EASTERN PROBLEM
N.Z’S POSITION IN THE CRISIS.
NO SPECIAL NEWS RECEIVED. ’ . (Per Press Association — Copyright-,) WELLINGTON, February 22. ...Very little'information has been received by the Prime Minister, Mi G. W. Forbes, from the Dominions Office concerning the developments in Manchuria.
When asked to-night if the Government of New Zealand was'’being 'kept ’'well informed I ''ef tlffc 'Changes winch" •were rapidly taking place in the \sit.uation there and at Geneva, tlie Prime Minister- said that so far little official news had been received. In the event of the situation taking a, turn likely to affect the British Empire, the usual consultative channels between the British Government and' the Dominion would'-be used. The first reference in the House to ,the planchufilm--crisis was made to-day . iu .a, question tabled by Mr H. E. Holland, Leader of the Opposition. Mr Holland is asking the Prime Minister to lodge a protest with .the British Government against British' armament -firms being permitted, to supply munition s to Japan and . China, f The Labour leader declared that the supply of munitions of war to nations | engaged in conflict was a violation of both the letter and the spirit of the Covenant ..of the League of Nations,
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Hokitika Guardian, 23 February 1933, Page 6
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