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Show JAPAN'S AMISITIOXS Japan Is ambitious to secure additional territory to accommodate accommo-date her rapidly increasing population. pop-ulation. She also Is ambitious to bo one of the powerful, outstanding out-standing nations of the world, to play her full part In world affairs. Tho ethics of her action in going into Manchuria with her armies may be subject to criticism, criti-cism, but that tho necessities of her future require room for expansion ex-pansion is beyond question. Tho Island empire of Japan has becomo crowded almost to suffocation suf-focation with the increasing millions mil-lions of Japanese. They must either ei-ther find new territory to accommodate ac-commodate themselves or die by the million in future years through inability to maintain themselves on so small an area of land. Manchuria, rich in natural resources, re-sources, has remained for centuries cen-turies a vast, undeveloped territory, terri-tory, nominally under control of China. In recent times Japan and Russia have each extended their spheres of influence into Manchuria, but the Chinese have mado little or no attempt to develop de-velop the resources of the region. re-gion. Japan appears to be entering Manchuria deliberately and with a fully developed intention of staying there. She believes that her necessities justify her aggression. Then there is another motive which, doubtless, is a powerful one in the minds of the Japanese Japa-nese authorities. That is to thwart the apparent intention of the Soviets to gain control, not only of Manchuria, but of the whole of China. If that alone were the motive for the entrance of Japan into Manchuria, it would be suffl- ! cient justification. For Japan to permit the establishment of a powerful enemy in eastern Asia so close to her island empire would be suicide. ' It appears that Japan has gone into Manchuria with the deliberate intention of taking over that territory. She has chosen cho-sen a propitious time, when China Chi-na is disrupted, beset with revolutions, revo-lutions, and before the Soviets have made very great advance in concentrating in the Orient. And she will never relinquish her advantage. |