The Archive · 1932

The Lytton Report

Nanking, Sept. 11.

According to well-informed sour: ces it is stated that the publication of the League Commission report expected on October 6 or 7 and will occur simultaneously at Nanking, Tokyo, and Geneva. Only a sumry" of the document will be delivered to the press.

Dr. Pots, secretary of the Lytton Commission, is now travelling from Mukden to Dairen and is deaffing a summary of the report on board the train, Copies of the summary and the complete text of the report will be forwarded to Tokyo and Nanking] through certain Powers' representa: tives at Nanking and Tokyo, who, however, have not yet received the! report.

From the same sources it is learnt that the main feature of the report is a statement to the effect an that. while the former Manchuria administration is open to criticism, the present "Manchukuo" regime is by no means the. result of the spontaneous will of the Manchurian people.—Reuter.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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