Tokyo, Aug. 14.
Japan's: position in China, in the] recent Food Japan Must Have Iupantae cannot ive. without: rice] proceeded, tern Provinces, was explained ¥esterday to the diplomatic rep Tonataoyu (a form of sauce), The|sentatives of Great Britain, the United States, France and Soviet raw material for this shou all comes from Manchuria, while a great fauantity of rice and cereals are in Manchuria to-day and are heeded in Japan. If the Ghinese in Auunchuria refuse. to send this produce, if this source of food is cut off, we will simply have to starve.' There ate the factors, according him, that make the Three Eastern Provinces so important to Japan.
With regard to China, Mr. Honda told his audience that, in studying jrrosenteday conditions in China, one ust not overlook the influence of the Soviet and the Third Titers tional, This is all the more s0, according to him, one studied various movements in China since the Washington Conference which somehow or another strangely coincided with the seo of Bolshevik influence into China, He! dwelt in detail on the manner in which the Third Internationale works, and said that there was not the slightest doubt that there were most intimate connections between the Third Internationale and the Moscow Government, especially when one closely studied the "world revolution" programme of the Third Internationale, Russia by Baron Premier Tanaka in his capacity of Foreign Minist. This is the second time, with recent weeks, that Baron "Tanaka has invited the representatives of the foreign Powers most closely interested in China to the Foreign Office, to acquaint them with the policy' of his Ministry towards thet count ith regard to Treaty revision, Baron Tanaka made it plain that} Japan will not agree to any revi until the Nationalist Government changes its present attitude and consents to respect incarnational ob+ ligations.
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