The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-05
BILLIONS TO Be
SPENT BY CHINA
IN NEXT DECADE
Rich Market Is Held Out to
U. S. and Other Friend
ly Nations.
BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS
scripps-Howard Foreign Editor

scrinps-H0Ward Foreign EutAoh
WASHINGTON, oct. 5.-Billions
OF dollars worth Of steel, machinery
and other orders from China are
waiting to be placed in the United
States and other countries as soon
as the ravages by food, famine, dis
ease and war permit.
A Chinese "ten-year plan," based
on the program of the late DR.. Sun
Yatasen, the writer is informed, al
ready has been submitted tenta-
lively to the labor Office at Geneva
with a view to obtaining interna-
tional cooperation in putting the
scheme through.
It is the view of the Chinese gov
eminent, as it was Of DR.. Sun, that
China is an economic ocean, capa-
Bile of proitably absorbing the sur
plus capital Of the world for many
years to come provided the more
advanced nations are willing to deal
justly with her.
Put into effect at the earliest
practicable date, it is urged, the plan
would help rescue the world from
the depression.
Vast Supplies Needed
Among other items, it calls for a
feet of merchant ships Of at least
1000, 900 tons. Reclamation of 300,-
100000 acres OF farmland from flood
areas, thousands of miles of rail-
roads and highways and new fac
tories all over China.
Il is estimated that 200, 900 900
tons of coal and 10000, 900 tons of
steel would be required to complete
the first decade of work, and that
these would be just starters in the
longtime scheme of reconstruction.
The Sun plan, upon which the
program is based, calls for 100 900
miles of railroads; 1,000, 900 miles
of paved highway; improvement of
existing canals-whose overflow now
is costing the lives of tens of thou
sands Of Chinese; river flood con-
troll and irrigation systems, a vast
network of telephone and telegraph
lines; and three ports-one in the
north, one in mid China and n in
the south-each with a future ca
pacity %equaling New York harbor.
Resources Barely Scratched
Also included are reconstruction
Of cities with modern sanitation,
hospitals, etc, water power, mineral,
agricultural and reforestation de-
velopments on a big scale and
colonization in Manchuria, Mon
golia, S%inkiang, Kokonor and
Tibet by thinning out regions now
overpopulated.
The natural resources of China,
it is pointed out, hardly have been
scratched. Her population today is
not far from 100000, 900. If the
rise Of America contributed largely
to world prosperity, it is argued,
a similar development of the big
ger and more populous Orient
should be correspondingly beneficial.
BY working with the League of
Nations the Chinese expect to avoid
international jealousies. This, also,
was the idea of DR.. Sun who fore
saw another World war if the great
powers continued to jockey Tor
spoils in the far east.
China at Crossroads
Today China is PROSTATE, scourged
by God and man. The most de-
v~astating floods in the country's
history have put $780, OO, 900 acres
under water. Hankow, China's
Chicago, practically has been wiped
out. Some 10000, 900 people are
homeless. Property damage is es-
timated at $4,000, 900 900. In II
area alone 100000 people are re-
ported drowned. over 10000 900 are
hungry. 49,,
Politically, the north is divided
against the south while the three
eastern provinces. commonly called
Manchuria, have declared their in
dependence, following the Japanese
military occupation. So was. east
ern Mongolia. Japan is alleged to
be behind the independence move
ment with a view. First, toward
making the territory a pr%otectorate
and. second, anneXing it, as in The
case of Korea.
Today, therefore, China appears
to be at the cross roads. One way
leads to partition, chaos and con-
tinued poverty; the other to recon-
struction eventually with billions Of