Geneva, Aug. 14.
Faced with the declaration of the British Government that its mandate over Palestine was no longer executable and that the British people no Tonger desired to send troops to the Holy Land to enforce the decisions of the British administration, the League of Nations' Commission on 'Mandates agreed yesterday that the mandate' would continue operative until a better solution were found.
No judgment was passed on the Royal Commission's partition scheme nor on any other scheme presented but the Committee will spend the first few days of next week drafting a report on ite findings to submit, to the League Council in September. The report will outline in purely objective fashion the advantages and disadvantages in various proposals, without recommending or condemning any. necessary.
Mr. Hull further stated that. American diplomats and naval offials conferred constantly with representatives of other governments Fesponsible for their nationals in. Shanghai on methods of protecting their citizens, He added that he greatly deplored the American casualties, and explained that "American diplomats in the principal conflict zones had been instructed to close their otices and leave when they considered the situation sulflciently dangerous.
Referring to the despatch of Augusta, Dagship of the United States, Asiatic Fleet, to Shanghai, the Navy Department said that naval oMeials stood under orders to "act on the Spot and on their own judgment" according to the seriousness of the situation—Reuter.
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