FAR EAST CLASH

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 170, 5 August 1937, Page 5

FAR EAST CLASH

"Japan Will Have to be Sat on Sooner or Later" BRITISH INTERESTS SAFE "From the viewpoint of the man in tEe street nothing serious will happen as a result of the recent clash between the Chinese and Japanese," said Captain J. Maley, who arrived in Auckland by the Maunganui from Sydney. Captain Maley has a good knowledge of the situation, as he has been trading out of Shanghai, Hongkong, Saigon, Bankok and other ports on the China coast for the past 17 years. He recently went to Australia from China, and has come to New Zealand to take the Union Company 's passenger steamer Marama from Wellington to China, where the vessel will be broken up. "Japan will have to be sat on sooner or later," said Captain Maley. "China cannot do it, and she can only look to Eussia for help. It is thought that as soon as anything serious develops between Japan and China, Eussia will sweep down on Japan.. Britain is in a position to look after her own interests in the East. Everything is quite comfortable in Shanghai. "The Japanese are very aggressive and are looking for strife, but the Chinese wish to be left alone. ^ The Chinese, however, are not well equipped for a .big clash with Japan. Although equipped with rifl.es, a good perceutage of the Chinese havei not been properly trained in their use. The British, American and French interests in China "will never go under." Speaking of China generally, Captain , Maley said that in Nanking, the capital, all the heads of the Government were foreign-trained. The whole of the present trouble was confined to the north. Chiang Kai-shek, leader of the Chinese Army, was oue of the leading men of the day. He was a very strong military leader. The Nanking Government led China, and although the southern Cantonese people were strong, Nanking would predominate.