PEACE OFFER

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 192, 31 August 1937, Page 7

PEACE OFFER

-Presa Assn.

Nanking Willing ambitious japan "China Fighting the Battle of All Nations WILL POWERS STEP IN?

(By Telegrapfi-

— Copyrigbt.)

(Received 31, 1.15 p.m.) LONDON, Aug. 30. The Chinese Embassy in London, on the authority of Nanking, has issucd a statement that if Japan changes her policy China is willing to conclude a non-agression agreement similar to the Sino-Soviet agreement. The statement describes the agreement as simple and entirely negative, being intended merely to maintain peaco by mutual ,;3surances of non-agression and non-isskbance for aggressors. Marshal Chiang Kai-sliek, in an interview at Nanking described Japan's aim as tho establishment of of a continental empire and said that China, with her inadequate equipinent, was fighting the battle of all nations which observed the sanotity of treaties. It was not difficult to prophesy what would happen to the trade of foreign nations if Japan secured domination over China. In the meantime, he added, Japan was steadiiy wiping out her own investments and destroying her own commercial opportunities in a land where statesmanlike actions would have given her almost a trade monopoly. The question of intervention rested with the Powers which had organised the League of Nations and signed the Nine-Power and Kellogg Pacts.