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NEWS

FROM CHINA

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1936.

Article by Gail Cleland, telling of tremendous Japanese smuggling, the menace of war, China's 'policy to the invader, and the position of Russia in the deathly brew bubbling up in the Far East

I

HAVE just returned to Lon- ultimately war is inevitable. At this don from the Far East, moment, however, it is doubtful whether Chiang Kai-shek feels him- having visited Japan and China er rufetently strong to risk a clash and also the Japan-sponsored with Japan. He is studiously avoid- ing open friction, and seems ready to new State of Manchukuo,

Having been employed some make any reasonable encrifice to keep

the pence-even

ven conceivably letting considerable portion of the

years

ago by the Japanese go Government as an instructor in northern territory. one of the Imperial universities,

Nevertheless, Chiang is preparing

I found the Japanese educators to put up the stiffest possible defence and officials particularly cordial if he is forced to fight. When Consul- and hospitable, as were also the General Suma recently asked Chiang bluntly, "At you now muking mili tary preparoolltest possible Jan-

leaders among the Chinese.

The situation in North China is exceedingly tense, owing to the smug ling activities of Koreans and Japan ese along the Chinese coast a few miles from Tientsin.

the Generalissimo

in the replied, gunge, "Yes, I am preparing to take more punishment."

The chief danger arises from the fact that, with national feeling tense The volume of smuggling traffle is as it is, and with armed men daliy very great, as many as 38 vessels hav- confronting one another, a minor in- ing appeared at one time unloading eldent may occur which would set off contraband materials at a single spot the explosion. The most inflammable evasion of the element among the Chinese is the on the const. The

mass of students.

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Chinese Customs duty means a loss of revenus to the Nanking Govern ment which the Chinese officials estimate as high as 2,400,000 iola. (Mex.) in a single week.

These are

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are well organised, they are keenly patriotic, they have already felt their power as an organised force, and they do not shrink from fighting as do the older Chinese, few weeks ago they were on the verge of an uprising, but they were quieted by their faculty lenders. Bu [NAŠMUCH 1s 60 per cent. of to-morrow, who knows?

whose Clhina's Customs revenue

Summ, Consul-General normally comes from the North China sympathies are plainly with the mill- ports, and a third of this is now being tory, is something of a poet. When I Inst, the redit structure of the Chis questioned him, he likened the situa- nese Government is seriously threat- lan to Ibsen's man in the drama, ened. According to Chinese officials, necking the one woman designed by the smuggling activity

ctivity is

en- fate for his wife: authorities. couraged by the Japanese

So Japan has found Chinn,” hê if not directly, at

argued. least indirectly, by

"China needs Japan no less official a the

attitude of Indifference.

needs China. They are Moreover, the Japanese have in- meant by fate to be married. And isted that Chinese Customs officers if the Indy does not respond to the shall be unarmed, and that no Japan- tender adva

Kdvances

of the gentleman, ese subject slill be molested.

then he may have to manhandle her, The Japanese, on their part, avow or even kill her, but he must have that the smuggling

of goods into her for his w

At that moment in his argument, be China vionics no law of Japan, since there exists no Customs Treaty be recalled that Sir Frederick Leith tween the two nations. They also Ross, a fortnight earlier, had objected. contend that the Chinese rates are "Don't you think. Mr. Consul so unreasonably high as to invite General, that it might be better if the smuggling.

gentleman were in kiss the lady, and show her kindness? And the reply had been, "Perhaps so; but so long as there are five other handsome gentle. men waiting to pay court to the lady, AN after man among the Japan can take no chances. He must Chinese leaders whom I have the lady for his wife even if it consulted expressed his belief that should mean suicide for them bath,"

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What is Russia doing about It? Nevertheless, we are not to be taken We are maintaining D foreign allance is apparent from a This was the question uppermost in unawares, remark made by a former member my nind as I journey across Siberia force in the Far East because it is (co of the Chinese Cabinet: "If Japan to Moscow. The answer was partly far away to be left unguarded.

of "We do not want additional land; crowds us too hard," said he, "she apparent in the concentration may drive us into the arms of Russia. Russian troops around Chita and the but we will protect our own. More- That is China's trump card."

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over, because of our military agree- We wil défend Mongolia This is the Inst thing in the world Moreover, the Siberian Railway ment. that Japan would want to hoppen. has now been provided with double would defend our own territory. W

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of the "Manchit they concerting. One

were destined for Eastern with China. Whether or not we such an alliance kunn" Japanese officers remarked to Siberia, where Russia, too, has her should enter into me, "We did not suppose that Soviet zone of military preparation.

cannot be answered until the question Russia in so short a time would be so

actually comes up for settlement." strong.""

Thus, three great nations, repre- train Dur

approached the

senting three different political plillo- NANKIN northern boundary of Manchukuo the

sophies, are preparing to fight each NELLORE Japanese guards on board warned us

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