Formal Application for Membership Delivered: Backed by the Locarno Powers Berlin, Feb. 10.
Chinese peoples. Trade conditions Germany's application for admit-in the Yangtze Valley were now tance to the League -of Nations, handed to the Secretary-General of the League and signed by Herr not for There were many Stresemann, briefly requests that. signs that Inwless actions Gicetly attributable to Communist the. application be placed on the fnfluenee had disgusted all sections agenda of a meeting of the League of the Chinese people, and that they as soon as possible. were far from approving the Attached is a copy of the Note duct of the extremist factions in from the Governments participate Centon, This feeling would dove ing in the Locarno agreements ess spread unless intervention by} nsw Germany's request for any foreign Power should strengthen elucidation of Article 16 of the the extremists, and would unite League's Covenant, China against the aggressor.
The Note says that the articles, Foreign Offies hed recently exami interpreted, mean that each mem:
the whole question anew and ber of the League must loyally and had gona into the question very effectively do its part to make the carefully in conjunction with, the British representatives in China. Covenant respseted and oppose all eons ff suena aes [ae ili ear ost quer- *zercasive action in a manner com difficulties the situation presented was the weakness of the Central and considering its geographical situation—Reuter, Government.
Diplomatic Struggle The Indemnity Commission London, Feb, 10.
Replying to Mr. Trevelyan, Sir Austen Chamberlain stated that, after consultation with the British members of the Committee estab-yed_under the China Indemnity Act (1925), British representatives in China and the Chinese Foreign Minister, he had approached three eminent Chinese to join the com mittee, and their names would be published as soon as they had definitely aecepted—Reuter.
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