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CHINA AND LEAGUE MEETING
-Photo taken after the marriage last week of Miss Marie Louise Hermann, and Mr. Helmut Schmidt, both of whom are connected with Messrs. Melchers and Company. Frau Schmidt is a niece of one of the partners in the firm. Mr. Schmidt has been a well-known member of the local German community for some years. photo).
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To Demand Rights, Not Going As Petitioner
Hankow, To-day.
All Chinese newspapers in Hankow, apparently acting on instructions from a high quarter, make a strong appeal to the League to give more active support to China against Japan than it has done heretofore.
The newspapers demand that at the forthcoming session of the League Council, the Chinese Government should compel the League of Na- tions at last definitely to define its position.
At the same time, they call the year to render individual support League, on its past record, a "plat-to China, sell arms to Japan, form for empty speeches" and call The newspapers declare that this its Covenant "nothing more than time China must not appear a scrap of paper."
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The Chinese people, who have al-mander of rights. ready lost more than one million of The League must be called upon. its best sons in the Sino-Japanese to apply Article 17 of the Covenant.
war has no reason for confidence!
in the league members who, des- If this demand is rejected, then pite the appeal by the League last China should consider herself freed
A massed orchestra of schoolchildren, a feature of the National Eisteddford in Cardiff. Photo shows an angle-shot of boy violinists at a Cardiff rehearsing for the Eistedfodd.
from all her obligations towards the League. Article 17 provides that a non-member of the League may be called upon to discharge obliga- tions pertaining to members of the League.. If the State in question re- fuses, then the sanctions stipulated in paragraph 16 come into force,--. Trans-Oceani.
QUO TAI-CHI TO HANDLE MATTER
Hankow, To-day. Vernacular papers are giving prominence and much space to the forthcoming meeting of the League of Nations and every publication carries an editorial commenting on the attitude which the members of the League have adopted towards China since Sino-Japanese hostili- ties broke out.
It is reported that the Chinese Government has cabled important instructions to Mr. Quo Tai-chi, who it is stated will address the Lea- gue on behalf of China,
Some Chinese circles are optimis- tic regarding the result of the meeting and predict that China will successfully secure what she is en- titled to and also that assistance from Britain, France and America will eventually be granted to end the present hostilities and drive the aggressor, out of the country. Our Own Correspondent.
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