Arizona republican., 1920-12-05
Chinese Intimate
 Japs Responsible
 For Bandit Attack

PEK1NG, Dec. 1.-The fact that Japanese authorities sent troops to the frontier town of Hungchun, in Chi nese territory, for the announced pur- pose of protecting Japanese subjects, after the town had been raided by bandits, appears to have raised a seri- GUS controversy between the foreign ministers of the countries in question: and incidentally to have reopened an old controversy concerning an adjacent territory known as ChientaO. Hung chun is a Chinese town on the Tumen river at a point where the borders of China Korea and the Maritime prov ince of Siberia meet. It is about SO miles south of Vladivostok).
 The Chinese press accuses the Japa- nese of being actuated by an ulterior motive in the course they have pur- sued. E. Lenox Simpson, statistician to the president of China, has pointed out that it is significant that such at tacks by Chinese bandits are always attempted where Japan wishes to set up garrisons.
 Early in October a band of outlaws which is said to have numbered sew eral thousand and to have been well supplied with modern rifles and ma chine guns, entered Hungchun, killed number of people including, it is said, several Japanese and burned the Japanese consulate. After the raid, and in the face, it is said of an impend- ing repetition of the outrage, the Japa- nese moved troops into the place and incidentally into the adjacent terri tory of Chientao.
 In the course of diplomatic ex- changes over the situation it appears that the Tokio foreign office assumed that Picking had agreed to 'coopera- ton" by Japanese troops, whereas the Chinese foreign ministry alleges that, the invasion having already occurred when the question of cooperation was first discussed, it's attitude was one of protest against a fait aceopli.
 E. Lenox Simpson (Putnam Weale) comments on the Hungchun affair in the Picking Leader as follows:
 ''Hungchun is the nearest important point on Chinese territory to the Sea oe Japan, that important sheet of wa ter which is virtually landlocked and of which Japan now holds all the Keys Hungchun is so close to Possiet Bay that it is reached in a few hours by carriage. That it should have been singled out for the latest massacre is curious and Illuminating. Immediate ly prior to this affair, it should be re- l called the Chinese bandits attacked the valuable Su Chan coal mines near l Vladivostok, necessitating their occu- patton by Japanese troops precisely In the way that Hungchun has now been occupied.
 ''The remarkable audacity which the bandits of Manchuria have developed during the past year is a curious fea- ture of a nebulous situation. The writer, when in the region of the Chi nese Eastern railway on an official mission, did his best to pierce the mist which surrounds the fact that such a large number of Japanese rifles and machine guns and Japanese hand gren- ades should be distributed through this area, weapons not so easily acquired as to make the ordinary explanation acceptable. The fact that these at tacks were always attempted where Japan seems anxious to install garri- sons was held peculiarly significant"
 Mir. Simpson goes on to say that the conclusions he reached on the occa- sion of an Investigating trip to Man | churia were that there may be a sec tiorr or group of men connected with Japanese staffs who favor the use of these bands in order to break down authority; that these bands have been supplied with or allowed to purchase all the weapons they require and that | they perhaps do not respect the orders