CHINA PROTESTS
-Press Assn.
Japanese Invasion N0TE SENT TO WORLD POWERS "Insurgents Ready to Precipitate Clash" PEACE STILL POSSIBLE
(By Telegrapii-
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(Received 17, 3.0 p.m.) LONDON, July 16. * China .has gent a Note to the signatories of the Nine-Power Paet, except Japan, deelafing that ovet 100 Japanese aefoplanes timi 20,000 troops are concentrated in the Peking-Tiestsin area "ready to precipitate a major clash." The Note accnses the Japanese of repeatedly ntillifying, by restimption of attacks, every Cliinese at* tempt to arrange peace by mtituai withdrawal of troops, and reiter* ates that the Japanese night man* oeuvres of July 7 were carried out in a regiott itt which the Japanese had no right to be. It addsi "The invasion of North China violates China 's sovereignty, and, if aggression is per* mitted to continue, it will immediately. disturb the peace of East Asia and may entail unforeseeii consequences through the world. China is obliged to employ every means to defend her territory and lionour but is still ready for peaceful settlement," The Note has also been sent to Russia ntid Germany.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 154, 17 July 1937, Page 5
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