London, Sept. 24.
Hankow, Sept. 25.
The Chinese Foreign' Office has instructed the Chinese delegation at Geneva to demand the application of Article 16, following Japan's refusal to accept the League's invitation under Article 17.
Dr. Wang Chung-hui, Foreign Minister in a statement today, declared that Japan's refusal was only expected, while the arguments in reply were similar to those made to the League Advisory Committee and the Brussels Conference, Several hundred delegates of workers unions held a demonstration today while the British Inner Cabinet was in session to consider Herr Hitler's latest demands in the Czech crisis.
Representatives of the Amalgamated Engineering Union, the Sheet Metal Workers Union and the Amalgamated Furnishing Trades Association arrived at the Foreign Office in taxicabs amid loud shouts of "Stand By the Czechs!" from a large crowd of sympathetic bystanders.
Since Japan absolutely refused to participate in any peace machinery, the League must adopt the only course open to it by enforcing Article 16, in order to halt Japan's "fourteen months' atrocities in China," Dr. Wang declared.—Reuter.
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