POSITIVE MEASURES
—Press Association.)
China Looks to World for Help PIOUS HOPES NOT ENOUGH
(By Telegraph
WELLINGTON, This Day. The Chinese consul has received the following cablegram from Nanking: — In an interview, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr Wang Chung-hui, expressed the sincere appreciation of the Chinese Government and people for the moral and spiritual support from varioUs quarters. It was hoped, he said, that positive measures would soon be devised to call a halt to the Japanese violations • of international treaties and of the elementary principles of justice and bumanity. "Events in the Far East since 1931, culminating in Japan 's present largescale invasion, eonstitute an object lesson to all — namely, that the mere reiteration of pious liopeS and resolutions will be 110 restraint upon Japan^s aggressive actions," the Minister added. "If peace is to be restored in this part of the world, the peace-lovdng nations must be prepared to take positive measures to defend the laws and principles which form the very basic of civilisation."
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 16, 12 October 1937, Page 5
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