NOT COMMUNISTIC

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 102, 3 May 1938, Page 7

NOT COMMUNISTIC

CHINESE NATIONAL POLICY PRINCIPLE SET OUT BY DR. SUN YAT SEN JAPANESE AIM IN CHINA [ Per Press AMOciaLion. ) WELLINGTON, May 2. An interview with the new Japanese Consul-General, M. Kuchi Gunji, last week has drawn a reply from the Chinese Consul, M. Feng Wanga. '■.lna’s policy," he says, “rests on a foundation of the Three ' Principles enunciated by the .. Sun Yat Sen. During the last ...e supreme efforts have been made by the Koumintang and the National Government to prevent the spread of Communist doctrines and to suppress the violence of the Chinese Communists. The long drawn-out campaign against the Communists and the great cost it has involved are facts too well known to require lengthy narration. “More recently the Communist Party was awakening to the acute danger of foreign aggression and realised that national salvation could be achieved only through the wholehearted enforcement of the Three Peoples’ Principles. Consequently, on September 22 the Communist Party formally declared: (1) The renunciation of the theory and practice of violence; (2) the cessation of all activities aimed at Bolshevising China; (3) the abolition of Chinese Soviets; <4> the abandonment of the Chinese Red Army. "In view of those developments it may be said that the whole Chinese nation is devoted to the Three People’s Principles to-day and striving under the guidance of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek to resist foreign aggression and to realise Dr. Sun Yat Sen's lofty ideals. The facts cannot be obscured by propaganda, however cleverly contrived. "It cannot be over-emphasised that the present unhappy state of relations between the Chinese and the Japanese is entirely due to Japan’s ceaseless aggression against China." In regard to the claim that Japan wants co-operation with China, he says that she wants dominion, not co-operation. “She can have co-opera-tion the moment she abandons her traditional policy of force, ceases from acts of aggression, and recalls her forces."