"NO INTERFERENCE"

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 1, 24 September 1937, Page 5

"NO INTERFERENCE"

—Press Assn.

Japanese Press Comment on Geneva Speeches

PACIFIC PACT IDfcA

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(Eeceived 24, 8.45 a.m.) TOKIO, Sept. 23. The newspaper Asahi Shimbun, in its issue to-day, has an editorial relative to the speech made at Geneva yesterday by Mr S. M. Bruce, the Australian representative on the League of Nations Assembly. Mr Bruce, referring to the Sino-Japan-ose conflict, warned the League of Nations not to side-step the issue. The Asahi says: ' ' Being in the midst of bringing Ohina to her senses, Japan, needless to say, will not tolerate any League or other third-party interference. "Quite possibly England's ideas are masked behind Mr Bruce's proposai, which seems intended to mollify China, whose appeal to the League was stillborn. Nevertheless, we appreciate Mr Bruce's good intentions, wherein we discern, in another shape, Mr J. A. Lyons 's scheme for a Pacific Non-Aggression Pact, which is ^still hanging in mid-air and not yet made clear." Mr Bruce urged the League Council to endeavour- to arrange a conference of the Powers coneerned in the Far East, whether mombers or non-members of the League, with a view to forming contact between the countries engaged in the dispute and attempting to arrange a settlement or such concerted measures as were necessary. "The Sino- Japanese hostilities necessitate an immediate and explicit consideration of the League's function as a political organisation, " said Mr Bruce. "It is imperative that the league should face the reality of China's appeal,"