Evening star., 1932-11-27
BY ALBIN E. JOHNSON.

- ENEvA.-While Japanese dipIo-
mats and statesmen here at
7 Geneva are arguing that
" Japan is motivated only by
peaceful and altruistic aims in
pursuing to its logical conclusion her
ManchIrian policy, reliable reports
from Toxic tell an entirely different
story. At Geneva Japan'S spokesmen
are pleading for peaceful under
standing" and equitable solution; Il
Toxic the poWers-that-be declare that,
If need be, Japan is prepared, as she
was in the Russo-Japanese War, to
stake her future existence as a big
power" on the fields of Manchuria.
Authoritative reports received at
Geneva indicate that Japan's army
estimates for the coming year have been
NOR than doubled; her navy expend-
itures are so per cent higher than this
years. The 1888 budget for national
defense" is the largest in the history
of the country. On the other hand. an
estimated budgetary deficit OF 81 per
cent has been increased to 43 per cent
as result of supplementary credits
authorized for the army and navy, and
indications are. with the rapidly declin-
ing revenues from taxation, that the
budgetary deficit will surpaSS SO per
cent by January 1, 1888, when the new
budgetary year begins.
The effect on Japan's currency has
been staggering. The yen today is
down so per cent in normal value, and
is still dropping. National expenditures
are certain to climb with the increaS-
ing drain in Manchuria where guerilla
warfare is prevalent. Economic condi-
tions are described as appalling in
the agricultural districts Of the country
and so-called COMMUNISM" is growing
among the peasant population.
League Council Confused.
In Geneva. representatives of the IA
powers on the League Council, and the
delegates from So countries summoned
for the extraordinary assembly, are
more or less confused over the picture
painted by Ambassadors Nagaoka and
Matsuidiara, and the representatives
sent here from Toxic, and the reports
which arrive daily from diplomatic
officials of their various governments
stationed in the Far East.
Japan's spokesmen here argue that
neither the League covenant nor the
kellogg pact have been Holated and
that the nine-power treaty is capable
of several interpretations. In Japan,
according to dispatches received at the
League, the people are told that Japan
Is really fighting the League of Nations
and the United States" The japanese
Diplomatic Review (Gaiko Jiho) which
publishes articles from leading dtplo-
mats. army and navy officials and per-
sonalities influential in the industrial
and political world. reflects the view
point of those now in control OF the
government. An article, under the sig
nature OF Gyokujo Hanzawa, editor OF
Gaiko Jiho, contrasts strangely with the
defense advanced by Japanese delegates
before the League Council and Assem-
bly,. Hanzawa writes:
"The baking Of American ambitions
in the Far East and the freeing of
China from the aggression Of other Oc-
cidental nations form the reasons for
the drastic action that Japan took in
Manchuria and at Shanghai" He then
adds: "The enemies which Japan has
consistently recognized are the League
and America"
Whom did Japan fight so heroically
at Geneva?" Hanzawa asks and then
proceeds to answer his question as fol-
lows. "It was not China; 1t was world
influence attempting to take advantage
Of the internal dissentions in China to
establish sway over Asia. When
Japan sent troops to Shanghai and de-
stroyed the Chapel district and wrecked
the Woosung forts, she did not do so
because she hated China, but In order
to serve notice on the West to quit
meddling In Asia"
"Japan's Enemy"
"In other words" continues Han
Zawa, "Japan's enemy was not the 18th
Route Army (of China but the recog-
milton of the existence of the worlds
greatest potential military power
Omitted States). The bombing of the
Commercial Press by our heroic airmen
was a notice to the League Of Nations
to cease interfering in the Far East.
(China has, at her own request, been
supplied with international experts to
assist in recognizing her sanitary, hos
pital, medical, educational and trans
portation services. The Commercial
Press, at the moment Of its destruction,
was engaged printing in Chinese a
semi-off1cial book on Twelve Years OF
International Cooperation
THE destruction Of the Woosung
forts was really the destruction of
American designs to penetrate into, and
consolidate her position IN the Far East.
Through the Shanghai incident Japan
fought the world and emerged VIC
torious."
Advancing the thesis that China
ought to be grateful to Japan for COM
ing to her rescue, the Gaiko Jiho article
says:
THE series of triumphs achieved by
In Chnn0hat