NATIONALIST CHINA
NOTE TO FOREIGN POWERS. WITHDRAWAL OF WARSHIPS. Shanghai, July 13. The complete withdrawal of all foreign gunboats is being demanded in a Note which is being drafted by the Nationalist Government and addressed to Britain, America, Japan, France and Italy. The demand is reported to be based on the present absence of military operations in the interior, making the further presence of foreign warships in Chinese waters illegal.— Australian Press Association. JAPAN IN MANCHURIA. ATTITUDE OF GREAT BRITAIN. Rugby, July 13. Replying to a question in the House of Commons regarding the Japanese status in Manchuria, the Foreign Secretary said his Majesty’s Government regard Manchuria as being part of China and do not recognize Japan as having any special interests in that territory other than those conferred by the treaty and those referred to in Baron Shidehara’s* statement at the plenary session at the Washington Conference in February, 1922.—British Official Wireless,
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Southland Times, Issue 20539, 16 July 1928, Page 8
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