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TUESDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1936..
a very sane
AGAINST CHINA? China is taking and well-reasoned attitude to- wards the conclusion of the German Japanese agreement. She asserts that she is not con- cerned with Communism beyond her own borders, and that the question of Communism within China is her own affair, concern- ing which there is no need to week an understanding with any third party. In other words, slie declines to allow Japan to intermeddle in China's affairs on the the pretext of helping Chinese to get rid of the Red menace. The interested obser ver may, however, be excused if;
At this season the river was frozen. And Mao's men had but to march over the ice. Which they did.
IT CHANCED ABOUT THIS time that the Japanese were preparing to send an armed force, one of many, to China.
But no sooner had arms been issued to the Japanese warriors than they turned them against their own countrymen-against the Elder States- men who surrounded the young Emperor's throne.
The Lord Privy Seal and the Chancellor of the Exchequer, were butchered; the Lord Cham- berlain was wounded; the Prime Minister and others saved themselves by light.
WHY THESE TALES OF "old, unhappy, far-off things and battles long ngo"?
Well, in the first place, they are not so very far off. The murders in Japan and the march across the Yellow River both took place in the same week of February 1936.
And, in the second place, both events help us to under- stand the Chinese puzzle which is once again thrust- ing itself before the fearful eyes of the world: help us to understand.
Why Japan is trebling her. forces in North China;
he fails to be convinced by the Why many “Chinese are
Guide
news
about China, remember this:
land.
There are 420,000,000 Chinese. Three-fourths of the people live on the
Farms are sub-divided among heirs. Half the farms are under four_acres..
Peasants three scourges are: Bandits, soldiers, and famine.
Tenant-farmers add a fourth Tyrannous
landlords.
Poorer peasants are always in debi. Pawn their crops in summer, their implements in winter, and sometimes sell their children.
Moneylenders usual interest rates any thing from 25 to 50 per cent.
Taxes are collected in advance. Some dis- tricts have paid for half a century ahead.
Communication are appalling. Result: In one region famine; in another, farmers com- noi dispose of their surplus,
Andther result: With enough" "Tica" up- country to feed the whole nation, China is compelled to import 'rice.
day
Factory conditions: Twelve-hour (and more); night-work for women and child-. ren; wages about one-half to one-third those of British workers.
Chinese have the oldest civilisation. They think not in years, but in centuries. "Things are bad, they will say, "but they were worse during the Han Dynasty." Which is like saj- ing in England. Well, after all, we're better. off than when the Romans were here."
BITORY
The history of China in the following years was largely a
IT WAS NOT only hunger that drove them over "China's. Sorrow" into the fertile valloys' of Shansi,.„ For years, the Chinese Communisje had preached a national crisad against the invading Jajanege, But all in vain.
While Japan seized fitzt-Man- churia, then Jehol, then Innep Mongolia, and then prepared to pounce on the five northern poś vinces of China Proper, Chiang Kai-shok devoted all his martial ardour to bélabouring the Reds,
Now Shansi is one of the Avej northern provinces. The Red.) "invasion," therefore, threaten ed to spoil the pretty nap hand': which Japan was preparing to play...
Equally disquieting. for the militarists in Tokyo was the: result of the Japanese gpnetak election, which had just been held. The Selyukai.. militarist, semi-Fascist party, lost seats; the Minselto; maÁLA rate Conservatives, won them,- and a proletarian party, known, as the Social Mass, had emerged. IN JAPAN LIFE
is cheap beside honour.
Oda Norbunaga, the Jujug Cæsar of Japan, one playfully: tapped the bald head one of his own officers with his : umj The officer took offence podt. slow him.
A Japanese icutenant namel Ohara believod that Japan rust.. fight Russia. He set forth his opinions in writing, and then, to prove the sincerity his con- victions, killed hilself before the graves of his ancestors.
Sometimes, you ace, at the honourable follow in lifetz. and sometimes the other fel low's.
To the perfervid, patrits the
record of Chiang's, successive election resuits were a stati op but not successful campaigns national honour. To the power financial group, against the Communists, who, ful Mitsui had established a Soviet Govern- which had linked its fortunes. ment in and around Kinngai with the policy of foreign aggression, the results threaten- province.
ed disaster.
