Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-12-03
SH|OEHARA DRAFTS
PEACE PROPOSALS
Japan Insists Agreement to
Observe Neutrality Is Suf-
fiCient Guarantee.
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get his forces and civil regime out of
Manchuria to the area south of the
wall by either diplomatic or military
means-it is Indifferent which.
The last remnant of Markings au-
. thority over Manchuria will then have
disappeared Japan will control all
Manchuria through a series of local
Chinese puppet governments, which it
is busily engaged in setting up.
Throughout these proceedings, ia
pan has been somewhat though not
in Peiping. Japan clearly intends to
greatly, hampered by the fact that
China. on September 10, appealed to
the League of Nations for protection
under the existing treaties. The League
in turn got in touch with the United
States. which has been cooperating
| with the League to effect what is being
euphemistically called peaceful set
| Element"
Apparently in thus selling Manchu-
ria japan has broken three solemn
treaties. namely, the League covenant,
| the kellogg pact and the nine-poWer
China treaty. But as nobody wants to
i risk war with Japan to defend China,
| the League powers and the United
States are trying to negotiate solution
which, while 1t accepts as de facto the
japanese seizure of ManChuria, reserves
de lure recognition thereof and at
| tempts by means of neutral observers
and a neutral inquiry commission to
| internationalize the whole subject.
Japan tried long time to maintain
| that it would brook no interference
from third parties, but, under strong
| diplomatic pressure from the United
, States, finally itself consented to pro-
pose an inquiry commission whose find
| ings it naturally hopes will be long de-
| layed and purely platonic.
Seeks De Jure Recognition.
Meanwhile, now that Manchuria is
nearly all occupied, Japan Is trying to
| prepare de jure recognition of its claims
| there by getting them written into the
| Leagues draft resolution. In particu-
lar 1t insists that 1t must be allowed to
! keep its troops in Chinese territory in
Manchuria as long as it considers it
necessary ito protect the lives and
| property Of its subjects"
In the second place, 1t insists that it
| must retain the right to send troops at
any time anywhere IN Manchuria
against bandits; in other words, it
must have that complete police power
| over the whole territory which Is the
| essence of any protectorate.
Finally, Japan refuses any authority
| whatsoever to neutral observers in the
so-called neutral zone which the League
is trying to organize around Chinchow.
1t wants the League to order the Chi
| nese to the south of the wall immedi-
ately on the pain of a new japanese
| advance on Chinchow and it wants the
| Chinese police in the Chinchow zone to
| take orders from Mukden hereafter in
stead of from Marking.
The League powers and the United
| States. in which China has reposed all
its hopes, are still struggling to try to
| Involve Japan in some form of inter-
| national solution, but as their utter
Discrimination to take any form of sane
tions against Japan becomes more and
| more apparent, Japan's intention to
refuse any form Of international sou-
| ton except in name and in order to en-
| able the United States and the League
| to save their face" as the Orientals
| say. seems equally apparent.
| In the complicated situation formed
by China's shrewd diplomatic skill, ia
| pans ruthless military determination
and the wavering maneuvers of the
western powers, it is still too soon to
forecast results either immediate or
| ultimate.
| (Copyright, 1917