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BRITISH NOTE TO TOKYO IN STRONG TERMS

Japan's Policy In China Causes Grave Anxiety

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Britain Will Adhere To Principles Of Nine

Power Treaty

LONDON, Jan. 16 (Reuter)-The note banded to the Japanese Foreign Minister, Mr. Hachiro Arita, by Sir Robert Craigie. British Ambassador in Tokyo, is couched in strong terms. It refers to the grave anxiety regarding Japan's policy in China and clearly emphasises Great Britain's Intention of adhering to the principles of the Nine Power Treaty.

The note expresses the uncertainty and grave anxiety in which Is Majesty's Government is left by a study of Japan's new policy in Far Eastern affairs as set forth in the statements of Japanese statesmen, notably in Prince Konoye's statements of November 3 and December 22, and Mr. Arita's communication to the press on December 19.

This uncertainty is not removed by the conversations between Sir Robert Cralgic and Mr. Arita, the note declares.

provisions no longer meet the situailon, except Insofar as the situation has been altered by Japan in contravention of its terms.

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Press Unanimously

Lauds Speaking

Plainly To Tokyo

LONDON. Jan, 16 (Reuter)-"The Times" diplomatic corres-- pondent says that the British note to Japan is evidence of the increasing resistance now being offered to Japan's encroachment on the rights and interests of other" nations.

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The terms of the note leave no doubt about the British cognition that" in spite of his continued defeats and his grim prospects, Gen. Chiang Kai-shek still represents China. Any pup- pet government controlled by Japanese forces obviously would not be accepted by the Powers as competent to negotiate with on Chinese questions.

The "Daily Telegraph" says the pan is contained in the commen- plainness of the language of the tarles made by the London press note will be welcomed by all who this morning to the British note have studied Japanese official to Japan... statements.

The "Daily Mall" makes much The original limitations which of the fact that Parls and Wash- Japan nominally set her aimsington were informed about the at the start of the war has long contents of the note before it was been extended. It is not merely handed, in at Tokyo and it goes the destruction of the Kuomintang un to speak of the possibility of a or domination of a few more Chinese complete embargo on Japanese provinces which is. now the object, goods into all parts of the British says the paper." Under Konoye's Empire. pence terms of, December 22, the Nine Power Treaty vanishes into the limbo of the purposely forgot- ten.

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FRENCH ACTION LIKELY

The "Daily Telegraph" ex- presses the hope that Prince Konoye's successor in the Pre- miership, Baron Hiranuma, will be induced by the British atti- tude to arrive at a more moderate Interpretation of Konore's three-point declara- Lion" of December 2, 1938, and will reconsider that part of the declaration referring to the abolition of Chinese and Bri tish rights.

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His Majesty's Government infers that it is the intention of the Jap-

His Majesty's Government main-

Failing any modification OI anese Government to establish a tains that modification cannot be tripartite combination of Japan. effected unilaterally, and must be Konoye's terms. It is clearly right, China and Manchuria in which the by the negotiation of all the signa- says the paper, for the British supreme authority is vested in tories. If the Japanese Govern-Government to refuse to recognise Japan. and subordinate roles allotment has constructive suggestions implied abrogation of either Chi- ted to China and Manchuria. to make regarding modification of nese rights or rights of other

As far as China is concerned, it any multilateral agreements re- is understood that the Japanese lating to China, His Majesty's Government is to exercise control, Government is ready to consider at least for some time, through the them, but in the meantime, it re-

The same paper speaks of the Asta Development Council In serves all rights under the existing

new order which Japan proposes Tokya, which is charged with the treatles.

to establish in Asia as new formulation and execution of the Referring to Prince Konoye's

arrangement and goes on to say policy connected with political, statement that Japan is prepared

that the British note should be economic and cultural affairs into consider the abolition of ex-

in connection with the China.

trality and the rendition of foreign to finance or economic pressure, taken The

concessions and settlements, the Mr. Bartlett says the matter is American notes of October 5 and note says that this inducement to under consideration in Whitehall. December 31 of last year, as both countries have invested huge sums China to accept the Japanese de- The "Manchester Guardian” says mands appears to entail little there is only one secious criticism of money in Chins and have built mic unit, and that the economic sacrifice on the part of the Japan-to be made of the note-lt is long extensive commercial Interests The Republicans attacked at dawn

Mr. Vernon Barilett. writing In the News-Chronicle," be- lieves the French Government is likely to prepare a similar note.'