President of the Soviet Gov. The stain' was wiped out ind ernment was Mao Tse-tung, the disaster averted by the Towards the end of 1984 Mao murders of February 26. Out- ́ and his lieutenants decided that standing among the ictima' WHS. North-Western China would be Viscount Takahashi, agod (Fin«: A botter base than Klangsi, ance Minister, who had can which was uncomfortably near sistently opposed the armiy's. Chiang's headquarters, Nan- inroads on the Treasury.
THE MORE EX- impression which is being foster-crying: "Only grim war can (uoring march up from Canton king. In the north-west they...
to Hankow and Shanghai, and would be so much further away, treme militarist chiefs, like ed in certain quarters that there | save us";
If their backs were is no intention on the part of
Why the Japanese Treasury were eliminated or absorbed. either of the signatories to the (which once was so empty that The "Party" that is, the Kuo-
on to Peiping. The war lords and
forced to the wall it would be General Araki, were forced to retire, but the army was the friendly wall of Sinkiang agreement to concern themselves the Emperor had to sell
(where Russian Soviet influenca supreme. It dictated, the coffr mintang-was supreme. examples of his calligraphy) is The idyll of Chinese unity is strong) and Outer Mongolia, position of the new Cabinet The Premier Mr. Koki Hirota, being asked to disburse--more-
was short-lived. It was never ally of Moscow... than ever before: and millions for the army and navy really achieved, for already by
So began the look march of is famous for his aggressive
three-point policy on Cha the Red the end of 1927 Chiang Kai-
Army 8,000 miles
(1) Cessation of anti-Japan- Why there is all this friction shek had dismissed Borodin, westward into Szechwan, then (Keelung and Peiping) between a Russian aviser, and broken northward
(2) Recognition of the pup the Japanese and the British. with the native Communists as
pet empire of Manchukuo;
(8) Co-operation between Japan and China in crustning Communism.
China.
with Communism in Official spokesmen in Japan have definitely-denied that the under. standing is directed against any particular country, whilst an official German statement issued in Shanghai last week contained an assurance that it is not di- rected against China. There is
IT IS IMPORT. well.
a paragraph in this latter state-ant that we should understand ment which is worth quoting. these things. It is to the effect that Germany. Upheavals in Eastern Asia is convinced that the anti-ricocheted across two continents Communist agreement will be and brought down the Roman "regarded by China with less Empire. To-day'a avents in the doubt as China is herself en Far East may change the face gaged in A successful war of of the world. defence against Communism within her own territory." But whilst Japan and Germany-are
mcking these assertions, we
Army
into Kansu andese activities; Shensi, to the banks of the Yellow River.
Happy Childhood Myth
it was the economic blizzard of 1929-31- which drore Japan to her conquest of Manchuria The alternative might wellhaye been revolution,
But the concat: bas, not How much smug hypocrisy and ered in their judgments than their
humbug lies behind the praining elders.
Moreover, they have the keen eye solved the, crisis. Japan has Thour canst not stir a flower
of childhood as the happiest period of Without troubling of a star. one's life! How much of this is pure of the primitive types far, any play- taxed herself to the limit put sentimentalism; how much of it is mate whose temperament makes him Manchukuo on her feet. And it LOOK FIRST AT shallow pose?
guilty of the crime, of differing in will be many years before she.
COME & CONSULT THE Ay, and the while you are young, for you will find thus look back on hats ardonboys 25.
have the Japanese Kwantung China. The Celestial Empiretes, Johnny" says the uncle une- some unusual way from the common
Manchukuo gets a profitable return for her "sympathy" with the Inner the Arctic Circle.
later ona deep sigh-that child-period of bleak martyrdom. So the grim alternatives hood is, the only happy time we ever Then, and this is the dominating main: expand or perish Mongolian invasion of the
In a few years it has lost get on this earth."
point we live in a world run by adults Yellow River valley in
in the most Chinese north-western province two-thirds of its domain, Man-
And the young nephow is supposed for adults. Even of Sulyan. It is alleged by these
churia, Mongolia,
Sinking to be duly awed by and grateful for sympathetic and understanding sur China might supply the raw
rogadings children are being con- cotton which Japan needs
WILL THE (FIV) two groups that not only is the (Chinese Turkestan), and Tibet this solemn outpouring of Wilm tinually made aware of this in the Chinese Government reluctant to
But
much more likely the boy will be co-operate with Japan in joint the whole ring of satellites has profoundly bored, for children are frustration they suffer through the northern provinces be taken
divergence of their outlook from that easily as the reg. hoka defence against the Reds, but, gone, leaving only "China Pro.. not always little blockheads, and they of the grown-up world they live in,
keen eye for anything that
eastern provinces which were. per," subject to the precarious; have
SECOND PLACE
Manchuria? on the contrary, it is effecting a
Little Johnny feels that there is a
The Chincao Red Armay alone compromise therewith. Chinese sway of the Central Government savours of affectation.
at Nanking..
