Evening star., 1933-02-27
Japan DEFENDS
MILITARY POLICY.
Embassy Issues Statement
From Toxic Explaining
Action at Geneva.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated freSS.
The Japanese government through
the embassy here issued a 6000word
statement Saturday in defense OF her
military activities in Manchuria and
her actions at Geneva in the face OF
condemnations on the part of the
League of Nations.
The statement attacks the Lytton
Commissions report. details Japan's in
tereSt In the development and success
Of the League itself and expresses hope
the League will soon be led to change
its attitude and to respect
and recognize the forces that are vir-
tually rendering possible the mainte-
nance of peace In the various regions
Of the world
Conceding that the League is most
powerful instrument organized for the
good of humanity" In the interest OF
universal peace, the Japanese govern
ment, the statement says, contends that
the League does not even yet fully ap-
preciate the Far Eeastern situation IN =
knowing way SO as to deal with condl-
tionS in a practical manner.
Hits Lytton Findings.
In criticizing the Lytton report be-
cause it upheld the Chinese contention
that the boycott in Shanghai and other
parts of the country were within the
province of retaliatOry measures, the
statement, which was written in Toxic
and cabled to this country. holds that
action on the part of the League COM
mission undoubtedly ''Sows the seeds OF
incalculable future trouble for each
and every power interested in China.
All the major powers have conducted
military operations of one kind or an
other under different circumstances
and, the statement points out, main
tain armed forces in Chinese territory
for that specific purpose"
Further along these lines, the state
ment sets forth that if the adoption by
the powers Of any forcible measures for
the protection of their rights and in
terests Is on each occasion to be made
rstaliatory boycott, then the appll-
cation Of force will of necessity be eX-
tended without limit.
Action of the japanese military forces
in occupying Mukden on September 1S,
1881, and subsequent action of the
armed forces in Manchuria is held by
the statement to have been purely in
self defense, the japanese soldiers
never having exceeded the bounds of
necessity for self protection"
In connection with the section of the
Lytton report which put the onus on
the japanese for the MukGen outbreak,
the statement stresses that the Japanese
government takes this opportunity Of
denying the specific conclusions in the
report that no question can arise of
Chinese responsibility for the develop
ment of events since September 18,
1884," and further, that the use of
bOycotts by China subsequent to that
date falls under the category Of re-
prisalS."
Suggests Negotiation.
The proper reply to acts of self
defense is negotiation and explanation
and not reprisals. which generally lead
to war, the japanese statement says.
Had the United States exercised re-
prisalS in the Carolin case, war with
England must have enSued," the Jap
anese contend.
The Japanese see little hope for
China of the future. 1t is contended
that the abnormal conditions existing
in China due to lack of any existing
authority properly to rule the country,
makes it impossible to apply to the
present Sino-JapaneSe dispute any gen.
eral formulae which might be applica-
BILE to any other ordinary international
question. This fact. it is held, neither
the Lytton Commission nor the League
Of Nations is able to realize, despite
the exhaustive reports which have dealt
with the situation.
The Assembly stands, if it may be
so said" the statement contends, for
mere formulae, Japan for solid real
tiles" Japan takes her stand on estab-
lished principles the Assembly on pre-
conceived hypothesis. 1t results from
the refusal of the Assembly to 60 be-
yond the Lytton report.
Meanwhile, the statement concludes.
the new state Of "Manchukuo is making
rapid progress. peace and order are
superseding banditry. commerce and in
dustry have responded to the improved
situation to the benefit of foreigners
and the people of Manchukuo alike
concrete proof Of the truth Of Japanese
contentious that recognition and en-
couragement of the Manchurian state
is the only road to satisfactory solu-
ton Of the Manchurian question and to
the maintenance of lasting peace in
the Orient"