JAPAN’S DESIRE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 122, 25 May 1936, Page 7

JAPAN’S DESIRE

LOWER BRITISH DUTIES DISLIKE OF ISOLATION TOKIO, Alay 21. The departure for London of Air. Yoshida .the new Japanese Ambassador, enabled newspapers to proclaim the importance Japan attaches to good lelations with Britain. Various accounts of his instructions include suggestions of a trade conference with the British Empire and lower British and co'onial tariffs, also British abstention from intervening in Japan's negotiations with Australia and Egypt. Air. Yoshida is not taking definite instrutcions to London in these matteis. Nevertheles, many influential Jaoanese dislike the present isolation. Mr. Yoshida’s efforts to revive AngloJapanese friendship have military, official, and popular support. SOME EFFECT BRITISH PROTEST TO JAPAN SMUGGLING IN CHINA. TOKIO MAY INVESTIGATE. LONDON, .May 21. The Foreign ►Secretary, Air. Anthony Eden, announced in the House of Commons that the British Ambassador in Tokio had brought to the notice uf Japan smuggling in North China. The Tokio correspondent of The Times disclosed that Britain's representations have had some effect. Foreign Office officials last, week declared that smuggling did not <■<>,; cern Japan and now state that they are seriously examining the question of considering the advisability of sending high officials from Tokio to investigate the situation on the spot. Smuggling along the entire North China coastline from Tientsin to Canton has asumed enormous proportions, threatening British interests and the collapse of the Chinese Central Government. It has been reported that revenues on which British loans were guaranted are dwindling precariously. .Japanese are considering to be behind the movement, and Chinese officials state that smuggling would be controllable within a week if the Japanese militarists did not prevent customs launches operating within the thrqemile limit on the North China coast on a pretext of breaches of the Tongku truce, which forbids armed Chinese action against offenders. The belief is widely held that this is part of a Japanese attempt to undermine the whole of the Chinese financial structure.