LEAGUE COUNCIL
RESOLUTIONS ON SPAIN AND CHINA BOMBING OF CIVILIANS CONDEMNED. BRITISH RELIEF FOR SPANISH REFUGEES. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received This Day, 10.5 a.m.) GENEVA, January 20. Mr R. A. Butler (Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs) announced that Britain through the Red Cross or similar organisations will distribute food and other supplies to two million Spanish refugees, not asking other Governments represented on the League Council to co-operate. At its closing session, the League Council adopted resolutions respecting Spain and China. The first declared that the commissions’ investigations of bombing in Republican Spain showed that in certain cases air attacks had been directed either intentionally or negligently against civilian populations and condemned those methods as‘contrary to the conscience of mankind and to international law. The second resolution detailed the resolutions already adopted regarding the co-ordination of assistance .for China and reaffirmed moral support and avoidance of any action which might weaken China’s powers of resistance.
New Zealand's High Commissioner, Mr W. J. Jordan, in a brief declaration, deplored the cruelties of aerial bombardments.
Dr Wellington Koo, in a statement, said the resolution was unsatisfactory to the Chinese Government.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 January 1939, Page 5
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