Although the note does not refer

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note declares that Mr. Arita's communication to the press indicates that the tripartite com- bination is to form a single geono-

activities of other Powers will be ese. for. If their plans for the con-overdue! "Otherwise, remember- subjected to restrictions dictated trul of the country succeed, they ing how our civil servants have The "News-Chronicle" criticises by the requirements of national will have no further need for ex-tle practice in plain speaking Mr. Chamberlain's Far Pastern defence and the economic security trality or concessions.

during the past eight or nine years, policy. Although following

of the proposed bloc. էլ

CRUSHING CHÍNA " According to Prince Konoye, says the note, the hostilities in China are to continue until the present Chinese Government is crushed, or will consent to enter the proposed combina tion on Japanese terms. China will be required to con- clude with Japan an anti-Comin- agreement, and Japanese tern troops will be stationed at specific points in Chinese territory for an indefinite period, presumably to ensure that the Japanese condi- tions for the suspension of host- lities are observed.

Moreover, Prince Konoye stated that the Inner Mongolian area must be designated as

anti-Communist area.

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EXTRALITY

In that country.

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it is altogether admirable," it adds. same line as the American policy If the Government' continues to it is too much inclined to procras On the other hand, His Majesty's

that the United Governmerit recalls that it under-march in step with the United tinate seeing took the nearly-completed negotia-States, as at last it appears to be States staged a protest to Japan tions with Chinia in 1931 for the doing, there is good reason to think last October. abrogation of British extrality that Japan will take due notice.

riglits.

It is the Arst response to Près- dent Roosevelt's challenge to democracy and it is the Arst sign that the British Government' will retreat before not continually aggression.

THREE-POWER

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order

of their Commander-in- Chief, withdrawn to the previously prepared positions east of the line of Valls-Tarragona. The Republi can airmen have been successfully engaged in attacking the enemy troop concentrations" and trans- ports. On the Estremadura front violent counter-attacks were re- pulsed.

ATTACK AT DAWN MADRID, Jan, 16 (T/Ocean)-

along the line of the River Tagus and claim to have driven the No- tionalists back to the norther bank.

Another Republican force 1s said to have crossed the river near the village of Malpica, 25 miles to

the west of Toledo.

Further advances have officially been reported from Estremadura CONSULTATION | front in the vicinity of Badajoz where the Republicans claim to have captured Fuente Obejuna, and have pressing southward, reached "the neighbourhood of Azuaga. They also claim to have repulsed two Insurgent counter- attacks in the Monte Rubio zone further north.

LONDON. Jan. B (Trans- The negotiations were sus-

ocean)The British note.. to pended in consequence of dis-

Japan, it is stated' here, was turbed conditions following the

only handed to the Japanese Japanese seizure of Manchuria.

Government

"after diploma- but His Majesty's Government

tie consultations had taken has always been ready to re-

PRECARIOUS ECONOMY

London place between

and sume negotiations at sultable

The "Manchester Guardian" says Paris and Washington. times, and is prepared to dis-

that not only are Britain and the Well-informed «circles here, in- cuss this, and other similar

United States strategically sup-dicate that England and America. questions with a fully indepen-

erior to Japan in the Pacific. as a quite independently, arrived at the dent Chinese Government

German naval expert recently ad- same conclusions, namely not to when peace is restored. The note concludes that if Hismitted, but together they control tolerate any unilateral action by

the chief markets of Japanese ex Japan

the disadvantage to

a special Majesty's Government has misin- ports on which her whole precar-England and America.

terpreted the intentions of the Japanese Government it is due to

CHANGES BY FORCE

In the absence of fuller informa-

lous economy is based.

now

· COMPLETELY OCCUPIED

LERIDA. Jan. 15 (Reuter) —

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forces.

Transocean learns on Sunday the ambiguity with which those If to America and the British night that London did not inten- intentions have hitherto been ex- Empire are added

France and tionally delay the presentation of Nine tion. His Majesty's Government pressed, and it would welcome a Netherlands, both

Power the note to Japan until the can only assume that Inger Mon- more precise and detailed exposi- signatories who would certainly fall of the Konoye Cabinet.

possible golia is to be subjected to an evention of the Japanese conditions for rally to a determined lead, Japan's į to

peace mediation, greater degree of Japanese military the termination of hostilities, and position must appear desperate. authoritative circles state control than other parts of China. of Japan's polley to China.

His Majesty's Government is at

FRANCE CONCURS LONDON, Jan.

