NOT SATISFIED

Waikato Times, Volume 123, Issue 20692, 30 December 1938, Page 5

NOT SATISFIED

JAPAN’S POSITION THE WAR IN CHINA DIFFICULT PROBLEMS (United Pres* Aeen.—Elec Tet. Copyright) (Received Dec. 30, 11.46 a.m.) LONDON, Deo. 28 The Peking correspondent of the Times says that with an unimpressive record behind her Japan faces apparently Insuperable .problmes in China in the New Year. Guerilla forces will prevent economic exploitation and block communications everywhere. General Sugiyama, when asked whether he was satisfied with the general Japanese position, emphatically answered “ No." DEMAND BY AMERICA REJECTION BY JAPAN % THE RESTITUTION OF PROPERTY (United Press Assn. —Elec. Tel. Copyright; (Received Dec. 30, 11 a.m.) SHANGHAI, Dec. 29 The Spokesman has indicated that Japan will-flatly refuse the United States’ specilic demand for the restitution of property throughout China. He instanced the American university at Shanghai, which would not be returned while hostilities were in progress ami most likely would be retained after that owing to its strategic value. AMERICAN RIQHTB DISREGARDED BY JAPAN AN APPEAL FOR RETALIATION (United Press Assn.—Elec. TeL Copyright) SHANGHAI, Dec. 29 The United States Chamber of Commerce at Tientsin has cabled the State Department at Washington, enumerating 10 examples of disrgeard by Japanese of American rights in North China. They include monopolies, export embargoes and exchange control. The chamber has urged similar measures against Japanese trade, also retaliation when the expected ban on foreign imports is Introduced.