OIL IN MANCHUKUO

Taranaki Daily News, 14 November 1934, Page 7

OIL IN MANCHUKUO

REPRESENTATIONS TO JAPANESE. UNCOMPROMISING REPLIES MADE. By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. London, Nov. 12. Further British representations in connection with the Manchukuo oil monopoly are being made to Tokio, whose replies are uncompromising. « The Foreign Secretary, Sir John Sinton, when asked in the House of Commons last week if he could state whether the, Japanese Government still stood by the principle of an “open door” as applied to Manchukuo, and whether the Government creation of an oil monopoly was an infringement of that principle, replied that the United Kingdom Government had communicated their views on the proposals for a monopoly to the authorities 'in Manchukuo and the Japanese Government. He had not yet received a reply to this communication and he would prefer in the meantime not to pronounce conclusions on the matter. In the meantime certain aspects of the Japanese petroleum industry law of March 27 have been the subject of representations at Tokio on behalf of the Governments of the United Kingdom; United States and Netherlands, the interests of whose nationals are liable to be adversely affected.