MIDDLE COURSE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 227, 24 September 1932, Page 9

MIDDLE COURSE.

MANCHUKUO PROBLEM League Commission Against Recognition ? REPORT AWAITED. (United P.A.—Electric Telegraph—Copyright) LONDON, September 23. The Geneva correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph" says the report of the commission set up by the League of Nations (headed by the Earl of Lytton) to investigate Sino-Japanese relations, has been received but not yet published.

It is understood that the commission is unanimously of the opinion that the new State of Manchukuo, in Manchuria, should not be officially recognised. It found it impossible to reach an agreement with the Japanese Government on these lines. It is believed that the League will recommend a middle course, namely, to replace the Manchukuo Government with a local administration, giving Japan full control of the railways and insisting .upon the disarmament of all the Chinese forcee in the country.. ' - Customs Blockade Next. . A Shanghai message ■ says. that the Nanking Government's second step in the economic war over Manchukuo comes with the announcement that the Executive has sanctioned the enforcement on September 25 of a Customs blockade of the new State to counteract the functioning of the new Customs houses established in Manchukuo in the cities of Shanhaikwan, Antung, Daircn, Yingkow and Manchuli. The Manchukuo Government announces that China has treated it as an alien country since the Japanese recognition of the new State, thereby subjecting all goode from China to the =ame Customs duties as foreign imports. Endless confusion is anticipated. A postal blockade of Manchukuo has been already enforced.