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CLAIMS JAPAN'S AIM IS COMPLETE CONQUEST OF EAST INDIES, SOUTH SEAS & PHILIPPINES

Plans Complete Domination

ANTI-BRITISH POSTERS

War Chiof

.

Warns

CAMPAIGN OF

OF Jap. Army CALUMNY

CHUNGKING, Apr. 7.

"THERE 18 no knowing what will hap- pen in the Im- mediate future.

"The task set before the Japanese Army

creasingly grave."

This frank admission

CLOSE ATTENTION is being given is becoming in- by the International Settlement authorities in Shanghai to the appearance of anti-| British and anti-Chiang Kai-shek posters 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- 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 lost 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 certiñeatë| 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 of the Japanese campaign against crime, the spokesinan an- nounced that 71 Chinese had been convicted of armed robbery of loot- 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 sald 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 longer served its pur- pose when too many were issued-to over 500,000 people, all of whom, of course, could not claim to be good citizens.

Kowkong Accident

Japanese

tor

made by the Minister War. General S. Itagaki, In an address to

conference Divisional Army Commanders at the War Offico en Thursday.

The

report was brought to Hongkong by "Dome!".

The prospect of fullining Ja- pau's plan for a "new order in East Asia is still remote, the War Minister con- fessed.

General Ita- Kaki stressed the necessity of reforming the military adml- nistration and enhancing mill- tary discipline. despite

"the brilliant tesses achieved in various paris of China."

"The

cxccu- tion of the Army Budget for the current fiscal year. which amounts to an unpreco- dently high level, will have grave effects upon national finance," he de- clared.

"Efforts should be made to economise in military expen- ture 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 Asiatic countries.

2. The Navy's policy in the South Seas, in which the Philip-

pines and Dutch East Indies are included.

He charged that Japan intends Senator Hiram Johnson attacked

to use China as a base for their anticipated clash with other nations for domination of Asia and the Pacific.

the cash and carry system under which, he said "we become an ally

of Japan in the Pacific and of Great Britain in the Atlantic."

Senator Key Pittman urged for the endoption of the system because it does not change the present status of the Sino-Japanese situation.

In order to accomplish this, declared, Japan must crush Chinese resistance and uproot foreign business. He said foreigners will be allowed to operate in China only they do not compete with Japan.

Slammed Open Door

In response to Senator Schwellen- bach's question, Mr. Bernard Baruch sald the selling of scrap iron to conslilute Japan probably did not material aid to Japan.-United Press.

Sprattley Islands

Japan hus slammed the open door through the destruction of Chinese and Toreign businesses by trade

London; Apr. 6. monopolies and the Issuance, of Ir- The Under Secretary for Foreign redeemable banknotes, as well

as Affairs, Mr. R. A. Butler, told Mr. their refusal to permit foreign traders Geoffry Mander in the House of to return to the occupied areas and Commons that any protest against the legalised smuggling, which is blessed Japanese annexation of the Spratlley | by_the_Japanese. Army.

Islands-was-a-matter-for-France-in- Japanese officials, he claimed, have stead of Britain. admitted that 40,000 tons of Japanese goods have been smuggled Into Shanghai free of duty.

Japan's

slogan "Asin

for

the Japanese."-United Press.

the

He added that Britain Is maintain- ing contact with Paris on the matter.

Mr. In response to

Wedgewood

Aslaties", he said, is really "Asia for Bean's question whether the Islands were also strategic to Britain, Mr. Butler said; "Obviously they are of great strategical Importance." United Press.

Congress And Japan

Japanese Settlement

the

Washington, Apr. 6. The Sino-Japanese hostilities have again become the outstanding issue in

Tokyo, Apr. 6. the Senate Foreign Relations Com-

The Spratiley group, which mittee debates,

Senator Borah said he was not en-Japanese Government have placed tirely ogainst the cash-and-carry under the jurisdiction of the Govern- system but it seems that under this ment-General of Formosa, consist of system we immeasurably strengthen 14 islands, according to an Admiralty

spokesman. Japan as compared with China."

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 Manchukuo's purchases from the 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 kliled and four others factured steel; $4,000,000 for injured as a result of an accident near Kowkong, about 25 miles south-oils:

China -Claims Many Gains

and $4,000,000 for Recapture Towns

west of Canton at the end of March, machinery mostly automobiles while party of 16 Japanese journal for mechanised troops. ists and cameramen were returning

by bus from a tour of the battle areas.

These ho sald were all abnormal military purchsen.

In Kwangtung

on

Replying to a foreign correspondent to-day, the spokesman dismissed as groundless the rumour that a Japon- ese landing party landed on the islands six weeks ago, or that any dew step has been taken to guard the islands.

The spokesman revealed that the largest island of the group is

HERUS Nagashima, or Long Island, which is about 40 hectares in area.

The

spokesman stated that а Japanese business 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

said.Domel.

No Strike This Year In France

Paris, Apr. 0. Contrary to the decision made last year, the General Federation of Trade Unions 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 commlitee of the Trades Unions Federation.- of-Trans-Ocean.

SZEWUI, Apr. 7. He said they were attacked by some

·RAPID progress has been "Chinese remnant troops" and for some reason the bus overturned, He therefore refuted Senator Nye's made by the Chinese in their various chusing the death of Mr. Shirait), a accusation that the State Department counter-offensive cameraman of the South China Photo had unfairly charged Manchukuo fronts in Kwangtung.

with discriminating against United He asserted that Chinese volun- Stoles trade. teers were co-operating with the. Mr. Hull ralterated that America Japanese forces in the mopping-up is suffering from Manchukuoan die operations in the West River delta crimination.—United Press. which began on March 27-Reuter,

Service.

Sunwul, 45 miles southwest Canton and six miles southwest of Kongmoon, was re-entered by the Chinese on Wednesday evening after

Another Chinese column driving hand-to-hand combats, Street fight down the Canton-Hankow Railway ing developed In the city.

recaptured Sunkaland Kongtsun, in the

Sunwul-Kongmoon north of Canton, on Thursday. The London, Apr. 7. hot newspaper on March 1 that opium ores, the Chinese smashed down the Japanese clinging to the blockhouses In a written reply to Sir John Hasdens in a Shanghai district outside of West River in a forceful drive, suc- at Sunkai were totally annihilated. Tam In the House of Commons to-day, the jurisdiction of the Municipal cessively recapturing Samkong, Yun- The victorious Chinese column is Mr. R. A. Butler 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 authoritics-Reuter.

Samshul City.

Opium In Shanghai ̧*

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ing the report published in a Shang-as-ordinating with their counter-respectively about 17 and 11 miles;

Central News.

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