THE LEAGUE COVENANT

Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 79, 30 September 1933, Page 10

THE LEAGUE COVENANT

SENSATION AT GENEVA

MAJOR CONFLICT IN ASIA

DR. KOO'S CRAVE WARNING

Vnlted Presi Association—Bj Electric Tel*-, graph—Copyright. (Received September 30, 2.30 p.m.) GENEVA, September 29. "If the League of Nations' Covenant is a scrap of paper east of Suez, how can it become a reality in Europe," asked the Chinese representative, Dr. Wellington Koo, in an extremely outspoken speech delivered m careful English at the League of Nations' Assembly at Geneva. Dr. Koo said that the League's decision condemning Japan, so far, remained practically a dead letter. China, was determined not to recognise or acquiesce in the allegedly accomplished fact of the Japenese occupation of four provinces, "which," he said, "will only remain as long as it is physically impossible for China, or politically impossible for the-rest of the League to vindicate the sanctity of Treaties." The League, exclusively occupied with the European crisis, suddenly awakened to the grim possibilities in the Pacific. Dr. Koo's quiet earnestness deeply impressed everybody when lie foreshadowed a major conflict in the Far" East. He asserted that the present military and naval increases indicated the intention to use them. The armaments race, he said, foreshadowed the greatest crisis in Japan's history. Delegates, including the Australians, swarmed the lobbies to discuss what Dr. Koo described in sober account.