TOKIO'S CHARGE

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22850, 4 October 1937, Page 11

TOKIO'S CHARGE

ARMS CHINESE BRITAIN ACCUSED MUNITIONS IN JUNKS BITTER ARTICLES IN PRESS By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright (Received October 3, 7.30 p.m.) TOKIO. Oct. 3 The Japanese naval spokesman asserts that the reports of the sinking of Chinese junks were exaggerated. However, he admits that there were four instances of Japanese warships which encountered junks "taking appropriate measures," when large junks of about 500 tons carrying armaments, including guns of various calibres, machine-guns and thousands of rounds of ammunition, attacked a Japanese visiting party. The Nichi Nichi Shimbun accuses Britain of supplying China with huge quantities of munitions, tear-gas and dum-dum bullets through Hongkong. The Japanese press is fiercely attacking the League of Nations, Britain, and the United States. It likens press "howling" in Britain and America to "skinny dogs," and alludes to Geneva's need of spectacles to correct its astigmatism due to Chinese mendacity. TONS OF CARTRIDGES CARGOES FOR HONGKONG DIVERSION TO SINGAPORE (Received October 3, 5.5 p.m.) SINGAPORE. Oct. 2 The Nordeutscher Lloyd Company last month unloaded 350 tons of cartridges at Singapore and its steamer Donau is expected to unload 400 tons when she arrives on Monday. Both cargoes are understood to have been originally consigned to Hongkong. JAPANESE AIM A PACIFIC EMPIRE 1 CHINESE ENVOY'S ATTACK The New York correspondent of the San Francisco Chronicle writing on September 7, said: Mr. Cheng-teng T. Wang, Chinese Ambassador to the United States, to-day characterised the Japanese forces attacking China as "marauders" and intimated that China would attempt not only to defeat them but to regain her conquered Eastern provinces, including Manchukuo. "China's whole position at present," asserted Mr. Wang, "is that of a householder whose home is attacked by marauders. I believe we have enough well-equipped soldiers to beat the marauders off. "Although Manchuria and the other Eastern provinces were stolen from us six years ago, we still regard them as part of our house." The Ambassador issued a formal appeal for funds for the relief of Chinese civilians wounded and made destitute by the war. "The whole world," he declared, "is now fully acquainted with the fact that the Japanese militarists are waging a campaign of conquest in China which is charasterised by ruthlessness. "Wherever the merciless armies of Japan have visited, they have deliberately brought death to the innocent non-combatant population, and destruction to cultural and humanitarian institutions and historical places," said Mr. Wang. "In fact, their attacks seem to be directed purposely at the defenceless and innocent masses in order to create a reign of terror. "However, we know that this attempted conquest of China is only a srr.all part of what the Japanese militarists envision. They mean to create a Pacific Empire which will include not only China but all the lands of the Pacific. That takes in the Philippines, Australia, and Hawaii —if she can get it."