WAR PROBABLE

Taranaki Daily News, 17 January 1933, Page 7

WAR PROBABLE

SIMLJAPANESE TROUBLE NO HELP FROM THE LEAGUE CHINA MUST DEFEND ITSELF ADVICE FROM DELEGATION DISARMAMENT IMPOSSIBLE By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright Rec. 11.40 p.m. London, Jan. 16. The Chinese delegation at Geneva has advised the Government nothing can be expected from the League of Nations, says the Manchester Guardian correspondent at Geneva. China must defend herself against Japanese aggression, the delegation has advised. ' . A regular Sino-Japanese war seems inevitable. China may leave the disarmament conference feeling disarmament is impossible in the present conditions. If China leaves Geneva she will inevitably be forced into the arms of Russia, whose influence in China would become predominant.

It is understood, says the Times correspondent at Geneva, that the resolution of the sub-committee of five, which the committee of nineteen will consider on Monday, has been amended to meet the Jananese objection to the sub-commit-tee’s recommendations based on the Lytton report. The recommendations that Manchukuo should not be recognised and that a gendarmerie should be established to keep order therein have been pushed so far into the background as to be barely discernible. The Japanese attitude is likely to be conciliatory but dilatory. Cynics suggest the conciliatory tone will be maintained until the present phase of the Jehol operations has been completed a fortnight from now, after which the policy will depend upon the ground gained at Geneva in the meantime. The Kawasaki dockyard has contracted to build three light-draft gunboats for river service to the order of the Manchukuo Government, states a Tokio message. V '