Hankow, Feb, 12, China Is wholeheartedly supporting the conference opening in London today, under the auspices of the International Peace Campaign, to discuss ways and means of boycotting Japan. and helping China, According to information reaching nero, Chinese public bodies through out the country, including Hankow, Canton, Shanghai, Tsinglao, Tientsin, Peiping, Chungking, Changsha and Nanchang, have sent messages to the conference urging the adoption of conerete and effective measures check Japanese aggression in Chin; Meanwhile, mass meetings, parades and demonstrations are being held li over Hankow in support of the conference. The streets here are fled with huge placards bearing such slogans as "Support, the, Inter~ national Boycott Conference" and "World Unites to check Japanese aggression."
"We will never surrender to aggression," declared Mr, Wang Ching-Wel, Chairman of the Central Political Council, in an address at a re-option given yesterday afternoon by the Chinese People's Foreign Affairs "Association in support of the London Japanese ald Hankow Mr, Wang, who Is one of China's foremost Writers and statesmen, Manila, Feb. 12.
'Whole-hoaried support " against International anarchy" was pledged by" the three local peace organiza~ tons Ina cablegram despatched. this morning to the 'London Peace' Campaign Conference, "The organizations are the Peace on Earth "Committee, the Friends of China and the League for the Defence of Democracy—Meuter, eyeolt Conference Opens London, Feb, 12 Over 800 delegates atiendea the opening here today, under the aus-Plces "of the alernational Peace Campaign, of an international con: ference to discuss ways and, means of boycotting Japan and" helping Ching. Mx "Philip Noel-Baker, Labour MP. for Derby, presided in the absence of Lord Cecil, President of the League of Nations Union, who 'Lord 'Cecil, however, sent a state ment to the' meeting in which he said: "Japan has challenged the principles in which we believe. It for. us to show that we detest her action' and to free ourselves. of all complicity with her'
Speakers included M. Henri Roun, President of the Federation of League fof Nations Societies of Belgium, {Leon Jouhaux, General Secretary of the French Trade Union Congress, MMe, "Pitman "Polter (America) and it. "Krishnan Mfenon Cindi)
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