Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-02-23

1t is impossible for the Occident
to keep pace with the military situa
ton In China. Gen. Feng Yu.Hsiang
holds control over Picking. yet does
not take actual possession, and per.
sonaily he gives out hints that he
purposes trip to Europe for study
of world politics. His opponent
Chang Tso-lin-"the Christian gen.
eraI"-has recently had to suppress
rebellion within his own ranks led
by one of his chief officers. but he
accomplished the suppression and re.
affirmed his control Of the territory
of Manchuria. 1t has been reported
and contradicted-that Japan had
sent to Chang substantial aid in pro
visions, and had so Unanswered an
army Of 10000 as to aid him and
keep back Russia.
The rivalry between Soviet Russia
and Japan is as keen today as II
ever was when Russia was an en-
pire. Russia wants short route
to tAe sea through Siberia and seeks
a port at Viadivostok. She already
| holds the railroad through Man
churia. gained in 1925. but her con
troll does not reach the port. With
trolls q great territory In Mongolia
| but Sovietism is losing popularity
| among the Chinese and Mongolians
and it has been suggested that Feng's
announced program OF an early de-
parture for Europe Is only an An
ticipation Of his possible forced nigh,
before the increasing power OF
| Chang Tso-lin.
Oriental experts say that the power
of Japan will be used to the utmos,
| in aid of the dictator, Chang. in pro
| tecting Manchuria from Russian con
| troll. The federal government OF
China had hoped to get control fol
herself of the Chinese Eastern Man
churian Railway, running from Har
bin to the boundary Of Manchuria
and now that she is convinced that
Russia has no intention to surrender
the railway to her ally, China. the
federal support to the Soviet is
weakening.
, Japan controls the Southern Rail
way from Changchuria to Port Ar
thur. through southern Manchuria
hence Russia is at present effectually
barred from the Pacific Ocean. ex
cept by the roundabout route north
of Manchuria, through Siberia. China
holds a treaty right to purchase full
control Of the Eastern Railway, which
right the Soviets apparently had un
dertaken to supersede and hold
hence the growing estrangement
against Russia.
A writer who has lived for years
in China has put the situation as
to American interests in a way that
indicates that we would gain by with,
holding from the Chinese, SO far as
possible. all knowledge Of modern
methods of manufacture. keep Chinese
competition down by holding her to
ancient home manufacturing-swe
shop style-since we are mostly in.
terested in China for what we can
buy there most cheaply. rather than
as a selling market for our own
goods. Such a policy would conflict
with the foreign capital already IN
China, says the correspondent. but II
would benefit our imports from
China, while it would retain the
manufacture of our own exports
within our own country.
Yet the same writer comedies that
such a policy would not prevent
Japan or other competitors Of our
Observation-Disclosures enterprising
Chinese captains of industry-from
maintaining factories In China, in
competition with US by mass produc.
ton methods, meeting our long-dis
lance competition for the Chinese
trade
(copyright. 1925. by Paul v. Collins)