 15 deaths.