Evening star., 1932-01-03

BY CONSTANTINE BROWN.
/T%HE Japanese army was COM
80 PEELED to push their operations
as far as the Chinese Wall
4 by the presence of the large
number of bandit organiza
tions, which were supported by the
Chinese authorities. The occupation of
ChinchoW was essential, because it was
from that center that all the help was
sent out by the Chinese Warlords to
their organized groups and individual
bands" This statement was made here
last night by Count AiSuke Kabayama,
member of the japanese House of
Peers and one Of the most prominent
business men in Japan.
Count Kabayama had arrived in this
country 10 days ago, and while not rep
resenting the Japanese government IN
any way he has come here to find out
what America and especially the Amer
lean business men think about JapanS
action in Manchuria. He had also
heard that American business men
we're worried that the principle OF the
open door will not be respected by the
Japanese in Manchuria. While not in
position to make any binding prom
iSeS to his American friends he in
tends to gather as much information
as possible from all the people he can
meet in the United States and present
their views to the japanese Chamber
of Commerce and through them to the
japanese government.
Count Kabayama was a classmate Of
former President Coolidge and the late
Senator Dwight w. Morrow.
Practical Business Mind.
Count Kabayama is not politician.
He was an adviser of the Japanese del
egation at the London Naval Confer
ence in 1929, where he helped the other
members by his practical business point
of view on most subjects. Being
Japanese patriot and man outside
militant politics, he takes the point of
view Of the army practically as his gos-
pei. There is no question in his mind
that the story Of the Chinese bandits
threatening the Japanese army is cor
rect. He spread before his interviewer
very detailed map which the Japa-
nese general staff had given him before
leaving Toxic. On that map the
grouping of the Chinese bandits was
carefully marked with red dots, exactly
in the same manner the location of
enemy divisions was marked during
the war on every staff map. When his
dGUSlblOll was uId"Il W IllC 1dCI C1ldG
bandits are generally operating in elu-
sive units; that they are here today
and tomorrow somewhere else and con-
sequently the best military intelligence
in the world could not fix exactly the
location of these bands, he stated that
Japanese officers had made a lifelong
study of the situation and could place
practically every bandit unit in Man
churia.
THE Chinese commander at Chin
chow was supplying these bands with
arms, ammunition and leaders. AS long
as he was there the Japanese army
could have no rest. The Chinese troops
had to be elected from that region and
I think that from now on the japanese
military operations will cease. OF
course, there is just this possibility that
the Chinese should continue their work
from the Jehal region.
Doubts Further Operations.
"T don't know what our military
authorities have in mind but it Is just
a possibility that if the Chinese con-
tinue to encourage their bandits we
may be compelled to go further. do
not think, however, that this will be
necessary The disappearance OF the
last vestige of Chinese authority in
Manchuria will undoubtedly discourage
the bandits. The new Chinese regime
which is going to be set up in Man
churia probably will prove such boon
to the Chinese inhabitants who for the
first time in a generation will not live
in fear and be oppressed by various
brigands, be they called governors or
ANYTHING else, that in few years we
will witness new and much more pros
porous country than ever before"
Count Kabayama is a great believer
in realities in international politics. AS
soon as the bad feeling which was
bound to prevail throughout China as
result of the Japanese military opera