SOUTH CHINA SEA
UNINHABITED ISLANDS CONTROVERSY WITH FRANCE . _ LONDON, Oct. £4. Japan is showing unusual patience in a controversy with France over the ownership of a group of uninhabited coral islands in the South China Sea. France has a better legal case, hut Japan considers the islands within her “lifeline of Pacific defence.” However valueless the islands may be commercially, they might _ have great strategic value as a submarine base. Japan will not surrender something for nothing. It is believed that she submitted to the French occupation of the islands because she was negotiating for a French loan for Manchukuo. France cannot afford to quarrel with Japan, because she would not be able to defend her Far Eastern interests if Japan chose to attack them. Indeed, no country can afford to quarrel with Japan in the Far East. For that reason Japan’s diplomats are more active than ever before, seeking to reverse world opinion concerning her Manchurian adventures..
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18236, 3 November 1933, Page 7
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