DR. WELLINGTON KOO MAKES. DEEP IMPRESSION AT GENEVA Issue Likely To Be Referred To Committee
JAPAN TO BE ASKED
TO STATE HER.
CASE
Geneva, To-day.
The speech made by Dr. Wellington Koò, Chin- ese Ambassador to Paris and delegate at Geneva, in the League Assembly yesterday, was delivered with restraint but deep emotion, and made a very deep impression.
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In the concluding passages of the speech Dr. Koo outlined three possibilities of League action. Firstly, consideration and action by the Coun- cil itself.
Secondly, formal reference of the question to the Assembly, and
DR. WELLINGTON KOO
The Chinese Government had ad-
FOOD SHORTAGE AMONG JAPANESE TROOPS ALLEGED
Shanghai, To-day ding to reirable sources, ese forces in Shanghai cing a shortage of food. This appears to be the explana- for the activities of Japanese along the coast in seizing laden with rice and other stuffs
Owing to the outbreak of cholera, all smps arriving in Japan from Shanghai have been compelled to go into quarantine for the usual period before being allowed to enter the ports.
This has caused a considerable a formal appeal to the delay in ships leaving Japan for Thirdly, reference of the matter to the advi-dressed
League based on Articles X, XI Shanghai with supplies for the Ja- sory committee on the Sino-Japanese dispute, es-and XVII of the Covenant. tablished in 1933.
It is probable that the last course will be adopted, and this appears to be the action desired by the Chinese Government itself.
It is expected that the Council will take this course at an early meeting.
STILL EXISTS
The advisory committee
of
twenty-three States, established in
1933, is still in existence.
The United States, though not a
committee.
The Soviet, as a member of the Council, will automatically have a seat on the committee.
panese forces.
for
It was now for the League Coun- cil to decide whether it would in- It is stated that the Japanese At present, a desperate struggle vestigate the matter and take the Navy have now made arrangements was going on between the unscru- necessary measures, or whether it with Japanese merchant vessels leav pulous invaders and the Chinese, would submit the question to the ing Hong Kong and other foreign who were resolved to save their advisory committee appointed on ports to purchase foodstuffs
them. February 24, 1933, to follow the country and people.
The supplies, according to arrange- or finally, Dr. Koo denounced the blockade Sino-Japanese conflict, of the Chinese coasts as illegal whether it would submit the ques-ments, are to be transferred to Ja-
the League Assembly. and stressed the Chinese desire to tion to settle the conflict by peaceful Trans-Ocean.
means.
JAPAN'S ATTITUDE
Her efforts in this direction, he
ness.
JAPANESE ISSUE WARNING
Tokyo, To-day.
the
panese warships, which will meet the merchant vessels on their way to Japan-Our Own Correspondent.
ATROCITY ALLEGATION
member of the League, has a seat said, had invariably been inter- A warning to the League of but not a vote on the advisory preted by Japan as a sign of weak-Nations not to intervene in
Foóchow, To-day. Sino-Japanese conflict on the basis
Chinese reports allege a ter- Just as in 1932, the Japanese had of the Chinese appeal in Geneva, attacked Shanghai in the hope of was made by a spokesman of the rible atrocity against a Japan- ese destroyer blockading the forcing the Chinese Government to Foreign Office yesterday.
Japan, he alleged, had no inten-coast near Foochow. capitulate.
tion of interfering with the unifica- It is alleged that the destroy- It had often been said that pres-tion of China, but desired that this er stopped two junks, herded certain that the ad-sure of excess population resulting unification be carried out on the ten members of the crew into visory committee will ask Japan to from an annual increase of 800,000,"healthy principles in the interest the holds, locked them in and set
fire to the junks. Hua Nan. state her case without making it had compelled Japan to seek new of world peace."-Trans-Ocean. incumbent upon her to accept any territories, but this was merely a "League obligations.
REQUEST TO JAPAN
It seems
pretext for arousing sympathy and
It is understood that the Chinese deceiving public opinion in other Government is not likely to press
the appeal to the League any fur- ther until it has seen the result of reference of the dispute to the advisory committee-Beater.
CATHOLIC APPEAL
TO LEAGUE ·
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Nanking, To-day. The Catholic Society of China has cabled an appeal to the League of Nations for effective sanctions against Japan for her aggressive acts in China.-Hua Nan.
DR. KOO'S SPEECH
Blockade Denounced As Illegal
countries.
JAPANESE NOT SETTLERS
Forty years
after the conquest and annexation of Korea, only half Ja million Japanese had settled
there.
For the past quarter of a century. Japan's influence in South Man- churia had been predominant, and] yet scarcely 300,000 Japanese lived in that region.
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In reality, said Dr. Koo, the den- sity of population in Japan was less than in certain European countries, for instance, Belgium.
The speaker said that if Japan succeeded in gaining possession-of a large part of China, she would deem herself strong enough to at- tack British and American posses- Dr. Wellington Koo was the prin- sion in the Pacific Ocean and Asia. cipal speaker in the general debatel
Geneva, To-day.
the League Assembly yesterday
moming
gave a detailed account
PEACE INDIVISIBLE
The peace of the world was indi-
invasion of China by the visible and its maintenance lay in nese, who had already landed the general interest
300,000
men equipped with Dr. Koo demanded that the obli- date and barbarous gations imposed by the League
Covenant should be enforced.
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