PUPPET REGIME

Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20888, 21 August 1939, Page 7

PUPPET REGIME

NEW MOVE BY JAPAN SWATOW ESTABLISHMENT (United Press. Assn.—Eiec. Tel. Copyright) LONDON, Aug. 19 The Japanese for the llr&t time have moved to establish a puppet regime in South China by swearing in at Swatow a Federated Committee, which telegraphed to Chungking breaking off relations with Marshal Chiang Kai-shek's Government, says the Hongkong correspondent of the Daily Mail. It also declared the autonomy of Eastern Kwangtung, on the border of Hongkong. The Japanese military spokesman at Canton to-day announced Japan's intention to carry out a land blockade ol' Hongkong, in order to prevent supplies reaching Marshal Chiang Kaishek. The British gunboats Moth and Chieala are protecting Kowloon, which the Japanese occupation of Shatautok. behind Kowloon, threatens. The gunboats have been reinforced by a motor torpedo boat. JAPAN’S FIRMNESS STRONG CRITICISM OF BRITAIN WILL NOT WIDEN DISCUSSIONS (United Press. Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright; (Received Aug. 21, 1 p.m.) TOKIO, August 20 A Foreign ufllce statement recalling the issues of the Anglo-Japanese conference, reiterates that the Japanese demands do not exceed the scope of the conference, for which reason the banning of the currency, silver and other questions because they are not local at Tientsin is not justined. Britain at the outset of the conference did not intend to exclude economic questions. She now contradictorily contends that they should be solved m relation to the ultimate settlement of the Chino-Japanese dispute. Japan does not comprehend how the discussion of a nine-Puwer treaty would be useful in settling the Tientsin issues, and will never admit the intervention of a third Power, which would only lead to delays and complications.