OPPRESSION IN MANCHURIA

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 4, Issue 184, 24 November 1941, Page 6

OPPRESSION IN MANCHURIA

CHINESE MINISTER TO

AUSTRALIA

ANSWERS CHURCH PAPER

The Japanese in Manchuria had committed more hideous crimes than the Germans in the occupied territory of Europe, the Chinese Minister to Australia, Dr. Hsu Mo, said recently. Dr Hsu Mo who was speaking" at the Methodist Pleasant Sunday aft* ernoon gathering in Sydney, was commenting on a statement that

the people of Manchuria had bene--fited considerably from Japanese occupation * This statement appeared in the "Church Standard," a Church of England publication, on Gctobet 24.

"The people in Manchuria are 100 per cent Chinese," said Dr Hsu. "Not only have they not -benefited from Japan's rule bult they have been placed under the worst form of oppression since Japanese occupation of the territory. The only difference between the situation in Manchuria and that in the- occupied countries of Europe is that the Japanese have used more effective -means than the Germans of preventing information from reaching the outside

public

"Japan's aggression in the Fat East, espcciallj* in Manchuria, lias been the forerunner, the real cause of the disastrous events that havd occurred in Europe and elsewhere.'