Evening star., 1925-12-27
Russia's Boring Into Orient
With Feng as Puppet
Seen as Menace.
"VICTOR OF TIENTSIN"
SPEARHEAD OF DRIVE
Situation That Brought on First
Fight Being Built Up by
Policy of Soviet.
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

Preoccupied in domestic prosperity
and local political controversies like
the World Court. America generally
is unaware of the tremendous events
piling UP in the Far East. Nothing
less than the grim prospect of another
RuSso-Japanese war is lowering on
the Asiatic horizon. As in tine case
of the first Russo-Japanese war
which ended 20 years ago, Russia $
advance across China TO the very
doors of Japan is again the menacinS
factor in the situation.
Developments of the past As hours
are of momentous Importance. The
capture of the great international
treaty port of Tientsin by the forces
of the Chinese Christian general"
Feng Hu-Hsiane. is sinister in the
highest degree. F'enS is A puppet OF
Soviet Russia. He fights with Rus
sian money, Russian arms and Rus
sian support. When Feng hoisted his
banner over Tientsin it was a
Chinese tuchun's emblem in aspect
In reality IL was the flag of Soviet
Russia, carried at length to the gates
of Port Arthur, whence Japan eN-
PEELED czarist Russia Il years ago
1t is now a red bear that is paving
and clawing his way across helpless
and distracted China to the warm
waters of the China Sea.
Japanese Occupy Mukden.
The fall of Tientsin comes close
upon the heels of Japan's action in
moving in force upon Mukden, the
capital of Manchuria. Although the
Japanese have not effected tech
nical occupation of Mukden, the
strengthening of their railway garri-
son there is tantamount to occupa-
ton. They at any rate are now in
Mukden in such military force that
the city is virtually under Japanese
mastery. The official explanation of
Japans Mukden operations is that
foreign lives and property there are
in jeopardy because of the attacks
whicn Chang-Tso-lin, the bandit war
lord of Manchuria. is facing at the
hands of his old rival tuchun, WI
Pei.fu.
Japan claims to have been asked
by foreign consular representatives
at Mukden to protect international
interests there from danger threat
ened by clash between the forces
of Chang and WI. The United States
consul. Samuel Sokobin. did not join
in such request. The japanese
are entitled to keep 900 so-called
railway guards in southern Man
churia to protect the South Man
churian Railway. which they received
under the Portsmouth treaty of 1905.
No power disputes the full legality
of the military steps Japan has just
taken.
Measures of Precaution.
But all initiated authorities know the
true inwardness of those steps. They
are far-sighted measure of precau-
ton by the Japanese against the cease
less. ruthless and systematic advance
of Soviet Russia through China. Mos
cow is not interested in bolshevizins
China. Moscow's game is to break up
Climate accomplish the very thing
against which the United States sue
cessfully moved 25 years ago, when
John Hay laid down the doctrine of
the open door and the territorial in
tegrity of the old Chinese empire.
Russia has been boring her way
across China rapidly since 1920. The
formation of the Far Eastern repub-
the grandiose plan. 1t was followed
by a Soviet INVASION of the vast
Chinese Province of Mongolia which is
now for all practical purposes Russian
territory. That brought red authority
to the border of Manchuria. on the
north apd east in which province Rus
sian influence already predominated
in everything but the South Man
churian railway sphere controlled by
Japan. The results of the Washington
conference of 1921, from which Russia
was ostracized. worked in Russian in
terests. for all Russian and Chinese
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