ANOTHER PROTEST

Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 August 1939, Page 5

ANOTHER PROTEST

TREATMENT OF AMERICANS IN CHINA REPRESENTATIONS MADE TO TOKIO. UNITED STATES STEERING ITS OWN COURSE. WASHINGTON, August 2. The Assistant Secretary of State, Air Sumner Welles, announced today I hat Ihe Stale Depart ineiil has lodged another protest in Tokio against mistreatment of American nationals in China.

A message from Tokio states that the United States Charge d'Affaires, Mr Dooman, has protested to the Japanese Government against, the conversion of the anti-British campaign in China into an anti-white campaign imperilling American residents. He requested Japan's immediate intervention.

The United States Embassy in Peking has protested against the thirty-third bombing of the Lutheran Mission at Kiohsen in Honan province, within five months. One of six bombs made a direct hit at the mission, killing six Chinese patients and wounding one. Mr Welles said he was without information concerning a list of 600 cases compiled by the American Consular authorities in Shanghai of Americans being mistreated by Japanese in China, and he declined to comment on a report that the Counsellor to the Japanese Embassy. Mr Suma, was leaving Washington to rcporPto the Foreign Office in Tokio concerning the abrogation of the 1911 treaty. Mr Welles also stressed, when asked whether the State Department had pointed out to Japan that the antiBritish campaign in China seems to have grown into an anti-foreigner movement, that it has been 1 ' the constant policy of the United States to steer its own course in the Far Eastern crisis. In Congress today Senator Schwellenbach praised me denunciation of the 1911 treaty. He said: “We, more than any other nation in the world, are directly assisting the continuation of Japan's activities in China. Were it not for the assistance of the United States, Japan’s Chinese campaign would probably have collapsed many months ago . . . The fact is we are her most important ally .... “There has never been in the history of the world, civilised or uncivilised, a more ruthless and frightful campaign of conquest than Japan has been wagering in China for two years.” CANADA & JAPAN TERMINATION OF TRADE URGED. BY FORMER MINISTER TO U.S.A. NEW YORK, August 3. The Ottawa correspondent of the "New York Times” says that the former Canadian Minister to the United States, Ml- Herridge, in a speech urged that Canada “take immediate steps comprehensively to terminate economic relations with Japan. There is no basic friendly association between the democracies of the English and Frenchspeaking nations and Fascist Japan.” Observers here point out that an embargo on war munitions from the United States would merely compel Japan to make her purchases from Canada, thus nullifying its effect.