Dr, Wellington Koo, the newiyarrived Chinese Ambassador to London, interviewed by Reuters com~ merited on the vague statements by' Mr, Yosuke Matsuoka, the Japanese Foreign Minister, regarding Japan's attitude towards Soviet Russia, '"WWhut else could be expected?" he asked, "Japan hag had overmuch trouble already with her connection with the Axis...... There isn0 coerence and direction in her policy 1s, She must adopt a purely oppor: alist attitude and watch events before committing herself further."
"Dr, Koo, commenting laughingly on the story that General Chiang Kaishek had threatened to shoot the next bearer of peace overtures from Japan, declared: "Whatever the truth in that, it expresses the feeling of the Chi: nese people that China is at war and will stay in til the lost, Having gone '20 far and suffered so much, there Bot one Chinese, high or low, favouring compromise with Japan, especially now that world conditions are turning in China's favour", The Chinese envoy was amazed at the "tranquil, orderly appearance of London", and said thay everything: appeared normal. well arranged and well supplied with public se.rvices {going on as usual and no one seeming {the least agitated or suffering incon-convenience, 'This is a totally different mental picture from that formed abroad from Feports of air raids, Tone jg all the more impressed by London", Dr, Koo, declared. "by constrating' it with Vichy where life uneasy, supplies short and the atmosphere full of a sense of trouble, sus-Dense and anxiety."
Dr, Koo expressed the opinion that Vichy "would not follow other countries under the heel of the Huns and recognise the Nanking Government unless compelled by the Germans, "One must sympathise a great deal with Marshal Petain", he asserted, "whose position is one of intolerable Madame Koo ig remaining for the time being in Vichy—Reuter.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.