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THE CHINA MAIL, FEBRUARY 14, 1938.
LORD
CECIL'S APPEAL
FOR WORLD ACTION Uncompromising Condemnation Of Japan
RIVER TRAFFIC
RESUMPTION
It is learned that local river shipping companies have been officially notified that the Pearl River boom is to be opened to- morrow to permit the resumption of light-draft traffic.
The Taishan is leaving Canton for Hong Kong to-morrow morn- ing.'
GUERILLAS
DOING GREAT
Twenty Nationalities
At Last Night's
Mass Meeting
London, To-day.
MEDIATION FOR ARMISTICE
IN SPAIN
Twenty nations were represented on the platform for o
Negotiations are in progress
P
The negotiations, it is said, are
San Sebastian, To-day.
armistice in Spain, ac- at a mass meeting, attended by 2,500, at Co-cording to a usually well-informed vent Garden Opera House last night at which source here last night. Lord Cecil, presiding, condemned the Japan-being conducted by British person- ese aggression as a “deliberate attempt by alities who have been conferring Japan to enforce her will by arms, irres-for the last 24 hours with the Span- ish Premier, Senor Juan Negrin, pective of all international control.” A collec-and the Defence Minister, Senor tion on behalf of China realised £345.
Prieto, in the Franco-Spanish fron- tier town of Figuras. Trans-
WORK SOUTH OF Lord Cecil added that their purpose was to stop the ocean.
SHANGHAI
are
still
Shanghai, To-day. Reliable reports state that bands. of Chinese irregulars operating with complete success around Sungkiang, about 60 kilo- metres south-west of Shanghai, on the Shanghai-Hangchow Railway.
Japanese supply columns are con- tinually being attacked and the in- fantry guards have suffered severe casualties.
The Japanese so far have not been able to check this activity ful- ly, though they are nominally complete control of the whole area.
Trans-Ocean,
in
KIAOCHOW RAILWAY OPEN
Shanghai, Yesterday.
Traffic on the Tsinan-Tsingtao Railway was resumed yesterday, according to an announcement made to-day by the Japanese army spokesman.
The spokesman said that the first train to make a complete run or the line left Tsingtao at 10 o'clock yesterday morning in
the presence of Chinese and Japanese officials.
The train, he said, carried about fifty-passengers: Reuter,
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war and if they did not succeed, he urged the citizens of all countries represented at the meeting to clear themselves of complicity in songs and was loudly applauded. the Japanese crime.
Mr. Herbert Morrison, the holding the international cause. Labour leader, said they had no In the system of collective.
80-
Negro singer, sang several freedom
The meeting at Covent Garden and the overflow meeting at the Adelphi Theatre, endorsed the re- solution passed by the Internation-
AMUSING END
There was a remarkable scene at the Covent Garden meeting. Lord Cecil was apparently xious to wind up with the Nation-
an-
quarrel with the people and gov-curity, nations had to contribute al Peace Conference earlier. ernment of Japan, but. they little compared to what they would wanted the economic and finan-have to do to defend their interests cial resources of the peaceful na-single-handed. tions of the world to be used for
The League could be galvanised other purposes than those of war. into a living force if the peace Mr. Morrison advocated an in- lovers co-operated and carried out ternational police force, and the principles for which the League ternational," and most of the au- urged that they should not ad- stood. vance loans to Japan.
al Anthem. Some of the audience, however, began singing the "In-
dience joined in. Lord. Cecil and PEACEFUL WEAPON
others on the platform did not par- There was no doubt “FOR OUR OWN SAKES”
that the ticipate in the singing. peaceful weapon of boycott was. one! A section of the audience had to M. Jean Perrin, speaking on be-of the economic sanctions provided wait until the majority had finish- half of the scientists of the by the Covenant to restrain aggres-ed the "International" before they world, said "For our own sakes sion.
could make themselves heard with famous the National Anthem.-Reuter.
we must help China. If we don't, Mr. Paul Robeson, the we will become the slaves of the Asiatic world, which has become totalitarian.
was
Dr. Wellington Koo said that the Covenant of the League not an ineffective instrument to prevent war. 'Its effectiveness de- pended on the loyalty of members.
LEAGUE COVENANT
Ineffectiveness to deal with the Manchurian incident, the Abysinian war and the present China war, was due to the unwillingness of the more important members to apply the Covenant, and consideration of national interest had been allowed to prevail over the wisdom of up-
Night Of Terror In Gale Round Britain
London, To-day.
Several R.A.F. planes,
pegged
A night of terror for hundreds, down outside the hangars at Mans- made homeless by the sea burstington aerodrome were badly damag- the coast defences, extensive damed by the gale,
age to coastal resorts and another In Horsey, Norfolk, 150 villagers flood crisis in the Fen district, evacuated when the sea forced were some of the consequences of gap of three miles long and rush- the week-end gale, which in some ed five miles inland. places was the worst for forty years.
Many cattle were drowned at Winterton, where twenty square The storm caused fifty vessels to miles were flooded by the sea. mass in Folkestone harbour for London had a week-end of alarm, shelter.
and the Thames reached the high- Hundreds of bathing-huts were est level since the 1928. flood dis- smashed at Ramsgate, while Maraster. There Was no serious gate's ten-mile sea front was mishap but much flooding occurred strewn with wreckage of numbers in Twickenham, Rotherhithe and of small boats sunk.
other suburbs.-Reuter.
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