DEFINITE REPLY

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 387, 23 November 1932, Page 5

DEFINITE REPLY

ALTERNATIVES ONLY LAY FAR EAST OPEN TO DISORDER DOES NOT WANT WAR There was a momentous session of the League of Nations when the Japanese delegate made a statement on the Lytton report: Japan and the Japanese were not hostile to the Chinese. Japan believed that Chlna's main desire was for peace, but the Chinese had been misled, terrorised, and misrepresented. He said "We don't want war. We don't want more territory. We are not aggressors. W^e desire, deeply and earnestly, the welfare of our great neighbours. Japan cannot consider any alternative in Manchoukuo be- ; cause possibly it would lay the entire Far East situation open to serious disorders." London, Nov. 21. The principal points of Japan's reply to the report are: 1. China is an abnormal country, in a- condition bordering on anarchy. 2. Foreign lives and property cannot be adequately protected because of internal conflict, also the Koumintong's "revolutionary" policy against foreign Powers. 3. Foreign Powers have been obliged to exereise exceptional powers and privileges in order to protect their subjects and interests. 4. Japan has sulfered more severe-

ly than any other Power from China's anarchial condition and anti-foreign policy. 5. Japan's position in Manchuria geographically and historically, by virtue of treaty rights, economic interests and fieed for lier own national security, is exceptional. G. Former Alanchurian authorities intrigued to undermine this special position, and frequently and flagrantl ly encroached on Japan's rights and interests in Manchuria. 7. None- of Japan's actions in September, 1931, exceeded her rights of self-defence. 8. Manchuria always occupled a separate position in relation to China itself and the foundation of Manchoukuo was accomplished by Manchurians' spontaneous action. 9. A general recognition of the present regime would contravene no international obligations, would satisfy the Alanchurians' aspirations, and would eventually be realised by China herself as the only satisfactory basis for stable relations. 10. Disguised international control in Manchuria would be aeceptable neither to Japan nor to Manchoukuo.