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Sharp Criticism Of Japan At Opium Conference

Geneva, To-day.

The Opium Advisory Committee have passed a re- solution calling the attention of the League Council to the seriousness of the situation in the Far East as revealed by the debates during the present session of the Committee. The resolution requests the Council to take the most energetic measures to remedy the situation and calls attention to last year's resolution.

It declares on the situation, that

SHARP ATTACKS ON China has showed efforts to reduce

MR. CHAMBERLAIN

the evil, and the Chinese Govern- ment has brought about an improve- ment, whereas the regions under (Continued from Page 11)

Japanese influence have deteriorat- Opposition did not insist on

the ed to an alarming extent and con- bombardment of Spanish harbour stituted a situation of very real towns, since similar action by Ger-danger to the people in these re- many had been generally criticised gions and also the whole world and as having been carried out on in- could not continue. nocent persons instead of the culprits.

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When the Committee opened, the

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He went on to point out that

the high seas and in Spanish har-resolution summarising, in moderate bours than the Nationalists in Bri-, words, the Committee's discussions. tish harbours, and furthermore, Messrs. Buller (America), Shar- England has over 40 million pounds man (Canada), and Nind (India) invested in the Mediterranean com-strongly objected, Mr. Buller main- merce. For these reasons General taining that the draft misquoted Franco would have a great advan- the tenor of his statements and in- an eye for an eye and a tooth for a the China situation was worse. · tooth. Trans-Ocean.

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Mr. Sharman pointed out that the than that of last year when draft of the resolution was milder situation was already grave.

the

DELIBERATE ATTACKS Moving the adjournment, Mr Attlee said there was no doubt at all that these ships were engaged in perfectly legitimate trade. They

GRAVER THIS YEAR had non-intervention observers on

Mr. Nind, supporting Mr. Shar- board-in one

man, said that Japan had given no case, French; in other, Germán.

signs of clearing up the situation The attacks were which,, while grave last year, was delivered at low altitude and must have been deliberate.

graver this year. He observed that the Japanese delegate had not re- futed the criticisms but only re-

SIMPLIFIED ISSUE

Mr. Attlee recalled the Prime Minister had insisted the attacks peated promises of action in colla- must be regarded

boration. He insisted as made by

that the planes and pilots under the contro

resolution express the Committee's of General Franco and argued, in

dissatisfaction. that case, that the position was simplified for, if the Governmen took action, none of the complica- tions he inferred could arise with any other Power.

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famous anti-drug expert, declared Russell Pasha, the world's most that no resolution at all was better than a weak one,

The meeting thereupon, agreed on

A British ship was as much a part the resolution as above.-Reuter, Mr. E. Thompson, of the Hong the cable but no arrests were made

of British territory as Kong Electric Company, has re- then. It was

Gibraltar and a British sailor just as much

lain, who believed that the ported that some-one cut the high wooden handle of the axe insulated a British subject as any other per- the non-intervention policy had rose at once to reply, said that all through, the object of tension cable between Victoria Gap the current and saved the culprit. and Pokfulam sub-station and stole At the Central Magistracy this

been to avoid what they conceived about

WAR DANGER 150 feet of cable worth morning,

to be the inevitable result of inter- Wong about $150. The damage caused charged before Mr. H. R. Butters

The Prime Tang-ka,

Minister must more specific amounted to $600.

If he wanted, the fiction of Spain until it became a vention, namely a spread of the con- with stealing 16 catties of lead ob-House to believe he could-not de- Some time ago a 'similar theft tained from an electric cable and

fend them. Mr.. Neville Chamber-

European confliction. Once war- occurred in this district and the was remanded for 72 hours.

like action started, whether supply to Pokfulam was cut off. Inspector W. Mair, of No. 7 Stokes and Master, representing some objective, who could tell that against General Franco or against An axe which had been used to Police Station, requestiong the re- the Hong Kong Electric Co., would the operation would end there.-- chop the wire was found welded in mand, said that Messrs. Johnston, 'prosecute.

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