LEAGUE INACTIVE

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 409, 19 December 1932, Page 5

LEAGUE INACTIVE

(Press Assn

IMPATIENT CHINESE SUGGEST ARMED FORCE IN MANCHURIA

STARTLING PROPOSAL

_By Telegraph— Copyright)

Shanghai, December 16. Sponsored by several of the leading figures in the Chinese Government and the political world, a startling proposal, indicating the impatience of the Chinese over the delay of the League of Nations to reach any decision on the Manchurian situation, thus allowing Japan to consolidate her position, was made today at the third plenary session of the Government and the Kuomintang at Nanking, which was attended by every important executive throughout the country.

The proposal insists that the Government immediately eoncentrate troops for the purpose of recovering Manehuria by armed force at the first opportunity, also demanding that the Government and the Kuomintang officially direct a boycott against Japanese goods, and intensify the anti-Ja-panese movement throughout the country. The resolution points out that since the Japanese entered Manehuria the Chinese have appealed to the League without securing any satisfaction, since the League itself has no power, being dependent upon the wishes of the bigger nations which, although sympathetic towards China, cannot take steps that would ofltend Japan.. The proposal then outlines the individual attitudes of Britain, America, France and vis a vis Japan, claiming that all are so desperately engaged with their own national diffieulties that they are unable to devote the proper attention to a situation which threatens to shatter the peace of the Far East, and possibly of the whole world.

Must Drive Out Foreigners The proposal further states that since Chinese territory was invaded by foreigners the Chinese must devise their own measures to driye them 'out. It is futile and shameful to hope for outside assistance. It is now said to be obvious to the Chinese that the League is playing for time, hoping for one of three solutions: Firstly, that China, due to her own weakness

through internal disorders, may accept Japan's terms; secondly, that Japan, due to finaneial stringency, will overthrow the militarist regime and may evejitually make concessions; ; and thirdly, that both the Chinese and Japanese Governments may agree to compromise. The proposal concludes: "Meanwhile, we must rush troops and supplies to Manehuria to assist the volunteer armies to struggle against Japan. Prolonged resistance will deal a death blow to the Japanese military programme," and then refers to the intensification of the boycott, claiming that China is entitled to take such measures of resistance, which are much milder than Japanese agression that slaughtered thousands of Chinese innocents.