CONDITIONS OF PEACE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 September 1939, Page 7

CONDITIONS OF PEACE

STATED BY CHINESE MINISTER TREATY ENFORCEMENT AND CO-OPERATION. UNITED STATES MEDIATION SUGGESTED. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. LONDON. September 28. In an exclusive dispatch from Chungking, the correspondent of the British I tided Press states that the Chinese . [foreign .Minister, .Mr ('hnnghni, suggested that the United States was in a I'avourahle position to act as a mediator to bring the SinoJapanese hostilities to an earlv end.

Mr Chunghui outlined as a basis for an honourable peace, first, enforcement of the Nine Power Treaty; and secondly, economic co-operation of all friendly nations, including Japan, if they are willing to co-operate on a basis of equality. “So far, unfortunately, Japan’s idea of co-operation has been really Japanese domination of China,” he said. “On this basis we can never cooperate. Japan has no chance to execute the programme on which she embarked in 1937. She is already very weary .and realises that she is ringed in by the nations who are pledged to enforce the Nine Power Pact.” JAPANESE RAID ON AMERICAN RADIO OFFICE IN TIENTSIN. CHINESE EMPLOYEE SLAPPED. TIENTSIN. September 27. Six armed Japanese plain-clothes men raided the office of the United Press of America in an American radio service building. They ransacked the files, read letters and slapped a Chinese employee. They also raided the office of the radio service, which has been sending American commercial messages since the establishment of the Japanese censorship and also uncensored Press messages operatingunder a British concession licence with the co-operation of the American Chamber of Commerce.

The intruders drew guns when the proprietor, Mr W. A. B. Nichols, ordered them off the premises and prevented them seizing a batch of incoming messages. The Japanese remained till the arrival of the concession chief of police. Both officers reported the incidents to the British and American Consulates.