Evening star., 1933-02-20
Emperor and Privy Council Expected to
Approve withdrawal.

TOXIC, February 40 6P.-Japan
prepared today to take two far-reach-
ing steps withdraw. from the League
6f Nations and send its military forces
into the Chinese Province of Jehol.
The cabinet reached definite decision
to quit the League unless the League
tears up its report and recommendations
on Manchurian affairs.
Approval of the cabinets decision by
the Privy Council and the Emperor is
considered as certain as is the League
Assemblys Endorsement of the Man
churia report-a report demanding that
Japan withdraw from military and po-
litical control IN that territory.
1t was indicated that the japanese
military offensive in the Chinese
administered Province of Jehol might
be started tomorrow simultaneous with
the meeting in Geneva of the League
Assembly to act on the Manchuria re-
port. Only few days ago the League
asked Japan informally to promise to
stay out Of Jehol. Japan declined to
promise.
= A foreign Office spokesman said it
would not be surprising If the cam
paign to annex Jehol to the Japanese
sponsored government of Manchukuo in
Manchuria would begin tomorrow.
VIII Recall Arms Delegates.
In quitting the League, Japan with.
draws from the Western worlds entire
peace. machinery, butt up by long and
difficult postwar negotiations Also it
quits the body which gave it rank with
the strongest powers of the Western
world for the first time IN history,
chucking overheard its influential posi-
tion as one of the five permanent mem
bers of the League Council. The others
are Great Britain, France, Germany and
Italy.
Vice Admiral osami Nagano and
Lieut.: Gen. Yoshiji Tatekawa, delegates
to the Disarmament Conference. will be
recalled when the empire secedes from
the League, navy and war Office spokes-
men told the Associated Press.
Although the non-League members,
the United States and Soviet Russia,
are participants In the conference.
Japan's position would be different, it
was held.
1T is futile to continue to discuss
disarmament in that hostile atnos-
phere," said the war Office spokesman.
The navy Office stated that Japan re-
mained loyal signatory of the Wash
ington and London naval treaties and
hoped to participate in conference
with those other signatories in 1885.
Matsuoka Notified.
Yosuke Matsuoka, who has been
Japan's delegate to the League Of Ma
tons during the long drawn-out debate
on its controversy with China over
possession of Manchuria, was notified
Immediately of the cabinets action.
As soon as the League vote is taken,
he is expected to leave Geneva. He may
move Immediately to Paris or London
or come directly home by way of
Siberia.
When and how Japan will quit the
League were the problems still to be
decided. The Japanese (Rengo) News
Agency said formal notice would be
sent to the League about the middle of
March, when Matsuoka reaches Toxic.
He originally planned to return by way
Of the United States, but there was
only slight possibility now that he would
take that route.
Viscount Yasyua Uchida, the foreign
minister, will go before the Diet,
Japan's House of Representatives, to-
morrow to explain the cabinet decision.
The dominant war minister, Gen. Sadao
Araki, was reported to have converted
Viscount Uchida to favoring withdrawal
and they were said to have fought to-
gether for it in the cabinet sessions.
Premier Makoto Saito consulted with
the venerable Prince Saionji, last sur
yivor of the Council of the Genro. which
until 10 years ago was the supreme seat
OF power in Japan, concerning the with
drawal proposal. They met yesterday
at the retreat of the aged prince, where
he is sought on only matters of the
greatest importance
The premier said afterward that Sc
cession from the League would be a
long process.