wie has been in command of the Japanese troops in Manchuria since the beginning of the trouble ey recently paid a ying visit to Chinchow: wh ows General Honjo on the steps of the Chinchow Cly womber of the Japanese War Council The appointment of a speci Jenvoy, he said, is considered nece:
The Minister said that Ge Araki had spoken of Manchuria being sary for the mutual development of of vital interest to Japan but had Japan and Manchukuo, and does not evidently overlooked the fact that mean legal recognition of Manchu-Manchuria was Chinese territory, kuo by Japan.—United Press, fivhabited by 30,000,000 Chinese. He had also spoken' of the wars waged in" Manchuria' by Japan janking, Aug. 17. against China and Russia but Great Britain and the United States would, Dr. Lo Wen-kan, Foreign he said, have exactly the same to-day made a statement ight claim for themselves on the appointment by Japan of a us of Northern France ambassador to "Sianchukuo, General Muto. The statement say: where their troops he despatch by the Japanese have fought in the Great War, garding the "special rights" de-government of so-called ambassa fader extraordinary and plenipotenmanded by Japan in Manchuria, the ry to Manchuria is the. most significant act in the whole tragedy 9€ conquest now being enacted by Japan in Manchuri it should be regarded in no other light than as a step leading to formal recognition of the present Manchurian regime of Japan's own creation and eventually to the annexation of manchuria to the (ho longing the intelligence of the whole world when she formally announced to the Lo tons that General Mate, Who was chosen for the post of Ambassador, was not an ordinary usual letters of credence and that was sent to Manchuria to supervise Japanese. consuls there.
"It is quiet true that General Muto is not an ambassador in the usual sense of the word in that his appointment is only one of the azgressive movements on the part of Japan in Manchuria and that she need not accredit him to a Ininistration bora of and maintains Wy. her own military prowess, "If the ambassador were reali sent to to command an pervise Japanese consuls there tone would enquire why such res possibilities should not devolve upon Mr, Arita Ariyoshi, the newly appointed Japanese envoy extra ordinary and to the Republic of China. Japan is unfolding step by step her whole scheme, for annexing Manchuria. " Notwith: the Feaime in Manchuria. has' been oinplted with the despatch of the Sapanese. ambassador and © that formal recognition will only follow asa matter of course.
Tt is hoped that the world wi watch events in Manchuria greater interest. and deeper Reuter Mr. Bronson Rea and Geneva Visit Hoinking, Aug. 16.
Mr. George Bronson Rea, adviser
Heave to-morrow for Geneva by to the Manchakuo Government, wil ray lof the United States, it was deci to-day. ied
the approaching general assembly He is to represent Manchukuo at of the League of Nations—United Press.
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