MANCHURIAN CRISIS
THE LEAGUE'S COMMISSION PERSONNEL ANNOUNCED Press Association—By Tolegrapli—Copyright. v GENEVA, December 22. (Received December 23, at 9.50 a.m.) The League of Nations lias appointed tho following commission to visit Manchuria in the new year:— The Earl of Lytton (Great Britain). M. Claudel (a member of the French Supreme War Council). Herr Schneo (formerly Governor of German East Africa). Count Aldo Brandini (formerly Italian Ambassador at Berlin). Mr Walker Hinos (an American lawyer who acted as arbitrator in Europe under tho peace- treaties in 1920-21 and investigated the Rhino and Danube navigation for tho League of Nations in 1925). JAPAN'S DETERMINATION LAWLESS BANDS TO BE SUPPRESSED. SHANGHAI, December 22. (Received December 23, at 11.15 a.m.) General Honjo, commanding the Japanese forces in Manchuria, has issued a solemn warning to China not to interfere with Japaneso military movements, otherwise drastic action would be taken against any force attempting to hinder tho eradication of tho undisciplined Chinese troops, which are adopting banditry. All ambiguity regarding tho intentions of tho Japanese was removed with the publication in Tokio of a War Office statement announcing tho determination to remove the possibility of all future disturbances in Manchuria by drastic military action against Chang Hsueh-liang's troops that are concentrated at Chinchow.
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Evening Star, Issue 20983, 23 December 1931, Page 9
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