NCHURIAN TROUBLE

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 77, 21 November 1931, Page 5

NCHURIAN TROUBLE

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— By Telegraph — Copyright. )

PARIS, Thursday. The slender hopes of a settlesijt or the Sino-Japanese disr te By the League of Nations nference were dispelled By a panese Note to M. Briand., .... Although agreeaBle to the destch of a League Commission Manchtiria,— J-apan refuges tq thdraw her.trodps until a new :aty has been directly "negotir sd with China, confirming the esent treaties. ie Note declares that even if the rity of Japanese subjeets and erty seem assured Japan is mainjng military . occupation bqcause bars the Nanking Govemment .is -Qol of the anti- Japanese Kuomin- • and is powerless to maintain r. Japan cannot consider the osals of the League councillors certain Sino-Japanese negotiaj coinciding with the evacuation. k Sze sent a Note to the Council hed in the bluntest terms, askyhether the Kellogg Pact, and the rue Covenant possessed valid 2* if so why has no concerted "n been taken or threatened to ke articles XV. and XVI. If the rue has failed, China would be ed publicly to blame the Powers unwillingness to lift. a finger to nd a solemn covenant. ie British delegates are pressing a public meeting at which the ese and Japanese could state ■ proposals. - ■ • « | [1 channels of settlement under iles XI are seemingly exhausted the Council is confronted with an tricable dilemma. It is doubtful ;her it is prepared to enforce sanctions in article XVI.