THE CHINA MAIL, SEPTEMBER 17, 1937.
COLLECTIVE ACTION BY
BY
LEAGUE AGAINST JAPAN UEENS
DEMANDED AT GENEVA
Geneva, To-day.
The international organisation "Rassemble- ment Universel de la Paix," which is now meeting in the Palace of the League of Nations at Geneva, yesterday adopted a resolution embodying three demands.
Disappearance of Abyssinia as
an independent State shall not be) recognised de jure by the League.
The League shall take measures NOTED GERMAN
conformably with the Covenant to. protect the Valencia Government as the sole legal Government, în Spain, and
International co-operation inau- gurated at Nyon for suppressing piracy in the Mediterranean shall be continued and developed by the League
CHINA CRISIS
DIPLOMAT
IN HONG KONG
The former German Ambassador to Washington, Dr. Hans Luther, Another resolution demands that arrived in the Colony this morning. conformably with the request of Interviewed by a "China Mail" the Chinese Government and Ar- representative, Dr. Luther said that ticle XVII of the Covenant, the this was his third trip into parts League shall make a final appeal to of the world which he had not Japan to respect the provisions of previously had a chance to visit. the Covenant.
As a youth of 23 I travelled Should this appeal have no ef- around Africa, and, in later years fect, the resolution demands that visited all the South American re- the League shall afford, China every publics, he said.
in
financial and other assistance in its When I left my post as German power to resist Japanese aggres. Ambassador in Washington sion, and that every effort shall be March, I decided to travel home by made to organise collective action 2 round about way, first visiting against the aggressor
Trans- Canada, which I toured by car. Ocean.
ENDEAVOUR BREAKS LOOSE IN GREAT GALE
From Canada I went to New Zea- land, where I stayed for some time on both Islands, and then crossed to Australia. Having had only very vague idea of that country be fore, I was deeply interested in jeverything I saw, and made a point of visiting several of the sheepsta tions, and travelling a good deal out- side the cities.
Thus I have seen the "Pacific Area" with the exception of the Far East, which latter is the object of my present trip. I will pass through the Dutch East Indies to India, and
many."
New York, To-day. Anxiety is felt for Mr. TO. M.Sopwith's Endea- then proceed straight home to Ger- vour I, which broke away from the steam yacht: "Viva,” at midnight on Mon- day while she was being towed back to England after the America's Cup • races at Newport.
Dr. Hans Luther is a well-known German statesman. He was born
in 1879 in Berlin, his father being
the Alderman of the Merchant Guild. Dr. Luther studied at Gen- eva, Kiel and Berlin, and become city councillor of Magdeburg in At first two, and now four, 1907. He was elected Chairman of United States coastguard cutters the Municipal Congress in 1913, are searching for the missing and became, Lord Mayor of the im yacht.
portant industrial town of Essen The captain of the "Viva" is not in the Buhr Valley. certain whether the Endeavour has He then became. Minister for been able to weather the storm
Food and Agriculture, and in 1923, at the height of the devaluation of
He fears that the weight of the broken hawser might have forced the Mark, was made Minister of Endeavour's nose under water in the terrific seas.
Finance, when he introduced the stabilised. Rentenmark,” which
A crew of eighteen is on board marked the end of devaluation the Endeavour
Eente
From beginning of 1925 to the lend of 1926, Dr. Luther was Ger- man Chancellor, and in 1980 be came President of the Reichsbank
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