*note of falsity in his uncle's words, Thus little Tommy is exasperated used of being closely connected military groups are, Indeed, ac-
The Central Government, for at the very moment of speaking when he cannot get to spend all the cannot fight Japan And Chinng with the increasing pressure by nominally controlled by the he la enjoying privileges denied to time he would like exploring the de- Kai-shek is not likely to her.
lights of the railway station. He is the Reds' appeal for neopee Communists. Therefore, it is Kuomintang (Chinese National- Juveniles.
The nephew sees his uncle suraw- told that further delay will mean that leclared, "the Japanese Army list Party), is actually dominated ling in his chair with his feet on the they will all miss the train, and they Front against the invader For not indifferent to the eventual by Marshal Chiang Kai-shek, fender and a heap of newspapers on will never get to Aunt Aunelio's. The Chinese Big Business, which is of the the floor at his side. Little Johnny logical mind of little Tommy falls to behind Chiang, Communisin is
knows that he is not allowed to put see why such a contingency should a greater danger than Japan the peace of Manchukuo or forces.
his feet on the fender; he remembers be regarded in the light of a fright From where will silvation Bolshevising the entire territory "Ten years ago the Kuomin- the reproots he has received
for ful disaster. of China, and will be obliged to tang hold only a few of China's slouching, in his seat and for leaving take adequate measures should eighteen provinces, those in the his things on the floor.. contingencies arise." Two points south. The rest of China, was] CONSULTA-emerge from a consideration of in the hands of host of rest-
Morcover, ho senses something un- these statements. The first is that less, ambitious warlords fair in the way his uncle is talking whilst the Javanese Government Chang Tao-lin, the bandit who down from the height of his experi AB-
may declare that the agreement became master of Manchuria; ence. He realises that ago gives his Tommy feels aggrieved and usese so heroically in Shanghal
four years ago, ata is not directed against China, Sun Chuan-fang, lord of Shang- uncle some kind of advantage which prized at the way bin concools races Remember what happened tha Japanese Army evidently, has hai and the lower Yangtse: makes his pronouncements seem un- legated ig second pince, Golf he sees
assallable. He feels obviously that as a colourless, futile affair, and he ten years ago: how the army other views, the second, that Feng Yuhsiang, the roving must be rather gratifying to speak, feels that only the unfair way grown which not out from Canton con whilst a German apokesman says "Christian - general," whose thus from the TOW
the grown-up side of ups have
up side of ups have of imprinting the stamp of China is engaging in a successful troops always carried a Bible things.
their partialities on everything allows quered all Ching because every where, the people welcomed t. war against the Reds, Japanese in their knapsacks; Yon. Hai The standard reply to this view is the superior attraction to be Can that history repeat itself. militarists assert that she is hand-shan, the model governor of
adult status brings auch respon the child has not such an easy, to-day? Canton, le admittedly | Blbility—as if childhood were a go caro-free time of it. He must learn weak, but I should not like sto in-glove with the Communista. Shansi,
IN 1926-27 A
THESE TIONS ARE SOLUTELY FREE.
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Does Tommy want his father's holo come? Canton? Where the radi to later, with betting dignity in a cal branch of the Kuomintang
of the garden, a favourite had its stronghold until Chlang' lead soldier reduced to a battered dictatorship prevailed. It pro- wreck by a long series of disasters vided the famous Nineteenth? he finds that father is co with Mr. Army, which fought the Japan- evening for a round of
und of golf
that
time without care or worry!
Despite all the talk of the innocent that the world df, grown-ups is an
LANE, CRAWFORD, LTD. In the circumstances: China can
hardly he blamed If she looks wave of nationalist fervour ways of childhood, Juvenile society is irrational and whimsical world, and prophesy what would happen with auspicion on this new carried the Russian-trained Kuo-in many ways hard and primitive, the process of adjustment is long and in the future.
Children in their "social intercourse hard. German Japanese accord
mintang · Army on an all-con- are far less restrained, far leas Temp-
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