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Kyoto, Japan. August 12, 1933,
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A gigantic poker game is being played by the nations in the West Pacific. For treaties and long. established policies
longer dictate the reaction of any nation concerned. That phase has beeri forgotten with the oblivion of the League of Nations
Committee. Pure opportunism rules Therefore, anything may tuate.
now
even-
fire to the tinder-box cities" of Osaka, Tokyo and Nagoya, driving the population into a frenzy such as swept them at the time of the Tokyo earthquake and fire.
The Danger.
ard a dozen ne residences at Hangchow. one hundred miles south of Shanghai. They tell me they have turned out about two hundred capable Chinese flyers and that they are very satisfied with the progress of their students. Shanghai municipality has bought sixteen new American combat planes, the first of which have arrived and been christened in good Christian fashion by the mayor's wife. Nanking, with a hundred fighting planes, now talks of having three hundred planes, and a thousand air-men in two years. Also Di naval defenses adequate to protect the Yangtze River.
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Japan's difficulties are widening out, like the ripple from a stone cast in water. High dutles have been put on all non-British im- ports into India, Already Japanese Plece-goods and other industries are suffering heavily: In a few weeks the Japanese-Indian com- mercial treaty expires. Imme- diately, discriminatory taris against Japanese goods; as protec- tion against the cheap Japanese. yen, are to go into effect. A wave of anti-British feeling has swept over Japan. Japanese foreign office proposals go unanswered by Great Britain: the Japanese mill- tary are blaming the Foreign Office for its "weak stand." The Britisn say nothing, but the departure of a commission from Holland to in- vestigate the possibilities or pro- tecting the Dutch East India mar-
If that were to happen. Korea would be immediately in revolt, and armed Chinese would rise, by the tens of thousands in Man- chukuo. Who knows if it could? Japan's supreme military junta The Imperial Japanese staff wishes now pauses, waiting to see whe- it did. Meanwhile it sends great ther China, convinced that help quantities of war materials to cometh from no quarter, will "fall Harbin and conducts" grotesquery into Japan's arms," as a cabinet serious air-defence campaigns in ket for Dutch industry may be official expressed it in 1921. By the Japanese cities campaigns taken as the British answer. Bata- way of bluff, Japanese staff gen-¡ during which the lives of foreign vian authorities announce a new erals openly say that "China cant residents and visitors are made quota aystem and excited Japan-. not be trusted-the North China miserable by "patriotic" street ese weavers blame their Foreign truce is temporary."
Japanese bullek
Office.
diplomats wonder whether further military advance into Chuma woudt There are other considerations bring strong foreign opposition or which perhaps restrain the Japan- interference.Ruata waits ese expansionists even more. The
even
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→The Dutch East Indies, :7
The Japanese have had free, run-
per cent.
Of
tor Japan to infringe upon ner- Soviet has most carefully. avoided of the Dutch East Indies; Yenden territory, suffering any insult or giving any shadow of offense, unto textile workers have been on the
90 while bitterest ple.
Only dole eating the damage short of this.
In the face of contravention of when the petted Gaypayoo has Java's plecegoods have come from its long established policies in the gotten into dispute with Japanese Japan and Dutch insular officials Pacific, will the United States re-i has it been let down by the Krem-have confessed that they dare not lin. When Gaypayoo police shot offend Japan by imposing tariffs. new the Naval Limitation Treaty
fishermén for It is evident that they will dare to In 1935-on the new equal tonnage some Japanese
Rusala and the extent that they are encourag- ratio demanded by Japan-or will legal entry into
Probably she prefer to place her security Japanese gunboats landed armed ed by Great Britain. and policies on the basis which forces on Russian territory to seize Japanese agents could inspire an- Japan's "present rulers trust: the them, Moscow apologized, agreed other mutiny in the Dutch realistic basis of prepared force? to panish her secret ponce, and, of two vessels in the East Indies. How far can Japan crowd British pay heavy indemnity to the fami- They might inspire general upris- interests "without having the In-lles of the siala. At the same time ng among the disaffected Javan- ese. and Sumatrans, They might dian market, now her most im-Russian vessels putting into haven land their goods under escort of portant source of revenue, entire on a deserted northern Japanese warships, as some of their fingoes
island are taken into custody and ly shut in her face? And if
On trial by Japan grows ugly over this ce- their officers put velopment how far will Great Brt Japanese authorities. tain back Holland in closing Japan's second most important outlet, the Dutch East Indies? These are unknowns of the poker game.
It is not easy to play poker while sitting on a 'tack, and Japan is. growing fidgety. The military are beginning to blame the diplomats again-the same development that) preceeded the September 1931 out- burst.
To Eliminate Russia.
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-PRESSURE, 18 HIGHEST TO THE SOUTHEAST OF JAPAN, AND 15 RE- "LATIVELY LOW OVER N. CHINA
AND OVER THE PHILIPPINES. FORECAST:-LIGHT S.E. OR VARI- ABLE WINDS, FINE.
The younger faction of the military junta want to push Rus- sia to war. They want to shorten their defensive border from some three thousand miles to one hun- dred by pinching Russia off at Lake Baikal. Here the trans- Siberian railway' passes between this largest fresh water lake in the world, bordered by snowcapped peaks, and the Gobi Desert. It would be impossible for a heavily Not without an overt act can equipped offensive force to go over the Japanese expansionists provoke Would a measure the frozen wastes to the north or Russia to war.
the shifting sands to the south. so crude, used against even the the If Japan's first blow should suc- unloved Boviet, not arouse ceed, Russia would be eliminated indignation of other nations to the from Pacific Asia:
extent of effectual outlawry of Would it not determine Pinching Russia off at Baikal Japan? would extend Manchukno's nor America to build a bavy twice as them border to the, Arctic. It big as Japan's? The expansionists would give Japan the coveted, em- wish they knew. For Japan, al- pty Amur Valley, as large as the though faunting the League of Mississippi Valley, estimated to be Nations, is far from prepared to capable of being quickly made to challenge the powers of the world grow enough wheat to feed the en-
tire Japanese army. It would give Japan Vladivostok, making her
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