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TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, JANUARY, 182-1932. ->
CHINA'S APPEAL TO LEAGUE.
ECONOMIC SANCTIONS TO BE DEMANDED.
JAPANESE REPLY.
Nanking, Jan. 17. According to a statement made by Mr. Fu Plug-han, Vice-Minis- ter for Foreign Affairs, China has decided to invoke Article Sixteen (Economic Sanctions) at the noxt meeting of the Lengue Council, on the 25th innt, this action having beon approved by the Central Executive Council and the Central Political Council.
CANTON STUDENTS.
BIG PARTY ARRIVES AT NANKING.
Nanking, Jan. 17. One hundred and thirty-six students from Canton hava rived hore, and will present various demands to the Govern- ment to-morrow.
25 YEARS HERE.
TWO POPULAR GERMAN RESIDENTS.
It
A large gathering will be at the German Club to-night to con- gratulate two well-known German residents on the 25th anniversary of their arrival in Hongkong. was on the 18th of January, 1907, They want the Government to that Mr. L. Svandson and Mr. permit Kwangtang and Kwangsi Johnson, then youngsters, net foot troops to proceed to Manchuria to on this island, coming out on the take part in
the campaign against
Tays parted until they both settled with the Japanose, and also demand the Hame boat. Since then their execution within one week of Tu their families in Hongkong, Mr. Johnson now being hend of Ifsuan-tai, the director of the Can- ton Publle Safety Bureau, Who Mesara. R. Johnson and Co. and ordered the firing on the students Bir. Svendeen one of the managers in Canton last November.
of Mosure. Deutsche Farbon- declaro These students
Handelsgesellschaft. Tho meet- Mr. Fu Ping-shan added that they will be remaining in Nanking ing at the German Club to-night
have beon
to extend congratulations and China would also request the call-until their demands
"Telegraph" ing of a conference of the algna-accepted. Reuter
express herty wishes that these popular members of the German tories of the Nine Power Treaty Special.
community
enjoy and indicated that the severance
may further many
successful years In the of diplomatic relations with Japan was likely,
that
Colony.
.the
tions of the policy of the so-called open door, the Japanese Govern- ment, as has so often been atated. regard that policy as a cardinal feature of the politics of the For Friendly spirit, such sedulous care in the correct appreciation of the East, and only regret that its situation. I shall be obliged if BO seriously Your Excellepey will transmit diminished by the unsettled condithis communication to Your Cov tions which preval throughout ernment and I avail ele, China.
China's Reply..
Washington. Jan. 17.
The Chinese Government reply- Ing to Mr. Stimon's Note invok ing the Nine, Power Pact, has as- aured the United States that China has no intention of concluding any treaty or agreement contrary
Mr. W. W. Yan will be China's chief delegate at the next meeting of the league Council,--Renter.
Article 16 provides that "Should any Member of the League resort to war la disregard_of_its_cove- | effectiveness, nants under Article 12, 13, or 15, it shall ipso facto be deemed to have committed an act of war against all other Members of the In ao far as they can secure it which undertake im the polley of the "open door" will League.
to the always be maintained in Man- mediately to subject it severance of all trade and Annn-churin as in China proper. rin) relations, the prohibition of They take note of the statement all intercouran between thrie n by the Government of the United tionals and the nationals of the States that the latter cannot ad covenant-breaking State, and the mit the legality of matters which prevention of all financial, com-
to international on might impair the treaty rights of mercial and personal intercourse the United States or its citizens.
further expresses the hope that between the nationals of the
or which might be brought about
the United States will continue covenant-breaking State and the by means contrary to the Treaty
to promote and preserve the effec nationals of any other State, whe. of 27th August 1928. It might be tiveness of International ther a Member of the LongaE
academic doubt the subject of or
mant the im not." It also provides for the whether, in a given case recommendation of united mill-propriety of means necessarily tary, naval and air force petion and to enforce a
blockade and the declaration that the offending | Member shall no longer be a Mem- ber of the League.
