Defence is the best form of attack, in Mr. Sotomatsu Kato's opinion, if the Rengo News Agency's version of his statement regarding the Indo-Japanese tariff discussions is correct. Mr. Kato has lately been Counsellor to the Japanese Embassy. in London and therefore he cannot. bbe said to be ignorant of the constitutional factor in that issue. Yet hho ix reported to have "defended" [Great Britain by saying "That the intention of Government in. raising 0 tariff severally British industrialists in India, 8 piece of misrepresentation by contritating another. "The mishderatanding to which he referred {s'no doubt that produced in Japan y"the. sedulous spreading' of the upd reper thatthe imposition of Protective duties on Japanese goods Kan been the. outcome. of "Britsh disapproval of "Japan's action in Manchuria. In other words that port hag. accused the British Government of the quixotic. folly of attempting to apply on its own ac-Count a partial conomie_ sanction when the League itself avoid course. Att Kato rightly that fantasy uty, unhappily, whatever credit he may' thus acquire for truthfulness fs transformed into by the. mischievous pervert ion put in te-place. "Hfo must. know that "the Indian duties are. being Imposed after several. years of ex: treme pressure. brought to bear on the Government of India by Indian be: indust isto, "mainly in. Bombay tween the British and Chinese Gov-fand Ahmedabad." Mofeover they are ernments it was provided that the Imposed by the Government of India British Admiralty should arrange for the training of a certain num-'Under a. convention long recogn poscesed of full focal astonony ber of Chinese Naval Cadets and that the Chinese Government should Point that some of the important engage a British Naval Mission to Phases of the Simla Conference will ist in the development of the Chi-Htepend..- Unless. Rengo has inadvernese Navy. Great Britain has acntly garbled Mr. Kate's remarks ally received and has, put to train-It's we be hoped that the British ing a larger number of cadets than Embassy at Tokyo will be alert 10 that specified in the Agreement. The ea, that, his apparently' barefaced British Naval Mission, except for exploitation of "pablic ignorance is the visit to China of its head, Captain H. T. Baillie-Grohman who arrived early in 1931 and returned to England early in 1933, has never
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