JAPAN'S POLICY

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19987, 12 July 1939, Page 4

JAPAN'S POLICY

CONTROL OF PACIFIC liUSINHSS MAN’S WARNING The urgent need for Australia and Now Zealand to protect themselves against Japan was stressed by Mr. L. S Gumming, an Australian business man with personal knowledge of conditions in the East, who arrived at Auckland this week. If it were possible for Japan to succeed in Chino, if was its declared policy to control the Pacific, he said. His own condemnation of the way Japan was attacking a kind and lovable people had been shown by breaking off all commercial relations with Japanese firms. While travelling in the East at the outbreak of the present war Mr. Gumming was given two opinions on the outcome which are interesting in the light of subsequent events. In conversation with the private secretary to General Cniang Kai-shek, Mr. R. Chang, lie was told that it would not be possible for China to withstand the onslaught of the Japanese, well supplied with ships and equipment, round the coast, hut that they would get a great surprise in the interior of China. Not long afterward he travelled through Korea and Manchultuo with a Japanese general and his stall. Mr. Gumming discussed dm war with one of Ids high officers, who expressed the opinion that the war would be over in three months.