Order to Retaliate Attacks Here May Cause War Washington, Oct. 28.
The six American peace organizations to-day declared that the U.S. Navy was determining American policy in the Far East.
They asserted that the nation was being pushed into another "war to war" and demanded that the Administration immediately announce a policy in accord with the conviction of the American people that a war of aggression cannot be ended by war."
The charges were based on the recent order of Admiral Harry E. Yarnell, Commander-in-Chigf of the U.S. Asiatic Fleet, instructing the Marines to fire on Japanese planes attacking their defence sector in Shanghai.
The order, said the peace organizations, "is clear proof of the Administration's 24-hour policy, leading toward war and directly opposed to the letter and spirit of the Neutrality Act.—United Press.
Treaty, "Lo Temps" declared in an editorial yesterday.
"The Brussels conference will in no way organize intervention into the Sino-Japanese conflict," the journal stated. "It certainly will not take an initiative the League of Nations so wisely avoided at its last session despite the pressing appeal made by China. The conference will do good work if it examines all the possibilities of speeding up the settlement of the conflict through conciliatory methods."
The "Journal Des Debats," a rightist organ, does not see what sort of efficient work might be accomplished apart from defending the respective interests of various Powers.
"Nevertheless, the day will come when Japan will be confronted with the necessity of liquidating her expedition without losing face as apparently she has been surprised by. the stubborn resistance of the Chinese armies. Let us hope the diplomats who gather in Brussels will not forget the paramount importance attached in the Far East to the question of losing face'."—Havas.
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