The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-11-21
MANCHURIAN issue
PROVIDES HEAT FOR
LEAGUE OF NATIONS
Reports From Lytton Commits
sion and lap Officials in
Direct Conflict
Geneva, Nov. 21.-R-Defending

Geneva, Nov. al Defending
Japan's course in Manchuria at the
bar of the League of Nations coun.
Gil, Yosuke Matsuoka Monday re-
jected the findings of the Lyttor
commission and pleaded for the pa
thence of the western world until his
country can prove its policy OF peace
In the Far East.
His address was similar in all re-
spects to the official observations
published Sunday as Japan'S ansWe,
to the Lytton commissions, report
but he finished with a conciliatory
appeal which Is not to be found In
previous Japanese utterances upon
the conflict with China.
He cited the American punitive
expedition of 1916 in Mexico as a tai,
precedent for Japan's attack "in le-
Ultimate Self-defenSe" upon Mukden
in September, 1881.
Says Treaties Not Broken
I'VE have violated neither the
covenant of the league, nor the nine
power treaty. nor the pact of Paris,
he said. Il ask of the council lit
tie patience. If the western world
will bestow upon us a fraction of the
tolerance 1t has so generously be-
slowed upon China, 1t will be CRATE
fully received.
THE policy, the hope, the deter
mination of my country is the main
tenance of peace. We want no war
we want no more territory. we are
not aggressors. Deeply and earnestly
we desire the welfare of our great
neighbor."
He spoke in English to a dis
tinguished audience, including the
five members Of the Lytton commits
sion, among them General Frank r.
Mccoy, of the United States.
China, which claims sovereignty
over Manchuria, has not officially made
any findings on the Lytton report. A
dispatch from Marking Monday said
the executive Yuan had begun con-
sideration Of the repor0.
Chinese Makes Statement
w. w. Yen, representing China
here, loosed barrage at the japanese
reply, however, declaring that I'VE
hate war, we detest militarism and we
long for peace. but If necessary we
will embrace the evil of militarism In
order to free our territory from an in
vader."
simultaneously the chairman of the
investigating commission which spent
weeks in Manchuria, China and ia
pan. publicly asserted the issue was
whether the principle Of collective re-
sponsibility for maintenance Of peace
and justice shall be sacrificed. The
present situation in Manchuria, he
said, could not be regarded as consist
ent with existing treaties.
There was no comment from the
disarmament delegation representing
the United States in Geneva.
Recalls Other Cases
The Japanese representative re-
called the military interventions Of
other great powers in China and
stressed the presence Of anti-foreign
feeling, declaring "the national gov
eminent works assiduously to instill
hatred of foreigners into the minds
Of the younger generation"
Denouncing the boycott as war
fare Of insidious character" the jap
anese speaker pictured the distress
his people had suffered as q result.
The japanese defender repeated
the Interpretation Of the Mukden at
tack given In Sundays reply to the
Lytton report, citing Secretary OF
State Kellogg and the q. 8. senate
comments as justification Of Japan's
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