Varied Reaction i World's Capitals: China May Be Worst Sufferer int ce Own London, Feb. 28.
IRCRAFT, assembled or dismantled, and engines, without distinction between those for civil and war purposes, are included in the list of materia! prohibited under the Arms Export Prohibition Order, 1931, which' will be enforced as a result -of the Government's decision in n favour of an embargo on the export of arms to the belligerent explanation of the inclusion of all aircraft in one category is the ts fu the Far East. The offeial difficulty experienced in differentiating between those intended For peaceful purposes and those intended for war.
Other items included under the prohibition include cannon and carriages for cannon, explosives, fire-arms of ery description and their component parts, grenades, machine-guns, pro-Jectiles, land and sea mines, depth charges, bombs, the apparatus For flame-throwers, fuses, torpedoes, bayonets, swords, lances, tanks, and armoured cars, The 01 der also prohil ts, except under licence of the Board of Trade, the export, or shipping as ship's stores on vessels proceeding to foreign ports, of all kinds of munitions and weapons, London, Feb, 27, situation in the Far East and for an embargo on the export of arms were the subject of rent by the For-Glan Secretary, Sir John Simon, in the House of Commons to-day.
said that the basis upon which Britain ought to proceed was to reood friends with both China anid Japan, to do and he wanted The course of the ish Government throughout, has. been perfectly plain, consistent and straight forward that this matter ought by every possible means to be brought to an end by conciliation—but ciliation failed for. the time be-there. was no view that. this try could possibly be put in Iry with the view expressed Teeport of the Lytton Commis of the field of conflict, Existing contracts already entered into must be respected, but, subject to thi tional consults and decision, will not authorise. the' issue. of licences for the export, to either hina "or Japan, of any articles mentioned in the' Arma Export ro. hibition Und of 1931, ast know" Sir John Simon said, twill be the frst me, so fa which any" neutral Governmet which manufactures arms, has taken Positive action of this Kind' in "reference' to a distant conflict. with which we do not mean to concern Bi ourselves, but we ask for approval of the House of Commons fora bold decision which we believe will con ment itself to the hotier judgment of the country."
Concluding, "Sir John's "The Lytton Report was a per: fectly simple document which said there was no doubt that the methods Doing followed by Japan, and the actions taken, were not in necordance with the League Covenant. Very grave injustice would, ho ver, be done if they did not admit, that the ease of Japan was one with many obligations, and that she had oom pub to very' severe trials by a neighbour extremely difieutt to deal with.
anti-foreign attitude China and the length to which, she and her people had carved the bos cult, lind created a situation of the Kroatest possible difficulty.
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