JAPANESE POLICY.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20456, 8 November 1934, Page 1

JAPANESE POLICY.

Open Door Question in Manchuria. British Official Wireless. (Received November S, 12.55 p.m.) RUGBY, November 7. The Foreign Secretary, Sir John I Simon, was asked in the House of ComI mons if he could state whether the ! Japanese Government still £tood by ; the principle of the open door as it I applied to Manchuria, and whether the | Japanese Government’s creation of an : oil monopoly was an infringement of j that principle. Replying, Sir John Simon said that ■ the United Kingdom had communicatjed their views on the proposals for a j monopoly to the authorities in Man- ! churia and the Japanese Government. | He had not yet received a reply to this 1 communication and would prefer in the j meantime not to pronounce conclusions on the matter. Replying to another question, Sir John Simon said that in view of the strictly commercial and non-political ■ character of the Federation of British Industries’ unofficial mission to Man- ! chukuo and Japan, the question of the British Government’s approval of the mission had not arisen. The Govern--1 ment s attitude towards the question ! of recognition of the present regime in ! Manchuria continued to be governed | bv the principles embodied in the resolution taken by the League of Na--1 tions Assembly on February 24.