Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-19
Things Moving
Fast," Dawes
Declares.
TALKS WITH SEE
In HOTEL ROOM
China Threatens, to
Invoke Article Is
of Covenant.
~ the Associated Press.

PARIS, November 19.-United
States Ambassador Charles G.
Dawes, who has been comforting
with leaders of the League OF
Nations Council regarding the
Manchurian dispute, talked. this
morning with DR.. Alfred SEE, the
Chinese member, and it was re-
ported that the United States was
ready to join a concerted interna-
tional move to get Japan to with
draw her Manchurian troops.
Things are moving fast. Am
bassador Dawes said after DR.. SEE
had left his hotel. He declined to
amplify that statement, but it was
known that he has been in COM
munication with Washington and
that both he and his Government
are deeply interested in Man
churian developments.
Talk With BRAND Likely.
It was expected that Gen.
Dawes would talk with Aristide
BRAND this afternoon and that
the Council would ask Kenkichi
YoShizawa, the japanese repre-
sentative, to present in writing
the declaration he made yester-
day regarding Japan'S demands.
DR.. SIZE declared in another note to
the Council that the Manchurian crisis
was a "life and death issue for the
League and for the 1882 disarmament
conference, repeating that China never
would accept direct negotiations with
Jaar before evacuation.
For two months the Council has
been laboring to reach an equitable
compromise under Article l." he said.
"No compromise which mad@ evacua-
ton conditional upon direct negotiations
on the flve points would be equitable.
Would Invoke Other Articles.
eff such proposal Is put to us we
shall not only reject 1t, but quote In
public meeting what M. BRAND ana
other members of the Council have said
on the impossibility of reconciling ne
gotiations under military pressure with
the covenant and the Paris pact, and
press for q public explanation OF the
reasons that have led them to change
their view.
"If the Council declared it could do
no more under Article IL we should not
shrink from Immediately invoking other
articles Of the covenant"
This statement was understood to be
In effect what DIR. SEE told the Council
at a secret session yesterday.
japan last night had abandoned all
talk of compromise In the Manchurian
Conflict. Kenkichi Yoshizawa, Japan
csc delegate, at a secret session Of the
council, laid down a program Of peace
conditions described in some league cir
cles as equivalent to turning Manchuria
into a political economic protectorate
Of his country.
Explanation Declined.
No evacuation of the territory could
begin, he said until China consented to
direct negotiations on all five of the
points laid down by Japan. These in
clude the question Of the Sino-Jap-
anese treaty Of 1915 which China has
refused to recognize on the ground that
it was forced upon her under military
duress.
He also declined to make any further
explanation of Japan's demand on this
NTH point, as had been requested by
council members. The 1915 treaty con-
tains the noted "twenty-one demands
as a basis for direct negotiations, but
merely gave an indication of the course
the government expected to pursue.
China will not pay Japan political
price Tor evacuating Manchuria," DR..
Alfred SEE, Chinese spokesman, said
when he entered the council room, fol-
lowing NJ YoshiZawa's statement. we
refuse to be forced again to sign the
notorious twenty-one points of 1915.
Ready to Invoke Covenant.
These points, alleged by China to
have been advanced when the rest Of
the world was occupied with war, con-
cerned the disposition of Shantung,
railway leasing privileges for Japan in
South Manchuria and Eastern Inner
Mongolia and other matters which the
Chinese considered violations of their
sovereignty.
China, DR.. SEE said, was ready to in
woke article Is of the league covenant
and would insist that the league mem
bers do their full duty under the cove
na-t, the Kellogg pact and the nine
power treaty.
Article IS provides for the publication
OF the facts of any dispute by the league
with its recommendations, and for re-
ferring the dispute to the league as
sembIy itself. 1t is the last step before
economic and military sanctions.
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