The Archive · 1939

Foreign Concessions Bar Japan's Success

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Exirality Must be Done Away with, Says Journal Tokyo, June 5.

Opinion is growing: in Japan that the extra-territorial rights enjoyed by cther Third Power nationals, -and particularly the international settlementó, atid concessions which they control, must be abolished if Japan is to achieve control of China's sovereignty, A typical view of the situation is expressed by the "Miyako Shimbun," which says:—i

hostilities in China for us Japanese It required two years of to understand the true nature of the China incident.

The only way to dispose of the China incident is to deal effectively with those foreign countries which are supporting the Chiang Kai-shek administration.

The true intentions of those Powers towards the incident have been revealed by their attitude towards the question of international settlements and concessions in China.

The landing of British, American and French armed forces on Kulangsu Island, as a demonstration against Japan, left no doubt of the nature of the policy of those Powers towards the China Incident.

Britain, America and France are as firmly determined to assist China in carrying on her resistance to Japan, as is the Soviet Union, which has recently been active along the Outer Mongolian-Manchoukuo border ith the aim of helping the Chiang regime in the struggle against this country.—Reuter.

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