JAPANESE INVASION

Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 15, 17 July 1937, Page 9

JAPANESE INVASION

SOVEREIGNTY VIOLATED

READY FOR PEACE

WORLD-WIDE EFFECT OF WAR

United Press Association—By Electric Telo-

graph—Copyright. (Received July 17, 11.30 a.m.) LONDON, July 16.

China has sent a Note to ail fhe| signatories of the Nine-Power Treaty | except Japan, declaring that more than 100 Japanese aeroplanes and 20,000 troops are concentrated in the Peking-Tientsin area, "ready _to precipitate a major clash.' China accuses the Japanese of repeatedly nullifying, by resumption of attacks, every Chinese attempt to arrange peace by the mutual withdrawal ol troops, and reiterates that, the Japanese night manoeuvres on July 7 were carried out in a region in which the Japanese had no right to be. _ The Note adds that the invasion ot North China violates China's sovereignty, and that if aggression is permitted to continue it will immediately disturb peace in East Asia, and may entail unforeseen circumstances throughout the world. China is obliged to employ every means to defend her territory and honour, but is still ready for a peaceful settlement. The Note has also been sent to Russia and to Germany. The Nine-Power Pact was concluded at Washington in 1921-22, and engaged the signatory Powers to aspect the sovereignty, independence, and teiuorial integrity of China, to give Cnina opportunity to develop a stable Government, to maintain the principle of equal opportunity in China for commerce and industry to all nations, and to refrain from taking advantage o£ conditions in China to seek special privileges that would abridge the rights of subjects or citizens of friendly States.