Show LEAGUE PONDERS CHINESE APPEAL GENEVA Sept 28 UP League P-League League of nations delegates said today that the swift progress of Chinas China's appeal appeal appeal ap ap- ap- ap peal for punitive measures against Japan put up to individual nations the question of how far they should go in applying Japanese anti-Japanese sanc sanc- Dr V. V Ii K Wellington Koo the Chinese delegate won von an agreement agreement agree agree- ment meat from British and French representatives that league punitive punitive punitive puni puni- tive powers we were v e r e applicable against Japan The success o of the Chinese demand demand demand de de- de- de mand made Soviet Russia the great hyphen between the Japanese Chi nese war and the threatened European European Euro Euro- conflict over Czechoslovakia Informed circles said Russia as assured assured assured as- as Great Britain and France her far-eastern far and European forces can operate independently and that everything from stores and supplies supplies supplies sup sup- plies to War-time War rear-guard rear organization organization or or- was ready to make Russian forces self sufficient How far Russia would go In aiding China remained a Moscow Moscow Mos Mos- cow secret Chinese spokesmen said Maxim Litvinoff Soviet foreign affairs commissar had hadnot hadnot hadnot not told Dr Koo how much China could expect Both oth Russians and Chinese indicated much depended on European developments Much more was considered at ai stake however in the Chinese appeal appeal appeal ap ap- ap- ap peal under Article of the league covenant which provides for punishing aggressors not members of the league Almost overnight the league faced the greatest test of its strength since sanctions were applied partly against Italy in the Ethiopian war The Chinese demand demand demand de de- de- de mand would be a precedent for a Czech appeal should Adolf Hitler carry out his threat to march into SHANGHAI Sept 28 UP Chi R-Chi- Chi Chinese nese reported today that a Japanese column had been cut of off while attempting attempting attempting at at- tempting to advance from through hills southwest o of the Yangtze river on the central China front In a nine-hour nine battle Chinese were said to have inflicted 1700 casualties and captured a quantity of munitions including four mountain mountain moun moun- tam tain guns |