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AVING marched five thousand miles, When you read

fighting all the way, the army of Mao -Tse-tung came at length to the Yellow River.

There it halted. But not for long. Food was hard to come by, and only the river, which the peasants called "China's Sorrow," lay between

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And At this season the river was frozen. Mao's men had but to march over the ice. Which they did.

IT CHANCED ABOUT THIS ime 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 flight.

WHY THESE TALES OF "old, unhappy, far-off things and battles long "go"?

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-

seek an understanding with any third party. In other words, she declines to allow Japan to intermeddle in China's affairs on the pretext of helping the Chinese, to get rid of the Red menice. The Interested obser Why Japan is trebling her ver may, however, be excused if forces in North China;

Guide

news

about China, remember this:

land.

There are 420,000,000 Chinese Three-fourths of the people live on the Forms are sub-divided among heirs. Half. the farms are under four acres.

Peasants three scourges are: Bandila, soldiers, and famine.

Tenant-farmers add a fourth; Tyrannous

landlords.

Poorer peasants are always in debt. Pawn their crops in summer, their implements in winter, and sometimes sell their children,

Moneylenders' usual interest rales-any thing from 25 to 50 per cent.

Taxes are collected in advance. Some die- tricts have paid for half a century ahead.

Communications are appalling. Rexuit: In one

region

famine; in another, farmers can- not dispose of their surplus.

Another result: With enough rice up- country to feed the whole nation, China is compelled to import rice.

Factory

conditions: Twelve-hour day faut more); night-work for women and child- ren; wages about one-half to one-third those of British workers.

Chinese have the oldest civilization. They think not in years, but in centuries. "Things are bad," they will say, "but they were wgric during the Han Dynasty." Which is like say- ing in England, "Well, after all, we're better of than when the Romans were here,"

CHATODAY

STORY

IT WAS NOT only hunger that drove them over "China's Sorrow" Into the fertile valleys of Shansi.; For years the Chinese Communists had preached a national cruande against the invading Japanese. But all in vain.

While Japan seized first Man- churia, then Johol, than Inner Mongolia, and then prepared to pounce on the five northern pro- vinces of China Proper, Chlang Kai-shek devoted all his martial ́ardour to belabouring the Reds.

Now Shanal is one of the five. northern provinces. The Red "invasion," therefore, threaten- ed to spoil the pretty nap hand which Japan. was preparing to play..

Equally disquieting for the militarista in Tokyo was the result of the Japanese general· election, which had just been held. The Selyukni, pro- militarist, semi-Fascist party, fost sents; the Minscito, mode- rate Conservatives, won them; and a proletarian party, known as the Social Mass, had emerged. IN JAPAN LIFE

is cheap beside honour.

Oda Nobunaga, the Julius Cæsar of Japan, "onco playfully tapped the bald head of one of his own officers with his fan. The officer took offence and slow him.

A Japanese lieutenant named Ohara believed that Japan must fight Russia. He set forth his opinions in writing, and then, to prove the sincerity of his con- victions, killed himself before the graves of his ancestora.

Sometimes, you see, it is the honourable follow's own life, and sometimes the other fel-

To the perfervid patriots the

The history of China in the low's. following years was largely a record of Chiang's successive. election results were a stain on but not successful campaigns national honour. To the power against the Communists, who ful

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In the north-west they

Mitsui financial group,

had established a Soviet Govern which had linked its fortunes ment in and around Klangsi With the policy of foreign aggression, the results threaten- province.

ed disaster... President of the Soviet Gov- The stain was wiped out and ernment was Mao Tse-tung. the disaster averted by the Towards the end of 1934 Mão murders of February 26." Out- and his lieutenants decided that standing among the victims was North-Western China would be Viscount Takahashi, aged Fin- a better base than Klangai, ance Minister, who had con- which was uncomfortably near sistently opposed the army's Chiang's headquarters, Nan- inroads on the Treasury. he fails to be convinced by the Why many Chinese are

