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THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 4, 1989
Litwary, Supreme Court
STRONG LINE BY BRITAIN URGED
(Continued from Page 2)
Thereby they would have the
means, in conjunction with ITALIANS
the
United States, of bringing the most
effective economic pressure upon RELEASE GUNMEN:
Japan, and they should be able to
I
stop the supplies without which it JAP. REQUEST
would be impossible for Japan to carry on the war.
Japan had displayed an arrogant indifference
Shanghai, To-day.
to all international Twenty gunmen, who were be- obligations and to all the princi-
ples of justice, while China had lieved to be members of Wang carried out every one of her obliga-Ching-wei's bodyguard and were tions and had behaved with abso-arrested by the Italian forces in lute propriety.
He thought it incredibly humil-day, after a house in which they the Italian defence -sector yester- iating that Britain should take ac-had tion which
barricaded was regarded as fav-
themselves had ourable to Japan and unfavourable leased by the Italian commander.
been surrounded, have been re- to China, and that this should give the appearance of abandoning country which had done so much to deserve help.
ELIBANK SPEECH
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Lord Elibank, who was the next speaker, also dealt with the Far East.
He urged Lord Halifax to tell the House emphatically that there was no intention of handing over the silver in Tientsin or of recog- nising Federal Bank currency in China, on which the statements made by Mr, Chamberlain in the .Commons were not very definite.
Turning to Japan's military posi- tion in China, Lord Elibank said that Japan's adverse trade balance was increasing, her gold reserves diminishing, and the guerillas were preventing her from securing iron, coal and cotton.
JAPANESE REVERSES Japan had suffered considerable reverses in North China, and the pressure by Russia was reported on good authority to have forced her to withdraw troops to Man- .churia.
"In the light of these facts, any -suggestion that Japan would de- clare war on us if we maintained a firm stand seems to be wiped out .of consideration altogether.”
STRONGER ACTION
He took the view that the Tokyo conference must go on, but in view of the fact that there were moder- .ately minded people' in Japan, and it was only through the moderates' that ultimately they could control the warmongers, they should say that they intended to take some ac- tion in co-operation with the United States.
Britain should take stronger ac- tion, and in a short time there would be a stalemate, which would be the time for mediation in an attempt to bring the war to a close.
NO ILL SUGGESTION Lord Samuel's reference to Aug- tralia provoked Lord Stonehaven to point out that it ought to be re membered that Australia, for the benefit of the Commonwealth, did jeopardise her very important trade. with Japan.
Lord Samuel said he did not in tend to suggest that Australia took. a disadvantageous course to Britain for her benefit
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LABOUR TO WATCH Mongol
DEVELOPMENTS
London, To-day.
The National Council of Labour,
Border Fighting
at a meeting yesterday decided, inJAP. VERSION
view of the gravity of the inter
national situation, to appoint a
sub-committee to keep a close and
Tokyo, To-day.
constant watch on developments with A TENSE situation con-
the power to summon a special meet-- ing of the National Council. tish Wireless.
BISHOP LEAVES TAIANFU
Bri-
tinues on the Man- churian-Mongolian bor- der, according to field despatches.
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The despatches report repeat- ed Soviet Mongol attempts to cross the border near the con- fluence of the Khala and Helstein Rivers. The Japanese claim that all these attempts were repulsed.
They also claim the destruc- tion of a further large number of Soviet planes.
Shanghai, To-day. The Bishop of Shantung, the Rt. Japanese officers who stated that sionaries, have
The release followed the visit of Rev. T: 0. Scott, and other mis- the gunmen belonged to the auxi-Church of England Mission
evacuated the liary corps
at of the Japanese-ap-Taian in accordance with the Ja- were shot down between. July 29 pointed Chinese police.-Reuter. panese warning.-Reuter.
The Japanese
assert that 69
and July 31-Reuter.
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