Geneva, Sept. 16.
The Council of the League of Nations, at a private session to-day, decided to refer China's appeal in the Sino-Japanese conflict to the Advisory Committee of 23 state established in 1933 over the Manchurian crisis.
The decision to refer the appeal to the Committee, which will be eon-vened early next week, is a more elastic procedure than if the question is considered by the Council, because na fundamental decision can be taken on the merits of the case.
Dr. Wellington Koo, the Chinese Ambassador to France, has accepted the proposal subject to the reservation that if any occasion arose, he claimed the right to refer the matter back to the Council and to retain all his rights under Article 17 of the Covenant.
The most important feature of the Council's decision is that the question of an American observer on the Committee is not likely to arise, at any rate in the immediate future.
The representative of Holland presided over the Committee in 1933, but a new president will have to be elected on the present occasion Reuter.
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