AMERICAN POLICY

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23708, 15 July 1940, Page 7

AMERICAN POLICY

CHINESE CRITICISM ENCOURAGEMENT JO JAPAN CHIANG KAI-SHEK'S VIEWS By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright LONDON, July 13 Marshal Chiang Kai-shek, at the closing session of the Chinese National Party, criticised the definition of American policy by Mr. Stephen Early, secretary to President Roosevelt, as "Asia for the Asiatics."

The statement, he said, was an encouragement to Japanese propagandists, who had used the slogan since the Manchurian invasion to arouse antagonism against the Western Powers, which the Japanese regarded as an obstacle to Japanese aggression.

Marshal Chiang added that, if any stabilising power was needed in the Far East, equivalent to America's role in the Western Hemisphere, China was best qualified for it. American rearmament was not only a guarantee of the United States' security, but would give weight to the United States' words throughout the world. In future, America must view the Far East with increasing concern, said the marshal.

FRENCH INDO-CHINA " FULL CO-OPERATION " JAPANESE AGENCY REPORT (Received July 14, 6.15 p.m.) LONDON, July 13 According to a correspondent of the Domei news agency at Hanoi, French Indo-China, Colonel Kenryo Sato, representing Japan's South China forces, interviewed the French commander, General Catroux, after which he Btated that General Catroux had promised Indo-China's full co-operation in Japan's efforts toward disposal of the war in China. A message from Saigon says General Catroux is remaining at his post and will maintain the status quo. REPORT DENIED FIRING ON BRITISH SHIPS FRENCH AIRCRAFT SHOT DOWN (Received July 14, 6.15 p.m.) LONDON, July 13 A message picked up in New York from the Moscow radio said that Japanese warships fired on two British steamers off the south coast of China, killing six men and wounding one. This report is flatly denied by the British naval authorities at Shanghai, and also by the Japanese naval authorities at Tokio.

An unconfirmed report by the Domei news agency from Shanghai says the Japanese mistakenly shot down a French passenger aeroplane carrying French and Japanese officers off Weichow Island. The occupants were en route to Kwangchowan from Hanoi to study the control of arms shipments to China.

POOR RUSSIAN GOODS MOSCOW WARNS MAKERS WATCHES TO TRACTORS CRIMINAL NEGLECT OF QUALITY (Received July 14, 6.50 p.m.) LONDON, Jnly 13 The Moscow radio, commenting on the heavy penalties which the Soviet is imposing for the manufacture of defective goods, stated: "The low quality of the output in many branches of Soviet industry frequently impairs national defence. "Machine tools, chromium steel and other steel alloys, cotton goods and synthetic fibres are suffering from poor quality. Tractors are sometimes delivered with a leak in the petrol tanks skilfully covered with paint. "A Moscow factory is turning out watches which will not go and alarm clocks which will not ring. "Criminal neglect of quality by many industrial managers cannot be tolerated. Their place is in gaol."

SIX DAYS ON RAFT ENCOUNTER WITH U-BOAT BRITISH SAILORS' EXPERIENCE (Received July 14, 6.30 p.m.) British "Wireless LONDON, July 13 How a raft to which 13 seamen had been clinging for nearly six days encountered a German U-boat has been described hy a survivor who recently landed in Britain. After their ship had been torpedoed, the men on the raft drifted aimlessly, and on the third day they saw a liner, but were not themselves seen owing to the rough sea. On the sixth day a German submarine appeared and approached to within 20 yards. The seamen on the raft saw a machine-gun on the U-boat's bridge trained on them, and, they ostentatiously threw overboard the one rifle they had with them. The U-boat circled slowly close round the raft, and then the commander waved and went away. The survivor said the seamen were relieved at not being taken prisoner, rather than in despair at not being rescued, and celebrated the event by a double ration of water. Later in the day they were rescued by British destroyers.

PATROL YACHT SUNK (Received July 14, 5.15 p.m.) a;x -" LONDON, July 14 The Admiralty announces that the patrol yacht Warrior It. sank as the result of an enemy bombing attack in the English Channel 3'esterday. One rating was killed. Captain A. E. Johnson, R.N., and the remainder of the crew landed safely. The casualties due to the loss of the armed motor-yacht Campeador V. on June 24 were one officer killed, one wounded and four believed killed; one rating killed, one wounded and 14 believed killed.