Word: manchuria
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Dead Silence. Most embittered delegate at the Conference last week was China's Dr. W. W. Yen. He proposed an amendment which would have bound the Conference countries to abstain from the warlike bombing of civil populations, adding that he had Manchuria in mind. When Sir John Simon made two points? 1) that China and Japan are not legally at war; 2) that it would be senseless to prohibit bombing in peace time?Dr. Yen withdrew his resolution in bitter disgust...
...apparently been convinced by the British Admiralty and General Staff that the President's proposals should be "allowed to pass like a Christmas message." In this purpose Sir John was ably abetted by the Government of Japan, grateful for the legal prowess he displayed in Japan's behalf when Manchuria was last up before the League (TIME, March 21). Peremptory instructions to oppose the Hoover program at all costs were cabled from Tokyo to Japan's Chief Delegate at Geneva, Ambassador Tsuneo Matsudaira, father-in-law of Japan's Crown Prince...
...Japan the Foreign Office spokesman said bluntly that the "main reason" why his Government would have none of the Hoover proposals last week was the refusal of Washington to assent to what Japan has done in Manchuria. I ask you to remember," said Japanese War Minister Lieut.-General Sadao Araki, tut-tutting the Hoover proposals, "that the Japanese troops are a strictly disciplined force and perform their duties with as little harmfulness as possible...
...direct the Japanese forces their Commander-in-Chief, doughty little General Shigeru Honjo who seized Manchuria in the first place (TIME, Sept. 28), hurried to Harbin. From this base three Japanese forces were advancing, nominally "to mop up the Chinese bandits." but all toward different points on the Soviet frontier...
Just north of the city 4,000 Chinese soldiers, reputedly under General Ma, were routed by Japanese who took 500 Chinese prisoners, captured three Chinese armored cars, several pieces of artillery. Neutral observers agree that Manchuria's peasants, terrorized by Japanese soldiers and Chinese guerrillas, have cut down their spring sowing to a point which guarantees a poor crop, threatens famine...