Evening star., 1932-10-03
Seizure Is Held
Unjustified by
Neutral Body
ASKS AUTONOMY
FOR THECHINESE
Stimson Is Studying
Text Given Ap-
proval Here.
BY CONSTANTINE BROWN.


The Lytton report suggesting an
autonomous Manchurian province,
with only a police force off1cered
by foreigners belonging to neu-
tral nationalities backed by a
series of treaties between China
and japan to promote a better
understanding between the two
countries, was being studied to-
day by Secretary Henry L. Stim-
son and other high officials OF
the State Department.
Because the Secretary of State
returned from Philadelphia only
late last evening, he has had no
time yet to examine carefully the
report. He read a short digest
prepared for him by the depart
nlent, but before he is able to
give his views of the report he
wants to read and study it at
length.
This report has been awaited with
an anxiety paralleled only by that
shown previous to the announcement
of the Versailles treaty 13 years ago.
The document had reached Wash
ington last week, but was placed in a
safe in the treaty division Of the
State Department: and was opened only
yesterday morning by the chief of the
Far Eastern division. DR.. Stanley Horn
beck. in the presence OF two newspaper
men and three officials of the State
Department.
Held Impartial Report.
The document is complete political.
economic, sociologic. ethnographic and
financial treatise of Manchuria and
China and contains no less than
100000 words. 1t seldom delivers judg-
ment and shows no partiality either
to China or Japan.
In their objective study, the dele
gates evidently very learned men, f1nd
no justification whatsoever in Japan's
activities in Manchuria, nor can they
find single adequate reason for the
bringing into being of the Manchukuo
that Japan's interests in Manchuria
were great and that the boycott Of
the Japanese goods by the Chinese
sponsored in many instances by the
Chinese government, has undoubtedly
caused a good deal of provocation and
irritation in Japan.
In their final analysis they state
that: The status quo ante would
be no solution to the present conflict.
To restore in Manchuria the conditions
prevailing before September last would
be merely to invite repetition Of the
trouble"
Wishes OF Population Ignored.
Then, trying to cut the Gordian knot,
the five commissioners further state:
THE commission has received from the
Japanese government clear and valu-
able statement of the vital interests OF
their country in Mancnurla. Without
suggesting that economic relationship
entities Japan to control the economic,
still less the political development OF
those three provinces which form Man
churia, we recognize the great impor-
tance of Manchuria in the economic
development Of Japan. We do not con-
slider unreasonable her demand for the
establishment of stable government
WHICH WOulU Ut CdpdUiC VI llldlAlGdAi
ing order. ;. But such conditions can
be established by an administration
which is in conformity with the wishes
of the population and which takes full
account of their feelings and aspera-
tions"
That the state of Manchukuo has not
been established in conformity with the
wishes of the population put merely in
accordance with the wishes OF the
Japanese is proved by the Lytton Com
mission after a careful investigation OF
the situation on the spot.
Japanese Staff Blamed.
After giving a detailed historical ac-
count of the developments preceding
the formation of the State Of Manchu-
kuo, the commissioners state that the
new state was not founded as an ex-
of the popular feeling but by
five Chinese leaders at the instigation
of the Japanese general staff. 1T is
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