JAPANESE ARMY LOOKS CRITICALLY AT HONG KONG
Canton, To-day.
"The Japanese South China Expeditionary Force is paying particular attention to the fact that Hong Kong is the base of origination of much false pro-Chiang Kai-shek propaganda, and anti-Japanese feeling.
THE CHINA MAIL, JULY 17, 1939
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"We cannot help but deeply regret this assistance STOP PRESS
to Chiang," "declares a statement issued by the Japanese authorities in Canton, expressing their attitude regarding the Anglo-Japanese parley in Tokyo.
HIGH SCEPTICISM
ON TOKYO TALKS
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Continuing the statement says: "We fully consider the attitude of the British authorities in Tientsin to be obstructive to military operations, especiallyday's talk but adds that it would for the maintenance of peace and be surprising if it had not disclosed a persistence of the substantial dis- order,
"The parley should not be ear-agreement as to the scope of the rled on only for the settlement of conversations. the Tientsin problem, but also for
If the Japanese persist in their rectification of the biassed atti-【attitude, hopes of a favourable out- tude of Britain which has deve come. must be accounted slender in loped from their unfair recogni- the opinion of the writer, who in- Conse-sists that there can be no compro- tion of the situation. quently, the Incident has been mise over the "real Japanese aim"
behind their action in Tientsin." prolonged.
"We emphasise that present resistance has been. propagated much to the disturbance of our aim in the construction of a new order in East Asia.”
The statement concludes by as serting that the Japanese Army is fully prepared and resolved to see the foregoing realised in the
Reuter. Tokyo talks.
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He dismisses the contention made in the anti-British campaign stirred up by Japan--that but for British aid, the conquest of China soon be complete-as "manifestly absurd" and concludes that the out- come of the Tokyo talks will show whether Japan genuinely desires an accommodation with us.--Reuter.
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