CHINA AND JAPAN.

Waikato Times, Volume 104, Issue 17485, 20 August 1928, Page 7

CHINA AND JAPAN.

ECONOMIC WAR. MOVEMENT IN MANCHURIA. ANTI-JAPANESE SENTIMENT. (By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright.) (Australian Press Association). SHANGHAI, August IS. An economic war against Japan is advocated by the 'Chinese, and is likely to take place in Manchuria for the purpose of weakening Japan's position there. To-day's despatches from Mukden, the capital of Manchuria, reveal that all the provincial guilds and trade assemblies are combining to support the anti-Japanese movement. Anti-Ja-panese sentiment is rapidly intensifying, principally owing to the widespread belief that Japan instigated the assassination of the late northern war lord, Marshal Chang Tso-lin. Japan’s threat to intervene in the event of Mukden’s hoisting the Nationalist flag has resulted in the postponement of the hoisting of the flag for three montns. Economic warfare is now considered to be the best means of ousting Japan from Manchuria, and of unifying both North and South ’china under one flag.