THE MORE EX- impression which is being foster-crying: "Only grim, war can quering march up from Canton king. ed in certain quarters that there save us";

to Hankow and Shanghai, and would be so much further away, treme militarist chiefe, like on to Pelping. The lords

army Was either of the signatories to the (which once was so empty that The "Party" that is, the Kuo the friendly wall of Sinkinng retire, but, the

Why the Japanese Treasury were eliminated or wore red forced to the wall it would be General Araki, were, forced to the Emperor had to Bell

(where Russian Soviet influence supreme. It dietated the com- mintang-was supreme. examples of his calligraphy) is being asked to disburse more was short-lived. It was never ally of Moscow.

The idyll of Chinese unity is strong) and Outer Mongolia, position of the new Cabinet. The Premier, Mr. Koki Hirota, millions for the army and navy really achieved, for already by than ever before: and

So began the long murch of 18-famous for his aggressive the end of 1927 Chiang Kai the Red Army-3,000 miles three-point policy on China:

(1) Cessation of anti-Japan- Why there is all this friction ahek had dismissed, Borodin, westward, into Szechwan, then

ese activities; Into Kangu and (Keelung and Peiping) between his Russian adviser, and broken northward

(2) Recognition of the pup- the Japanese and the British. with the native Communists as Shensi, to the. banks of the.

pet empire of Manchukuo; Yellow River.

between (8) Co-operation Japan and China in crushing, Communism.

is no intention on the part of

agreement to concern themselves with Communism in

China.

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's events 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." whilst Japan and Germany are making these assertions, we

and the

But

Thou canst not stir a flower Without troubling of a star.

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and

if their backs were

Happy Childhood Myth

Tow much smug hypocrisy and ered in their judgments than their of childhood as the happiest period of

Hlumbus les behind the praising ciders.

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of this in the

It was the economic blizzard of 1929-81 which drove Japan to her conquest of Manchuria. The alternative might well have been revolution.

raw

But the conquest has not Moreover, they have the keen eye solved the crisla. Japan has one's life! How much of this is pure of the primitive types for any play-taxed herself to the limit to put LOOK FIRST AT sentimentalism: how much of it is mate whose temperament makes him Manchukuo on her feet. And it guilty of the crime of differing in will be many years before she shallow pose? have the Japanese Kwantung China. The Celestial Empire Yes, Johnny," anys the uncle unc- some unusual way from the common gets a profitable return for her

person can A

Manchukuo once stretched from the Hima- tuously; "sco and chjoy yourself now run. Munya sensitive

So the grim alternatives re- Foreign Office declaring their layns to the Amur River, near while you are young, for you will find thus look back on his schoolboys as a money. "sympathy" with the Inner the Arctic Circle.

later on a deep sigh-that child-period of bleak martyrdom. hood is the only happy time we ever Then, and this is the dominating main: expand or perish. The 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 North

In the most China might supply the Chinese north-western province two-thirds of its domain. Man- of Suiyan. It is alleged by these churia, Mongolia,

And the young nephew is supposed for adults. Even Sinkiang to be duly awed by and grateful for sympathetic and understanding surcotton which Japan needs.

are being con-

DA WILL, THE FIVE two groups that not only is the (Chinese Turkestan), and Tibet this solemn outpouring of wisdom roundings children Chinese Government reluctant to

frustration they suffer through the northern provinces be taken as profoundly bored, for children are

easily 36 the three north- co-operate, with Japan in joint-the whole ring of satellites as But much more likely the boy will be tinually made aware defence against the Reds, but, gone, leaving only "China Pro not always litle blockheads, and they divergence of their outlook from that

of the grown-up world they live in. for anything that

eastern provinces which were SECOND PLACE on the contrary, it is effecting a per," subject to the precarious have a keen eye

Manchuria? compromise therewith. Chinese sway, of the Central Government envours of affectation,

