CHINA AND JAPAN

Wairarapa Daily Times, 11 January 1932, Page 5

CHINA AND JAPAN

BRITISH ATTITUDE STRICT NEUTRALITY. Press Association Electric Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, Saturday. The “Sun-Herald” says that the British Government shows no disposition to associate itself with the United States protest to- Japan. It is evident that Britain is desirous of maintaining strict neutrality regarding Japan. The “Daily Mail,” in a leader, considers that the American Note is merely an attempt to assert the United States’s right of the maintenance of the open door in Manchuria. In any case the British in no circumstances can allow themselves to be embroiled in a war with Japan which would only benefit the Chinese warlords and the Soviet. NO BRITISH NOTE. CONSIDERED UNNECESSARY. (Received Monday, 8.55 a.m.) LONDON, Sunday. The British Government has decided that it is unnecessary to follow the lead of the United States and dispatch a Note to Japan but the Japanese Ambassador in London has been requested to confirm Japan’s assurances to Britain regarding the open door policy. AMERICA’S ACTION. CHINESE COMMENTS. (Received Monday, 5.55 a.m.) PEKING, Sunday. “It has the head of a dragon but the tail of a rat,” is how intelligent Chinese here describe Mr. Stimson’s Manchurian demarche. They point out that such action might have had an important effect three months ago, but it is hardly likely, under the present circumstances, to have much effect. “It amounts,” says one Kuomintang organ, “to locking the door after the thief has walked off with the jewels.” The “ Takungpao, ” an influential Tientsin paper, says the American action is better late than never and issues the warning that failure on the part of the Nine-Power and Kellog Pact signatories to restrain Japan may mean the collapse of the present ruling class in China and the spread of Bolshevism.