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THE CHINA MAIL, JANUARY 28, 1988.

DR.

KOO'S

INDICTMENT

Discussion at Geneva On Leagues' Prestige

French Follow

Britain's Line Of

Approach

Geneva, To-day. A significant stillness took possession of the Hall in which the assembled delegates to the League Council met when at noon, the Chinese Ambassador in Paris, Dr. Wellington Koo, rose to speak and pronounced the greatest indict- ment of the League ever heard in Geneva.

NEW U.S. SOLICITOR GENERAL

Washington, To-day. President Roosevelt has ap- pointed Mr. Robert H. Jackson as Solicitor-General of the United States in succession to Mr. Stan- ley Reed.

Mr. Jackson, who is a Democrat, is 46 years of age and has been Assistant Attorney General. Reuter.

HOLIDAY

RIVER TRAFFIC SUSPENSION

River-traffic between Canton and Hong Kong will be suspend- ed on Monday (Chinese New Year Day) and resumed on Feb- ruary 2 (Wednesday).

The 8.8. Fuk On will be taken off the run as from to-day, and the s.s. Tin Yat as from to-morrow. The 8.s. Tai Shan; s.8. Fat. Shan, and 8.8. Sai On will commence thefr

DR. KOO SAID THAT “THE FESTIVE AIR OF THIS SESSION LETTERS SLIT OPEN "rest" on Monday.

THE

STANDS IN STRIKING CONTRAST TO ALL THE FAIL- URES THAT THE LEAGUE HAS TO ITS RECORD. “WE ARE IN THE MIDST OF A WAR OF IDEALOGIES

GRAVITY OF WHICH RECALLS THE RELIGIOUS WARS|-, OF THE MIDDLE AGES.

"But instead of taking the trouble tional obligations in the spirit of to solve the problem, the League is the League." becoming more and more a passive

Mr. Anthony Eden (Britain) and observer.

M. Yvon Delbos (France) spoke before M. Litvinoff.

INTERNATIONAL ANARCHY.

BEFORE DELIVERY

A complaint was registered by

The Hong Kong-Kongmoon service will continue without a break.

Unlike previous years there will be no mid-night service to and one of the foreigh correspondents from Canton on Chinese New Year at the Japanese press conference Eve, owing to the barrier at the in Shanghai recently to the effect mouth of the Pearl River. that his letters had been opened before they were delivered to him "This Hall is merely a platform

by the local Post Office. Hé asked for utterance of platitudes, and

could have happened to them when when censorship of the mails was they were brought here by an the centre for launching excuses for M. Delbos stressed France's loyal-instituted. "No mail censorship American destroyer. Private let- ty to the League, emphasised the has been instituted so far," he was ters in long-hand had not not been "If you nations inside the Lea-sanctity of treaties and

declaredtold. gue show so little activity in pro-that the ideal of peace was not The correspondent said that he him by his paper, the "New York touched, but letters addressed to moting the cause of peace, how can fantastic.

had seven

envelopes delivered to Times," had been opened. the nations outside the League be The problem before the world him in the afternoon, and four of "The matter will have to be in- expected to fight for peace?" (Dr. to-day was the battle against in-these had been slit open with a vestigated,” said the spokesman. Koo. asked this question several ternational anarchy for a system of knife. One, indeed, was empty, "As far as we know, there is no times in the course of his address). peace, and no country in the world and he did not think anything mail censorship."

LOST PRESTIGE

had more understanding for this democratic campaign than liberal,

your inertia.

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now

He said: "The League more than ever has lost its international pre- stige because all constitutional pro cedure which the League at one time was prepared to establish is being evaded by the League itself.

"The time has now come when it has become necessary that the League attempt to re-establish its prestige, and this can best be done in the Sino-Japanese conflict.

LOGICAL BASIS

France.

The world to-day was fighting against war, competitive armament and warlike blocs, and this fight must be carried on with interna- tional co-operation and based on the League Covenant.

Both Mr. Eden and M. Delbos avoided mention of reform of the League Covenant.

COL. BECK

League.

"Japanese aggression is rampant The Polish Foreign Minister, Col.: in China. Millions of Chinese are Joseph Beck, however, said that he suffering horribly. And the Lea-saw other possibilities for attain- gue, whose so-called ideal is to pro- ment and preservation of peace than mote peace, stands to one side and those existing within the allows matters to take their course. "The principal of collective se- curity is the only logical basis on which to establish permanent peace, and this principle must now be ap plied to the Sino-Japanese conflict.”

When Dr. Koo sat down, there

There were other paths leading to peace, and it should be left to each nation to seek the most ap- propriate way, Trans-Ocean.

was a minute of surprinse silence. LEAGUE MEETING

-Trans-Ocean.

-M-LITVINOFFS-ATTACK

M. Litvinoff delivered a slashing

Geneva, To-day. Next meeting of the League

attack on certain nations which he |Council will be held this afternoon

did not name,

(Friday) beginning at 3.30

Whether the meeting will be pu- opposition to the idealogical-bloc|blic is not yet known.-Trans-Ocean.

The League, he stated, stood in

which had war as its principle.

The League had only one ideology peace-90 that when the

war

block became active, the peace bloc had no recourse but to reciprocate

through equal activity.

DEVOTED MEMBER

PRISON FOR NEPHEW

Wong Cheong-sze,^^ who robbed

M: Litvinoff pledged Russia's his aunt, Lau Yung-chuen, resid- loyalty to the League, saying that ing at No. 137, Caine Road, of though his government was not a jewellery to the value of "over member in the beginning of the $10,000 on January 23, Was this League family, it was now one of morning sentenced to four 12onths” the most devoted members.

imprisonment by Mr. R. Edwards at the Central Magistracy.

Moscow had required years to be convinced that the League was an instrument of peace, but having be come convinced, Russia had over since fulfilled all of her interna

was

At a previous hearing it atated that some 88,000 wo the jewellery was recovered wher defendant was rrested.

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