JAPANESE AIMS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 November 1938, Page 5

JAPANESE AIMS

PLANS FOR “NEW EAST . ASIA” TERRITORIAL DESIGNS DISCLAIMED. BUT CHIANG KAI-SHEK TO BE CRUSHED. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. TOKIO, November 1. It is reported that, after it had been confirmed by today’s Cabinet meeting, a draft'statement of the principles to be adopted for the reconstruction of the “new East Asia” is being submitted to the Emperor and will be published on November 3. The statement will, it is stated, reiterate that Japan has no territorial designs in China, but intends to crush the Chiang Kai-shek regime, whose anti-Japanese and pro-Communist policy is plunging millions of Chinese in dire distress. Third Powers will be counselled to look the Chinese realities in the face. The statement is also expected to announce that Japan’s foreign policy will henceforth be based on the antiComintern pact and the Rome-Berlin-Tokio axis, wnich will be further strengthened. Japan will also declare her readiness to co-operate in establishing a new central government in China and a new peace fabric, based on the principle of “East Asia for the Asiatics.”

APPEAL TO MOSLEMS. CHINESE MISSION IN TURKEY. (Received This Day, 9.10 a.m.) ANKARA, November 1. A Moslem mission, sponsored by the Chinese Government, has arrived. It is touring Moslem States in order to enlist sympathy for the Chinese in their fight for independence.