SUPPLIES FOR CHINA

Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 July 1940, Page 5

SUPPLIES FOR CHINA

THE ANGLO-JAPANESE DISCUSSION SETTLEMENT REPORTED. IN TOKIO VERNACULAR PRESS. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) TOKIO, July 12. The vernacular Press announced in chorus that the British Ambassador, Sir Robert Craigie, and the Japanese Foreign Minister, Mr Arita, had reached a basis of understanding for the suspension of the transport of supplies for General Chiang Kaishek through Burma.

They said Britain had accepted Japan’s demands, reporting that, first, Britain will prohibit the transportation of arms, ammunition, trucks and petrol; secondly, if necessary, the Japanese consular authorities in Rangoon will examine the actual results of such prohibition; and, thirdly, the Hong Kong authorities have already acted in prohibiting the traffic. FULL COOPERATION SAID TO HAVE BEEN PROMISED BY INDO-CHINA. TOKIO, July 13. The Domei news agency’s Hanoi correspondent says Colonel Kenryo Sato, representing Japan's south China's forces, interviewed the Governor-General, M. Catroux, aftei which he stated that M. Catroux had promised Indo-China's full co-opera-tion in Japan’s efforts toward the disposal of the China affair. The Domei agency reports without confirmation from Shanghai that Japanese mistakenly shot down down a French passenger plane carrying French and Japanese officers off Weichow Island. The occupants were en route to Kwangchowan from Hanoi to study the control of arms equipment to China. » POLICY IN ASIA PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT'S STATEMENT. CRITICISED BY CHIANG KAI-SHEK. CHUNGKING, July 12. General Chiang Kai-shek, closing a session of the Kuomintang, criticised the “Asia for the Asiatics” statement made by President Roosevelt’s secretary, Mr Stephen Early, as encouragement to the Japanese propagandists, who had used the slogan since the Manchurian invasion to arouse antagonism against Occidentals, whom the Japanese regarded as an obstacle to Japanese aggression. General Chiang said that if any stabilising power was need in the Far East equivalent to America’s role in the West Hemisphere, China was best qualified. He added that American rearmament would, not only guarantee her own security, but give weight to the United States’s words throughout the world. America in future must view the Far East with increasing concern. DUTCH INDIES TOKIO PAPER URGES SEIZURE. TOKIO, July 14. The “Niehl Nichi Shimbun,” in a leading article, says Japan should take over the Dutch East Indies, even fighting the United States should she interfere. ' STORY DENIED ALLEGED FIRING ON BRITISH SHIPS. . NEW YORK, July 13. A message picked up from the Moscow radio states that Japanese warships fired on two British steamers. off the south coast of central China, killing six persons and wounding one. This report is flatly denied by the British naval authorities in Shanghai and also by the Japanese naval authorities in Tokio.