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KOREAN NATIONAL INFORMATION BUREAU
P, 0. BoX 1919
Cable Address; "Konation",
Honolulu, T. H.  TJ. S. A.
November 14, 1932.
To the Honorable Sir Eric Drummond,
The Secretary General, the League of Nations,
Geneva.
Honorable Sir Eric Drummond:
We, the representatives of the Korean organizations of Manchuria, United States of America, and the Hawaiian Islands do voice
the sentiment of twenty-two million Koreans toward the wonderful
efforts and just report made by the Lytton Commission of the League
of Nations, We humbly subscribe to this petition and to this plea
do we most urgently beg that the Council of the League of Nations
comply with the Lytton report, thus giving justice to China and .
further insuring future international peace,
On September 30, 1931, your Council adopted a resolution
calling upon Japan, to withdraw its troops by October the 14th.
This was freely agreed to by the Japanese representative, M» Ken-
kichi Yoshizawa, Instead of withdrawing her troops within the
following few weeks, she rapidly began to extend her occupation
over Manchuria to the whole territory of China. On October 8th,
twelve Japanese naval airplanes (in open disregard of the 1907
Hague Convention) bombarded the unfortified city of Chinchow.  In
spite of the fact that the League of Nations tried jbo invoke
Article XIII and to compel Japan to submit to arbitration, she had
deliberately defied the League of Nations and the United States of
America.
Japan has at 3a st thrown down the gauntlet against the conscience of the whole world.  Ignoring the entreaties for peace of
all humanity, defying the League of Nations and any other machinery
of peace, and disregarding her obligations assumed under solemn
international treaties, Japan has told the world In effect that she