Latest Bombing.
Geneva, Jan. 16. "Flagrant violation of solemn undertakings and complete con- temut of the Council's resolution". are alleged against Japan in the course of the latest Chinese note complaining that Japanese airmen bombed Pinchow on January 10. --Revier.
Japan's Attitude.
Tokyo, Jun. 16. Mr. Yoshizawa, this morning, handed Mr. Forbes Japan's reply It to Mr. Stimson's recent note. in coldly polite, the concluding words being:
"It is agreeable to be assured that the United States Govern- ment is devoting. in a friendly spirit, such sedulous Care to a correct appreciation of the situa tion,
always Avoid the enda secured, but as Japan has no fu- tention of adopting improper means, that question does practically ariac
not
It may be added that treaties which relate to China must neces anrily be applied with due regard to the state of affairs from time to time prevailing in that country, and that the present unsettled and distructed state of China la not what was in the contemplation of the high contracting parties at the time of the Trenty of Waabing
ton. It was certainly not satis
covenants.
It
The reply proceeds to charge Japan with lawless acts and with openly invading Chinese territory, and finally with the violation of the Lengue Covenant, the Nine Power Treaty and the Kellogg Pact,
OMetal circles are of the opinion that both the Chinese and are "satisfac- Japanese replica tory."
'The United States has not yet been officially advised of the in- tentions of the other signatories to the Nine Power Pact, except Great Britain and Holland.-- Reuter's Ameriren Service.
Japan and Russfa.
Tokyo, Jan. 16. Mr. Yoshizawa has admitted tant M. Litvinov sounded him about a non-aggression pact, when he was passing through MORCOW on December 31, but the proposal has not yet been submitted to the Cabinet,
The general belief is that Japan will decline, as she considers the both Kellogg Treaty, to which Japan and the Soviet are signa- torles, is suffelent. Moreover,
factory then, but it did not die- play that disunion and those
cannot affect antagonisms which it does to-day. the binding character or the stipulations of the treaties, but it may, in mate- rin respects, modify their ap plication, since they must neces- reference sarily be applied with to the state of facts as they exist. My Government desire further to point out that any replacement which has occurred in the
per: sonnel of the administration of note re-affirms the open Manchuria has been the neces door policy and refers to the Ninery act of the local population. Japan has no such pact with any
tini Power Treaty, saying
the Even in cases of hostile occupa-other Power, and has no intention present distracted state of China, tion-which this was not it is of violating Soviet territory was not contemplated by the high
customary for local officiate
to Reuter. In the exercise of their contracting parties at the time of the Washington Treaty, and that, functions. In the present ease although this cannot affect its they for the most part Ted of re- binding character or the stipula signed. It was their own be- tions of the Treaty, it may, JA
haviour which was calculated 10 material respect, modify their ap- | destroy the working of the ap plication, since they must neces-paratus of government. sarily be applied with reference to frets as they exist.-Reuter.
The
Text of the Note.
The text of the Japanese note, received through the courtesy of the Јарапеко Consul-General, Hongkong, is as follows:
The Japanese Government can- not think that the Chinese people, unlike all others, are destitute of the power of self determination and of organizing themselves in order to secure civilized condi-
tions when deserted by existing officials. While it need not be re "I have the honour to acknow-peated that Japan entertains In ledge the receipt of Your Excel- Jency's Note dated 8th January which has had the most careful at- tention of this Government.
The Government of Japan ware well aware that the Government of the United States could always be relied on to do everything in their power to support Japan's efforts to secure the full and com plete fulfilment, in every detail, of the Treaties of Washington and the Kellogg Treaty for the out. lawry of war. They are glad to receive this additional assurance of fact.
As regards the question which Your Excellency specifically man-
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At the present juncture when the very existence of our national policy in involved, it in agreeable to be assured that the American Government are dovoting, in
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