The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-29
JAPAN MARKS
Time FOR new
DRIVE IN CHINA
Toxic Merely Waits Excuse
to Continue Conquest
of Foe.
SOCIETY HEADS PLOT
Black Dragon Organization
ConspireS to Overthrow
Enemy Republic.
BY WILLIAM PHILIP SINIMS
scripps- Howard Foreign Editor

WASHINGTON, March %. -
Anxiety here over the far eastern
situation has not abated an iota,
DESPITE the lull in actual hostilities
and shifting Of the spotlight to
other scenes.
Signs are multiplying that China
yet may be goaded into committing
some act of folly, thus providing
the Japanese with an excuse for
completing the job they set out to
do-whateyer that job may be.
Bankruptcy, civil war, secession,
red uprisings, flood, famine and
pestilence, any and all, threaten the
Chinese republic this spring, in adj
dition to whatever Nippon may do
to her.
The Chinese accuse the japanese
Of helping promote all these, IN so
far as such ills are subject to hu-
man control, to further their con-
quest of the Asiatic mainland.
Insidious Drive Conducted
The Black Dragon society, Sc
cret organization which acts as
agent provocateur and otherwise
promotes the policy of the war
nartv in Toxic by undercover &C
tivities, is reported busy throughout
China.
If the former "boy emperor,
Henry Pu vi, can be made to stick
as Japan's puppet dictator" OF
Manchuria, the Chinese declare, an
early effort to restore the monarchy
may be expected to put Pu vi back
on the throne as ruler" OF all
China.
The Black Dragon Society, it is
charged, has been working toward
that end for years. Twice, say the
Chinese, it has attempted overthrow
of the republic with that aim in
view-once, when it secretly sup
ported President Yuan Shih-Kai's
coup to make himself emperor, and
once in a plot to restore Pu vi.
The war party in Japan is known
to be opposed either to strong re-
public or strong monarchy In
China. The danger to Japan Of
united, wel-organized China with
population Of 450000,000, is obvious.
A weak emperor, controlled by
Toxic, would be ideal.
Time Deemed Ripe
1t is now or never, the Black
Dragon society has warned, for UNI
less China is split or otherwise
powerless soon, such favorable
opportunity might never come
again. Japan, therefore, has been
accused of helping both sides of
civil wars to keep the country in
chaos.
China's springtime looks ominous.
South China is threatening to Sc
cede. North China is full of rumors
of possible coalition against the
nationalist leader, Chang Kali
Shek. Other diSquieting reports
are heard in Shantung and around
Hankow, the Chinese Chicago, while
rumblings of a Communist uprising
persist in the valley of the Yangtze.
Civil war generally is expected
with the crocus in China, and this
year her plight is so desperate that
it seems too much to hope for an
exception. In some mysterious
manner, her selfish, trouble-making
war lords always seem able to find
the necessary money and munitions.
Favors Japan's Plans
In the light of the foregoing, sew
eral reasons are seen behind Jap
anese refusal to live up to her prom
Use to evacuate the Shanghai area.
One is the likelihood of further
chaos in China soon, making the
fishing in troubled waters unusually
good
Two. the hold on Shanghai
strengthens Japan's bargaining
power in dealing with Manchuria.
Three, as long as the international
spotlight beats down on Shanghai,
the systematic swallowing of Man
churia and Eastern Mongolia can
proceed with less publicity and fuss.
Four. nationalistic feeling is run
ming high in Japan. And there is
considerable political unrest. China,
therefore, serves Nippon's war party
well. 1t makes the Japanese forget
their plight at home, which is bad,
and think Of the Promised Land of
Asia.