MANCHURIAN DISPUTE
chinese .and japanese cases stated by delegates to league STRONGER ACTION WANTED (British Official Wireless RUGBY, Monday. The. Sino-Japanese dispute again came before the League of Nations Council at Gerieya. . M. Paul .Boncour, president of tlje League • Assembly, . reviewed the manner in which the situation had developed since December 1.0, making special ref erence to the . occupation of Chinchow. ,.by the Japanese. , He said the special Manchurian Commission, headed by the. Earl .of Lytton would have the widest latitude in deciding upon what question it wonld report on to.the counciL . The Chinese .delegate, Dr. Alfred Sze appealed .to the. Council to take up the maj;ter pn stronger lines, declaripg that., 200,000 square mil.es of territory, inhabited hy 20,000,000 Chinese, have .been seized hy the Japanese, who are . now oecupying Jenmol, which is hundreds of miles from the Manchurian. railway, the original source of the trouble. The Japanese j^elegate, Admiral Sato retorted that nothing had been change d in Manchuria. The Chinese population was still there, with only one difference, that th.ey were now living and working in a peaceful •atmosph.ere. . ...... He repeated the Japanese promise to continue the policy .of an "op.en door" in Manchuria., until such time as they could evacuate without endangering the lives of Japanese residents. . The Council adjourned until tomorrow. ... ... . ,
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 132, 27 January 1932, Page 5
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