Nagasaki, Oct. 11.
In a press interview here to-day, Mr. Kuwajima, director of the Bureau for East Asiatic Affairs of the Foreign Omice, declined to discuss the instructions he had taken to Mr. 5. /Kawagoe, the Japanese Ambassador fo Ching, on behalf of the Japanese Government.
Mr. Kuwajima said that. from his consultations with Japanese officials in Shanghai and Nanking, he had received the impression that the resent Sino-Japanese negotiations were very Important. Although he was sufficiently optimistic about the outcome to doubt the possibility of war breaking out, he would like to utter a warning that the Chinese Government must take very decisive measures to suppress antlJapanese agitation and prevent the possibility of incidents, Because, unless anti-Japanism in China were effectively controlled, disaster might follow.
Mr. Kuwajima said that the British and United States representatives in China were extremely active striving to gather Information about the Sino-Japanese negotiations. He }did_not know whether they were engaged in political manauvres, but the fact that the London "Times" and the "North-China Dally News" simultaneously published leading article sympathetic with China was, he con tended, noteworthy, and their views might reflect the attitude of the British Government—Reuter, "New York Times" Reviews 2 New York, Oct. 11.
"Its of the highest importance that the Western Powers face frankly the implications of Japan's acts in China," declares the "New York Dimes in a leading article which traces the course of Japan's aggressions in China since the time of the Twenty-one Demands, Commenting on recent Chinese acts of violence against the Japanese in China, the journal characterizes them as "expressions of China's long Pent-up resentment against invading foreign powers."
Referring to the Washington Conference, the Nine-Power Treaty and the Disarmament Treaty, the paper states that "these Instruments put Japan on her honour not to take ad~ vantage of China. Although Japan subsequently played the role of good neighbour for about ten years, she occupied in 1931 the Three Eastern Provinces in defiance of the protests of the Western Powers and the condemnation of the League of Nations, In 1983 the Tangku Truce extended Japanese power south of the Great In 1935 the Ho-Umetau agreement forced Nanking troops 10 evacuate from North China, in the winier of 1985 Japanese officials Instigated the establishment of an autonomous administration in North China but failed because of China's resistance and the concern expressed by Great Britain and the United States. Nevertheless the movement 8 followed by open smuggling of Japanese goods which affected Wes tern trade in China and reduced China's Customs revenue. Japanese policy as formulated in the Twenty~ one Demands and as practised since 1031, yearly has intensified Chinese hatred," says the paper.
"Repeated flagrant violations of China's sovereignty have increasingly frflamed public opinion. Under thes circumstances it {s extraordinary that there have been so few, rather than so many, attacks on Japanese citlzens" In conclusion, the "New York Times" states: "For the Japanese Government solemnly to ask the rest of the world to accept Its aggres-slon as justifiable is to expect too gun of human "ereduliiy reno Warning by "The Times London, Oct. 7.
Great Britain, in particular, is not unmindful or indifferent to Japan's peculiar needs and difficulties, but Japan can expect Utlle sympathy and nothing more concrete than sympathy until her much-vaunted altruism' in Asia is shown to. be something better than a perfunctory disguise, declares "The Times," in a leading article to-day. Recent Outrages, the journal asserts, have been loudly ascribed in Japan to anti-Japanese sentiment deliberately fomented by the Nanking Government, Official Japanese inquiries have, however, not adduced a particle of evidence that these isolated occur~ ences had any political significance whatever, and Tokyo would be well advised fo drop this particular line of attack, which carries little weight with the audience for which itis intended.
The murder of half a dozen Japanese on Chinese territory is, indeed, regrettable, the journal proceeds, but it is impossible to forget that, five years ago, the Japanese Army was engaged in Willing Chinese subjects fon Chinese territory as fast as it conveniently could. The casualty lists ™ Manchuria have not yet been closed, though most of the indigenous dead may be classed as bandits, To those unfamiliar with China's fatalism, declares "The Times, is remarkable how temperate" has been the expression of her antic Japanese sentiment, and, though a Zovernment may be forced to fore give a nation, it cannot be made to forget. The negotiations now pro ceeding are cynically irrelevant to the original agenda, Behind the Japanese proposals Tie consid ons which, if only from the Army's persistent championship of them, would appear as much strategicd as political, Japan's "repeated requests for recognition of Japan's special position in North China would be more readily accorded if Japan were disposed to take account of the special position of China in North China, Japan's record south of the Great Wall is not even creditable from her own point of view. of expediency. She has repeatedly forced China's liliand, damaging her own credit with the world at large, but has got surprisingly litle for her" trouble, Though she has not got far, she has got somewhere near the end of China's tether and, it she persists in being overbearing and exorbitant, China's Jeaders will revolt at being frog-marched farther. Once passive resistance becomes an armed forlorn hope—a contingency not inordinately remote-—Japan must accept the consequences, chiefly the collapse of her most' important market and the absorption of her energies in an attempt to conquer the uneonguer-
Japan's present policy, "The Times" asserts, is leading her—though not At present rapidly—towards the tragic folly of war with China, The West will fudge her by her ability to modity that policy and to correlate the spirit of her deeds with the 1 ter of her protestations and give China a chance—Reuter, quotation The Japan: ese do not have a ready sense humour, but there must have been 8 moment in the past two months when even they saw for a moment the absurdity of their attitude."
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