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DR. KOO MAKES SEVEN DEMANDS IN A FORCEFUL SPEECH BEFORE THE LEAGUE

Raw Material Embargo: Economic Support Of The Chinese Nation

GENEVA, JÄNUARY 18 (T/OCEAN)-LEAGUE OF NATIONS SUPPORT FOR CHINA was demanded by the Chinese Ambas- sador to Paris and the chief Chinese delegate to the League Counel meeting, Dr. Wellington Koo, yesterday afternoon in a forceful speech lasting over one hour. The demand, as pre- sented by Dr. Koo are as follows:

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1 Financial and economic restrictions against Japan;

2 Boycott of all Japanese goods by members of the Lea-

3 Embargo on raw material which would be utilized "in

Japan for the manufacture of war materials;

4. Special embargo on aeroplanes and petroleum;

5 Effective economic support of the Chinese nation by

the members of the League:

6 Simplication of transit and transport of war mat-

ertals intended for China; and

7 Formation of a special committee by the League Coun-

ell on which all nations with interests in the Far East would

be represented and whose task would be to consider ways

and means for member States to resist Japan and to pre- vent Japan from continuing the war.

WEDDING AT THE REGISTRY

MR. FOK PAK-MING and his bride, formerly Miss The Sin kwan, photographed after their marriage at the Registry yester- day. (Photo, A. A. Kahn).

Dr. Koo pointed out that in as declared in further remarks that SOUTH CHINA WAR sisting China to repulse the inva-China makes a definite distinction der the other nations are merely between working for their own good, be policy,

internal and ·forelen

Japanese Troops Massing

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Attack On Canton Soon

cause a liberated China will be Touching upon the trade menace able to participate to a consider-ito. Europe and America that is re- able degree in world trade.

sulting from, the Japanese deter- The Chinese forces, he declared.mination to revise, the open door Dr. Koo em- had succeeded during recent weeks polley in China. In regaining a certain amount of phasized that only a free and in- Can maintain territory, and resistance is deve-dependent China loping in the western provinces. the open door principle. Marcover, the guerila tactics of In a sharp attack on the Japan-

FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT) culture which, he de.. the Chinese troops are rendering ese

CHUNGSHAN, Jan. 18.With the removal of arms and other. clared, Would

Imposed be a further Japanese advance prac-

Japanese through a

military provisions from Tungkwoon, on the East River, the tically impossible, and there is the on China

town

Incessant owing to speaker

Japanese are likely to give up that declared probability that Hangchow will be victory. the

querilla activities in the vicinity. The enemy are handicapped by recaptured within a short time. that in this Beld China is superior

the destruction of bridges and highways, which hampers their that Japanese culture is Even those provinces nominally in and

transportation. They are likely to concentrate Chungtang the hands of the Japanese are by no unacceptable.

near Bocca Tigris, from where access to the Pearl River is easy. means secure, he stated, pointing

There are about 340 Japanese soldiers inside the city. out that 93 per cent of the terr tory is administrated by the Cen tm; Government.

TO RETAKE CANTON The southern provinces have also scen extensive Chinese activity since the beginning of January, and an attempt will he made soon to retake Can- These facts in them- ton. selves, continued the speaker. are sumclent to indicate that the Chinese are holding their

gramma

by announced

ROOSEVELT'S WORDS Appealing in, conclusion to the major Powers. Dr. Koo re- called President Roosevelt's words of January 4 and em- phasized that a Japanese vic- tory would signify the end of foreign commercial Infinence In the Far East.

The debate on the demands presented by the Chinese delegate will take place to-day.

LEAGUE'S WEAKNESS LONDON, Jan. 18 (Reuter)-The usefulness of Dr. Wellington Koo's

Prince is doubtful,

comments

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on

A ruinour that four more Japan Canton, to avold Beavy Japanese

divisions have arrived nearrtillery bombardment. Canton to launch a gemal offen- sive, is not confirmed. For the present the enemy is making every elfort to mobilize "all available troops to the northwest and shorten the defence llnes in Kwangtung with a smaller force at their disposal.

Japanese troops are also massed Chuenchuen and Taipingchang. about 40 miles north of Canton,

Turning to the recent peace pro-repeated appeals to the League in order to defend the Imminent "The Chinese attack on Canton. Hav-- Konoye, former Prime Minister of Times." adding that they tending established his headquarters in chiedy to accentuate the pollucal the East River valley. Gen. Chang weakness of the League.

Japan. Dr. Ko declared that ac- ceptance of the programmie would open up all Asia to Japanese mill- tarism.

