Evening star., 1932-03-29
Japan's Moves i'm Manchuria
Raise Doubts as to Results

Establishment OF new government
in MancfIlria, with an administration
favorable to Japan. fails to impress the
public in this country as either per-
manent or effective. Factors which
appeal to editors are the inevitable
! emigration of Chinese to that country,
| the announced attitude of the United
States and other countries and the
obstacles that may be presented by
| Russian interests.
Referring to the request for Ameri-
can recognition of the new govern
ment, the Port Huron Times Herald
says: 1--WE do not even know-that is
the theory, at least-that there is any
such official as the minister of foreign
| affairs of Manchuria. And our latest
| official knowledge is that Manchuria
| is one Of the provinces of China" The
, Boise Idaho Statesman points out that
"the United States in taking the lead
among the nations in withholding rec
! ognition, creates precedent, for it has
been the traditional policy to follow
| the lead of the great powers in the
/ matter of recognition of countries in
! the Old World, and to take the lead
only when countries in the New World
are affected"
Emphasizing the fact that "educa-
tional, banking and labor associations
at Mukden, where the Sino-Japanese
strife began last September, have ad-
dressed a remOnstrance to the. League
of Nations Commission to investigate
conditions in Manchuria," the San
Antonio Express places importance
upon the fact that they recite that
the 100000 Chinese living in that
region desire to share China's destiny
syr,l, H.
remain under Japanese rule" The
that Lieut.. Gen. Shigeru HOMO. COM
manding the forces in the three Man.
churian provinces, has about 10000
officers and men. The Toxic govern
ment has found the operations in
Manchuria and around Shanghai far
more costly than it expected last Fall,
when Honjo'S troops occupied Mukden,
Changchun and Kirin. So far the
expenditures for Japan's adventures on
the Asiatic mainland have come to
$50, 100000
"1n the worlds present condition"
remarks the New Orleans Times Plea
yune, the granting of loans to a gov
ernment whose title is so clouded as
that of Japan in -Manchuria would be
next TO impossible even II the lending
nations were favorable disposed. With
practically all committed to formal dis
approval of the Japanese adventure in
Manchuria, grant of the requested loan
by any of them does not seem to be
even remote possibility. The logical
presumption is that Japan must finance
its ward out of treasury already under
strain of its heavy military expenditures
in Manchuria and at Shanghai Doubt
less the Japanese will do what they can
for their vaSsal state and its puppet
government, but the burden thus added
to the war-imposed increase of their
own should be onerous enough to
strengthen the Japanese peoples own
doubts about their governments Bpecu-
lation in Manchuria."
Few in Japan" thinks the SPRING
field Mass Republican, desire the
annexation of Manchuria, a land unfit
for colonization and regarded as des-
tined TO be Chinese. A less risky and
expensive solution would be preferred,
even by the imperialists, provided 1t
safeguarded Japanese economic inter-
ests. Nor Is the detachment of Man
churia as nominally independent state
essential to Japanese aims, provided