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a loss to understand how Prince Konoye's assurances that Japan seeks no territory and respects the Reuter's diplomatic correspondent sovereignty of China, can be re-understands that the British in- conciled with the declared inten- tention to send the note to Japan tion of the Japanese Government, was known and approved by forcibly to compel the Chinese France.

anese control, the indefinite mala- tenance In China of considerable

MUCH RESPECT

The note, says the paper, is certain to be read with much respect in Berlin and Rome as In Tokyo: it should be read with much pleasure in Londen and New York as it Is in Chungking.

that

no sentence in the British note is to be interpreted in.. this sense. The desire for an exact state-

in ment of Japan's alms China has been expressed because in the last few weeks statements about the "New Order in Asia," which were in themselves contradic- tory. were often voiced. The "Dally Mall" says the British LONDON, Jan. 16 (Reuter-The Government "means

bustness." "Birmingham Post" says the Bri

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Drive Against Changsha Brought To Standstill

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CHANGSHA, Jan. 15 (Intl)—That Japanese troops were brought a sadden halt in their drive against Changsha, the Hunan provincial capital, after their capture of Yochow, was disclosed here to-day by the troops under General Hsieh Yoh, one of the ablest Cantonese commanders in the Chinese Army, who made publie that the Japanese had suffered a crushing defeat at Meng- chialing. on the Nanchang-Kinklang Railway, and were afraid of similar punishment should they press down to Changsha.

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It was revealed that the 101st of reinforcements saved them from General Franco's military head-Japanese Division from Tokyo and complete annihilation.

OVERWHELMING ODDS quarters announce that both Tar- the 108th Division from Nagasaki were locked in deadly grips with

Gen. Hsieh fought against. over- ragona and Reus have been com-

the Chinese divisions commanded whelming odds, as the Japanese occupied by pletely

Insurgent

by Gen. Hsieh, and as an outcome warplanes kept on bombing and both Japanese "divisions suffered strafing Chinese troop concentra- Other Insurment columns are said to have reached the mouth heavy casualties. Ever.tual arrival tions and communication points in of River Gaya, while Insurgent troops on the northern route to Barcelona have occupied Anglesola, and to have reached the outskirts of Tarrega.

Another Insurgent force has en- tered the Barcelona province near Coloma, only 35 miles from Barce- lona

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CHUNGKING AIR RAID

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the rear.

Gen. Histeh personally rushed to the firing line to direct operations and ordered the troops to attack under cover of darkness when the Japanese planes could not get into' ac-

tion.

had already frequently warned the When dawn care, the bombers Inhabitants to leave the city took off with the intention of rain- CERVERA CAPTURED SARADOSSA, Jan. 16 (T/Ocean) possible and to seek shelter in the ing death and destruction on the -Nationalist troops captured the country but warnings had hitherto Chinese troops but found that both

sides important town of Cervera on the generally fallen on deaf ears.

were already engaged in Since the opening of hostilities hand-to-hand combat. Realizing road from Lerida to Barcelona at

the population of Chungking has that bombing at this stage would noon to-day.

GENEVA, Jan 16 (Reuter)-Lord doubled, having risen as a result of kill Japanese and Chinese alike, Halifax and M. Bonnet are attend-immigration from approximately the Japanese pllots returned to the League Council this morning to now intend to compulsorily remove

clude China, Lord Halifax la ex- draft the agenda which will in- part of the inhabitants including

the families of officials.

Restrictions will at the same

people to accept conditions in- There is reason to believe that volving surrender of their political, dispatch of the note has been un- economic and cultural life to Jap-der consideration in London. for Both America and France, which tish note to Japan might easily ing a private committee meeting of, 300,000 to 600,000. The authorities their base.

some considerable time.

The dispatch of a note by the approved of the notes are likely to prove a document of first rate poll- United States is thought to have that may be applied if Japan con- whatever of weakness in this note co-operate in retaliatory measures tlcul importance. There is no sign

terms and the drafting of the tinues in the role of being polite and it leaves very little room for pected to have a private meetingime be placed on persons wishing!

Japanese garrisons, and the virtual detachment of Inner Mongolia.

NOT ACCEPTABLE.

His Majesty's Government makes clear that it is not pre- pared to accept or.to recognise changes of the nature in- dicated, which are brought about by farce. It intends to adhere to the principles of the Nine Power Treaty, and can- not agree to a unilateral modi- Acation of its terms.

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caused some reconsideration of the

British document.

NO HASTY EEPLY

argument.

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with Dr. Wellington Koo before

level.

This Japanese reverse iș con- sidered more important than Talerchwang in that the Jap- anese have so far hesitated in advancing to Changsha and attempted to pat through peace proposals as seen in the abortive Wang Ching-wel Konoye deal.

Because of his merits Gen, Hsieh has

to been promoted Com- mander-in-Chief of troops In

but deaf.

