FAR EASTERN WAR TALK FINDS NO ECHO IN JAPAN

Stratford Evening Post, Volume II, Issue 236, 6 May 1933, Page 5

FAR EASTERN WAR TALK FINDS NO ECHO IN JAPAN

CLASH INEVITABLE SOME DAY, BUT NOT AS RESULT OF PRESENT DISPUTE

SOVIET UNLIKELY TO BE BOLDER THAN A YEAR AGO _ . Press Association. —Copyright Reed. Today, 8.45 a.m. LONDON, May 5. THE talk of the imminence of war in the Far East finds no echo in Japan, says Mr. G. Ward Price cabling to the Daily Mail from Tokyo. A Russo-Japanese clash seme day is more than likelv, but nobody believes it will come as a result of the present dispute.

The most thorough inquiries in the j highest naval and military quarters j reveal that Japan has no intention I ot warring with Russia, nor fears that ] Russia will at present force Avar. If j Russia wanted to fight she should I

have done so last year when the Japanese occupied Tsitsihar. She yielded then, and is not expected to he bolder now. The Japanese Government's attitude is,that the railway dispute is a local matter between Manchukuo and the Soviet.