"The real intention of Japan is the subjugation and conquest _of China," declared Dr. Wellington Koo In opening his speech to-day.
"This is an essential step in the fulfilment of her so-called sacred mission to dominate Asia and the Pacific, and eventually the world. It may prove to be a mere dream on hor part, but nevertheless it consti. tutes a cal menace to peace and security.
"The Japanese Foreign Mintster, replying to the invitation to this Committee, tries to disguise the 'Japanese wolf in a lamb's coat by' complaining that the Chinese Government makes opposition to Japan' and anti-Japanese agitation a basis of its national policy and by professing desire that the Chifese should en-terrain other sentiments.
wonder if It did not mean that the Chinese Government should chernothing but friendship and love, and even perhaps gratitude, towards Japan for her never-eliding Invasion of Chinese territory, for her ruthless slaughter of tens of thousande of innocent Chinese men, women and children, for her wan: ton destruction of hundreds of mil-Hong of dollars worth of property, oF (or her tearing away from the Chinese body politic of one province after another.
"la tt by stich methods of devastation and spoliation that the Japanese Foreign Minister thinks to establish harmonious ce-operation between Ching and Japan "The Chinese delegation, Dr. Koo proceeded, could'not remain silent on the humanitarian aspect of the Far Eastern situation any more than it could refrain from pronouncing ite self on Japan's flagrant aggression against China's territorial integrity and. political independence.
The least the League could do in regard to Japan's "illegal and inhuman practice of bombing the lilian population" was to place its condemnation on record and to commend that governments and member states take all feasible measures so that it might, to some extent, help to curtail her power of killing innocent non-combatants through aerial bombardment.
The Chinese delegate appealed to the Committee to study measures for this purpose without undue delay.
"We particularly ask," he added, "that, within the limit of feasibility, the Utmost measures of cricouragement and assistance should be extended to China."—Reuter.
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