The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-11
JAPAN DARING
WHOLE WORLD
TO DO WORST
u. S. Leaders Can See Peril
of Warfare Growing
Each Day.
FORCING TRUMP CARDS
Nippon SereneIy Confident
Powers Will Take No
More Steps.
BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS
seripps- Howard Foreign Editor

WASHINGTON. Nov. 11.-Behind
a facade of official optimism, Wash
ington today was more concerned
over the Manchurian conflict than
at any time since the japanese as
sumed the offensive eight weeks
ago.
Dispatches from the far east
indicated a number of alarming
developments.
First, that public opinion in
Japan is lining up more solidly
than ever behind the army in
Manchuria and is showing increas-
ing resentment against foreign in
reference"
Second, that the independence
movement is being fostered openly
by the Japanese in Manchuria
where, under the sponsorship of
Japanese officers, a puppet govern
ment was installed at Mukden, the
capital.
More Force Trump Cards
Third, that more troops are being
rushed to Manchuria by Japan, in
stead of those already there being
withdrawn as demanded by the
League of Nations.
Fourth, the impression apparently
is growing in Japan that both the
league and the United States are
bluffing and actually will not go
much farther than they have al
ready gone to stop aggression in
China.
Accordingly, it is feared that
Japan shortly may force the league
and the United States to play their
trump cards instead of the deuces
which they have thrown on the
table thus far.
Having three times warned Japan
to withdraw from Chinese territory,
and having met with rebuff every
time, the league is expected to re-
move it's hand from the velvet glove
when the council meets in extraor-
binary session in Paris next Tues
day. What its next move will be,
however, is still a matter of con-
lecture.
Express ScOrn of League
First, as a sign of world disap-
proval, it might order the stimuli
taneous withdrawal of diplomatic
representative from Toxic.
Second, the severance of all trade
and financial relations would be in
order.
Third, expulsion from the league
is provided for, and fourth, armed
intervention to support China,
should Japan be declared the ag-
gresSor.
What vastly adds seriousness to
the whole embroglio is the report
that the militarists, now in the as
cendancy in Japan, openly express
scorn of the league and anything
it might do.
The Japanese general staff is said
to believe that the world loves a
winner and that if they succeed
forgiveness would not be long in
coming from short-memoried
world
Recall of foreign diplomats
therefore, would not worry the mill
tarists greatly, however much il
might upset the more modern
minded civilian faction.
Nippon Is Serene
AS for the boycott, reports indi-
cate the Japanese believe the world
is too involved in the depression to
make it effective, while dispatches
announce that Toxic already is
considering Withdrawing from the
league without waiting for possible
expulsion.
Armed intervention, the extreme
sanction prescribed by the league
apparently is considered unlikely by
those in control of Japanese policy
If the japanese general staff real
~ believes the league and the
United States are bluffing, there
fore, and decides to call the bluff
disastrous consequences would be
well-nigh unavoidable.
For, if the bluff succeeded, the
worlds existing peace machinery
would be wrecked and if it failed
something dangerously approaching