JUBILATION IN JAPAN

Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 July 1939, Page 6

JUBILATION IN JAPAN

SWEEPING VICTORY CLAIMED POSSIBLE DEVELOPMENTS. PUPPET GOVERNMENT IN PROSPECT. (Received This Day, 12.5 p.m.) TOKIO, July 24. The agreement is hailed as a sweeping victory for Japanese diplomacy. Some foreign observers wonder if Japan will interpret the agreement as a recognition of belligerent rights and close the Chinese ports and intensify the crusade against foreigners, and then seek British recognition of -the Chinese Puppet Government which will shortly be created.

The newspapers mention among the issues the recall of Sir A. Clark-Kerr (Ambassador to China) and reorganisation of the international settlements at Shanghai and Kulangsu. Sir Robert Craigie is quoted as admitting that diplomatic machinery was old-fashioned and needed adapting to the change of circumstances. He emphasised that the occupied areas bore no relation to the international settlements, where the local authorities maintained order. “UNTHINKABLE” COMMENT BY CHIANG KAI-SHEK. INVALID & INOPERATIVE AGREEMENT. (Received This Day, 12.57 p.m.) CHUNGKING, July 24. General Chiang-Kai-shek said it was unthinkable that Britain associate herself with Japanese aggression in an invalid and inoperative agreement, helping the destruction of the Nine Power Treaty. AXIS OPINIONS GERMANY SEES SERIOUS BLOW TO PROUD ALBION. REACTIONS ANTICIPATED IN EUROPE. (Received This Day, 12.5 p.m.) BERLIN, July 24. “Serious Blow to Proud Albion" and “Complete British • Capitulation” are newspaper headlines. The “Nachtausgabe” forsees serious reactions throughout the Empire and also in European countries guaranteed by Britain, who henceforth will yield step by step. ANTFBRITISH OUTCRY IN SEVERAL CHINESE CITIES. (Received This Day, 12.57 p.m.) SHANGHAI, July 24. , An anti-British campaign is in full swing in Shanghai, Woihaiwei and Canton, with a demand for the expul- < sion of “the shameful British.” In Ja- < panese-controlled Shanghai, the great- ; er municipality has arrested 125 Chin- 1 esc overseers of the Settlement’s sani- ; tary system. j