Evening star., 1937-07-27
JAP AN PUTS WAR
ISSUE TO CHINA
Hirota Tells Parliament
That China Holds Peace
of Orient.
b. the Associated Press,

TOXIC, July 27.-Japan put the
question Of peace or war In the Orient
sQuarely up to China today as an ulti-
matum demanding expulsion Of Chi
nese troops from the zone of HOSTILE
ties west of Peiping expired.
Foreign Minister Koki Hirota told
= joint session of both houses of Par
lament that China holds the key to
settlement Of the crisis caused by the
two powers conflicting economic in
terests in the North China provinces
of Hopeh and Chahar.
4 confidently hope Marking will
take such effective and appropriate
measures as accord with our desires
for peace" Hirota said, "and bring
about an early and amicable settlement
Of the crisis"
Premier Prince Fumimaro Konoye.
answering = question, insisted Japan
had no territorial ambitions in China
and said: What Japan wants from
China is not territory, but co-opera-
ton"
He said he still had faith that China
would fulfill her promises to Japan,
but If she failed finally, the Japanese
must take decisive measures to re-
move the diff1culties.
1t is Japan's mission to keep East
Asia peaceful, the premier insisted.
Japan must keep communism from
entering North China from Outer Mon
golia, he added.
New Clash Reported.
Meanwhile the Domei (Japanese)
News Agency reported renewed
Chinese attacks on Japanese forces
at Nanyuan, important Chinese mill
tary airbase and headquarters OF the
Chinese 37th Division south OF
Peiping.
The dispatch said Japanese troops
aided by airplanes, quickly subdued
the Chinese. Nanyuan previously
had been the scene of fighting in the
intermittent clashes.
In London Foreign Secretary An
thony Eden told Commons that Great
Britain had expressed to Japan its
earnest hope" that japanese troops
at Peiping would not go into punitive
action against the Chinese.
He said the British government was
in constant touch with other powers
interested in China, particularly the
United States Government.
Expenses to Be Met by Loan.
Finance Minister Okinobu Kaya an
nounced the greater part of Japan's
North China expenses would be met
by North China loan" which he
did not further explain. He also
asked the Diet for $4,000 900 ven
tabout $27,840,OO0), a request an
nounced previously to finance the
North China operations.
The atmosphere in Japans pala-
tlal Parliament Building was tense as
members of the Diet assembled to hear
the leaders of the government describe
the situation that flared into open
warfare west of Peiping on July 7.
The newspaper Nichi Nichi re-
ported in dispatch from Shanghai
that Gen. Sung Chen-yuan, COM
mander Of Chinese forces in the two
provinces, had decided to resist the
evacuation demand and had sent an
urgent request to the central gov
ernment at Marking for reinforce
ments.
The newspaper Asahi declared in
bulletin from Nanking that the
Chinese Premier, Generalissimo Chi
ang Kai-shek. had concluded a gen.
eral clash between the two nations
could not be avoided and was con-
centrating troops of the central army
in Hopeh Province.
Military in Conference.
Shortly after dawn the army gen.
eral stan and the war ONCE heads
went into urgent and continuous ses-
sion to determine on measures to
cope with the new and graver situa-
ton. After conferring with his sta1
Gen. Gen Sugiyama, minister Of war,
left for the palace to report to En-
peror Hirohito.
The Emperor also received admiral
of the fleet, Prince Fushimi, chief OF
the naval general sta1, and Field
Marshal Prince Kanin, chief OF the
army general staff
Dispatches to Ashai from its Tent
sin correspondent asserted a general
and widespread clash In North China
was inevitable. Nichi Nichi declared
Japanese troops stationed at the
Fengtai field headquarters. miles
west Of Peiping, were ready to move