"Similar measures have been made at previous sessions of the Council, and while the principle of coordinate action has been recognized at these meetings it has hitherto been Found that the necessary elements stich ce-ordination are not assured, Lord Halifax asked whether representatives of states at this meeting were convinced that there had been any alteration in the situation in this respect since the last meeting of the Council, and whether they considered the elements in question now present end assured, He thought that those member states who. were most directly conered must admit that this was not the ease.
He, therefore, would be less than frank if he hold out the hope tha the present circumstances and with the heavy responsibilities resting on them elsewhere in the world, the British Government were abie to undertake the additional commitments comprised in Dr. Koo's. proposals.
Lord Halifax added they believed that other governments, who were members of the League, were likely to find themselves in a'similar position.
The British Government, therefore, he said, were bound to feel grave double whether any useful purpose could be served by adopting the proposal to establish a ce-ordinating committee at present.—Reuter. moved us all once ai feelings of compassion for the terrible sufferings inflicted upon the Chinese people, but also to admitation for the fortitude and courage Mediation Reports Said Groundless (Chungking, May 27. he proceeded, "ihe world has been forced to witness the spectacle of a contfiet in which all the resources of modern warfare have been brought to bear on the Chinese nation by a neighbouring nation whose final terests, one would have thought, would have Lain in fostering friend: Tines and good vil 'The resistance offered by the Chinese people has evoked deep and widespread sympathy, which is fully shared by His Majesty's Government, and it is for no lack of sympathy' that His Majesty's Government feel unable to support the far-reaching proposals now advanced on behalf of China.
"Nor does this mean that His Majesty's Government has from the policy prescribed for men bers of the League in previous solutions in regard to the Far Eastern The Chinese Foreign Office today 'oMcially denied a Japanese report of May 24, alleging. that the British Ambassador to China, Sir Archibald Kerr, during his stay here, presented a memorandum to General Chiang Kai-shek.
Among other things, this memorandum was said to have stated that:
1. "In view of the principles underlying the League resolutions concerning China, the Powers were Prepared to mediate, but they would object to direct Sino-Japanese negotiations if such were found destrable.
2. "The Powers were not opposed te economic ce-operation between Eh and Japan."
emphatically stated that there Is not the least grain of truth in the report, which is deceribed as a "pure fabrication designed to confuse public opinion in the Far East."—Reuter.
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