CHINA & JAPAN

Hokitika Guardian, 13 September 1937, Page 6

CHINA & JAPAN

CHINESE APPEAL. FOR LEAGUE INTERVENTION (United Press Association--By Electric Telegraph—Copyright). (Received this day at 11.5 am.) GENEVA, September 12. Tlie Chinese delegation to-night appealed to the League to take immediate action to stop what the delegation describes as the Japanese intolerable aggression in China. The delegation says the far eastern crisis has developed into a world crisis. Japanese aggression is threatening not only' China’s independence and territorial integrity, hut is menacing the general peace of the world. The delegation adds: We hope the UnitedStates will associate themselves with the League’s action in future, as in the past. CHINESE NOTIFICATION. (Received this day at 1.30 p.tn.) SHANGHAI, September 12. The Air Force has notified the British authorities that no Chinese planes were flying at the time that Hugessen was. attacked.

LODGING AN APPEAL. (Received this day at 1.30 p.m.) GENEVA. September 12China in lodging her appeal against Japanese to the League invoked article 17 of the Covenant.

RAILWAY REOPENED. (Received this day at 1.30 p.m.) PEKING,* September 12. Japanese have reopened the NankowKalgan railway and repaired the tunnel which retreating Chinese damaged. British missionaries are advised to evacuate Shanghai province owing to the Japanese invasion. Chinese have withdrawn from Machang.

MADAME CHIANG’S APPEAL, (Received this day at 1.30 p.m.) NANKING, September 12. Madame Chiang Kai Shell, broadcasting, expressed bewilderment at the western nations silence and added that if the western world deliberately abandons their treaties, China who for years have been stigmatised as cowards will tight until they win or are beaten to broken knees, even if their good earth is steeped in blood, drench ed with fire, and destroyed. All treaties outlawing war and regulations for its conduct seem to have crumbled. Me have a reversion to savagery. Japanese militarists are determined to wreck and eradicate all foreign influences in China. They nmst- 1 regard-occidental reception of the situation as delightfully encouraging, deducing from it that they at last have been able to make a .clean sweep of western prestige. Massacres are bound to extend because the Japanese have prepared aerodromes at Shanghai. We depend on the wisdom and justice of the nations to save the world and China from the consequence of the daily Japanese falsehoods.”