CHINA'S DEMANDS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 220, 17 September 1938, Page 12

CHINA'S DEMANDS.

OPPOSED BY BRITAIN.

Application of Sanctions Against Japs. EARL DE LA WARE'S SPEECH. United Tress Association. —Copyright. (Received 10.30 a.m.) GENEVA, September 16. Dr. Wellington Koo, Chinese delegate, called on the League to apply economic sanctions against Japan. Dr. Koo demanded immediate application of Article XVI., as embargo on raw materials and credits, against Japan, and financial and material aid to Ch'na.

He asked the League to send a commission to China as a preliminary to measures deterring Japan from using poison gas and bombing indiscriminately.

Dr. Koo informed the Leajnie that 1.000.000 Chinese killed and 30,000,000 homeless and destitute, was the extent of the damage in the incomputable course of the campaign. There were over 1,000.000 Japanese troops in China with 500 first-line aeroplanes.

Earl de la Warr, Lord Privy Seal, who is returning to London by air this afternoon to attend a Cabinet meeting, addressing delegates, declared that Britain believes that members should not be obliged to apply economic sanctions in the event of war.

A British official wireless says that Earl de la Warr explained the British attitude to Article XVI. He was insistent that the League could not remain indifferent to aggression, but suggested that sanctions should not be automatic. Each case should be considered on its merits. There would remain a general obligation to consider, in consultation with other League members, whether, and if so, how far, they were able to apply the measures provided in Article XVI., and what steps, if any, they should take in common to render aid to the victim of a breach of the Covenant.

In the course of such a consultation, each State member would judge the extent to which'its own position would allow it to participate in any measures which might be proposed, and, in doing so, it would doubtless be influenced by the extent to which other States would be prepared to act.

He added, however, that Britain wishes to make it clear that she regarded it as of essential importance for the future of the League to preserve intact the principle that aggression against a member of the League was a matter of concern to all members and not one to which they were entitled to adopt an attitude of indifference.

JAPANESE CLAIMS,

FALL OF CHINESE TOWNS

(Received 11 a.m.)

TOKYO, September 16,

The Japanese claim to have captured Shanelieng, Kwangchow and Lutangchen.