| Show 2 Officers 12 Men Meni i i P Killed in in Wreck of 6 i Japan Troop Train E. E Communists communists Are Blamed tor t for Accident Official tJ 3 Reports Silent p jAp m Br nr Associated f P TOKIO April 13 Two 13 Two officers and 12 men of General Jiro Tamon's Japanese Japa Japa- nese nese ese Manchurian force were killed and nd more than 50 injured In the wreck of a troop train near Harbin Manchuria Manchu ria last night according to official reports to the war office oUke here today Earlier press reports of ot the wreck said it was caused by an explosion but the official version merely dc de Glared the train tram was derailed and burned cremating the victims General Sadao Araki war minister said a a thorough investigation would be made mad and firm action taken against anyone found blamable for the de The train carr carried ed motor transport units belonging to MajorIs Major General brigade which i is part of General Tamon's command The troops were returning from the campaign n against the Chinese rebels tat ht A relief train ain sent Immediately from rom Harbin carried also an gation commission Some press reports reports reports re re- ports laid the blame for or the wreck on communists of unnamed national it ity Others said It was caused by elements ele cleo ments menns interested in m causing friction between soviet Russia and Japan A A. dispatch to the newspaper Asahi Ashi said Laid another train carrying Major General H Hasebe sebe and his staff staf from escaped a n wreck two hours earlier when railway guards discovered ered dynamite of German manufacture manufacture ture on the tracks two miles outside of or Harbin only halt half an hour before the train was due duc Retired American General Genera Sees Soviet Nippon War Threatening Editors Editor's note Major General William S. S Graves retired who commanded an American army division in m Siberia after the world war var is watching today the continued clash of or interests in m Manchuria He is convinced that Japan has never for one moment surrendered a policy directed toward to ward creation of or a Manchurian Manchurian- Siberian empire at the expense of Russia and with the support of puppet leaders In the following interview General Graves discusses discusses dis dis- dis- dis cusses recent events in iii the far cast east as the they reflect upon this pol icy By SIDNEY B. B United Cress Staff Correspondent SHREWSBURY N N. J J. April 13 13 One plan dominates the Jap Japanese nese military mil mU military mind today General William S. S Graves U. U S S. S A A. retired belle believes the hc plan for lor creating a Manchurian Siberian empire out of territory wrested away rom China and Russia To this end the Japanese military mind in i his Js opinion pinion has placed t the e extent of 01 the Japanese empire at Lake Baikal And Lake Baikal is Js in Si Si- beria eria That is the natural barrier to the he Japanese military between Russia Rus Rus- Russia sia sla and the cast between communism and the Japanese empire To accomplish this General Graves considers the possibilities of ot a Japa Japa- soviet nese-soviet war as distinctly ominous Today's events in the f far lr east offer oHer a sinister mister significance to his mind J Japa Japanese nese troops on the fringe o of soviet territory warnings from the soviet press establishment of ot puppet kingdoms king king- doms in Manchuria a disregard for forthe forthe the he protests of western nations REGARDED O OMINOUS These occurrences arc are particularly ominous minous because to his mind they are arc re a repetition of or an international conflict that be began an in 1918 when the Japanese supported by the British and nd while white Russians nearly embroiled the he United States in a far eastern quarrel of startling dimensions A Japanese soviet Japanese soviet war Is possible the he general stated I r do not think the tie Soviets want war var I do not even know enow whether after the Shanghai incident Japan actually wants to engage engage en en- gage age in war But the notes exchanged ex ex- hanged changed between the two governments governments govern govern- ments as published in the soviet newspaper as recently as on March larch 9 4 reveal that Moscow is determined determined deter deter- mined if it not to W wage l e war war at least to defend to the utmost her Siberian holdings I CITES DOCUMENT DOCU General Graves recited a lost of inflaming documents claims to o have obtained from hi high h Japanese military authorities to indicate the depth of ot feeling One of them pur- pur porting to come from a military leader lead lead- er cr r said A lOA Japanese soviet Japanese soviet war consider consider- ing lag the condition of the armed forces must be undertaken as soon as possible Another said The cardinal aim of this war must be e not so much the protection of Jaan Japan Ja Ja- pan an from communism as the conquest ot of if the soviet far east cast and eastern Si Si- beria ena If this conflict should st start Graves cs said it seems improbable that hat it would be confined to Siberia but ut might extend to soviet territory in European Russia I If it should reach Europe no human human human hu hu- man mind can foresee how far it will reach each |
