THE CHINESE VIEW

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 40, 10 November 1937, Page 4

THE CHINESE VIEW

" Mosr vivid is the contrast of the war-breathing Japansse leaders with the cairn and dignifjed attitude of Chiang Kai-shek who fills the posts of Prime Minister and Generalissimo of the Chinese foreSS," says Mr. Hollihgion Tong, Press Adviser to the National Government of China, in a wireless address to the Aiaerichn nation. " He, together with his Government colleagues, h*as not spok^n one prottocative word.since the crisis arose and— unlike the Japanese politicians and militarists— has carefully avoided stirring the Chinese people to war fury. The present Japanese strategy is exactly sitnilar to th^t which led to the occupation of Manchuria in 1931. All prelimuiaries to the present outbreak were on all fours with thofee preceding the seizuf e of Mnkden— such as Japanese claims of Chinese 'insinCerity,' inei'dents, threats to Japan, night manoeuvres, and so on. The jingoistic appeal to Japanese nationalism that is now going on in Japan in order to stir up war fever bears a resemblance to 1931. " The Japanese are claiming the right under treaties and agreements to do as they please in Nprth China. On th6 other h&nd, they abrogated the Nine-Power Treaty, the Kellogg Pact and the Coven&nt of the -League of Nations when they decided to seize Mukden and swallow Manchuria. Treaties were of no use to them then, but now they try to make much of the alleged Chinese breach of agreements signed under durcss China desires to be on friendly terms with all her neighbours, partieuhirly Japan# I wfe Ife i>i li fr