Pressure on China

Stratford Evening Post, Volume I, Issue 291, 18 November 1931, Page 5

Pressure on China

NEGOTIATIONS WITHOUT WITHDRAWAL LEAGUE'S PROBABLE ACTION (Reed, to-day, 8.30 a.m.) LONDON, Tuesday. The Manchester Guardian's Paris correspondent says that what seems likeliest is that the League Council will bring pressure on China to negotiate with Japan without a withdrawal of Japanese troops, and without even fixing a date for withdrawal. Information received by the League suggests that the Japanese contemplate permanent occupation. They are everywhere deposing the local authorities and preparing to establish a new Government under Japanese control.

JAPANESE REINFORCEMENTS (Reed, to-day, Noon.) TOKIO, Tuesday. Conspicuous among the reinforcements from Japan were squadrons of aeroplanes, including bombers. It is feared that the Japanese are placing little trust in the professions of the northern general, who is believed to be strongly supported in Nanking. LEAGUE COUNCIL ADJOURNS (Reed. To-day, 12.30 p.m.) PARIS, Tuesday. The League Council listened to M. Briand's exposition of the Manchurian situation and adjourned till tomorrow to enable M. Briand to obtain further details of the Japanese demands, including the precise degree to which treaties affect the nationals' economic interests, after which another attempt will be made to produce a Sino-Japanese understanding.