Nanking, Feb, 24.
Genefal Chiang Tso-pin, Cheir-man of the Special Foreign Relations Commission, confirms the euro rent reports that China would inyoke Article XVI of the League] Covenant at the forthconéng special meeting of the League Assembly Which has been convened for March B."He also expressed the hope that in order to uphold the League Cotenant, the Assenibly would accede to China's request for the application of economic sanctions to Japan.
snoral Chiang pointed out that JJapan's unbridled military aggressions in China have not only upset the, international equilibrium of] power in the Far East but also threaten" to precipitate another World catastrophe. Such _wanton litary actions, being flagrant violations of the various international instruments of peace, constitute a dieet challenge to to ich. treaties. pal Chang Ching-kiang, Statesman, stated th the Chinese Government: was prepared to sacrifice 2,000,000 lives. in the st for national existence against Japan's armed aggression, The Japanese " militarists, he added, would find China putting up a very sti®l resistance, for more severe 1 struggle the more united the nation would be—Reuter.
Canton's Telegram to Government Canton, Feb. 24.
Public organisations "here have sent a circular telegram requesting the National Government to order Marshal Feng Vu-hsiang, General Yen Hsi-shan and Marshal Chang Hstich-liang to mobilise their forces recover the lost territory in Manchuria and to despatch all other available forces to reinforce the 10th Route Army at Shang!
General Chen Chi-tang, _commander-in-chief of the Kwangtung
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