Pai June 18, Statements attributed to General Kazushige Ugaki, Japanese Foreign Minister, were severely commented upon by two newspapers here today when the question of Arms transports through Indo-China into China was again brought up.
"Ordre, Centrist organ, writes, "If we were taking offence, we would declare to Tokyo, 'The false charges you bring against us are going to become realities.' Only acting in that manner should we counter the unacceptable Japanese attitude,"
"L'Oeuvre", Radical Socialist newspaper, also takes up the cudgels in riting, "French diplomats in Tokyo have already replied to the charges brought against us. This did not prevent Gen, Ugaki from alluding to us again yesterday. Once more France is threatened with the occupation of Hainan Island, In fact, however, it is Japan's great fear that China will establish her capital in Yunnanfu, not far from Indo-China."
Necessities of Japan's internal policy are chiefly responsible for the repeated attacks against France's attitude in the China conflict made by the Nipponese Press and reportedly voiced by Gen. Ugaki, authoritative Far Eastern experts declare today. They point out that Japan has not answered the French requests to cite precise facts justifying the present anti-French campaign.
Diplomats here assert, "Japan would find it dificult to point to any specific instances in which France has not enforced the prohibition: of the transport of arms through Indo-China,"
General Ugaki's statements were apparently purposely vague, neither denying nor confirming the accusations of Japanese news organs.
"France was the sole Power which took special measures to arrest the traffic of war material across its Far Eastern possessions, authorizing the transit only of material which had been ordered by China before the outbreak of hostilities," politicians continue.
"This measure constituted a gesture of high international courtesy, which the Japanese Government probably realizes to the full despite the necessities of their internal policy." they add.
Satisfaction is expressed at Gen. Ugaki's clear affirmation that Japan ig not contemplating the occupation of Hainan Island, This, it is pointed out, clears up Admiral Noda's recent statements that Japan was ready to gain victory in China "by all possible means; hence. hostilities may break out at any point in China."—Havas.
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