“CHINA FAVOURS CO-OPERATION”

Southland Times, Issue 23498, 3 May 1938, Page 7

“CHINA FAVOURS CO-OPERATION”

Japan Blamed For Aggression DANGER REALIZED BY COMMUNIST PARTY (United Press Association) WELLINGTON, May 2. The interview with the new Japanese Consul-General, Mr Kuchi Gunji. last week has drawn a reply from the Chinese Consul, Mr Feng Wang. China’s policy, he says, rests firmly on the foundation of three people s principles enunciated by the late Dr Sun Yat Sen. During the last decade supreme efforts had been made by the Kuomintang and National Government to prevent the spread of Communistic doctrines and to suppress the violence of Chinese Communists.

The long-drawn-out campaign against Communists and the great cost it involved were facts too well known to require long narration. More recently the Communist Party, awakening to the acute danger of foreign aggression, realized that national salvation could be achieved only through the whole-hearted enforcement of three people’s principles. Consequently on September 22 the Communist party formally declared:

(1) Renunciation of the theory and practice of violence. _ (2) Cessation of all activities aimed at Bolshevizing China. (3) Abolition of the Chinese Soviets. . , „ . (4) Abandonment of the Chinese

Red Army. “Because of those developments it may be said that the whole of the Chinese nation is devoted to three people’s Principles and today is striving under the guidance of the General Chiang Kaishek to resist foreign aggression and to realize Dr Sun Yat Sen’s lofty ideals. Facts cannot be obscured by propaganda however cleverly contrived,” he said. “It cannot be over-emphasized that the present unhappy state of relations between the Chinese and Japanese is entirely due to Japan’s ceaseless aggression against China.” Discussing the claim that Japan wants co-operation with China Mr Feng Wang said that Japan wanted domination—not co.-operation. She could have co-operation the moment she abandoned her traditional policy of force and ceased from acts of aggression and recalled her forces.