CHINA AND JAPAN

Hokitika Guardian, 17 January 1933, Page 5

CHINA AND JAPAN

WAR INEVITABLE NO HOPE SEEN FROM GENEVA. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright; LONDON, Jan. IC. The “Manchester Guardian’s” Ge.ri: eva correspondent says: The Chinese delegation here has advised the Government of China that nothing can be expected from the League of Nations. China must de'.end herself against the Japanese aggression. A regular SinoJapanese war seems almost inevitable.”

The correspondent continues: China may leave the Disarmament Conference, feeling that disarmament is impossible in the present conditions. If China leaves Geneva, she will inevitably be forced into the arms, of Russia, whose influence in China would tneu become predominant.”

THE ATTITUDE OF JAPAN.

RECOMMENDATIONS SHELVED

LONDON, Jan. 16

"The Times” correspondent at Geneva says: It is understood that the Sub-Committee of Five’s resolution, which .the-Committee of Nineteen will consider on Monday, has been amended to meet Japanese objections to the Sub - Committee’s recommendations. The recommendations are based on the Lytton Report, which was to the effect that the Manchukuo Republic should not be recognised, and that gendarmerie should be established to keep order therein.

These have been pushed so far into the background as to be barely discernable. The Japanese attitude is likely to be conciliatory, but dilatory. The cynics suggest that Japan’s conciliatory tone will be maintained until the present phase of the Jehol operations is completed a fortnight hence, after which Japan’s policy will depend upon the ground gained by her at Geneva in the meantime.

JAP RIVER GUNBOATS.

TOKYO, Jan. 16

The Kawasako dockyard has contracted to build three light-draft gunboats for river service to the order of the Manchukuo Government.