THE MANCHURIAN DISPUTE.

Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20428, 24 December 1931, Page 9

THE MANCHURIAN DISPUTE.

LEAGUE COUNCIL ENQUIRY. PERSONNEL OF COMMISSION. U'KI'CBD TBESS ASSOCIATION —ST *LICT»IC / TELtQBArH—COPTBiaHT.) GENEVA, December 22. Tlie League Council has appointed the following Commission to visit Manchuria in the New Year;— Lord Lytton, former Viceroy of India, head of the Indian Delegation to the eighth and ninth Assemblies of the Tjcague of Nations &t Geneva, 1927, 1028; British Commissioner for Propaganda in France, 1918. General Paul Claudel, member of the French Supreme War Council. Dr. iSuhnee, from 1912 to 1919 Govfcrnor of German/East Africa, and a member of the German People's Party in the Reichstag since 1924, Count Aldo Brandini, formerly Italian Ambassador at Berlin. Mr Walker D. Ilines, the American lawyer who acted as Arbitrator in Europe under the Peace Treaties in 1920-21. and investigated tho Rhine and Danube navigation for the League of Nations in 1925. DRASTIC MILITARY ACTION. WARNING TO CHINA. SHANGHAI, December 22. General Hon jo, commanding the Japanese forces in Manchuria, has issued a solemn warning to China not to interfere with the Japanese military movements, otherwise drastic action would bo taken against any force attempting to hinder the eradication of the undisciplined Chinese troops adopting banditry. All ambiguity regarding tho intentions of tho Japanese has been removed with tho publication in Tokio of a War Office statement announcing the determination of Japan to remove the possibility of all future disturbances in Manchuria by drastic military action against General Chang Hsueh-liang's troops concentrated in ChinchoW.