Tokyo, Oct. 2.
'The Japanese Foreign Odie spokesman, Mr, Eiji Amau, yesterday Issued a' violent. atldek' against Reuter's condemning a message tesued through the Reuter organization. Various parts of the world, dealing. with the alleged Japanese " demands fon China, Mr. Amau declared that hia message was based upon "imaginary propa motive and with the malicious intent of alienating China from Japan." He declared that "appropriate measures may be taken against such practices." 'A. similar attack has been broadcast. by the Domei News Agency.
The message in question, telegraphed by Reuter's from London to. various parts of the world, read:—"Reuter learns from diplomatic sources in London that the Japanese demands for a soltlement of the differences. with China inelude:—(1y The right to station troops at various points on the river Yangtze, for the protection of Japanese residents; (2) the right to edit school-books prevent the teaching of anti japanese sentiments 0 school-children in China; (@) autonomy "of the five northern provinces; (4) economic operation between China and Japan, the specific character of which has hot been defined, It is understood that the British Government Is keoping in close touch with the course of the Sino-Japanese negotiations, through the Ambassadors In Tokyo) and Nanking."
Similar messages to this have been carried by other news agencies, but it appears that Reuter" has been singled out for attack by the Japanese Foreign Ome many rumours of the demands put forward by Mr. Kawagoe during the course of his negotiations in Nanking. Hitherto, Reuter's have been very cautious' in dealing with these tume ours. For the most part, the Reuter reporte have been confined to quota-tons "from Japanese newspapers, Which have been active in publishing delaile of the Nanking negotiations. For example, on September 21, Reuter's quoted the "Yomiuri Shim: bun" as describing the following domonds:—
"(1) 'The creation of a bulter zone, comprising Hopel, Charhat, Shantung, Shansi, and 'Suiyuan, in which the Nanking' Government will retain territorial suzerainty, but will trans for all other rights and obligations, Including the appointment and dismissal of -offcials, taxation rights and military control, to the Jocal self-governing regime; (2) the utilizalon of the present opportunity for a summary. settlement of the vexed question of Sino-Japanese communfeation contacts, notably aviation; (8) China carrying out a fundamental revision of tariffs imposed against Japanese goods since the Mukden China employing Incidentally, on the same day, Router's quoted the spokesman of the Japanese Foreign Office as say-Ing that forecasts in the press concerning possible Japanese demands to China were "mostly based on imaginativeness'
"The Japanese Government's inten tions towards China will be conveyed personally to Mr. S. Kawagoe, Japan-Ambassador by Mr. Kuvajime, Director of the East Asiatic Affairs Burenu, according to an announce ment today by the spokesman the Foreign Oftee—Reuter.
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