Cranborne declared, recognized that the relations between China and Japan were normally a matter for the two countries to settle themselves, but in the unhappy event of the conflict which had arisen it was, ¿quite apart from any question of League obligations, obviously impossible for the British Government to accept the view that this was a British Soldier Injured by Shrapnel Corporal Proteroe, of the Royal Welch Fusiliers, was injured by shrapnel yesterday afternoon "when a shell, presumably aimed at the North Station, exploded just inside the Settlement. The shell landed at 4.30 p.m. on North Shanse Road, near Elgin Road. Corporal Proteroe, who is understood to have been only slightly wounded in the og, was taken to the British Military Hospital. matter only affecting the parties to the conflict and that third parties must stand completely aside.
It was a matter affecting, in great or less degree, many Powers with iterésfs in the Far East, whether members of the League or not.
Lord Cranborne recalled the efforts made by the British Government to bring about a settlement of the dispute, He said there had been close "ud constant communication between the British Government and othe: Powers interested in the Far East, whether League members or not, and in the many efforts taken the cooperation of other Powers was, in greater or less degree, secured.
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