Mar, 11 Reuter learns to-day that the Japanese delegation at Geneva has asked for instructions regarding the attitude it should adopt in cor nection with the resolution passed by the Assembly of the League of Nations, authoritatively stated that structions are being sent requ ing the Japanese stain from voting. tion, it is contended, "indirectly bears on the Manchurian situation."
At the same time the delegates il be asked to clarify the Japan ese stand and to refuse to agree to the application of Article XV of the Covenant in connection with a churia, This step, it is explained, is being taken on the ground that the resolution passed by the League of Nations on December 10 provided that the question should be closed Lill the receipt of the report of the Lytton Commission of Inquity—Reuter Comment by "The Times 'London, Mar. 11 In the course of a lending: article so clay' on the resolution pesood by Aosembly of the. League.
tion in "connection with, th Sino-Japanese dispute, "The Times Spproven its "dignity, good seme sha moderation'
The journal pays a tribute to the fluence exeiticed by Sir Sohn toon inthe framing of the teer items saying, thet the Foreign Sec.
Taso doubt guided by the ch "Ambassador at Tokyo, who firmly: withstood. the exhortations tee' who in a mood, of que Satural' moral indignation, woul {ake measures against Japen which Could only be interpreted as" war."
Theey tne double sontinuen that vast bulk of British inion strongly approves the prin: Sie. thatthe "fanetion of "the [2isus of Nations, in this, case Should be mediatoral, not cert What makes ie peculiarly "sul able for intervention by the League i) That the Japanese, Govern recut hall suffered Yang. peavecstiod before changing. rom "élplomatie military setlony and (2) That China fs not aA organi fei Sato aad Segawk even cata poswtss the qunteations lid doyen Ty'the Mandates: Oommision Zor membership of the Lengue, The journal, however, does not fedatene. a Set Sapenan tan ere condone al that Japanese bay tone,
\St'Shanghi has, to" say the lease tien poet epee, strength,. it} says. is being sapped, her sources of credit are running dry and her trade is being disastrously damaged.
Tu many respects the Japanese have aggravated the very ills they set out to cure and have forfeited many sympathies, it declares, 'A. wise course for Japan, it con cludes, would be to" discard the promptings of a militarist " policy, and to revert to the liberal "prin= ciples which actuated her adherence to the Covenant of the League of Nations and the Washington. trea~
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