Tokyo, Sept. 14.
Significant silence was maintained to-day by Government officials on China's appeal to the League of Nations to restrain Japan's actions Gaimusho officials, however, recalled that both the Premier, Prince] Fumimaro Konoye, and the Foregin Minister, Mr. Koki "Hirota, had repeatedly declared their opposition to the intervention of a third party in the Sino-Japanese dispute.—The latest controversy, the two statesmen had emphasized, must be settled directly between the two nations.
The officials further pointed out that the Japanese Government regards China's anti-Japanese policy and education as hostile operations in time of peace.
Prince Konoye, the officials recalled, told the Diet earlier this month that "there is no precedent in the history of the world for one country antagonizing and despising another, and pursuing a national policy and education along such lines."
"The Tokyo "Asahi," a leading journal to-day declared editorially that "It is China's right to appeal to the League, which is also free to accept The influential daily, however, counselled the Geneva organization to take no steps which would tend to increase the danger of war.
The latest Sino-Japanese incident, the newspaper said, would not have occurred if China had been "sincere enough to ce-operate with Japan and to observe faithfully her agreements with the latter.'—Domei.
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