The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-11-29
WAR FLAMES
famed HIGH
BY Jap ANESE
Military Caste Spurs Nation
to Dreams of Conquest
for Own Salvation.
PERILS WORLD PEACE
China Lives in Fear, With
Foe Steadily Boring
Into Territory.
BY WILLIM PHILIP SIMMS +.
Scripps-Howard Foreign Editor

America and Europe haggle noisily
over war debts, disarmament and
the economic deadlock, the soft
sputter of the powder train leading
in the direction of a woodworking
explosion proceeds almost unnoticed
in the Far East.
Not since prior to 1900, a high
official here gravely observed, has
the situation in the Orient been so
dangerous. Unless We and Europe
speedily can iron out our differences,
he said, and bring some order out
of the present chaos, something may
start in the Pacific that will set the
world on fire.
In 1900, the United States stood
between China and ACKNOWLEDGMENT.
Today, China's Acknowledgement
actually is under way again. Three
of her richest provinces already are
lost, and fourth-Jehol - is
slipping. Japanese army maps OF
Manchuria definitely include JehoI
as part Of "Manchukuo.
Bomb Japanese Shops
This time, however, the United
States is powerless to intervene,
and Japan knows it. Only the nine
power treaty, the kellogg pact, and
the covenant of the league of Ma
tions can save China, and these now
threaten not to function.
Today, south of the Great Wall
in China proper, the inhabitants
are on tip-toe with anxiety. A
new japanese thrust is feared.
Bombings of shops selling Japanese
goods in the Peiping area are in
creasingly frequent. The Chinese
claim Japanese agents are engineer
ing the bombings.
The Japanese charge Chinese
boycotters are starting a new reign
Of terror. Whichever is right. OBJ
servers in Peiping report, blood
shed may happen at any time and
bring on Japanese Intervention. as
at Shanghai.
The United States Legation at
Pelping, it was reported today, has
warned Americans to be prepared
to rush to safety.
Driving Toward War
Meanwhile, in Japan events re-
lentlessly are driving the military
government forward. 1t could not
back out now, even if it wanted to.
The prestige of the emperor him.
self is involved.
Thus failure, in the code of Nip
pom, would mean loss of face" for
the sacred ruler, the almost sacred
military cast, and for the nation
itself.
Accordingly. the biggest budget in
history has been approved at Toxic.
1t calls for the expenditure of 2,24O,-
100000 yen. At par, this is s1,12O,-
100000, and most of it is for the
army and navy.
AS it is estimated the national
revenue will amount to only S671.-
100000, it means going into the red
to the tune of $449, 00O,0 00-the most
stupendous deficit the empire ever
faced.
New borrowings are in prospect,
along with new and higher taxes
if new and higher taxes can be
levied and collected from an already
hard-pressed people, which is at
least doubtful.
Fire Begins to Cool
For, though even liberals and
moderates were swept of their feet
during the war fever" which rolled
across Japan at the beginning of
the Manchurian advance, the fire is
beginning to cool.
The Japanese are nothing if not
thrifty, and grumbling is beginning
to be heard. The military soon
must make good if it wishes to re-
main in the saddle. New and more
spectacular enterprises, therefore.
would not be surprising.
Continuation of the present world
chaos, it is feared, would give the
military caste, now ruling at Toxic.
its chance. A world restored to
something like normal would hold
them and those who might abet
them, in check.
RumorS persist that France might
replace Great Britain as Japan's
European ally. If the present world
chaos is to continue, Japan might
prove very useful to France in the
Far East. She already possesses
rich territory in south China and
she could use more of it, if, through
China's disintegration, it CHANGED to
fall into her lap.
For Japan. such an entente would
be a godsend. 1t might add to her
prestige and would pave the way for
a large and very much needed for
eign loan.
Not within third of a century
has China been in such desperate
straits as now, it is felt here. Her
one hope is pinned to world recovery
and the peace Dacts.
If these fail her, observers admit,
not only is her own future dark, but
that Of world peace as well.
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