LEAGUE COUNCIL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 January 1939, Page 10

LEAGUE COUNCIL

REPORT ON THE POSITION IN PALESTINE JAPANESE RUTHLESSNESS DENOUNCED. APPEAL FOR ECONOMIC BOYCOTT. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright GENEVA, January 17. The League Council extended the assistance of the League's organisation to Sudetenland refugees. Mr R. A. Butler (Britain) told the Council during consideration of the report of the Mandates Commission that if the London conference failed to produce an Arab-Jew agreement, Britain herself would propose a plan for the future of Palestine. He added that-he hoped one or other of the plans ready for submission to the Council in May and agreed that a special meeting of the Mandates Commission should be held to reconsider the situation in Palestine before May.

Dr Wellington Koo declared that Japan had ordered mobilisation on her mandated islands, which was detrimental to the mandates system and the policy of the League. Chine reserved the right to raise the question at the Assembly. Dr Koo declared to the Council that an economic boycott against Japan was the only way to stamp out the ruthlessness which neither the rules of modern warfare nor world opinion checked. He continued: “The spirit of the Chinese is indomitable and irregular troops are active in all territory nominally called Japanese. The Japanese proclamation of a new order in Asia and the demand that China join an East Asian bloc means recognition of Japan as Asia’s master. The Chinese refuse Japan’s preposterous conditions.” Dr Koo suggested that the Council establish a committee, in order to coordinate measures taken by various governments. ACTION BY FRANCE. BRITISH NOTE SUPPORTED. PARIS, January 17. France has sent a note to Japan, couched in similar terms to that of Britain, stating that she does not recognise the changes in China produced by force.