CHINA’S SOLEMN PROTEST.
GENEVA, March 3. Arrangements have been completed for the meeting on Thursday of the League of Nations Assembly which has been specially convened to consider the Sino-Japanese dispute. 'I he president of the League Council, M. Paul Boncour, in a letter to Viscount Sato, acknowledging receipt of the Japanese acceptance of the Coun- «- -l’s proposal for an immediate interational conference in Shanghai, points it that these proposals were subject ) local arrangements being made for ae cessation of hostilities. The letter adds that the Assembly could not be,'in while guns were still roaring in the Far East. Viscount Sato informed M. Boncour that Japan’s conditions of peace have been handed to Admiral Sir Howard Kelly, who has summoned a conference of representatives of Japan and China on board his flagship, H.M.S. Kent. Mr Yen has made the solemn declaration to the League Council that China cannot believe that she has blundered in relying on the League Covenant, whose production cost 10,000,000 lives and is backed by forty-five nations. If Japan is right, the Chinese note says, militarism and brute force resume their sway, but, if the new order is to be preserved, the hour has struck to defend it.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 364, 4 March 1932, Page 1
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