Show north china moves for autonomy X haz A X 1 1 al 1 EARI 1 4 4 0 3 A 7 X A oil 1 0 Z r WIN i 1 01 V wg 11 i h U a 51 att 01 this scene at in 1932 Is being re enacted as japanese troops are being massed in north china where it Is expected they will be used to enforce the declaration of autonomous governments in five provinces armored dirgins such as the one shown at left above have carried the troops inland in the insets are gen ho ying chin icat left forced to vacate neiping Pei ping and gen chiang kai shek the chinese dictator by WILLIAM C UTLEY FIVE counties of the TWENTY province of in north china on november 25 declared themselves divorced divorce from the central chinese government at and set up an autonomous or independent government under the leadership of yin ju ill keng commissioner ot of the demilitarized zone the 25 5 counties aggregate approximately equale miles and are inhabited inhabit eI by 5 people the yin ju ken keng government it Is believed will prove to be the first elective effective culmination of an autonomy more ecrement Eo rement ent that may gather under its wing ring the five provinces of north china Clia har biliran Si Sil iiran iran shansi ini and shantung such auton autonomy bihy for these provinces would mean the complete failure of the chiang nal kal shek dictatorship north of tile the yellow river more afore than that it won would probably mean the spread of the rapidly expanding japanese empire fart farther ivr into the asiatic Asi itic continent until japanese control on the continent would I 1 le e extended over an area approximating china itself in size north china won would become little more than another man afan chukuro to the average cb observer server find and certainly to the government tile the autonomy movement Is purely a jap inese project yin ju keng is f famed ined for bla willin willingness ness to operate cooperate co with japanese military leaders n nis is wife Is it Ja japanese japanese army offic lali have been reported ported to have been fostering the autonomy movement secretly for many months only in the past rew few weeks maj ald gen kenji doihara Poi Dol hari hara of tile the jap adese icse army intelligence corp and rained famed as the empire builder of the oland land of 0 the rising sun tins has arrived on the scene cene and has openly worked for the te secession and autonomy of the five Provi it is certain that lie ile will ot lot he be with a victory on only ly in n a few counties of one province and the e japanese army has backed him film up to the te extent of warning gen chiang rai ai not to interfere quirks of japanese politics it Is of course true that tokyo has tinted hinted that Doll dollinda inra Is overS ills ws authority and that japanese tro troops have heon been mobilized lately in these provinces only to protect lions ns and maintain order in the face or of any y civil outbreaks or communistic uprisings lIoN however vever it is customary for the military faction in ja japanese politics to to als asime e tile aggressive with the t rather mild objections of the civilia an government as r of a n bluff to 10 annease the lillura felt by foreign athons who have interests in areas bere here the japanese empire Is expanding pan Plin ding it Is is known that in helping ln and alen autonomy do have been ee of instigated by the japanese one the mout at spectacular demonstrations 1 i in the latter city and was staged 00 members embers ni of the famed chinese daxe aare to dle dies army many of them wearing oaring new tin frooms closely lesem blang 5 ellse of th the left 1 e japanese army they ter th i tair r uniforms orma in their head 0 ile ln in a lecture hall afterwards for japanese to collect on occasions ailace h handbills hand and bills exhorting the pop to re volt ln in favor of an nuton nut 13 unal government ent have floated toe to earth arth under ur the roar of airplanes which could only have been japanese japanese soldiers have constantly moved faland even through the great wall of china to make sure that oo no railroad cars will be allowed to pass to the south where they might be loaded with troops of the government and returned nipponese army officials have confiscated chinese school books and removed from them passages which might be construed as anti japanese and these same officials have repeat edly been accused of hiring probes dional ChIl chinese leSO agitators at 40 to CO cents a day to stir up trouble the japanese claim Is that the autonomous movement 13 a natural one entirely founded and furthered by the chinese in the provinces involved they point out that the rule drains these already poverty stricken people by excessive taxes and fit at the same time gives them little or no benefit lint hut the chinese people in the territory literally do not know what it is all 1111 they are confused bewildered be wil like chinese everywhere they have no interest in politics that indeed lias 1119 been the chief stumbling block lh ll in the file path of gen chiang kal kai shek attempt to unify china under one government to the edu educated cited chinese an autonomy movement Is a joke yet rankings Nan kings g hands ore are tied while there are not enough japanese troops in north china today to enforce tile the rule of japans army chiefs knows that troops could and would be speedily dispatched from corea or jap