With two abstention, the Council of the League of Nations to-day adopted a resolution encouraging League members to assist China individually. The only delegates who did not vote were those of Poland and Peru.
The resolution reads:
"The Council, having taken i consideration the situation in the Far East; Notes with regret that hostilities have been continued and intensified in China since the last session of the Baarn, Mayor van Reenen, of the birth of the little Princess and of the names selected for her by her parents t 5.30 yesterday afternoon. The full ame of the little Princess will be Bi s Wilhelmina Armgard, Princess of Orange, Princess of Lippe-
Biesterfeld.
It is learned that the young Princess will be called by the name of Beatrice, her latter names having been chosen in honour of her two grandmothers, Queen Wilhelmina and Princess Arm-gard zu Lippe-Biesterfeld.—If she ascended the throne of the Netherlands, she could as Queen, prefer the name of Wilhelmina.—Trans-Ocean.
Council; "Deplores all the more this aggravation of the situation, having regard to the efforts accomplished, and the results achieved, by the Chinese National Government forthe political and economic reconstruction of the country; "Recalls that the Assembly, by its resolution of October 6, 1937, assured China of moral support, and recommended League members to abstain from any action tending to weaken the resistance power of the country or increasing its difüculties in the present conflict, and also to investigate to what extent they could individually bring aid to China; "Calls the very serious attention of League members to the terms of the said resolution; "Has confidence that those of its members for whom the Far Eastern situation is of special interest will not allow any opportunity to escape of examining, in consultation with other Powers equally interested, the possibility to other means capable of contributing to a just settlement of the conflict."
Before the passage of the resolution, Dr, Wellington Koo made reservation:
"The extreme gravity of the situation in the Far East," he said, "calls for the adoption by the Council of conerete and energetic measures, The resolution, while it gives further evidence of the sympathetic spirit which inspires the Assembly's resolution of October 6 last year, is, in our view, inadequate to meet' ihe
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