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Show LEAGUE WARNS JAPAN NATIONS .MAY AID CHINA U. S. May Call World Parley to Declare Boycotts GENEVA, Oct. 6 (AP) The League of Nations assembly today to-day warned Japan of the possibility pos-sibility of international action unless she agrees to a peaceful nine-power settlement of the China conflict. The assembly unanimously approved ap-proved resolutions containing the warning. Poland and Slam abstained from voting, but their attitude did not prevent the unanimity because states which abstain in voting are considered absent under Geneva practices. Waves of applause broke over the assembly hall as Aga Khan, assembly assem-bly president, announced adoption of the resolutions which condemn Japan lor Invasion t Chins and provide for the conference of nine-power nine-power signatories, Including the United States, to the pact guaranteeing guaran-teeing territorial integrity of China. V. & Has Observer Delegates of Norwsy and South Africa, who last night announced they too would abstain, came to the support of the resolutions adopted adopt-ed by the assembly on recommendation recommen-dation of a special far eastern advisory ad-visory committse. An American observer, Leland Harrison, sst with the sdvlsory committee. The league president was empowered empow-ered to take necessary action for convoking the nine-power treaty signatories including ths United States. The strong lesgue stand expressed moral support of China and recommended recom-mended that members should refrain re-frain from taking any action that might weaken China's power of resistance re-sistance in the present undeclared war. Consider Direct Aid A closing admonition was given league members to consider giving direct aid to ths beleaguered Chinese. Chi-nese. The assembly sdjourned but remained re-mained subject to call whenever the International situation warrants, war-rants, a possibility many delegates deemed certain to deal with both ths Spanish and far eastern crises. WASHINGTON, Oct. (INS) President Roosevelt is expected to Initiate a world conference of "peaceful" nations in the near future fu-ture in a determined drive to halt the Sino-Japanese conflict and the civil war in 8paln, responsible quarters declared today. This. It was asserted, was the full implication of the president's profound pro-found speech enunciating a new foreign for-eign policy at Chicago yesterday. Conference Planned , The world conference, with Wah-ington Wah-ington or Geneva as its locale, loomed as a distinct possibility unless un-less definite results are accomplished accom-plished toward halting the "epidemic "epi-demic of world lawlessness" by the present sesaion of ths Lesgue of Nations assembly at Geneva. Armed intervention in either the far eastern or Spanish conflicts is not thought of in fsct, President Roosevelt pledged ha will keep America out of war. These drastic steps were considered consid-ered the only possible mesns of restoring re-storing pesce, short of outsids nations na-tions enforcing it by resort to arms: 1. Demsnd by the world's "peaceful" "peace-ful" nations that Japan and China cease fighting snd their differences be settled by peaceful arbitration. 2. That all foreign troops be withdrawn from Spain. Boycott Threat Seen If these demands, backed by nearly 50 nations, should fail, then thess nations should clamp a worldwide world-wide Ironclad economic boycott on ail commercial or financial Intercourse Inter-course with the "aggressor" In the Sino-Jspanese undeclared war and the interventionist nationa in the Spanish civil war. No nation. International experts pointed out, can live for long, particularly par-ticularly under the atresa of prosecuting prose-cuting a war, without obtaining large quantities ef essential supplies sup-plies from tha outside world. t |