japan an itself to meet any emergencies accordingly at a nod from japanese officials als in or Pel helping ping chinese officials comply two outstanding examples of tilt tills were the recent retirement of the mayor of Pel helping ping known to OP oppose pose the autonomy movement and the return of chinese chines p minister of war ito flat yingmin ying YIn ghin chan from to both at tile the suggestion of japanese japal 1 tokyo ignores protests rankings Nan kings protests to tokyo are ignored bemuse of japans insistence that the autonomy movement Is strictly of chiric chinese e origin yet it Is known that in all of thile these autonomous antono mons governments men ts planned tile administrations golmini orations will have to he decidedly pro that the government of yin ju keng in is to be tile the model for other pro japanese antonoples autonomies autonom antono ies to come is app arant from his declaration from today tile the demilitarized z zone one will be separated from tile the central gave government rement and will institute and carry out rn EJI autonomous regime as tile the first voice of a federation of provinces with a view toward maintaining peace in eastern asia As we the undersigned undersigner under signed hope that tile the people tile public organs find and tile the military and political leaders of tile the various pit Spro provinces vinces will ill rise up with us u 9 to suppress the criminals crImin alj and archene arch ene mies of the nation to draft a constitution and choose wise and able men for the administration of the country tills this is directly in line ne with the program d desired for the uve five north china provinces by dolha doihara Dol hara ra the empire emp ire builder and only z few days after tile the proclamation gen sung cheh cheb commissioner of the chinese garrison yuan at helping upon whom Doll dollinda inra is known to have exerted extreme pre pressure assure cl circulated ren a telegram proclaiming the intention of fieland and provinces to form an autonomous state what japan wants what does all this autonomy business mean for japan for north china and for the rest of the world for japan it means political economic and industrial control of another great slice of territory that once belonged tr to china there Is much cotton in and opportunity for planting more to take the place of the cotton that japan must now import from tile the united unite states slates and from india there I 1 Is s iron ore and coal vastly important in building the naval parity which japan Is demanding from great britain and the united states although not enough iron and coal according to research scientists to warrant thi ali 0 expense and the responsibility of complete japanese conquest and government of 0 north china such stich a complete subjection would undoubtedly be ruinous to japan already financially burden burdened as she Is much better to allow these north china provinces to govern rhems themselves ives under the protect protecting in I 1 aln wing of the japanese army of occupation with free trade pl hile es for tokyo great grea t britain tile the united states and other powers would be far more seriously hurt commercially by the establishment lish ment of a Manchuk iio of north china than they were by the establishment lish IlAi ment of the present Manchu kuan rule itself for commercial inter ests in north china are much greater As a result secretary of state null and sir samuel illare british minister of foreign affairs simultaneously demanded japanese explanation of apparent violation the nine P power av er treaty which guarantees the t territorial e ante integrity alty of china ghisi treaty signed by the nine leading powers of the world with tile the exception of russia at the washington conference of 1022 1922 was formed as the organic international law to apply to all future controversies trover sies in the far IT kist st all of the signatories signa tories are bound to respect not only the sovereignty and territorial integrity of china hut but the administrative integrity as 19 well secretary cl ilo that this provision is directly involved at tho the present time because an effort Is being made to bring brang about a substantial lal change in the political status and condition of several of chinakis chinas northern provinces other provisions or of the treaty bind tile the signatories signa tories leq not to support any agreements designed ignaca lc to create spheres of influence for their nationals and still another requal requires Ps them not to seek any ar arrangement ran 1 ement which ml might purport to establish in favor of their interests any general superiority of rights with respect to commercial or economic development of any designated region of china claim treaty was misnomer japans claim is that such a than thing as the territorial and administrative integrity of china never existed meanwhile the course of t the lie japanese empire becomes clearer and clearer pescadores pescador Pesca dores ps and formosa in 1895 port arthur in 1001 Karn Rara futo in 1005 corea in 1910 mandates over the pacific islands north of the equator in 1020 the puppet state of manchu kuo in 1932 jerol added to it in 1933 are the next to be tile the puppet stat states es of hope chabar Clia har sulyman Sui Sul yuan shansi and shantung 0 newspaper New paper union |