Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1915-06-14
JAPANESE PLANS
AGAINST PICKING
WERE ALL READY
Seni-offiCiaI Newspapers in
Mikado's Kingdom Tell
What Would Have Happen
ed if China Had Stood Pat,
Associated Press Correspondence,

Toxic, May EFF China had de-
| cllned to meet the demands of the
recent ultimatum by Japan, the Jap
/ anese program would have been to
| rapture Picking, which would have
| been "a matter before breakfast and
to have effected military occupa-
ton of other centers of political pow
j r aud wealth, according to semi-of-
| fetal newspapers.
The Japan Times, a journal printed
/ in English. but controlled by repre-
sentative and influential Japanese,
| which is usually believed to have
good authority FOR its utterances, un-
dertook to outline the course Japan
would take, even before the diplo-
matte crisis with China had been
passed
In most quarters its publication
Of these details, customarily forbid
den before the outbreak of war, was
regarded as officially inspired, very
key with the object of convincing
China that Japan was determined and
/ would brook no delay
Military Occupation.
The article made 1t clear that the
/ independent" action which Japan in
her ultmatum said she would take
4 i China was obdurate, would not
necessarily be war. 1t would be bet
ter styled perhaps, a military and ma
val occupation of China pending ac-
4 eeptance of the Japanese demands
Nevertheless, it would be effectively
~ execution Of the demands by force
Of arms
The general staff had estimated the
military force of China at forty-seyen
DIVISIONS, including $780, 600 troops of
modern training and 10000 men of
lhe old school However, as these
Troops We're scattered all over the
Vhhese empire, their mobilization
ahd concentration would be difficult.
Japans military base would be es-
npllshed at Tien Tsin. A Fundamental
necessity being the control Of the
principal means of communication,
NE Tientsin- Pukow and Picking Muk-
zen railroads would have to be cap
ured. Their occupation would firm
establish a. Japanese foothold in
nina. The troops stationed at Tsing-
du would be able To occupy Tsinan-
IN a minute" The northern part
the Tientsin-Pukow railway, that
the line between Tientsin and
slilan, could easily be occupied, and
uh Tientsin the base of operation,
sapdhese soldiers would soon be seen
malehlng on Picking. In Picking there
@ stationed one company of inian-
~ while In Tientsin We're two COM
an'es with machine guns. The sol
us IN Peking would act as escort
minister Hioki TO Tientsin where
would embark in warship and
proceed to Japan.
ne account declared that in the
NV. n moves would have to be made
Dy army and navy and then
,na petter part of China would be
goaI, Japanese sway. Special care
'u De taken to protect Japanese
otner foreign residents
would Have Disbanded Troops.
me me Journal continued.
mheh the centers OF China are
mn n,'ued by a garrison, the soldiers
mi ne disbanded. Then all places
~ De put under the control of our
I'm peace and order are to be
rst,n aed by our military admins
suoh: II the Chinese army offers
m, 'esislance, things will he carried
n. " peace; but when they show
resistance, Our soldiers will be
~ 10 IRE upon them. And IL is
ska reared that engagements will
pace between the Chinese and
hpInese troops here and there. as
hDeaea au OF China is so extensive that
nent,. cannot be established at a mo-
E'shts notice"
Ennss HaaIlchuria. the program con-
-, the two divisions nnder lion
sgmia Generals Hungo and Ando
snara1l be concentrated in Mukden and
&Iehsaalled against the seventeenth.
he cbiin and twentieth divisions of
MI Nhinese army