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Show - FINAL MOVE WEARS OVER j ASIACRISIS League Issues Ultimatum To Jap-v Jap-v anese; Lytton Statement Is r Supported In Council of Nations at Geneva, - GENEVA, Jan. lThe league ' of nations' committee, of nineteen, .' considering the Chinese-Japanese controversy over Manchuria," to- . night served Japan with an ulti- - matum that the league will act as it sees fit unless Japan by Fri- . day (today) accepts, in the main, the original report on the crisis. The committee expressed willingness wil-lingness to agree to Tokyo's request re-quest that the clause inviting the United States and soviet Russia to sit la on the proposed new com- mlttee on negotiations regarding j the entire Manchurian problem be . omitted. . Otherwise, the original draft is - to be accepted. Japan threatened threaten-ed to quit the league unless her stipulations were met. The com- . mlttee . of nineteen decided she could quit if by Friday Tokyo had not fallen. Innto line. . The ultimatum said the league - would proceed under paragraph 4 of article 15 of the league cove-' cove-' nant if Japan remained recalcitrant. recalcit-rant. That paragraph, in effect would tend to place the blame for the Manchurian problem on Japan -tf . if the league. acted as it permits. The committee Instructed Paul Hymans of Belgium, its chairman, to give the Japanese until Friday to reply. The draft resolution of December Decem-ber 9, which is the" one referred to and which so far had been kept secret was made available in full to the United Press tonight. It upheld the Lytton report and affirmed that a settlement, to bej negotiated through the league, " must respect the. provision of the league covenant,, the Briand-Kel- lofg treaty (pact of Paris), and the nine-power treaty, which provides pro-vides respect for China's territorial terri-torial Integrity. . The section removed at Japan's j reguest, referring to inclusion of ' America and Russia on the pro-posed pro-posed new' "Negotiations commit- tee," to . prolong the inquiry and appease Tokyo," said, In part: 'Tt -ia desirable that-the United . States of America and the union of Socialist soviet republics should join in the efforts made in callab- oration with the representatives of the parties . . . and it is propesed that the governments of these two : countries should be invited to take . part in the negotiations. "The negotiations committee will have all the power necessary . for the execution of its mission." The committee of nineteen con- sidered the eJapanese counter, draft this evening, which It was tacitly admitted was unsatisfac- j . ' tory. After a three-hour secret j ' ' session tonight they decided to extend the period for attempting conciliation on Manchuria until ! the end of the week, by which time they hoped Japan would accept ac-cept the draft, amended as they . ' Meanwile Yosuka Matsuoka, chief Japanese delegate, said Ja- ' pan still was ready to quit the league of the league "acta too . hurridly' in the Manchurian dispute. |