WORDS OF WARNING
RESENTMENT IN JAPAN "
ANTIPATHY TOWARDS BRITAIN.
(Per United Press Association.)
AUCKLAND, June 26.
Captain Humphreys-Daviea, of Auckland, returned to-day from Japan. He said that at present the whole nation was very bitter against the British because of tho imposition of cotton duties in India, which tlrey consider were designed to curtail Japanese trade. They were also bitter about the Lytton report. He referred to the Japanese demand for equality in naval power, and the effect which it would have on Britain, and asserted that it was known that the Japanese were charting the waters in tho vicinity of Australia; that Japan envisaged the possibility of war, and that the British Empire should be prepared.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21990, 27 June 1933, Page 8
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117WORDS OF WARNING Otago Daily Times, Issue 21990, 27 June 1933, Page 8
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