SEED OF BANDITRY

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 79, 27 December 1937, Page 7

SEED OF BANDITRY

Sown By MussoKni and and Hitler (Received 27, 9.30 a.m.) NEW YORK, Dee. 24. The Now York Times, in a threecolumn leader, states. "The seed of international banditry, which spro'uted with the bombs and bullets that destroycd the. Panay, were sown long before the Japanese invaded China this year in violation of treaties. "They were sown by Signor Mussolini at Corfu in -1923, nerr Hitler when he tore up tho Yersr.illes Treaty, Japan when she seized Mauchukuo and the Itatian trmj; when it seized Ethopia,

" Yet, if they serve to waken the United States to its responsibilities, they cannot be wr'iten down as wholly disastrous. Britain and the United States are moving in parallel lines in an attempt to restore order, decency and safety in the world. "The United States is not pulling British chestnuts from the fire. In consulting with Britain wb have chestnuts of our own as the Panay vividly brings to mind." Reprosentative Taylor, chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, demanded more powerful navy and air fleets, Many Western Americans, he said, believe the United States should not supinely subm.it to Japan's insolent treatment. The United States would be justified in showing the world we were going to get ready and while we were not hunting for a fight we were not afraid of one. The New York Herald-Tribune's Washingtcn correspondent says: "As the Japanese Government prolongs the (ieliberations concerning its reply officials here are disposed to make their annoyance evident." Mr Cordell Hull announced that the American Ambassador to China, Mr Johnson, would remain with the Chinese Government at Hankow.