JAPANESE TROUBLES IN MANCHURIA

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 61, 6 December 1920, Page 5

JAPANESE TROUBLES IN MANCHURIA

ULTIMATUM TO MISSIONARIES

" CEASE POLITICAL ACTIVITIES

6r GET OUT"

■By Teleerapn-Freas Aceooiation-OopyrlgM (Hoc. December 1, 5.5 p.m.;

Tokio, December 'A. The Japanese Military Mission at Chientao, Manchuria, has presented a letter to the chief of the Canadian Presbyterian Mission at Hung-chu, saying that the British missionaries "must cither cease tiieir political anti-Japanese activities or get out." The letter reviews recent evento during tho subjugation of Korean malcontents in Manchuria. It admits' the burning of churches and schools, and the shooting of many insurgents, but denies killing without preliminary trial or_ burning without justification.' The letter says it is possible that somo innocent porsons were executed, but it was done unknowingly, as the Japanese troops had strict orders not to imitate General Dyer at Xmritsar. The Tetter reminds the Canadian missionaries that British dominions also are troubled by revolutionary plotters, and urges them not to give legal excuses to Japanese Buddhists to go to India' to assist the non-co-opera-tors or to Ireland to assist the Sinn Feincrs. It says that the Japanese troubles in Manchuria are paralleled elsewhere, citing the British-Afghan b,ordcr troubles and the American-Mexican border problem, whilo Japan entered Manchuria only after the Chines-e had failed to suppress the Korean plotters. The letter adds: "The British and Japaneso have mutual troubles, and must show mutual sympathies."—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.

JAPANESE-AMERICAN RELATIONS EFFICACY OF NEW TREATY ' DOUBTED. Tokio, December' 3. Baron Sakatani, ex-Miuister of Finance, in a speech beforo a conference of twelve associations interested in Japanese-Ameri-can relations, hinted that California's nitli-.Tapanoso legislation: mignt come up beforo the League of Nations. He added that lie was uncertain wliothor a now treaty Between tho United States and Japan would solve tho problem It was necessary to inform Americans that Jn-. pan's caso rested, upon a principle' of justice—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.

DISQUIETING REPORTS BIG MILITARY CAMP IN FORMOSA. (Rec. December 5, 11.5 p.m.) • New York, December +. A correspondent of the Chicago "Tribune," who is aboard a ship off- Formosa, has sent "ft wireless message stating that Japan is maintaining a large military 6amp on the lower end of Formosa, within y day's ,snil of San Fernando, in tho Philippines. The dispatch 6tates that Tokio is aiding 1 the cantp unobtrusively by means of a fleet oftransports carrying men and supplies. The correspondent, while unable to verify reports estimating! that the troops number thirty thousand, states that personal observations show that tho camp covers several hundred acres. He adds that disquieting reports are circulating through the American''Far Eastern colonies regarding Japanese activity. The Japanese explain that the troops iiavo been mobilised for the control of the natives.—Aus,N.Z. Cable ilssn.

Washington, December i. i The State Department and- the Navy Department have announced that they have no information regarding the reported Japanese concentration of troopa in Formosa.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.