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CLAIMS JAPAN'S AIM IS COMPLETE CONQUEST OF EAST INDIES, SOUTH SEAS & PHILIPPINES
Plans Complete Domination
ANTI-BRITISH POSTERS
War Chief Warns
CAMPAIGN OF Jap. Army
CALUMNY
CHUNGKING, Apr. 7.
"THERE IS
no knowing what will hap pen the Im- mediate future. "The task sel before the Japanese Army is becoming in- creasingly Brave,"
This Frank admission was
CLOSE ATTENTION is being given by the International Settlement authorities! in Shanghai to the appearance of anti- British and anti-Chiang Kai-shek posters made by the in the city, according to a report from Shanghai.
Many such posters were discovered pasted on the walls along the streets in the western districts yesterday.
A number of them also appeared in Nanking and Kiukiang Roads.-Central| News.
CANTON SITUATION
CANTON, Apr. 7.
THE JAPANESE authorities here will not countenance
any anti-British campaign in Canton, and are closely watching the situation in this connection.
This assurance was given by a Japanese spokesman at a press conference to-day in reply to a foreign correspondent, who drew attention to the posters he had seen in the city denouncing the British loan to China.
"The spokesman professed ignorance of the origin of the posters, and asserted that un-f doubtedly the authorities would look into the matter.
In reply to other questions, the spokesman strongly denied the claim made in Chungking that Chinese planes ralded Canton a few days ago and destroyed ten large Japanese planes on the ground.
'Since the occupation of Canton by the Japanese last October, he added, the city had not experienced a single- Chinese air raid.
He announced that all persons proceeding from Canton to the occupied areas in Central China, including Shanghai and Nanking, must in future, carry a certificate showing that they have recently been inoculated against cholera and small-pox. The regulation applies to foreigners as well as to Chinese.
Campaign On Crime Speaking the Japanese campaign against crime, the spokesman an nounced that 71 Chinese had been convicted of armed robbery or foot- ing and were shot a few days ago.
This was the second mass execu- tion of criminals since the occupation, and followed a swift trial.
The spokesman then said he wish- ed to correct a misunderstanding re- garding the usefulness of the Good Citizen badges system. He declared that the system was useful at the start, but it no longer served its pur- pose when too many were issued-lo
Japanese Minister for War. General S. Hagaki, in an address to A conference of Divisional Army Commanders at the War Office on Thursday.
The
report was brought to Hongkong by "Dome!",
The prospect of fuifling Ja- pan's plan for a "new order" in East Asia is still remote, the War Minister fessed.
con-
General Ila- Kakl stressed the necessity of reforming the military admi- nistration and enhancing mill- tary discipline. despite "the brilliant suc- cesses achiloved ler various parts of China."
"The cxecu-. tion of the Army Budget for the current fiscal усаг, which amounts to an unprece- dently high level, will have grave effects upan national finance," he de- clared.
Efforts should be made to economiao In milliary expen- turo and the consumption of materials,"
Of Wide Area
CHAPEL HILL, North Carolina, Apr. 6.
MR. TSWEIN LING TSUI, First Secretary to the Chinese Embassy to Washington, to-day told the University of North Carolina that Japan's war plans contemplate the occupation of all the South Seas islands, including the Philip- pines and the Dutch East Indies.
He said Japan definitely began the execution of their policy of economic and political domination of Asia and adjacent-areas when they started their campaign in Manchuria in September, 1931.
Their programme consists, he said, of two parts:
1. The Army's continental policy envisioning the conquest
of China and other Asia lic countries,
2. The Navy's policy in the South Seas, in which the Philip.
pines and Dutch East Indies are included.
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He charged that Japan intends to use China as a base for their anticipated clash with other nations for domination of Asia and the Pacific.
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In order to accomplish this, declared, Japan must crush all Chinese resistance and uproot foreign business. He said foreigners will be allowed to operate in China only they do not compete with Japan.
Senator Hiram Johnson attacked the ash and carry system under which, he said "we become an ally Britain in the Atlantic." of Japan in the Pacifle and of Great
Senator Key Piitman urged for the adoption of the system because it does not change the present status of the Sino-Japanese situation.
ifbach's question, Mr. Bernard Baruch In response to Senator Schwellen- said the selling of scrap iron to Japan probably did not constitute material ald to Japan-United Press.
Slammed Open Door Japan has slammed the open door through th destruction of Chitose and foreign businesses by trade monopolies and the issuance of Ir- redeemable banknotes, as well their refusal to permit foreign traders as to return to the occupied areas and legalised smuggling, which is blessed by y the Japanese Army.
Japanese officials, he claimed, have admitted that 40,000 tons of Japanese goods have been smuggled Into Shanghai free of duty.
