JAPAN INDICTED.

Waikato Times, Volume 113, Issue 18877, 22 February 1933, Page 7

JAPAN INDICTED.

DISCUSSION BY LEAGUE.

A VERY GRAVE REPORT. CONCILIATION EFFORTS FAIL, (Official Wireless.! (Received Feb. 22, 10.40 a.m.) RUGBY, Feb. 21. When the extraordinary assembly of the League, called to deal with the Sino-Japanese dispute met at Geneva M. llyams (Belgium), who presided, reviewed the work of Committee 10, which had been dealing with the problem, and said that they were obliged, to their profound regret, to consider that for their part, they had exhausted all possible efforts at conciliation procedure; The conciliation proceedings, of course, he said, Rad not yet closed, and could not be formally closed until the adoption by the Assembly of the report of Committee 19. He hesitated to make a new appeal with a view to conciliation, for it would be necessary not only that fresh proposals which the Assembly could accept should be made, but also that it should receive an assurance that the existing situation would not be aggravated and that fresh operations would not be undertaken. x\s this very grave report was not circulated until last Friday, and as all Governments must be given time to send their instructions to their delegations, lie proposed to adjourn until next Friday, when discussion of the draft report w’ould begin. After the meeting the Japanese circulated a statement of their reasons for rejecting the draft report of Committee 19.

UNITED LABOUR SUPPORT.

HOUR OF NATIONAL CRISIS. POLICY TO ESTABLISH PEACE. United Press Assn.—Eleo. Tel. Copyright. (Received Feb. 22, 10.30 a.m.) TOKIO, Feb. 21. It is expected that Labour, which is numerically 'negligible among the political parties, will give united support to Hie Government in this hour- of national crisis. To-day a mass meeting of 8000 of the leading citizens of Tokio expressed their stern determination to vindicate to .the world that the Japanese policy is to establish peace in the Far East.

EMBARGO OIM ARMS. QUESTION IN COMMONS'. SINGLE ACTION FUTILE. (Official Wireless.i (Received Feb. 22, 1.55 p.m.) RUGBY, Feb. 21. Answering a question In the House of Commons regarding the proposal for an embargo on arms exported to Japan or China, the Foreign Secretary, Sir John Simon, cited the phrase used by President Hoover in a recent message to Congress, that “For one nation alone to engage in such prohibitions while other nations continued to supply arms is futility.”

Sir John Simon said the matter in Its wider aspect involved an international question of great complexity and he could make no further statement at present.