JAPAN’S RIGHTS

Taranaki Daily News, 28 April 1934, Page 7

JAPAN’S RIGHTS

REPUDIATION ANNOUNCED CHINESE MINISTER’S REPLY CORRECT VERSION SOUGHT UNITED STATES INQUIRIES POLICY OF GREAT BRITAIN By Telegraph—Press Assn—Copyright. . i London, April 26. The Chinese Minister, General Tsiang, visited Mr. K. Hirota, Japanese Minister of Foreign Affairs, to obtain a, correct version of Japan’s policy in China and to deliver a declaration from the Nanking Government repudiating Japan’s right to interfere with China’s sovereign rights and international intercourse.

It is understood that Mr. Hirota replied avoiding confirmation of the Japanese Foreign Office spokesman’s statement, but affirming the policy that Japan desired unification and prosperity in China.

Replying on behalf of Sir John Simon to further Parliamentary questions regarding the Japanese policy, Mr. R. A. Eden, Lord Privy Seal, repeated the statement that none of the dangers to peace in the Far East to- which the Japanese spokesman referred were to be apprehended from any policy of the British Government, which aimed at avoiding them. Mr. Eden added that he received no official confirmation of the Press statements regarding the proposals of Japan to claim naval equality on the expiry of the London Treaty and to double her force.