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plans for strengthening their eco
monte supremacy.
Japanese authorities have wink
ed at anti Chinese pogroms in
Manchurla, and meanwhile are
sending in whole divisions there.
Japanese imperialists are utiI-
izing the Nakamura incident to
urge the seizure of Manchuria at
least the railway competing with
the South Manchurian Railway"
Japanese troops now occupy twelve
strategic points in the Mukden re-
gion, having seized all railroad and
telegraph lines and are advancing in
a southernly direction as far as
Changchun.
Little resistance Is being shown by
the troops of Governor Chang
Hsueh-hang of Manchuria after he
issued a statement ordering his
troops to lay down their arms.
According to the New York Times
report the Japanese movement was
very rapid:
''The Japanese occupied and dis
armed Chinese troops at Mukden,
Newchwang, Fushun, Antung and
other points and captured Chin
csc gunboat at Antung. Peitaying,
the Mukden suburb where the
fighting started, is now reported in
flames. Japanese troops have been
moved to the affected areas from
Port Arthur and Changchun and
reinforcements have been ordered
to stand in readiness to move from
Korea"
Japanese military headquarters
have been established at Mukden-
The American dominated Marking
government through its foreign min
lister, Wang, issued the following
statement tantamount to declara-
ton of it's immediate impotence:
THAT the military element in
Japan has for months been plan
ming aggressive action in Man
churia is fact that even the
Japanese militarists have not at
tempted to conceal.
"They have sought to provoke
China in many incidents. The Ko-
rean massacres of Chinese brought
no retaliation, and in desperation
they tried to fan the country into
war madness over the death of
Shintaro Nakamura (who was exc
cuted by Manchurian troops re-
Gently as spy.
Now they wish the world to be-
lieve that Chinese troops were Or
dered to destroy their railway and
they are only fighting to protect
their property.
I'm my opinion the absurdity OF
their charge is so patent that 1t
would reflect more credit on jap
anese candor if they simply took
the Chinese territory without Of
fering any justification other than
that they want it and are strong
enough to take it.
The japanese imperialist govern
ment has issued statements trying to
minimize the occupation of Southern
Manchuria as local matter The
Japanese member of the League of
Nations stated that "fis government
had taken all possible measures to
insure that this local incident should
not lead to any more serious COM
plications" and that Japan would do
all it could TO settle" the incident.
However, the tenor of all Japanese
government communiques are to the
effect that the occupied sectors would
not be evacuated, even preliminary
t oany negotiations. The declaration
of the Japanese imperialists merely
is intended to leave them free for
future annexations. Their talk about
"localizing the incident" means only
that they want to be able to "regu-
late" the whole affair with China
alone and on their own terms.
Indicative of the depth of imper-
alist friction is the scant reference
made to the Kellogg anti-war pact
by the Japanese government that the
Chinese fired first and they, the
Japanese, acted in self defense and
that the Kellogg pact permits this.
That both American and British
imperialst governments were some
what taken by surprise by the swift
ness of Japan's action and are feel7
ing out the situation before taking
definite action in furtheranc9 OF
their imperialist Interest 80 Shown
by the action C - 3r:t.sl inrlu-
enced J,"--2 Ok Nac.o7s and the
statement of the Washington gov
eminent.
The League of Nations hurriedly
and almost unanimously dropped"
the question when the Chinese and