YUGOSLAVIA

Proposal For Pact Reported

ROME, Jan. 18 (Reuter)-- The conclusion of a-pact" be- tween Hungary and Yugoslavia

is the main object of Count Ciano's forthcoming talks with M. Stoyadinovitch, the Yugo- slav Foreign Minister, at Belje, according to the newspaper, "Popolo Di Rome."

The chief points of the pact are. that Hungary is to respect the existing frontier, and Yugoslavia

to guarantee fair treatment of the Hungarian minority.

CONDITIONS IN CANTON CITY

There is still a shortage of food- stuffs and other daily necessaries in Canton, according to a passen. ger who arrived aboard the 3.5. Kinshan, says "Central News."

Foreigners in Shameen, he said. are concerned over the continuousment. rise of commodity prices

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The talks also aim at eventually. bringing Rumania into the agree.

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ECONOMIC TRIANGLE There s iso some talk, the newspaper says, of creating Rome-Budapest-Belgrade triangle, to have special effect in the econo- mic Beld,

Pedestrians are required to salute the Japanese sentries.. Foreigners are not excepted. He personally saw a foreigner slapped on" the face by a Japanese sentry for failing to

"Needless to say, such a creation salute him.

perfectly harmonious People riding in rickshaws must would be also alight and salute the Japan-with the policy of the Rome-Berlin

Foreigners coming axis," observes the paper.

Everything in and out from Shameen must carry

Fb-kwal, the Commander-in-Chief, is persolially directing the coun- ter-attack.

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Appeal To International

Peace Campaign

CHUNGKING, January 18 (Central)—The China Branch of the International Peace Campaign has dispatched a cablogram to the International Peace Campaign in Genova, asking Lord Robert Cecil and M. P. Cot, its Presidents, to make a declaration, on the ocea- sion, of the 103rd Counell of the League of Nations, in support of any demands that China may make at the meeting of the Council. "The Times" comes to this con clusion in a passing reference to

The cablegram reads:

is yet a signatory to the Nine- The guerilla. units have been ese sentries. Dr. Koo's appeal to the League

reorganization

On the occasion of the meeting Power Treaty and is most con- yesterday. In the course of an edi- undergoing по

torial devoted to the

Geneva are to be placed under the direct passes, and their movements are Baltic Europe is in a ferment of re- of the League of Nations Council cerned in the Far East, could take command of the district adminis- clusely watched by the Japanese. vision, writes Signor Gayda in the the Chinese people wish Presidents concerted action to give China Lrative officials. They will

adequate financial aid and supply co he stated.

d'Italia. He reviews Lord R.' Cecil and P. Cot as was it on his way home from Rome.

Most of the Japanese "Giornale

her with War materials while are quartered in Honam. the steps taken by Yugoslavia to The majority of the League's operate with the regulars in the troops

a declaration stating the League's Japan and boycotting her exports. members,

axis, and declares that Rumania minimum obligation towards China made it ofcally clear that they end of the week. heavy fighting strictly forbidden.

will be waged in the vicinity f A lot of gambling houses have henceforth has an interest of he recognize now

and Insisting that the League their obligations

been established In Canton, he own in bringing her polley into t

accept China's reasonable and under Article 16, only in a modi-Tsengshing and Chungfa

The main Japanese defence is further revealed.

same line.

legitimate demands.

scenes as Viscount Halliax found

"The Times" proceeds. Plusent counter-offensive. By the Traffic at many places there is bring her nearer the Rome-Beridone in the case of Spain to make absolutely refusing the same to

JAPAN'S OBSESSION Europe, he stated, ha conception of the depth to which Japan is obsessed with the idea of expansion. which fas been cultivated for cen- Luries. In proposing the Japanese-Chinese-Manchurian bloc, Prince Konoye envisaged Far East under Japanese control Membership of China in the They do not say that the Article anti-Comintern group would mean has lapsed altogther. but their surrendering control of foreign

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fed sense.

position is that action under it. all, is policy to Japan, he stated. In de- to be taken. If taken at clining to sign, the anti-Comintern voluntarily and on the merits of Pact China does not signify that each case.

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she is inclined towards Commun-

Dr. Koo had enumerated the

to hold Bocca Tigris and Wham- poa, as from the these two points the warships can tender assistance In bombarding the advancing Chi- nese units.

SUCCESSFUL COUNTER-

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YUNGYUN, KWANGTUNG, Jan.

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1am or that the Central Govern-nancial and economic measures ment is Communistic in its out-which he believed, would in this 18 (Central Chinese forces are BRITAIN look, explained the speaker. who case, be effective.

British Merchants Urged Not To Be Pessimistic

LONDON, Jan. 18 (Reuter)-Mr. Kawamura, Chairman of the Japanese Businessmen's Association in London, in a letter to "The Times," in reply to Mr. J. W. Nicholson's letter of December 21. emphasizes that the Japanese authorities have taken extreme care to cause as little inconvenience as possible to foreigners in China For example, Japanese operations in the fighting in the Shanghai area were specially hampered.

