The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-14
JAP AN WORKS
SECRETLY TO
SEIZE EMPIRE
Banks, Industries and Pub
lie Offices in ManChuria
Are Taken Over.
CHINESE ARE CoWED
Forced to Obey Orders of
Foe, Backed by Might
of Armies.
BY FREDERICK KUN
United Press stan Correspondent
lCopYrirht. 1921 hv limited prnssA

HARDIN, Manchuria, Dec. IA
The japanese are taking possession
of Manchuria'S political, business,
financial and industrial organiza-
lions swiftly and silently-all be-
hind the screen of military occu-
patton for protection of its ma
tionals"
This control virtually is complete
in Fengtien province. It soon will
be completed in Heilungkiang and
Kirin provinces. Military censor
ship has kept the world in ignor-
ance of these important and sig
nif1cant development.
The parts of Manchuria now oc-
cupied by japanese troops are be-
ing transformed into a country re-
Sembling a Japanese colony. The
correspondent, who has been
through that occupied zone from
Tsitsihar on the north to Chin
chow on the south, is able for the
first time to offer an uncenSored
description of Japanese control in
foreign provinces, where Chinese
authorities now are japanese ma
rionettes.
Rule Banks and Industry
Fengtien's political, banking and
industrial activity are now in the
hands Of Japanese advisors" Their
orders are law for Chinese officials.
The Chinese police of Mukden are
under the command of Japanese
gendarmerie.
Three Japanese advisors are III
recting the provincial bureau of
finance and industry and the Muk-
den telephone exchange.
A staff of Japanese cenSorS super
viSes the Fengtien telegraph admin
istration, through which not only
newspaper correspondents, but con-
Sular representatives, are obliged to
send reports.
Control of Fengtien's banks, in,
dustries, and public utilities was
wrested from the Chinese. Suda,
one of the Japanese advisors, to-
gether with eight japanese coun-
cillors, is operating the Mukden
frontier bank and the bank of
three eastern provinces.
Manage Trading Concern
The Japanese have assumed man.
agement Of the big Chinese trading
concern company of Mukden. They
have opened Chinese cotton mills
under japanese administration.
The japanese elected the Chinese
directors and assumed complete
management of the Fuchouwan
coal mine, the largest Chinese mine
in South Manchuria. They elected
Chinese from the Sine Japanese or
ganization operating the Penhaihu
coal mine.
Installing a Japanese manager
and japanese department chiefs,
the japanese took entire control of
the Chinese Steel and Poker Com
pany of Mukden and closed the
Chinese electric power plants at
Changchun and Antung, pending es-
tablishment of Japanese manage
ment under the guise of Sino-
Japanese enterprises.
Citing military emergency as
their reason, the japanese are con-
trolling a vast network of Chinese
railways in Manchuria for the pur-
pose Of realizing two primary OBJ
jectiveS:
l. Elimination of Chinese compe-
tition against the Japanese owned
South Manchuria railway and Port
Dairen, and
2. Achieving control of the Man
churian railroads by which tariff
may be diverted from the Chinese
eastern railroad, controlled by
China and Soviet Russia.