JAPANESE TERMS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 82, Issue 305, 24 December 1938, Page 7

JAPANESE TERMS

TO END CHINA WAR DEVELOPMENT OF COUNTRY RIGHTS OF FREE RESIDENCE [By Telegraph—Preus Association—Copyright] Received Dec. 23, 6.5 p.m. TOKIO, Dec. 22. The Prime Minister, Prince Konoye, announced that Japan’s terms to end the China dispute included her abandonment of extra territorial rights, abolition of foreign concessions, and China’s participation in the anti-Commun-ist bloc. Japan did not intend to establish an economic monopoly in China. Elaborating the peace terms, Prince Konoye said that after China joined the anti-Comintern pact Japanese troops would be stationed at various [ laces throughout China as an insurance that Inner Mongolia would be designated as a special anti-Com-munist area. China must recognise Japanese rights of free residence and trade and extend facilities for the development of resources, especially in North China and Inner Mongolia. Japan sought neither territory nor an indemnity, but merely China’s participation in the building up of a new order. DRUG TRAFFIC IN EAST PESTILENCE PAYS FOR WAR CHARGE AGAINST JAPANESE Received Dec. 23, 6.30 p.m. LONDON, Dec. 22. In the House of Commons, Mr. R. A. Butler said there was no evidence of an increase in China’s drug traffic as an outcome of a deliberate Japanes plan, nor that Japan aimed at a systematic demoralisation of the Chinese people, but the situation 'was becoming worse, as the Japanese occupation nullified the Chinese Government’s anti-drug legislation. Mr. R. H. Fletcher (Labour), who raised the question earlier, said that Japan was fostering drugs throughout the world and was reaping enormous profits in China, making pestilence pay for the war. It was a ghastly crime against international decency thus to drench another country with vice. The Peking provisional Government had repealed 30 anti-drug ordinances and had permitted the opening of 300 dens.