FURTHER PROTEST

Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 June 1939, Page 7

FURTHER PROTEST

MADE BY UNITED STATES TO JAPAN AGAINST AERIAL BOMBING SHOWDOWN IN PROSPECT. PUBLICATION OF NOTES PROPOSED. NEW YORK, June 21. Confirmation by the Secretary of State, Air Cordell Hull, that the United States has made further representations to Tokio over cont inued aerial bombings of American property in China and has requested the permission of the .Japanese to publish the full correspondence on the bombing question between the United States and -Japan is concentrating attention on the possible meaning of this development. Officials today considered that the correspondence was an important step at this time, when the developments in the Far East indicate that a showdown may come soon between Japan and the Western Powers over Japan’s attempt to exercise military, political, and economic hegemony on the Asiatic mainland. The Washington correspondent of the Associated Press of America says that the United States diplomatic action was taken to mean that the United States is not being won over by Japan’s meticulous care to differentiate between the British and Americans in Tientsin, subjecting the British to many indignities and permitting Americans every possible privilege. Failing Japanese permission to publish the bombing correspondence, the United States may nevertheless publish her own two Notes regarding the matter. America’s second missive was a rejoinder to Japan’s contention that if American properties were damaged it was an unfortunate result of a legitimate attack on military objectives. _________