The Archive · 1937

Foreign Intervention

Asked regarding Japan's possible attitude towards invocations of the Nine Power Treaty, the spokesman said, "It is the established policy of the Japanese Government not to cooperate with the League of Nations on political affairs, "Furthermore, Japan has not changed her view that intervention by foreign governments might cause further complication, The present conflict can be settled between the two countries,"

Japan will await an invitation before deciding whether to boycott a \Nine-Power Treaty. conference, he said, regarding the various protests over the bombing of Nanking, the spokesman said that the French protest was made in Shanghai and no conversations are under way in Tokyo. The Italian and Russian Governments made representations Lari 20, he said.

Private sources said that German vernment made representations four les on the last day of the bombing from the west and Manchoukuogn troops counter-attacked, "Some of them, I understand, are also being used outside the borders of Manchoukuo,'-he added,—United Press,

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