JAPAN AND BRITISH NOTE

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

JAPAN AND BRITISH NOTE

Publie Not Being Informed SERIOUSNESS NOT REALISED (Received 31, 8.45 a.m.) TOKIO, Aug. 30. The British Noto requesting an apology for the wounding by Japanese planes of Sir Hughe KnatchbullHuggessen, British Ambassador to China, is dismissed with a brief paragraph ,and the terms are not divulged in the morning papers, whieh feature the Sino-Soviet Pact. The Ivokumin Shinibun, the mouthpieeo of the Army, says: v There are iudisputably secret provisions tantamount to an offensive and defensive alliance. Soviet and Japanese relations will inevitably be more exposed to friction in future." Soviet destroyers and submarines allegeClv held up the Yasuga Maru for half-an-hour off North Korea near the Siberian border. The vessel reported major manoeuvres of the Soviet fleet off Vladivostok. Since the Japanese iuquiry is not complete, a reply to the British Noto cannot at present be expected. The Japanese publie apparently will not be informed of the British protest. There is a tendeney to disrmnt the importance of the wounding of Sir Hughe Knatchbull-Hugessen, and there seems to be a lnck of appreciation of the seriousness of the British view. The publie does not appreciate the fact that the attaek on the Ambassador is comparable with an attack on his Majesty, nor has it grasped the significance of the Japanese paralleJ.