SHOWDOWN SOON

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 145, 22 June 1939, Page 7

SHOWDOWN SOON

JAPAN AND WESTERN POWERS

MOVE BY UNITED STATES BOMBING OF AMERICAN PROPERTY (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) Received June 21, 11.5 p.m. WASHINGTON, June 21. Mr. Cordell Hull’s confirmation that the United States had made further representations to Tokio over the continued aerial bombings of American property in China and had requested Japanese permission to publish the full correspondence on the bombing question between the. United States and Japan, concentrated attention on the possible, meaning of this development. Officials considered the correspondence an important step at this time, when developments in the Far East indicate that a showdown may come soon between Japan and the western Powers over

Japan’s attempt to exercise military, political and economic hegemony on the Asiatic mainland. Failing Japanese permission to publish the bombing correspondence, the United States may, nevertheless, publish her own two Notes regarding the matter, America’s second missive being a rejoinder to Japan’s contention that if American properties were damaged, it was an unfortunate result of a legitimate attack on military objectives. The Washington correspondent of the Associated Press of America says that United States diplomatic action to-day is taken to mean that the United States is not being won over by Japan’s meticulous care to differentiate between British and Americans in Tientsin, subjecting the British to many indignities and permitting Americans every possible privilege.

MASS EXECUTION

LONDON, June 20. The Times Hongkong correspon- ( dent stales that Japanese in the fifth ■ mass execution in Canton shot .1421 Chinese, many of whom were guerilI las- L