BOYCOTT OF JAPAN

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 156, 24 February 1932, Page 5

BOYCOTT OF JAPAN

PROPOSAL STILL UNDER DISCUSSION IN AMERICA 1AITING LEAD FROM LEAGUE Rec, Feb. 23, 9.35 p.m. WASHINGTON, Monday. Following Admiral Taylor's advice the Navy Department that por2 of General Tsine- Kai Shek's

3 had appeared for the first time tftion against the Japanese, it is ated that Mr. H. L. Stimson, the stary of State, is contemplating '■statement of Ameriea's Far East % with emphasis on the open Siwever, no official light has been iapon the point as to whether Government, if the League' of Na•5S0 requests will ask Congress apport an economic boycott of Japanese. A Congressional Act d be required for sueh a proced'i? impossible to determine now 'Congress as a whole might reJsuch a proposal, but it is lriter:2to note that the House of Resatatives to-day gave a sudden "aneous ovation to the Chinese $ d'Affaires, Dr. Yen, who td surprised at the unusnal elevation, and then hesitated and1 d slightly. 3 believed that Mr. Stimson will I further representations until J-ague has had an opportunity Moreover, Mr. Yoshiwara's ^ent of foreign policy is consid!Vportant, and is interpreted as Spi'ession of Japan's desire for Wers to delay measures until Jis able to consolidate her posi-