Chinese Statement on Nine Power Conference Made A delegation of ten representing the various Chinese civic organizations in Shanghai yesterday morning called on foreign diplomatic and consular officials in this city, to whom they submitted a statement concerning the Nine-Power Conference.
The ten Chinese delegates, on behalf of the General Union of Civic Associations of Shanghai, are Messrs. Tu Yueh-sen, Vu Ya-ching, Wang Hsiao-lai, Y. M. Chien, Singloh Hsu, F.C. Yen, Tung Yin-pei, Herman C. E. Liu, Edward Y. Hsu and P. K. Chu, who are the executive officers of the Union.
The foreign officials on whom the delegation called were:
Mr. A. van Cutsem, Belgian Charge d'Affaires; Mr. Herbert Phillips, British Consul-General; Mr. Harry A. Scott, Canadian Trade Commissioner: Mr, Oscar de Oxholm, Danish Minister; M. Paul Naggiar, French Ambassador; Signor Guiliano Cora, Italian Ambassador; Mr. N. Aall, Norwegian Charge d'Affaires; Mr. L. A. Gast-mann, Netherlands Consul-General: Dr. A. J. Alves, Portuguese Consul General, Baron Johan-Beck Friis, Swedish Minister; Mr, C. E. Gauss, United States Consul-General; Mr.
A. C. Amador, Mexican Charge d'Affaires; Mr. M. M. Simansky, Acting Soviet Russian Consul-General.
The delegation had a long conversation with most of these foreign diplomatic and consular representatives. Their talk with M. Paul Naggiar. the French Ambassador, was particularly lengthy.
Their statement was addressed to the "Governments and Peoples of all Friendly Powers Participating in the Brussels Conference." It appealed for world condemnation of Japan on account of aggression against China and inhuman atrocities against noncombatants, and warned the nation: that Japan's intentions do not stop at the subjugation of Asia. Excerpts from the Tanaka Memorial were cited as proof of thi
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