HOUSEWIVES ASKED TO

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LONDON, Jan., 18'(T/Ocean) ----- Every housewife should begin now

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the Kingdom of Canada, that the Governor-General's title be chang-'

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the south of Chungia, 35 miles The Prime Minister, Mr. Chamed to Viceroy, that the Viceroy be northeast of Canton. The Japan-beriain, has decided to supervise Canadian-born and that legisin- ese are reported to be falling back the arrangements that are being tion be adopted to provide a Royal Great Seal for the Kingdom of in the face of the flerce Chinese made" for holding the Palestine onslaught.

Conference in London, Some weeks Canada and a Royal Signet be Six hundred Japanese troops in ago

he announced his inten-vested in the custody of the Prime the Tsengshing area attacked the tion to devote his entre efforts Chinese positions at Siulou and to the task of arriving at a set- Takunyam in three columns on tlement of the Palestine question EGYPT Sunday morning. They were re-at the conclusion of his visit to Hussein Sirry, Minister for pulsed after severe hand-to-hand Rome.

Public Works, has been appointed @ghting.

War Minister In succession to Hassan Pasha Bey.

ITALY

The Chinese have evacuated The Dominions Secretary has Sunkal the Canton-Hankow telegraphed to the Governor of Railway, about 18 miles north of New South Wales and the Com- monwealth Government his sym- GERMAN FERTILIZER pathy at the loss of life and suf- Count Ciano, Italian Foreign tering and damage to property | Mindster, has left Rome on a visit caused by the heat wave and bush to Yugoslavia where he will have Important discussions with the Premier and Foreign Minister of Yugoslavia.

BOYCOTTED

WASHINGTON, Jan. 18 (Reuter) | fire.

A halt has been' ordered in thę

purchasing of German fertilizer In response to what he describes In Tsingtao, the letter continues. for use on Government farms in as A national appeal from the to stock foodstuffs and drinking the Chinese sank over twenty ships Puerto Rico: stated Mr. Miles Prime Minister not to split the UNITED STATES water as a precautionary measure alongside wharves to hamper the Fairbank, of the Puerto Rico Re-National Government vote. Mr. J.

These construction Administration, yes. F. Wright. Independent Conserva- Between seventeen and twenty against the outbreak of war, de- Japanese navy's approach.

were now being removed by "the terday.

tive and starmers' candidate,, has million schoolchildren will be clared Sir Auckland Geddes, ad-

mechanical viser to the Minister for Civil De-Japanese navy so that the wharves

Mr. Fairbank sald this action withdrawn from the by-election in taught the theory of was taken following protests to East Norfolk, so that only two fight every year, it has been de fence, last night. Sir Auckland shall be available.

Medicott cided by the National Aeronau- spoke at Beckenham, In Kent, for With reference to exchange con- Mr. Harold Ickes, Becretary of In-candidates,

by American fertilizer (Liberal National) and Mr. N. R. tical Association convention. The the first time in his new official trol, in North China, Mr. Kawa-terior.

Tillet (Labour)-will go to the poll scheme will be devetalled with mura says he actually favours the farms. capacity.

on Thursday week. Bir Auckland also treated the British merchants who can fix ex- aspect of national defence question ports at 81d, whereas the Japanese and demanded the acquisition of adhere to the new regime's ex- steelplated shelters for millions of change rate at 14d.

persons.

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BOMBAY SILVER

Bombay, Jan. 18. Unofficial 'Quotations

51-15

14 Bettlement

Mr. Kawamura emphatically Ready..

Japanese intention to Sir Auckland said, in his speech, denies that the Government is making eliminate Western trade influence Mar.. 17 Settlement

Market.-Easy.

all preparations for feeding of the in the Far East and urges, British population in the event of war,, businessmen not to be pessimistic:

CANADA

Mr.

F

the Government's programme for teaching thousands of college students how to fly.

A resolution introduced in the The Benate, has confirmed the' 51-14 Canadian House of Commons by nomination of Professor Felix 51-12 Mr. Lacroix (Quebec Liberal) pro-Frankfurter, of the Harvard Law poses that Canada's name be School, sa an associate Justice of changed from the Dominion to the Supreme Court.".

Reuter.

"By so doing not only the war will be cut short and China's victory will be precipitated to the Chinese people's gratitude but the legiti "At least the most powerful mate rights and interests of third League members, Great Britain, Powers in the Far East will be |France, the U. 8, 8. R. in collabora- preserved from Japan's impairment tion with the United States, which and the League's authority will though not bound by the Covenant, | be upheld,"

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