League of Nations and Need to Veto Sale of Armaments by Powers The League Commission which ix preparing at Geneva to deal with the question of traffic in arms might nto the ese civil war, which affords illustration of the evil unrestricted trafic, says the diplomatic correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph." The of armed regulars or meries in China is believed to be 600,000. Of these ird are equipped, in jon of small arms, with modern artillery, aeroplanes, "and bombs. It is announced, for instance, that the corps commanded by' the Christian General Feng, one of Wu Pei-fu's principal lieutenants, has just received m brand-new war ment. The same had previously happened in the case of the larger expeditionary force now assembled by Marshal Chang Tso-lin for his projected march to the South.
'What is interesting is the report that while the Manchurian army is being partly armed and munition ed by one Great Power, that of the Peking army is being' supplied in like manner by two other Powers. The levies of Sun Yat-sen are less lavishly equipped, but that is because in his case the armaments are being furnished on a purely business basis, whereas political motives are ce-mi with commercial considerations elsewhere.
It need hardly be pointed out that, whatever the motives, the supply of arms to the contending forees in China can only conduce to the prolongation of the present disastrous civil war. The League should certainly give immediate attention to this subject, and seek to obtain the termination of such abuses, by requesting all Governments to veto the sale of armaments to China just now,
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