APPEAL TO JAPAN

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 154, 22 February 1932, Page 5

APPEAL TO JAPAN

— By Tefejrtaph—

"BEFORE GROLfND RED WITH BLOOD ANb STREWN WITH DEAD japanese .plead righls

(Press. Assn.-

-Ccpyrlght).

Rec. Feb. 21, 7 p.m. GENEVA, Saturday. A dramatic appeal was made to the Japanese to-day by M. Eoncour, who said: "Before the ground is red with bjood ahd strewn with dead, wiil you rehder this service to the League, td obtain a delay of hostilities to render . possible a further coxiference of the parties with foreign represeiitatives, otherwise we shall have a tragic situation, and while we are talking a big battle will be begun." The Japanese spokesman said. that he would be able to appeal to Tokio provided tbat the appeal was also pressed upon China. Dr. Yeh (China) alleged that the Japanese used dum-dum bullets ahd created a reign of terror in Shanghai, finally insistirig on their intolerable ultimatum.

Admiral Sato (Japan), in an houf's speech, denied that the Chinese used dum-dum bullets and poison gas. He explained that the bombing of the refugee camp on FebfUary 13 was due to bafbed-wire ehtangleihehts misleading the aviators. The jJapfanese withdrawal from Shanghai would entail the renunciation of Japan's whole rights in China, which no Government could face. Japan would retire when her aim had been attaihed. In the course of a reference to Manchuria, Admiral Sato said that Japan was barred everywhere. She was not admitted to America and to countries in the South Seas. He recalled Japan's protests against this inequality of treatment when the Assembly of the League first met. If the Japanese were ejected from China, what could she do. That was why Japan had to think for herself in Manchuria, where she had invested immense capital. If Japan was going to ,be condemned for hfer aggression, it wouid be necessary to condemn other Powers for similar action, notably the Soviet inclusion of parts of Mongolia. M. Boncour finally a'ppealed to Admiral Sato to delay the expiration of the ultimatum to enable a settlement. Great Britain, Italy and Germany associated themselves in the appeal. The League Assembly will meet on March 3. z