JAPAN'S PREMIER EXPRESSES CONCERN.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 222, 18 September 1940, Page 8

JAPAN'S PREMIER EXPRESSES CONCERN.

COUNTRY'S FATE. 5 Call To Nation For Unity To " Surmount Crisis." United Press Association.—Copyright. (Reed, noon.) LONDON, Sept. 17. Addressing the final meeting in Tokyo of the Preparatory Commission for the establishment of a "new Japanese national structure," the Prime Minister, Prince Konoye, said: "I think Japan's situation will become increasingly serious in the near future, on account of which Japan's 100,000,000 people must act as one in an effort to surmount this national emergency." United States Consulates throughout China, according to a report from Shanghai, have received a new flood of complaints about the anti-American embargo imposed by the Japanese. One of the largest American companies has reported from Tientsin that its total business for the first half of September amounted to six dollars in United States currency, compared with a normal turnover of 30,000 dollars. Business men predict that half the American firms in China will be bankrupt before the end of the year unless the Japanese restrictions are relaxed. Wang Ching-wei's newspaper, the "Daily News," has announced that the Nanking puppet Government will not recognise the extra-territorial rights of Poland, Holland, Norway, Belgium or any other of the conquered countries. Renewing its complaints to Tokyo, the paper says China has been expecting more satisfactory treatment and more honest co-operation from Japan than from the nations which have been suppressing China.