Berlin, June 14 he Tientsin affáir was a test of strength between Japan and Great Britain, most German newspapers te toda "Der Angriff," the Propaganda Minister, Dr. Joseph Goebbels' organ, wrote, "Japan's enterprise in China of itself necessitates. a fight against Britain and France who, for egotistical motives, ceaselessly erect new obstacles and difficulties in the way of Japan's advance."—Havas.
Threat to Treaty Rights Manila, June 15.
British surrender to Japanese demands and blockade activities in Tientsin would mean the end of foreign treaty rights in China. the American owned "Manila Bulletin" said in an editorial today.
If the British capitulate, the editorial said, British treaty rights will be a thing of the past and the treaty rights of other Powers would "be worth exactly as much as th Japanese chose to make them wort!
"In other words," the paper said, "the Japanese demand in Tientsin is that, beginning with the British, the Powers must recognize Japan's New Order in East Japan's rejection of the British adiation proposal in Tientsin easily understandable," the paper said, "because Japan's acceptance would have been tantamount to the withdrawal of the Japanese demand that Japanese orders be recognized as supreme to all other nations' treaty rights in China."
'A neutral chairman or member of the proposed mediation commission considering the Tientsin row could only attempt to act as an interpreter of legal rights," the paper said. "But interpretation of legal rights is useless unless rights are recognized as mutually binding and are wholeheartedly respected.
"A referee is useless in a game without rule:
The editorial said British commerce in Tientsin was virtually dead for two years and that the British would have been better off if they had withdrawn from Tientsin long ago.
"However, getting out hasn't been possible without admitting defeat and that would have implied the same thing that would be implied by surrender now."—United Press.
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