Sprattley Islands
London, Apr. 0. The Under Secretary for Foreign Geoffry Mander in the House of Affairs, Mr. R. A. Buller, told Mr. Commons that any protest against the Japanese annexation of the Sprattley Islands-way-o-matter-for-France-in- stead of Britain.
He added that Britain is maintain- Ing contact with Parls on the matter, In response to Mr. Wedgewood
Japan's slogan "Asin for the Asiniles", he said, Is really "Asin for Benn's question whether the Islands
the Japanese," United Press,
Congress And Japan
Washington, Apr. 6. The Sino-Japanese hostilities have again become the outstanding Issue in the Senate Foreign Relations Com- mittee debates.
were also strategie to Britain, Mr. Butler sald; "Obviously they are of great strategical importance." United Press.
Japanese Settlement
Tokyo, Apr. 6. The Sprattley group, which the Senator Borah sald, he was not en-Japanese Government have placed cash-and-carry under the jurisdiction of the Govern- tirely against the system "but it seems that under this ment-General of Formosa, consist of system we immeasurably strengthen Islands, according to an Admiralty, Japan as compared with China."
spokesman.
DISCRIMINATION BY MANCHUKUO GOVT.
WASHINGTON, Apr. 6.
AT A press conference to-day, Secretary of State Mr. Cor- dell Hull, said Japan has accumulated big supplies of American materials in Manchukuo for use against China and future opera- tions.
He revealed that during 1938
over 500,000 people, all of whom, of Manchukuo's purchases from the China Claims
course, could not claim to be good
-citizens.
Kowkong Accident
United States aggregated about $17,000,000 mainly for military supplies, including $1,556,000 for
He revealed that one Japanese raw cotton, $5,888,000 for manu. cameraman was killed and four others factured steel; $4,000,000 for
Injured as a result of an accident.
near Kowkong, about 25 miles south-oils;
and
$4,000,000 for
west of Canton at the end of March, machinery mostly automobiles while a party of 16 Japanese Journal-for mechanised troops.
ists and cameramen were returning
by bus from a tour of the battle areas.
These he said were all abnormal
Many Gains
Recapture Towns In Kwangtung
Replying to a foreign correspondent -to-day, the spokesman dismissed as groundless the rumour that u Japan- ese landing party landed on the islands six weeks ago, or that any new slep has been taken to guard the islands.
is
The spokesman revealed that the largest Island of the group Nagashima, or Long Island, which is about 40 hectares in area.
The spokesman stated that a Japanese busincas corporation has been working phosphate mines on the islands since 1917.
Definite figures are not available, but the annual production of pho- sphate is considerable, the spokesman såld-Dome!.
No Strike This Year In France
Paris, Apr. 0. Contrary to the decision.runde last year, the General Federation of Trade Unlons in France will this year not declare a one-day general strike on May. 1.
A motion to this effect was carried to-day by the national commitice of the Trade Unions Federation -Trans-Ocean.
He said they were attacked by some military purchses,
SZEWUI, Apr. 7.. "Chinese remnant troops" and for
RAPID progress has been some reason the bus overturned, i He therefore refuted Senator Nye's made by the Chinese in their causing the death of Mr. Shiraki, a accusation that the State Department counter-offensive on various cameraman of the South China Photo with distiny there Manchukuo fronts in Kwangtung. Service.
with discriminating "against United He asserted that Chinese volun-,States trade,
Sunwul, 45 miles southwest of teers were co-operating with the
Canton and six miles southwest of Mr. Hull elterated that America Kongmoon, was re-entered by the Japanese forces in the mopping-up is suffering from Manchukuoan dis- Chinese on Wednesday evening after Another Chinese columa driving operations in the West River delta crimination-United Press. which began on March 27-Reuter.
hand-to-hand combats. Sireet fight-down the Canton-Hankow Railway ing developed in the city.
Co-ordinating with their counter-ptured Sunkal and Kongisun, respectively about 17 and 11 miles
· Opium In Shanghai
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London, Apr. 7.
In a written reply to Sir John Has
lam in the House of Commons to-day,
ing the report published in a Shang-assult in the Sunwus-Kongmoon north of Canton, on Thursday. The bal newspaper on March 1 that opium area, the Chinese smashed down the Japanese clinging to the blockhouses dens in a Shanghai district outside of West River in a forceful drive, sucat Sunkal were totally annihilated. the jurisdiction of the Municipal cessively recapturing Samkong, Yun- The victorious Chinese, column la
Central News.
Mr. R. A. Buller stated that Viscount Council had been licensed by the yao, Mukmin, Lamkong, and Old reported to be pressing on Canton Halifax was making enquiries regard- Japanese authorities-Reuter,
Samshui City.
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