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V hero Will By WILLIAM C UTLE , A . J1ERICA for American s Eu 1 rope tot : Europeans and t f Aaia for Asiatics. That la ' the marching song, flg nratirely, of the Japanese army In eastern Asia, and the theme song of the drama of imperialism that Is unfolding today io the vast thea-, ter f the Far East . .r ' ; To all appearances Its true mean , lng, in the eyes of America and En-' ropean nations is "East Asia (at least) for the Japanese. . 4,' The rapidly expanding; power of Nippon In East Asia which, for the i present means China Is the result of a nationalism which has been L Jl lapan Backs Demands growing steadily with the civiliza tion of its people and came to a f nil awakening with the realization of those people that they had "goU ten away with" the complete sub-. Jugatlon of Manchuria ; . the ever Increasing pressure of a, spirited population to make room for Its existence by enlarging its bound aries, and the self-discovery of people' genius for making all man ner of commodities for which there Is a demand, at a cost low enough to get the business. " . Japan has conquered Manchukuo and .Korea. . She has an eye, it is generally believed, , npon the Is lands of the Sooth Pacific. And she has already established a virtual protectorate over North China. How far she will go and bow soon, are the answers' to a question which all the rest of the world would give a cookie to know. If the Japanese have gained con trol over the "heathen Chinee" they have certainly also bewildered him. For while the Japanese ministry of foreign affairs shakes his hand wrtfh an tot ttttnW.J At -nfitorfkjtl ho. nevolenee, the , Japanese army sneaks up behind him and kicks him ' In the pants. j Foreign Minister Hirota eulogizes the Chinese leader, Gen. Chiang Kalshek; army -leaders immediate ly dub him a fake and a fraud. Hi rota honors 'China by making an embassy of the Japanese legation In China ; the army Immediately de clares It's all news to them While Japan on one band speaks of co operation and. the common good, Ja pan on the other' hand goes right ahea'd with methods of out and out coercion. . .. s. As an excuse for direct action, the Japanese army cited banditry, supposed to have been encouraged by the Chinese, and the assassina tion of two Chinese editors , who had been friendly toward , the Japanese policy; The army of Gen. Yu Bsueb-Chnng has - withdrawn south of the Yellow river and the Japanese army has moveo In. Japs Will Dominate. 1 Whatever government finally emerges in the North China area, It is certain that It will be "guided" by Japanese policy and expediency. It Is doubtful, however, if any kind of political union with Mancbokuo will ensue, for the two areas com bined in one would be a package mighty unwieldy to carry; the Japanese believe that It will be easier to administer them, sep arately. - Under the provisions of the Tang ku treaty of two years ago,. China north of the Tellow river bas been declared a demilitarized tone, but it seems the only demilitarization has been carried out by the Chi nese In moving to the, south and west. The Japanese army Is still there and M completing occupa tion of the province , of . Chahar, which 1. rich in iron ore. This, with the other .three North China provinces, Hopei, Shantung and Shansl, will unite to form a new territorial unit, completely divorced from the. Chinese national govern- - ment and distinctly favorable la its relations with Japan ancTMan- ChukuO. ;.:;:,,,...:. .'..''':;" Chinese coal and Iron, and the opportunity for cotton planting, particularly in. Hope! and Shan- .- tung, have been the Incentive for . most of the Japanese action: how- ... ever, It 'is pointed out that the loss ' of trade In other parts of China - as a result may offset these advan- ' tages, ' They become doubly Impor- tant : when it Is considered! that ' Great Britain America and other powers may extend financial aid to China. ' . : Where Japan's Imperialism and . expansion will carry It next Is open .' for conjecture.' Japan-is, or was, ' an "island empire," and to Its south i in the Pacific are many .Islands In which It has enormous commercial interests. - After a statement like that we ' In America are prone to think Im ran Stri . 0 In China With Troops.'! mediately' of - the -Philippines,- bnt more important . to Japan ' are the Netherlands. ' East Indies, i ' which buy more goods from Japan- than does even China. Japan bas an an nual balance of trade: with, these heavily populated Islands that is more than 130,000,000 in her favor. , As to ' the . Philippines, Japan make .horrified gestures at the sug gestion that her interests there are anything but Platonic, Certainly, although defending the -Philippines from Japanese attack would be a man's-slse Job for America, the Jap anese would venture no aggression there so long as the Islands; are under the wing of American protec tion...' K';ftv."i. ''tiAiiMf-O:,:-'-''- But In .1045,' according to '!the present . agreement, ; the , Philippines will get their complete political int dependence. With .American,, dom ination will go the privilege of free trade with the United States; In fact during the next ten years the tariff on. Philippine .goods coming into the , United- States will be an nually' IncreasetL' It the economic harden becomes too great for. the Phlllpplnesand there are;' plenty of those Who say It will the Is lands, may be forced to enter1 some sort of union that would give them trade advantages with another large power. That wonld be' Japan, . : ;. ; Consider Russia, t i It must be remembered that there Is another great power which has something to say about the reap portionment, of territory in- East Asia. That power is Soviet Russia, with 200,000 fighting, men and a far superior air force north of Man chukno and across the Amur river." The conflicting alms, of these two powers was not so. serious when Manchuria existed between them to absorb the shocks. Now their borders have moved right up against one another. .. Already border skir mishes, allegedly provoked by Jap anese gone, ' have caused vigorous protests fronv the Soviet ambassa dor m Tokyo, ' i w v The Siberian army is far better mechanized than' the Japanese,! its airplanes are modern and double the Japanese strength, And the Is land of Japan itself Is a perfect set up for aerial destruction. To offset this, Japan will be mov ing from Interior lines, and admin istration of a Japanese army cam paign would be possible on a much more concentrated basis, - for : Si beria is on the outside of A great, curving, northern frontier of Man chnkuo. While Japanese re-enforcements ceuTd be moved In with com parative celerity, , because of : the proximity lof 'the homeland and be cause of far superior rail facilities. It would take A much longer time for the Bed army to move replace ments from Russia proper Into east ern Siberia. These replacements would hate to come" over One lone railroad, which Is notoriously ineffi cient and easily susceptible to crippling by an enemy force.