CHINA S APPEAL.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 234, 2 October 1937, Page 9

CHINA S APPEAL.

ACTION BY LEAGUE. ] i Japan Will Fight to Bitter End And Defy Powers. MEDIATION NOT CALLED FOE. United Press Association.—Copyright. (Received 10 a.m.) LONDON, October L A Geneva message states that a sub-committee of the Assembly has been appointed to suggest action on China's appeal to the League. Britain, Australia and New Zealand are members, and the United States is represented by an observer. The Chinese circulated a draft resolution condemning Japan as an aggressor under Article X. of the Covenant. It is expected this will be referred to the sub-committee, which has decided not to rush matters. This may extend the session of the Assembly. In regard to the British proposal for a conference of Pacific Powers on the Nino-Japanese conflict, says a Tokyo dispatch, Mr. Kawai, spokesman for the Japanese Foreign Office, said mediation was not called for. "We are determined to fight to the hitter end until China reconsiders her attitude and drastically alters her anti•fapaneso policy," continued Mr. Kawai. "So, unswervingly and unflinchingly, though regretfully, we pursue our settled policy. If any Power wants to mediate it must first appreciate our aims and aspirations. '"If any Power desires to associate itself with the Chinese cause it is entirely welcome to do so, only it must beware of the mendacious propaganda of the Chinese. "The proposal for a Pacific Conference is inopportune at present. If such a conference were to show that complete lack of appreciation of the actual situation, as shown in the League's denunciation of Japanese air activities, all efforts at conciliation would be futile." DUTCH WARSHIP FIRES. ESCAPING JAP. FISHERMEN. (Received 2 p.m.) THE HAGUE, October 1. A Dutch destroyer fired on an escaping Japanese fishing vessel in Dutch Indies. Two of the crew were killed and two wounded. The rest were captured.

UNDER HEAVY GUARD. JAP. PRINCE IN CANADA. (Received 2 p.m.) VANCOUVER, October 1. Encircled by a heavily-armed police pniard which barred all members of the public from the docks, Prince Chichibu, brother of the Emperor of Japan, who is returning from the Coronation, embarked for Tokvo.

BITTER JAP. PRESS. LEAGUE AND POWERS SLATED. (Received 12 noon.) TOKYO, October 1. i The Japanese Press is fiercely attacking the League, Britain and the United States. It likens Press howling to I skinny dogs, and alludes to Geneva's need of spectacles to correct the astigmatism due to Chinese mendacity. 'PLANES FOR CHINA. EXPLANATION FROM BRITAIN. / ■ ! ' RUGBY, October 1. I It in explained in official quarters that the permit issued by the Government to the Gloster Aircraft Company to accept an order from China for a number of 2~>o-m.p.h. Royal Air Force machines, reported yesterday, was arranged long before hostilities began. Terms of the contract provided for mechanics to go out with the machines and assemble them. There was no question of British pilots flying the aeroplanes. MEDICAL SUPPLIES. BRITISH RED CROSS ACTION. LONDON, October 1. In response to a cablegram from the China Red Cross Society, the British Ked Cross Society has sent medical supplies by air to China. The executive of the League of Nations Union, at a meeting in London, passed a resolution urging the Government to give at least £100,000 toward the expenses of the proposed medical mission from the League to China, also calling upon the Government to urge the League Assembly to declare China the victim of aggression.