The Archive · 1934

Chinese Envoys Return

Geneva, June 8.

Dr. Wellington Koo, Minister to France and China's chief delegate to the Disarmament Conference, and JDr. Victor Hoo, Chinese Minister [Switzerland and permanent delegate to the League of Nations, will leave this week for China, to report on the disarmament situation and on the Jdebates which took place at the JCommittee on Opium and which proved tobe of utmost importance for China—Havas. central authorities, Canton military France Said Not to Have Kept leaders are ready to lend a willing

may have to say. ear to.whst the Nanking officials ""In the event that Gen. Huang does not go to Canton, Gen. Li Chung-jen will come here to meet him and to convey Huang's message to his col~ leagues at Canton. It is learned that Nanking wishes to assure the military Jand civilian leaders in the Southwest that it has no hostile intentions. lor ulterior motives towards Kuang. tung or Kwangsi.

There is considerable agitation in Kuangtung over the resumption of railway trafic between China proper Jand Manchoukuo on the ground that such an act is tantamount to the re~ cognition of—Manchoukuo and the loss for ever of the four North~ eastern provinces. The South-west [leaders claim that such opposition is, nation-wide.

Following the lead_of the Kuo~ mintang South-west Executive Committee, all the country Kuomintang argu in Kuangtung are issuing circular manifestes opposing resumption of railway and. postal service between Peking and Mukder will be Gen, Huang Shoo-hsiung's tot to explain that such action is inevitable in the face of the Japanese [threat to occupy North China.

Action Against Nanking Local vernacular newspapers uundecstand that as long asthe 21 Nanking divisions in Fukien and the 30 Nanking divisions in Kiangsi are not to be wed against Kuangtung, the elder statesmen will do nothing more serian than issuing circular telegrams voicing their disapproval lof Nankings Japanese policy.

Kweichow and Yunnan do not

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