CHINESE WARNED

Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 101, 23 January 1933, Page 9

CHINESE WARNED

Statement in Japanese Diet

INVASION OF JEHOL

Unfortunate Eventualities

ANTI-JAPANESE MOVEMENT

(By Telegraph.—Press Assn.— Copyright.)

(Received Jan. 22, 6.30 p.m.) Washington, Jan. 20.

The Japanese Minister of Foreign Affairs to-night issued a warning to “the Government and people of China against the unfortunate eventualities that may arise” from wnat ho described as the invasion of the Jehol province by Chinese troops and “the positive anti-Japanese movement.” The Minister spoke in the Japanese Diet and the text of his remarks was made public oy the Embassy here. GRIP ON SHANHAIKUAN Significant Development JAPANESE POST OFFICE (Received Jan. 22, 6.30 p.m.). Shanghai, Jan. 21. A significant development at shanhaikuan is the establishment of a firstclass Japanese post office in the Chinese telegraph office. The significance lies in the fact that Shanhaikuan is in China proper, being south or tne Great Wall. A movement is said to be afoot to incorporate the city in Manchukuo. MANCHURIAN DISPUTE Discussions at Geneva COMMITTEE’S EFFORTS Official Wireless. Rugby, Jan. 20. A further meeting of the League Assembly’s Committee of Nineteen on the Manchurian dispute, under the presidency of M. Hymans, was held this evening to hear the Japanese reply to the Committee’s inquiry as to whether, if the Japanese demand for exclusion from the Conciliation Commission of two non-members, the States of Soviet Russia and the United States were conceded, Japan would accept other clauses of the committee’s resolution. These clauses included a declaration that the provisions of the Covenant of the League, the Kellogg Pact, and the Nine-Power Treaty, must be respected. Further, that a Conciliation Committee should be set up to conduct, In conjunction with the parties to the dispute, negotiations for a settlement on the basis of the principles laid down in Chapter 9 of the Lytton Report and having regard to suggestions contained in Chapter 10. Also that neither a mere return to the status quo in Manchuria nor the maintenance and recognition of the present regime there would provide a durable solution. According to.. Press reports from Geneva, the Japanese delegates to-day have now received fresh Instructions and their amendments of the resolution include proposals that the Committee of Conciliation consist of only five to seven members; that the Committee should not intervene. directly in the Sino-Japanese conversations, but simply give assistance when necessary; that all reference to non-recognition of Manchukuo be excluded from both the speech of M. Hymans and from the resolution; that non-members of the League could be invited to take part in the committee’s deliberations provided that the first three points are accepted. After a long session the Committee of Nineteen adjourned the discussion until to-morrow afternoon. AMERICAN ATTITUDE Continuity of Policy Washington, Jan. 20. In their conference at the White House, President Hoover and the Presi-dent-elect, Mr. F. D. Roosevelt, did not skip entirely over the Sino-Japanese situation. Mr. Roosevelt is represented as feeling that the accord between the outgoing and incoming Administrations on the sustaining of American treaties had produced a healthy effect in that part of the world theatre where the Sino-Japanese situation was paramount.