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Show Keep Out of Our Way, Tokyo Tells Powers 'Jt ClTlI WITH V 1 t JZ--.Li 1 tteT h NATIONAL MTIUMftMTat . - MrV-'' CMtjnA Sl rggggV g fi Occupation of Swatow Underscores Stand of Foreign Office , By 1. C OE8TREICHEB InternaUensJ New rsrelga EdIUr Under a thin disguise of diplomatic diplo-matic nloety, the Japaneee government govern-ment today made knows Its policy with regard ts foreign nations in the conduct of Its systematio subjugation sub-jugation of China. Stripped of needles verbiage, the declaration was: "Keep out df our way and everything every-thing will s all right." The Tokyo government chose th forcible occupation t Swatow as tb oocaslsn for jnakiruj. pus.lt Ms attitude toward foreign criticism and foreign Intervention, for that offensive In southern China followed hard on the heels of Its retaliatory blockade at Tientsin, which has already al-ready evoked whirlwind of protest pro-test and Indignation. At the moment Nipponese ;iu- CeatlniM4 a reee Twe) (Column Bloat I 1 NOW ITU SWATOW I Map ef troubled China OUT OF OUR WAY, JAPANESE WAR II . (CMsmI Flees Pas Oner jacket landed at Bwatow too Japanese Japa-nese foreign office announced: "Our policy regarding the rights and interests of third powers re-main re-main unchanged. The - Japanese are making all efforts te prevent damage to foreign Interests. It I hoped that the powers wtU cooperate cooper-ate to preclude the possibility of untoward Incidents. The last sentence Is, of course, the payoff. Great Britain, in the Japanese view. Is responsible for the grave situation at Tientsin fur having failed to cooperate wholeheartedly whole-heartedly in the new Nipponese mission which calls for creation of a "new order" in Chin. Japan has not yet seen fit to make public Ita recent exchange of messagee with the United State government following Secretary mi State Cordell Hull's stern protest over the continued aerial bombing of American church and mission properties in various section of ' lightning occupation of Swatow, perhaps the oldest international inter-national port in China where foreign for-eign commerce has been carried on, except for interruption caused by Intermittent typhoons, since 1869, served to prove that Japan ha not relaxed one bit in It Chinee of- foaalve and new -large srsle ,hatlb itie are anticipated. j |