- r TheTt May Come. : Soviet-Japanese . relations , may come a little more nearly to a head next year when new contracts, will be dlscVssed'. to permit Japanese fishing off the Siberian and . Kam chatka!! coasts, t Only' 10 per cent of the fish taken from the waters bit on communistic hooks In 1927; now half of them do.- Perhapsnhe red bait Is more enticing. At any rate Japan now wants to pay Its rental of fisheries- lo ' yen Instead of gold rubles and wants to base the .rentals on the number of fish actually caOght,' . , , By consenting peaceably to the waiver of its ownership -rights in the Chinese Eastern railway, .Rus sia: Indicated that It , was- willing to let Japan, have something of. A free hand in Manchukuo. The area, which Is three time as large as Japan Itself, Is now administered and, very ably, too by the Japanese army of occupation. : ; The" Japanese policy In Manchu kup ha been constructive. . Rail roads have, been Increased in mile Text ' " '"MUN I II f ASAN ISA ' Yt i v EJ mmmii lunti 23 MMNtfl tMTOIl V: FIRMsM age more than one-third in three years. These have all been built where they will make it easier to divert to japan much of the traffic In goods which has passed through Siberian cities,- particularly Vladi vostok, which now must depend al most entirely npon Inland Siberia for its trade. New railroads planned for construction will make even the far reaches of Manchukno readily accessible to Japanese 'commerce. Japan also built 4,500 miles of roads in Manchukuo in 1833 and 1934, and Schedules .call for 200 miles an nually In the years to come' ' : .' Last year Manchukuo became Ja pan's biggest export market, taking 18 per cent of the exported (ooda The value of these exports grew from more than 75,000,000 yen In 1931 to more than 400,000,000 yen In 1934. This has - confronted Japan with a serious economic problem, however, for if exports of goods to Manchukuo have grown, so have export of capital Japan's capital Investments there were 99,000,000 yen In 1932, 176,000,000 yen in 1933, ' and 237,000,000 yen In 1934, The cost of military occupation in Man chukuo is tbout 150,000,000 yen annually-. A balance of trade will hare to be effected if Japanese invest-' ments are to be secure. ' , It I not . merely : Manchukuo' 4,800,000,000 ton of coal reserves, and the area' Iron which Japan wants. She I honestly desirous of maintaining more peaceful and civ lllzed. ; conditions in v Manchukuo, whe.re the preceding rule; was cor rupt and oppressive, n JVhile shAhas admittedly, improved the country, she Is not so popular with the na tive population, probably because of her desire to Acquire . more . high ptats In the administration and In business than Is seemingly neces sary. ' '' J'l'Vi1 ' 'r'i ;: America Chagrined. ' ' U ' Naturally, America has been ch grlned by the Japanese abrogation of noval treaties and Insistence on naval parity, and bas been offended! by the Japanese policy of forcing out foreign oil companies in Man--chukuo. We, along with Great Brit tin and other nations, have been provoked at i her interference . jut' China and visualize the suffering of our trade. But Americans have only about 1200,000,000 Invested in China. Great Britain has six times as mn.cn, Japan a little less than Great Britain.:"; ',--:-' t. . Our export; sale to China in 1933 amounted to nearly ,$52,000,000 or approximately 8 per cent of our. total exports. We exported $143,-; 000,000 worth of goods to Japan l&" the same year. If we were to go to war with Japan the Value of our Chinese export bnainesa would van ish in no time, - The expense wonld paralyze' Japan economically . and destroy our best customer In Asia. The Japanese people are probably much more excited over our recent naval maneuvers In the Pacific than we Are over their policy In Asia. Influenced by a press which speaks only with the voice of Tokyo, they feel that' we plan to carry out our Far Eastern policy with an armed force,' and that the fact that we demand-a, stronger nary than Japan' Is evidence that . we . want to be equipped to carry n an offensive In the Pacific and have no Inten . tlon of fostering world ; peace . by limitation of armaments, -V;f.?U Japan, with her 'withdrawal from the League of Nations and her abro gation of armament treaties,: has opebly showed her disgust and dis interestedness In European affairs, and her Intention to devote her- ac tivities entirely to Asia.' But she cannot' forget Europe entirely, be-' cause of the Interests of European i patlons, particularly Great Britain, In her vWlnlty,, ' ft r More', man anything else ' Japan fears an Anglo-American agreement which wonld form A potential union of the two greatest navies , in the world.. .The great puzzle Is whether; such action would avert or bring on. a serious crisis. , -j -, , .', , , Trouble which Is brewing in Eu rope may come to s heaq, and if It does, this will command most of the attention of European powers. .Ja pan will then pursue her aggressive Asiatic' policy more Intensely, as she did during and immediately fol lowing the War . But Japan harbors no Illusions of rnllna; the world. 'All she Is coh ccrnnJ about Is ' Asia, particularly eabtern A:j:a.-' '. "' '".' 'V : C Wtr Kmppr Union. UR GOlvlIC SECTION ,V,".';.r. -i - iV ' HjT' a.iv i IC'OESS lit 1 - ' v ' , iP j :5S Fr THE CAR IN HNNEY OF THE MAY i have A wordhua Confess HB PIP J VvELL - SAY, V Id I f . 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