The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-03
TERROR JUST
AT THRESHOLD
IN FAR EAST
Angered China Is Tanning
Flame and Bursting Point
Is Near.
BOXER UPRISING FEARED
Delay of United States and
League of Nations Is
Blamed.
BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS
ScriDps-Howard Foreign Editor


WASHINGTON. Dec. 3.-Turmoil
in the Far East is only just begin
ming, instead of ending, according
to private advices in the hands of
the writer.
Disturbances beside which the
Boxer uprising in 1900 would seem
mere childs play threaten China
unless the United States and the
League of Nations stand behind the
peace treaties and protect that
country from piecemeal dismember-
ment and aggression.
More than 400,000000 Chinese to-
day are impatiently waiting for the
white races peace machinery to
function If it fails to give them
a square deal-if the japanese are
allowed to retain protectorate
over Manchuria, however, camou-
flaged it may be-the yellow race
almost certainly will make trouble.
Government Is TOttering
The government at Marking is
lettering The feeling is growing in
China that it has "lost face" in the
conflict with Japan. 1t is charged
with being weakened" Further
loss of prestige would mean the
downfall of President Chang Kali
Shek and the rise of a more agrees
sive regime.
Already the Chinese masses
numerically one quarter of the
population of the globe-are being
organized for self defense if the
league and Washington fail to check
Japanese and foreign abuses Of
power.
Students by the tens of thousands
are parading the streets, COM
Wandering trains to take them to
Marking for demonstrations and de-
handing action.
Evolve Hymn of Hate"
In their bitterness over the SLOW
working of the western worlds
peace pacts, they have evolved a
hymn of hate" directed, for the
moment, against the Japanese. A
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lates roughly like this:
'Kin the foe! Kill the foel
Make haste and kill the foe.
NippOn's snakes encOil our land
But they will have to 20.
Prepare to die! Prepare to die!
Defend your land or die.
Drive out Japan's invading dwarfs
or bid YOUR land goodbye"
And so on. China signed the
kellogg pact, the nine-power treaty
and the covenant of the league. On
these guarantees against war and
aggression she has pinned her faith.
If the white races word of honor
fails, then faith in the white race
will crumble and some of the blood
lest pages of history may be re-
enacted.
Started by Bitterness
The Boxer uprising which re-
suited in wholesale crueltieS and
slaughter on the part of both ma
tives and foreigners, grew out OF
Chinese bitterness over foreign ag-
erosion. .
Following Japan's severe defeat OF
China in 1895, not only Japan but
Russia, Great Britain, Germany,
France and other western powers
began a shameless scramble for
territory.
The reforms of the new emperor
failed. 1t had been his intention
to have China copy America and
Europe. But the greedy behavior
of the western powers so angered
the people that the emperor was
seized and virtually made prisoner
while reactionaries took over the
power.
Death Perils Looming
Then, as now, defense groups were
organized all over the country.
Their idea was fundamentally pa
triotic. They aimed to save emma
from being torn to pieces. But the
movement got out of hand, eX-
tremists seized control and only an
international army saved the
foreigners in the country from ami
hilation.
These defense groups called them
selves, in effect, the Righteous
Fists" Hence the name, Boxers"
Today China is again looking to
the western world for guidance and
Justice. If, instead, she gets the
idea that she has been betrayed,
the Righteous Fists" may again
swing into action with all the perils
which that would mean for China
and the world.