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JAPAN DENYING FOREIGN RIGHTS

SHANGHAI, TO-DAY.

A STATEMENT OF FAR-REACHING CONSEQUENCE REGARDING

FOREIGN PROPERTY IN CHINA WAS MADE HERE BY A JAPAN-/ ESE SPOKESMAN.

Although the Hankow safety zone has been guaranteed, that does not

signify, he said, that this guarantee would be extended to recognition by Japan of the inviolability, as long as hostilities continue, of proper- ty owned by third Powers in the territory occupied by the Japanese forces.

Japan, he said, would claim the right of its military to enter the safety zone and would decline formally to recognize the right of an interna- tional safety zone commission to administer the zone or accord immu- nity to Chinese policemen employed in the zone.

MUSSOLINI AND GERMANY'S COLONIAL AIMS

Paris, To-day. Concerning the trip to Rome of the German Foreign Minister, Joachim von Ribbentrop, "Le Temps" writes that he will seek to ascertain Italy's views on the Ger- man colonial demands.

FOURTH PHASE OF RESISTANCE

Shanghai, To-day.

Even after the fall of Hankow, the Chinese press advocates the continuance of the Chinese policyTM of resistance, the newspapers speaking of the fourth phase" of

resistance.

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Chínâ has at her disposal, state Shanghai papers, enough military and economic reserves to prolong the resistance for a long time to come.

Questioned regarding the fuller implications of Japan's refusal to recognize the inviolability of third Power property, the Ja- panese spokesman said that it applied to the entire sphere of The British newspaper, "North the Sino-Japanese conflict.

China Daily News," advocates, as on former occasions, mediation in

He was unable to make any precise statement regarding possible exceptions although he admitted Japan had recognized the principle of inviolability in the Panay case, where the Japanese the Sino-Japanese conflict and re- Government had paid indemnity to the U.S.A.

commends that both sides should

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This Japanese pronouncement is jed Government in the matter of for this purpose seek the good seen in its true significance when customs or in any other way.offices of third Powers. Trans- it is pointed out that it is contrary Trans-Ocean. to the often-repeated Japanese as- that they will respect foreign property, quite apart from the fact that actually no state of war or belligerency has been pro- claimed.

COOLIDGE CASE

In reply to a further question re- garding the "President Coolidge" "It is possible," says the paper, was held up by Chinese customs on case, in which a shipment of silver "that the impending recognition by the instructions from the Nanking France and Britain of Italy's Im-reformed Government, the Japanese perium will have the indirect ef-spokesman said that in accordance fect of placing the colonial ques with the agreement reached in tion in the foreground of German Tokyo in June last, there existed a foreign policy, although at pre- complete understanding regarding sent it is a matter hardly admit- the customs.

ting of fruitful discussions, even This agreement was still from the standpoint of re-distribu- force.

in

tion of raw-materials, before a gen- That amounted in practice, to de eral European settlement has been facto recognition by Britain of the reached.

Reformed Government.

"It is not improbable that Ger- Decision as to whether recogni- many is trying to get unqualified tion of the authority of the Reform- support from Italy, whose claims ed Government In respect of the for expansion have, for the time collection of customs dues was de being, bean..satisfied with the con-facto or force majeure devolved on quest of Ethiopia..

each individual power.

In the case of America, which "But with Italy's precarious post was primarily concerned in this tion in the Mediteranean, she will particular instance, the spokesman be wary of doing anything which was unable to say, whether the might antagonise France or Bri-U S. A. Government had acknow tain."-Trans-Ocean.

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