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Show Japan Offers "Trade" On Manchuria Dispute GENEVA, Jan. II (UP) Japan offered of-fered today to Include the United State and Russia in futur effort at conciliation of the Manchurian dispute, provided that the league of nations drop tha policy of nonrecog-nltion nonrecog-nltion of the new Manchurian state of Manchukuo. Yusoke Mstsuoka, chief Japanese delegate, told Paul Hymana, president presi-dent of the league's committee of II, that Japan would "swallow Russia and th United States" as conciliator concilia-tor if th nonrecognlUon proposal of the committee' resolution were deleted. The Japan proposal was regarded regard-ed a the answer to the league's move yesterday In Issuing an ultimatum ulti-matum demanding Japanese acceptance accept-ance of the main polnta of the league' conciliation program. The Japanese delegation waa "caught oft base" by the committee's dramatie offer to drop the proposed Inclusion of the United States and Russia In future negotiations, ft Japan Ja-pan would accept th rst of th program. pro-gram. Member of th committee refused to be stampeded by Japan' counter-prspeaaL counter-prspeaaL , I "We have called Jspsn's bluff and nothing short of a miracle can prevent pre-vent us from moving under paragraph para-graph 4 of article XV of th covenant,' cove-nant,' member of the committee told the United Prea. "There Is not a member of th committee who is not convinced that conciliation is ended." . Paragraph 4 provided that if the league council Is not able to settle a dispute It shall, by either unanimous" unani-mous" or majority vote, publish a report re-port containing a statement ef facta of th dispute and recommendations "deemed Just and proper In regard thereto. Ther was understood to be a pos-slbillty pos-slbillty that reference to the nine-power nine-power treaty might be dropped from the committee' origin! draft resolution reso-lution due to alleged discrepancies with the proposal of th Lytton committee com-mittee report regarding the future preservation of administrative and territorial Integrity of China. |