The Archive · 1928

Count Uchida Interviewed

London, Sept. 17.

Count Uchida, a former Minister for Foreign Affairs who recently signed the Kellogg Pact in Paris as the accredited representative of Japan, interviewed by a represontative of Reuter's Agency on his rival here, emphasized Japan's sympathy for China.

Japan, he said, had great hopes of New China but nobody could tell what would happen there. He was unable to imagine trouble between Japan and other foreign Powers with regard to China, notwithstanding much propaganda to the contrary There was even much misconception and untruth concerning Manchuria with regard to Japan's.attitude, he emarked. Japan, at any

at all. rate, had no territorial designs there He lid stress on the cordiality of the relations existing between Britain and Japan, expressing the opinion that the ce-operation of those two Powers was immensely to the advantage of the Powers concerned in Chinese affairs and also of China herself, Count Uchida said that he was struck by the wonderful way in which the Siberian Railway was ran as the result of his observations during his recent journey from Japan. He visited Lenin's Tomb: Moscow and was surprised to find the features almost exactly as when he last saw Lenin alive—Reuter.

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