SANCTIONS URGED

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19549, 3 February 1938, Page 5

SANCTIONS URGED

APPEAL BY CHINA DISCUSSION AT GENEVA DR. KOO'S DECLARATION SYMPATHY NOT ENOUGH SMALL POWERS PROTEST (Elec. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.) (Reed. Feb. 3, noon.) GENEVA, Fob. 2. China has appealed to the League of Nations to apply Article XVII, which would mean automatic sanctions against Japan.

It provides that in a dispu e between League members and a non-member the latter should be invited to accept the obligations of membership. Should it decline, it will be subject to Article XVI.

Dr. Wellington Koo declared that the League had both the means and the duty to halt Japanese aggression. The League Council unanimously adopted the resolution which recommended the Council to consider the "feasibility" of aiding China.

Peru and Poland abstained from voting as a protest against the practice of the great Powers drawing up plans of action to present to the Council cut and dried, without consulting the small Powers.

Dr. Koo accepted the resolution, adding that he reserved the right to seek further League action. "The extreme gravity of the Far Eastern situation demands the Council's adoption of concrete and energetic measures," he said. "Although the resolution shows evidence of the sympathetic spirit inspiring the October resolution it was inadequate to meet the exigencies of the case."

BRITISH RIGHTS IN CHINA

STATEMENT IN COMMONS JAPANESE INTERVENTION LONDON, Feb. 2. Answering in the House of Commons a question dealing with the Far Eastern situation, Mr. Anthony Eden, the Foreign Secretary, intimated that the Chinese Provisional Government set up in North China and claiming to be for the whole of China, had not been formally recognised by Japan or any other Government. The British Government had protested against this Government's modification of the Chinese customs tariff schedule in a sense favourable to .Japanese imports. The British Government claimed that this- action was contrary to the treaty stipulations that there should be a uniform tariff for all China.

The Japanese claims for a larger share in the administration of the International Settlement at Shanghai, Mr. Eden continued, were still under consideration by the British Government.

His Majesty's Government would continue to do its utmost for the protection of British interests in China, and for the promotion of international co-operation. Mr. Eden added that the Japanese Consul-General at Shanghai had recently communicated certain proposals to the Shanghai Commissioner of Customs. These proposals were now under consideration. His Majesty's Charge d'Affaires was watching the situation closely, and keeping in touch with the French Ambassador and t 1... Jailed States Consul-General.

DISCUSSION DEFERRED

LEAGUE RESOLUTION LONDON, Feb. 2. The Geneva correspondent of The Times says that owing to the desire of the Ecuador delegate to consult his Government, the Council postponed till to-day the public meeting to discuss the resolution agreed to by Britain, France, Russia, and China, recommending the Council to consider the ''feasibility" of aiding China.