Little Johnny feels that there is a

The Chinese Red Army alone at Nanking.

note of falsity in his uncle's words, Thus little Tommy is exasperated The Central military groups are, indeed, ac-

Government, for at the very moment of speaking when he cannot get to spend all the cannot fight Japan. And Chlang cused of being closely connected with the increasing pressure by nominally controlled by the he is enjoying privileges denied to time he would like exploring the de- Kai-shek is not likely to heed

Juveniles.

lights of the railway station. He is Communists. Therefore, it is Kuomintang (Chinese National

The nephew sees his uncle spraw- told that further delay will mean that the Reds' appeal for a People's declared, "the Japanese Army is ist Party), is actually dominated ing in his chair with his feet on the they will all miss the train and they Front against the invader. For

indiferentending to disturb commander-in-chief not indifferent to the eventual by Marshal Chiang Kai-shek, fender and a heap of newspapers on will never get to Aunt Amelia's. The Chinese Big Business, which is of the the floor at his side, Litle Johnny logical mind of little Tommy fails to behind Chiang, Communism is

knows that he is not allowed to put see why such a contingency should a greater danger than Japan..

light of a fright. his feet on the fender; he remembers be regarded in the

From where will dalvation) Ten. years ago the Kuomin- the reprouts he has received for

disaster. Does Tommy want his father's help come? Canton?. Where the radf- of China, and will be obliged to tang held only a few of China's slouching in his scat and for leaving

to inter, with befitting lignity in a cal branch of the Kuomintang take adequate measures should eighteen provinces, those in the his things on the floor.

corner of the garden, a favourite had its stronghold until Chiang's lead soldier reduced contingencies arise." Two points south. The rest of China was

to a battered dictatorship provailed. It pro- wreck by a long series of disasters, emerge from a consideration of in the hands of a host of rest-

Moreover, he senses something un- he finds that father is engaged that vided the famous Nineteenth lords- these statements. The first is that less, ambitious whilst the Japanese Government Chang Tso-lin, the bandit who down from the height of his experi- my feels aggrieved and sur four years ago,

fair in the way his uncle is talking evening for a round of golf with Mr. Army, which fought the Japan- so heroically in Shanghai. may declare that the agreement became master of Manchuria; once. He realises that age gives is not directed against China, Sun Chuan-fang, lord of Shang- unele some kind of advantage which prised at the way his concerns are re-

makes his pronouncements seem un-legated to second place. Golf he sees Remember what happened. the Japanese Army evidently has hai and the lower Yangtse: assallable. He feels obviously that as a colourless, futile affair, and he ten years ago: how the ammy other views; the second, that Feng Yuhadang, the roving it must be rather ratifying to speak feels that only the unfair way grown- which set out from Canton con-

general," whose thus from whilst a German spokesman says "Christian

have of imprinting the stamp of China is engaging in a successful troops always carried. a Bible things. war against the Reds, Japanese in their knapsacks; Yen Hal-

the peace of Manchukuo or forces. Bolshevising the entire territory

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the grown-up alde of upalities on everything allows quered all China because every-.- The standard reply to this view is the superior attraction to be thus where the people welcomed it.

Can that history repeat itself Imilitarists assert that she is hand-shan, the "model, governor" of that adult status brings such respon- slighted child has not such an easy, to-day ?" Canton is admittedly,'

sibility--as if childhood were a

No; the golden without care or worry!

care-free time of it. He must learn weak, but I should not like to Despite all the talk of the innocent that the world of grown-upa la an

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In-glove with the Communists. Shansi. In the circumstances, China can

IN 1926-27

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hardly be blamed if she looks wave of nationalist fervour ways of childhood, juvenile society is irrational and whimsical world, and prophesy what would happen with suspicion on this new carried the Russian-trained Kuo- in many ways hard und primitive, the process pf adjustmen: it 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 less temp-

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