MOVE BY JAPAN

Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 September 1939, Page 8

MOVE BY JAPAN

REQUEST TO GREAT BRITAIN & FRANCE WITHDRAWAL OF FORCES FROM FAR EAST. REPORT FROM "UNIMPEACHABLE SOURCE” By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received This Day, 11.30 a.m.) SHANGHAI, September 6. An unimpeachable source reports that Japan has asked England and France to withdraw their army and navy forces from China on their own initiative, to avoid untoward incidents. The Vice-Foreign Minister, Mr. Sawada, told the English, French, Polish and German ambassadors that Japan was gravely concerned at the Powers’ attitude toward the Sino-Japanese war and he drew attention to the desirability of eliminating all causes of incidents between the belligerents. OFFICIAL STATEMENT DECLARATIONS OF NEUTRALITY. JAPAN AND NON-INTERVENTION. (Received This Day, 10.55 a.m.) RUGBY, September 6. . Mr. R. A. Butler, replying to a question in the House of Commons, said: "No official communications on neutrality have been received from Russia, Italy, Japan or Spain, but according to an official announcement made in Rome on September 1, Italy will take no initiative in the way of military operations. Viscount Halifax has been informed that a declaration of neutrality was issued by Spain at Burgos on September 4. Japan has defined her attitude as one of nonintervention.”