Evening star., 1931-12-23
MILITARISTS MENACE JAPAN,
NEW CHINESE ENVOY HOLDS
Manchurian TangIe Costly
for Toxic Regime, Says
Or. Yen.
Own Country Will Emerge
Victorious in End,
He Believes.
BY CONSTANTINE BROWN.

China has heretofore refrained from
any military action and observed scru-
pulouSly the Kellogg BRAND pact" DR..
w. w. Yen, the new Chinese Minister
to the United States, declared today.
He added that it hoped the civilian
government of Japan would be able to
control the military caste and live up
to the repeated pledges it has given to
the Government of the United States
and to the League of Nations.
China also has followed the advice
of European and American statesmen
of not taking any action against the
japanese army which occupied parts of
Manchuria. Now. if the Japanese gen.
eral staff does actually push forward to
ChinchoW, the Chinese army, poorly
equipped as it is. has orders to oppose
the japanese advance and offer all the
resistance 1t is able to offer. The result
OF the eventual clash between the Jap
areSe and the Chinese armies before
ChinchoW will probably be disastrous
for the Chinese, who have neither the
equipment nor the intense training of
the japanese. But gained battles, in
the opinion of the Chinese diplomat,
do not always end in favor of an ag-
greSslve nation. There is moral side
to all international quarrels, and this
moral side must in the end prevail
Looks to World Opinion.
The Chinese Minister, like his West
ern colleagues. seems to put all his
faith in the public opinion CT the world
which will in the end force an equi-
table readJustment of the entire Man.
churlan problem. Until that public
opinion, however, can begin to show its
strength there is no doubt that the
japanese will remain in full occupation
OF Manchurla, and may go even little
farther and occupy the province of
Jehol, in Inner Mongolia.
The Chinese diplomat, although rep
reSentlng a ooWntrodden country which
IS suffering good deal from Japan al
present, seems to have no bitterness
against the antagonists of his country,
On the contrary, with true Oriental
philosophy, he is showing a great deal
OF sympathy and pity for the powerful
nelgnoor VINO is going at present through
mllltarlstic crisis such as the world had
seen IN Germany in the decade pre-
ceolng 1914. Baron ShiGehara. the
former japanese foreign secretary, and
Mr.. Wakatsuki, the former japanese
premier were both, according to DR.,
Yen. we'll meaning men. who never in
tended to break the peace pacts in
which they had implicit faith. They
were sWamped by the military caste:
they were forced to make and break
pledges by the japanese generals, who
mad decided to expand Japan's over
seas possessions and occupy a territory
inhabited by some 10000 900 Chinese.
Believes Success Temporary.
Now, with the present new govern
ment in Office, the japanese mi!itarists
VIII have an easy game; but in the
long run all these temporary successes
Will work against Japan and it is that
country that will feel severely the con-
sequences Of the domination of the
militarist group.
The effect of the Japanese invasion
OF Manchuria is already felt in China.
Political strife begins to be forgotten
and it may be that the temporary loss
OF Manchuria will help more to unity
the broken-up Chinese nation than the
action of any political party or of a
great patriot
School children throughout the vast
republic are wearing on their coat
sleeves the band Of mourning. Social
contacts between japanese and Chinese