Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-24
FORMAL WARE ARE
lFEARED BY DR.. SEE
II ellis Simon Government Has
~ Hard Time in Preventing
Acts of Violence.
By PAUL SCOTT MOwRRR.

on RAbL BCOII MOWBAA.
~ cable 70 The star
PARIS. France. November 24-The
Council Of the League Of Nations in
\ session here. has drafted q resolution
expressing its hope that hostilities in
Manchuria will cease, and that the
Japanese will eventually withdraw their
troops from occupied Manchuria, and
providing also for an international COM
: mission to go to the spot and for the
exchange OF information among the
members Of the Council.
This text has been submitted to Nam
king and Toxic. and has been shown
to the United States. Tokio's answer is
not expected before tomorrow. DR.. AL
fred SEE, China's delegate, agreed to
cable the text to his government, but
told French Foreign Minister Aristide
BRAND, chairman of the Council that
! he feels sure Marking will find it COM
pletely inadequate.
Four members OF the council, Foreign
Minister Alejandro Lerroux for Spain,
Erik A. Colban for Norway. Mr.. Fotitch
for JugoSlavia and Foreign Minister All
gust Zaleski for Poland. are urging M.
. BRAND to write into the resolution a
statement that the Manchurian situa-
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League are entirely exceptional. and
must not be considered as in any way
creating precedent as to how the
League may act in other cases.
sze Sizes Up Situation.
DR.. SEE has told M. BRAND that I'M
less the resolution as finally amended
contains q definite Japanese promise to
@vacuate Chinese territory and provides
for neutral observers to oversee this
evacuation. China is determined to in
woke article 10 Of the League Covenant.
DR.. SEE last night handed Sir John
Simon, British foreign minister and
member of the Council, q memorandum
wherein he made the following asser-
tions:
That Japan now has $4,000 troops in
Manchuria.
That the Japanese are pursuing the
remnants of the Chinese Gen. Ma Chan
Shan's forces beyond Tsitsihar, north
OF the Chinese Eastern Railway are
preparing an expedition into Eastern
Inner Mongolia, and are concentrating
for an attack on Chinchow and Sha-
haikwan, centerS southwest of Mukden
and north of the great wall.
That the Chinese government Is find
ing 1t increasingly difficult to restrain
the populace from acts of violence
against Japanese subjects living in
Chinese towns.
That China fears In case such vio-
lence occurs that Japan will imme-
diately send warshipS up China's rivers
and land troops at the various ports.
That China will never endure this
and that the danger of a formal war
between China and Japan is daily in
creaSing.
And, finally, that the failure of the
foreign powers to keep their pledges
and act in the defense of international
treaties is endangering the prestige and
existence of the Marking government
and is pushing China rapidly toward
Communism.
Out-and-Out Aggression Charged.
Replying to the Japanese suggestion
that Japan'S action in Manchuria Is
not essentially different from that of
the United States at various times in
Central America and the Caribbean,
DIR. SEE has told Gen. Charles G.
Dawes, American Ambassador to Lon
don and non-participating observer at
this Council, that his researches show
there is not the slightest resemblance
between these two forms of action, for
whereas japan is committing straight
forward aggression against the will of
China's government and people the
United States has never landed troops
around the Caribbean unless It was
first invited by the foreign government
concerned and there never has been
the slightest doubt but what the United
States would eventually withdraw its
troops and maintain the independence
Of the country concerned.
Astonishment has been caused in
League circles by a Soviet Russian Tass
Agency report from Shanghai calling
the American attitude equiyocal and
explaining this alleged equivocation by
the desire for a war between japan
and Russia, resulting in the failure of
RuSsia's five-year plan, in the partial
weakening of Japan and in large war
orders for American business.
Copyright, 1917