WAR IN CHINA

Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 March 1939, Page 6

WAR IN CHINA

MAY LAST FOR ANOTHER THREE YEARS AND END IN STALEMATE. OPINION OF CONFIDENTIAL ADVISER. (Independent Cable Service.) (Received This Day, 10.55 a.m.) LONDON, March 6. General Chiang Kai-shek’s confidential adviser, Mr George Shepherd, who has arrived in London en route to New York, expressed the opinion that the war in China would last at. least for another three years and was almost certain to end in a stalemate. JAPANESE AIMS UNDERSTANDING DESIRED WITH DEMOCRACIES. ACCORDING TO MR ARITA By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received This Day. 12.50 p.m.) TOKTO, March 0. The Minister for Foreign Affairs. Mr H. Arita, informed the Diet that Japan’s intention was to be friendly with England and America, adding that the Anti-Comintern Pact was not a totalitarian union against the democracies, because Japan was not totalitarian. Moreover the Anti-Comintern Pact was directed solely against the Comintern. Japanese diplomacy was not limited to a three-power agreement. Japan desired to establish a new understanding with England and America. Admiral Yonai, however, cited English and American rearmament, adding: “We are not planning simultaneous operations against both Powers, but aim to attain such strength as will enable operations against the better equipped of them.” The Diet was about to consider, supplementary estimates of £5,360,000, two-thirds of which is for defence.