German Treaty Revision and Ethiopian War Justified Hongkong, Oct. 15.
Dr. H. H. Kung, the Chinese Minister of Finance, while stopping here en route to Nanking from his visit to Europe and the United States, declared to a reporter of the "South China Morning Post" that China possesses enough money to finance here defence campaign against Japan.
Referring to the repeated attempts 4o connect the names of Germany and Italy with the Japanese adventure in China, Dr, Kung denied that either of these countries are embroiled. He went on to point out that Germany was justified in throwing off the burden of impossible treaties and that Italy had brought civilization to Abyssinia. whereas Japan who received her civilization from China, is engaged in the present campaign for purely imperialistic reasons, Dr, Kung concluded his remarks by declaring that when Japan chose the slogan "Asia for the Asiatics" for her invasion in China, she included only the Japanese under the term Asiatics,—Trans-Ocean,
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