Bot I must remind you that the League is not a super-state; it ean-not impose its will upon members who do not require its assistance. The League has no effective answer to force; it is an alternative force. If, therefore, these two great ations are willing to accept that alternative and use the machinery which she League can dispose of,
help and advantage to both of you then I verily believe it can prove well aware of the great!
lity which rests upon on! Commission; we are well' aware, too, of the' great difficulty of the task with which we are confront-Jed, but we believed that difficulties Jattacking the flood refugee camps land non-combatants, Japan has violated all the sacred "principles upon which civilisation is built, and Jeorn to pieces the treaties to which she had solemnly affixed her signa-ure.
Furthermore, while we are gather Jed together here to honour our dis. ftinsuished guests on a. miss
jeupying peace, Japanese troops are ist lets far beyond Not content, Jseven weeks of terrorism in and around Shanghai, the Japanese, in spite of the fact that Chinese troops have been ordered to cease hostilities on all fronts, are daily landing reinforcements and extending mille farther and in vain, because of Japanese obstruetion and unreasonable demands for absolute surrender. Friendly over-[tures of neutral Powers have failed to restrain the Japanese from mili. tempts of tary pence have been blocked by thee fever'changing demands. Japanese policy for the domination of China Boarding the small Jevatt, the troops went from one lighter to the other, ordering the lerews to cast off the lines holding them to the British ship and follow [the military launch'in' tow.
'Fourteen of the twenty small boats received these instructions, the remaining six being permitted' to continue their operations,—being.
tially Icaded with shore-bound ight. While this raid was being conducted, several other detachments Jof Chinese soldiers proceeded steam launches further up the hour. to two steamers mischa ing relief "wheat off the "Yangkad loo Wharf, opposite the end" of the French "Bund. same, tactics were pursed and 12 more Jeargo boats despatched up-river to Chinese territory under tov, When the seizures of Chinese jewried cargo lighters commenced here several week ago, operaters of freighters. moores the upper Hharbour were forced to shift their Jeraft to cther moorings, further away from Chinese territory, it was One of the steamers affected at that. time was the "Wellington Court," under con:
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