AN IMPORTANT DECISION.

Wairarapa Age, 16 March 1933, Page 5

AN IMPORTANT DECISION.

UNITED STATES AND FAR EAST. “INFORMATIVE CONTACT” WITH LEAGUE. NO AGREEMENT TO ACCEPT : JOINT CONCLUSION. WASHINGTON, March 14 An important decision of th® Roosevelt Administration finds the United States refusing to be bound by any action taken, but agreeing to join members of the League of Nations in a discussion as to what the world should do about Japanese inroads in Northern China. The State Department disclosed on Tuesday that Mr. Hugh R, Wilson, United States Minister in Switzerland, had been named to sit at the Council table with the League’s special advisory committee on the undeclared war in the Far East, and to participate in its acts with two important reservations, that the United States, not being a member of the League, will not vote and that it will not agree in advance to bow to the committee’s decision, which might call for an economic boycott or other coercive measures. “The presence of the United States in this manner at the meetings of the committee will give an informative contact,” said the Department. CHINA’S ATTITUDE. REPORTED SETTLEMENT DENIED. SHANGHAI, March 14. The Chinese Foreign Minister denies the report of negotiations for a SinoJapanese settlement. There is no suggestion that General Chiang Kai-Shek is likely to call off his avowed policy of resistance. Whether the Japanese cross the Great Wall or otherwise, the Chinese forces will continue to attack, refusing to discuss terms which are undoubtedly dictated by the aggressor.

JOINT OPERATIONS. ADVANCE ON CHARHAR. (Received Wednesday, 9.45 p.m.) SHANGHAI, March 15. Joint Manchukuo and Japanese operations, according to Pekin messages, have now extended into Charhar. Manchukuo troops, commanded by General Liuk Wei-tang are attacking Dolonor from Western Jehol, while a thousand Japanese, with ten field guns, are advancing in the Utan district on Charhar. MATERIAL LOSSES. RELIEF GRANTED BY JAPANESE GOVERNMENT. (Received Wednesday, 7 p.m.) TOKIO, March 15. The Government has assigned three million yen to the relief of material losses by foreigners and Japanese suffered during the Shanghai and Manchurian incidents.