These measures, says the paper. One is particularly glad to see leaving for London to-night. The to enter the city so as to keep the would probably take the form of that the note treats the infrac-big question in to-day's public dis-population down to a minimum TOKYO, Jan 16 (Reuter)-It is a punitive tarım on Japanese tions of the Nine Power Treatycussions, however, will be Spain

DEATH TOLL IN KWANGSI expected that France, will shortly goods, or even complete prohibition not less as a direct injury to China which will come before the Coun

KWELLIN, Jan, 16 (Central)- present a note similar to Britain's in Britain and the Colonies. than an indirect injury to theell this afternoon.

exacted Government bas no

Should the Barcelona Govern- A heavy death toll was. note. The

British merchants, kays the Powers. Not often has the case' for

Watklang ment suddenly fall the League in Kwelhalen, on the paper, should be grateful that the China been put better and fuller. Government is preparing to save

might have an important part to (river) in south Kwangi, by nine Kiangal and Hunan Provinces and Tokyo, the paper concludes. something from the wreck.

would be unwise to believe that play as Mussolini's reafirmations (Japanese bombers during ari al will shortly assume the concurrent positive action by Britain and the United States is impossible be cause it has been delayed.

intention of making a hasty re- ply to the British note since the issues involved have been" re peatedly explained in detail to the Until the outbreak of the pre-British and American Ambassadors, sent hostilities, the beneficial according to the "Asahi Shimbun," effects which the treaty was ex-which adds that while. It is noted pected to produce were steadily be the British Government is pre- ing realised, continues the note.pared to regard faviourably a re-. The Chinese people were main-vision of the Nine Power Pact, taining and developing an effective Japan holds that the time is in- and stable Government, and the opportune. principle of equal opportunity for the commerce and Industry of all nations was bringing prosperity to China

and to her International trade, including that with Japan. TREATY NOT. OBSOLETE

His Majesty's Government, therefore, cannot agree n's sug-. rested by Japan, that the treaty is obsolete, or that the

SHIP COLLISION

IN LISBON

CONGO TREATY

The "Daily Express” says that Japan's action in China gives Britain fulf right to denounce the Congo Basin treaty.

to Mr. Chamberlain that he intends raid "over the town yesterday." to respect the territorial integrity Flying from a base off Pakhol, post as chairman of the Hunan

18 missiles. of Spain are regarded as important the raiders released at the present moment.

They also opened machine-gun are.

provincial government.

Part of his troops are now in Changsha to defend the provincial capital,

BLACK SHEEP IS GRAY OR BROWN

The Arab leaders who have been

RAID ON TUNGKWAN visiting the Grand Mufti in 'Jeru-

TUNGKWAN, Jan, 16 (Central) salem have returned to Calro by-Tungkwan, gateway to Shenst air and it is understood that eight on the south bank of the Yellow members of the former Arab High-River on the Honan-Bhenal bor- er Committee have been elected to der, was subjected to a terrific attend the London Palestine Con-air raid by lá Japanese planes yes- black terday.

The raiders, in two squadrons, Sheep

ference.

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A black sheep, it appears, isn't

John Cooper, Director of 'a Experimental Laboratory

Storm trooper detachments were "We should do so at once," says organized throughout the Memel the paper, "for by doing so we territory yesterday. They have 54cure markets 1n Africa for been established on the same linës Lancashire which will bring work as those existing in Germany. to idle mills,"

Each municipal district will have a detachment of between 200 and 400 troopers. Eight detachments The Hungarian Foreign Minia- rained. over 100 bombs 01 the on the Navajo Indleh......” Reserva- . LONDON, Jan. 16 (T/Ocean)-A have been established in the eltyter, M. Csaky, arrived for a con-heart of the Lunghal Railway tion at Fort Wingate, N. M, ad- Ing Lisbon harbour to-day, came warning that the three Powers, of Memel as well as two detach- ference with Herr von Ribbentrop, station.

vised the Federal Indian Burean into

collision with the Dutch Britain, France and the United merits of marine storm troopers M Csáky, stated that, Hungary's Bcores of civilians were killed that a black sheep's wool is # cruiser Tromp, the latter being States might see. themselves com- and two detachments whose mem-

policy was based on the Anti-Com-and wounded and huge property gray shade and sometimes turpis seriously damaged.

pelled to take action against Ja- bèrs are over 35 years of age. Intern Pact.

losses resulted.

to brown in rugs.

LISBON, Jan. 15 (Reuter)--The German liner Orinoco, while leav-

WARNING SOUNDED