EYE ON RUSSIA

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 167, 2 August 1937, Page 7

EYE ON RUSSIA

'Pfeil Assn.

Japanese Aims BASE NEAR BORDER Corridor in China to Develop Production NANKING FAVOURSPEACE

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(Received 2} 11.25 a.m.) LONDON, Aug. 1. The Times Shanghai correspondent. says: The Japanese military party has assumed full control oi ihe political situation irrespective of the peaceful aims towards China favoured by industriaa and financial interests; The militarists desire to create a conidor in North Ohlna to develop production sufficientiy to ■upport a military estahiishfent tlose to ihe Ritssian ftontier, believing that the Soviet Ariny, owing to the receht ptirge, is at present incapahle oi external violence. The militarists, the correspondent adds, ako plau further extension southwards iuto China, which realises that it Japan is not opposed a great eftcfciofl Oi North China will be irfecoverably lost. China 's military organisation, though improved, canndt match Japan 'S; thus Nanking favours peace "until China 's military eflfectiveness is increfised, but national sentiment demands war. The situation in the Peiping and Tientsin areas i« quiet apart from iporadic bdinbifig and shelling in diatrifcts where isolated bands of Chineso fcfe maintaining guerilla Warfare.