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squads of police were mashing an incipient' demonstra. tion against Japan, Mr. Matsuoke food on the deck of the s. Levis than and asseried that Japan mot obligated to explain her acti ies to any nation.
Mr. Matsuoka received _newspapermen cordially but his replies to questions were somewhat pel-gerent in tone, He gave little heed to the shouting of some fifty demonstrators on the pier below who carried banners" protesting against Japan's activities in Man-
None of the demonstrators atftewpted to actually harm *he vi for but one Chinese who gave his name as Lin Ma-hin was arrested when it was found he had a pistol. The other fifty demonstrators were searched on the pier and later released, Only @ dozen of the local Jepan-exe residents were at the pier when the Leviathan arrived, Mr. Matsuoka explained that, in his opinion, Japan had suffered from 8 general misunderstanding of the exact situation and also from a lack of sound propaganda, In the early months of the Manchurian activities, the west did not receive a clear explanation of them, said.
fully recognise that it is cliff. cult for Americans who are 6,000 miles away fully to understand some of Japan's activities in Asia, the continued, "They had difficulty, no doubt, in obtaining a full back: ground upon which to form their must say, however, that it is Just og difficult for some Japanese understand America's oceupation of some countries in the west erin hemisphere," he added, Matsuoka then explained that Japan intended to take whatever measures wei and carry out such intrigues and even warfare against Japan," he continued.
The matter of Japan's withdrawal from the League of Na: tions, or her return to full particle pation in the League's activities, Fests with the Government in Tokyo, hho said.
Mr,' Matsuoka said that he believed the League's decision was much a condemnation fapan's policies in Manchuria as. Japan's own failure to. comply with the League's requirements, think this opinion is borne out," he s: id, "by the fact that the League sought to make no changes.|in the Government now existing in Manchuria, Tu concluding his interview, Inv. }Matsuoka, said that he had no spe cial mission in the United States but came here to meet old friends rough hem, make clear policies and her position
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