THE CHINA MAIL, FEBRUARY 1, 1938.
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EUROPE AWAKE TO MENACE OF JAPANESE MILITARISM
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Dr. H. H. Kung On Mr. Eden's Speech At Geneva
CHINA MERELY FIRST ·ORKNEYS-
VICTIM OF WORLD LAWLESSNESS
Hankow, To-day.
Asked for an expression of his opinion regarding the speech of Mr. Anthony Eden before the League Council, Dr. H. H. Kung, President of the Executive Yuan, said in reply:
"Mr. Eden's assurances that the British Govern- ment will hold fast to the principles on which
STEAMER DISASTER
London, To-day.
Five bodies and wreckage were washed up in the Orkneys yester- day.
At first they were believed to belong to the trawler "Bostonian” which has been missing since the gale struck last week, but it is now understood they belong to the ship "Leicestershire.”—Reuter.
the League is based, have been of interest to NO MERCY FOR
the Chinese people.
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"Notwithstanding the slowness with which the SHANGHAI AREA
signatory powers have responded to our appeal
for assistance in righting wrong, China has not GUERILLAS
abandoned hope that the League must triumph ultimately as an instrument of peace and jus- tice.
on
"Unless the principles of inter- national peace and security, the basis of respect for interna- tional treaties, which Mr. Eden again stressed in his speech, are carried out, the world will be plunged into the greatest catas- trophe yet known in human his- tory.
"China has been the first
Shanghai, To-day.
UNITED STATES MERELY KEPT INFORMED
Geneva, To-day.
It is stated in authoritative quar- ters that there is no question of the League Council, or any member thereof, asking the United States for endorsement of any resolution the Council may be considering.
Nothing of the kind has ever been contemplated.
All that has been done has been to keep the United States. Govern- ment, informed as a matter of cour- tesy.
It is fully realised in British cir- cles that the United States is acting on parallel lines in the Far East, and Chinese remnants operating be- that no question of concerted action : tween Shanghai and Nanking would arises. Reuter. not be treated according to the laws of war, stated a Japanese army spokesman at a press conference.
PROTEST TOKYO
TO SOVIET
Tokyo, Yesterday.
The spokesman said that these remnants operated mostly in bands of between 500 to 1,000 men.
They lived on the countryside and attacked Japanese posts.
M. BONCOUR AT GENEVA
Geneva, To-day. M. Paul Boncour has arrived in Geneva to replace M. Delbos as head of the French delegation,
The Japanese Government is fil- vicing a strong protest with the Soviet tim of that lawlessness and Government against the "unreason militarism that threaten the able suspension" of the parcel post
The spokesman said that a band system of collective security. service between the two countries, of 900 men had been trapped south of Soochow on Jan. 26 and complete- "She, however, has done her a Government spokesman reveals. full share in trying to uphold
At the same time, the Foreignly annihilated. this systemi.
Minister announces that he will ex- ert efforts to restore relations with Replying to a question, the spokes- the Soviet to normal as quickly as man said it was difficult to give an possible, "continuing negotiations estimate of the total number of rem-Commission of 28 for reform of the with patience while seeking a solu- nants engaged. tion of accumulated questions.”
WORLD SECURITY
were
**Now the world must realise that China is fighting Japan's mili- tarists not only to defend her own The spokesman stated that the So- It was possible that they- rights and independence, but also viet would be unable to free itself operating on orders from Hankow or to uphold the sanctity of inter-from responsibility for the great in- Chungking, but he was quite certain national treaties and the peace and convenience which has resulted from that arms supplies could not be security of the world.
stoppage of the parcel post service, reaching them. a condition that will cause trouble not only to Japan and the Soviet but also to third powers. Reuter.
"To-day, the unfortunate victim of Japanese militarism is China.
“To-morrow, it will be some other nation, íf such a danger is not checked in time.
"What is more, in thus-vigorous ly resisting Japan's militarists, we are really also fighting the battle of Japan's own masses of the people,'
EUROPE AWAKE
"What Mr. Eden said before the League Council shows that the
G.O.M. OF
MEDICINE PASSES
London, To-day.
great statesmen of Europe have The death occurred yesterday of
gradually awakened to the serious- пева of the menace of Japan's
Sir James Crichton-Browne, one of peculiar militarism to world peace (Britain's most famous experts on and human happiness,
mental and nervous diseases, at the
age of 98.
To check the growth of this
and
been Vice- Treasurer of the
- perilous tendency by concerted Sir James ··· had
efforts of all peace loving coun-President tries, is certainly the world's task Royal Institution since 1889. of the day.
"This, however, can be accom- plished only by concrete action, and not by mere words.
"The future destiny of mankind depends so much to-day on far- sighted and bold statesmanship.”- Reuter.
He was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine; late President of the Medical Society, London; Fellow of the Academy of Medicine, New York and Vice- President of the Royal Institution of Great Britain.
From 1875 to 1922 he was Chancellor's Visitor in Lunacy.. Reuter.
TSINPU FIGHTING
Turning to the southern section of the Tientsin-Pukow Railway, the spokesman said that Japanese troops based on Mingkuan, had dislodged Chinese troops west of the railway over a depth of several kilometres.
This had forced the Chinese left- wing, which was parallel to the railway, to bend westward.
M. Boncour had a long interview with Lord Cranborne, British Un- der-Foreign Secretary, in the even- ing.
has yet been fixed for to-day but the No meeting of the League Council
Covenant will meet in the morning,
It is understood that the Chinese
delegation has not received instruc- tions from their Government, and there is some doubt whether the Council will take the Chinese appeal to-day.
Reuter,
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Chinese forces on this wing he es- timated at between 2,000 to 3,000, of
which almost 1,000 dead were left on the battlefield.
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Meanwhile in another clash about 20 miles south-west of Mingkuan, 900 'men of the Chinese forces about 2,000 were killed,
*BOMBERS, ACTIVE
of
The spokesman said that Japanese army planes were active during the week-end, bombing bridges and other strategic features along the Lunghai Railway.
A Japanese naval spokesman said that it had been definitely establish-1 ed that all the crew of a Chinese plane shot down near Wuhu on Jan. 26 were Russians. Reuter-
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