NOT SEEKING WAR

Waipukurau Press, Volume XXVIII, Issue 133, 31 May 1932, Page 5

NOT SEEKING WAR

Protestations

“NO IMMINENT DANGER”

SAYS A LEADING STATESMAN

By Telegraph —Copyright —Press Assn.

GENEVA, May 27.

“I believe there is no imminent danger of a Russo-Japanese war,” said Air Matsudara, when interviewed. “The notion is only a nightmare created by pessimists with exaggerated imaginations. Japan has no intention of making trouble unless Russia takes the offensive. Japanese troops were only sent to Harbin and Immcnpao to protect Japanese lives and property from Chinese bandits, and they will be withdrawn when their purpose is accomplished. It is absurd to think that the Japanese would, use White Russians to assist them in Manchuria. The White Russians’ inability to change with the development of Russia proved, that many years ago. Commonsenso should show the impossibility of Japan invading Russia.

Interrogated concerning the Communist allegation that the groat Powers were preparing for war on the Soviet, under Japanese guidance, in order to ruin the Five Y ear Plan and save Japan’s financial and industrial supremacy,>JTr Matsudaira replied that the pretension was absolutely unfounded. “It is so much out of the question,” he said, “that I cannot, reply seriously to it.”