WAR IN FAR EAST

Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 28, 3 February 1938, Page 9

WAR IN FAR EAST

OPPORTUNITY FOR

POWERS

STEPS FOR A JUST SETTLEMENT (British Official' Wireless.) / (Received February 3, 11.45va.m.) RUGBY, February 2. | The League Council this morning passed a resolution which, inter alia, noted with regret the intensification of the. hostilities in the Far East, recalled its own resolution of October last expressing moral support of China, and expressed confidence that States members of the League with special interests in the Far East would lose no opportunity of examining, in common with other similarly interested Powers, the feasibility of further steps contributing to a just settlement of the conflict. . The Chinese delegate accepted the resolution while reserving the right ' to ask for further League action. This resolution was mentioned by the Foreign Secretary, Mr. Eden, in answering a question in the House of Commons on action against aggression in the Far East. The Foreign Secretary stated that there is nothing in the resolution to prevent co-operation between League Powers- and others. However, he was not in a position to make a statement on the resolution. In answer to another question, Mr. Eden stated that the British Ambassador in Tokio had been instructed to impress on the Japanese Government the extreme importance which the British Government attached to the maintenance and protection of its interests in the Customs revenue. The Japanese Foreign Minister had given an assurance that due consideration" would be given to the views of foreign Powers.