JAPANESE AGGRESSION.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 12428, 22 August 1933, Page 7

JAPANESE AGGRESSION.

THE POWERS PUZZLED. United Press Assn.—Bv Electric Telegraph—Copyright. NEW YORK, August 19. What is interpreted here as a Japanese intent sufficiently to advance the 1935 Naval Conference to denounce both the. Washington and London naval treaties is seen in a remarkably frank interview granted by the Japanese Minister of YVar., General Araki, to the Associated Press and circulated widely throughout the United States. Declaring that Japan lias no apologies to offer for her action in Manchuria and China and bitterly assailing Western diplomacy “with its lip-service to peace,” General Araki declares: “International accords and international combinations have helped Japan none in her times of need.” Then he instances the war with Russia and the subsequent baopenings, and continues: “In 1922 the British Empire, desiring to favour the United States, summarily abrogated our alliance. To-day our people are practically barred from migrating to the vast semi-filled spaces in the British Dominions of Canada and Australia. More recently there has been a determined effort to bar our goods, in the British Empire.” Concerning naval affairs, Genei al Araki says: “Suspicion and mistrust persist despite the Washington and London treaties.” Stressing that he will do all in his power to promote Japanese-Ameriean friendship, adds': "Nor shall either of us try to force upon the other a ratio of naval power which might injure tiie national prestige of that of other nations as some of us Japanese believe that America is doing in insisting that the Japanese navy accept a tonnage and strength far below that of the American navy.”