Imperial Valley press., 1933-02-14
ARMY READY
To PROCEED
upon JEHOL
Diplomatic Leaders Assert No
Intention OF Being Swayed By
League Or U. S.
CHINA READY TO RESIST
Invasion Beyond Great Wall To
Be Met With Armies OF United
China According To Premier.
BY MILES w. VAUGHN

BY MILES w. VAUGHN
United Press Staff Correspondent
Copyright 1888 By United Press)
TOXIC, Feb. 14-Japan will Or
der occupation of Jehol province
by her Manchurian army soon, des-
pite world opinion, it appeared GER
tain today in the face of a prospect
of unified Chinese resistance.
Possibility that the green-clad
infantrymen of the imperial Jap
anese army would push beyond the
Great Wall to occupy the cities of
Tientsin and Peiping could not be
ignored.
Developments at Peiping and
Nanking, and the statement OF T..
v. Soong, acting Chinese premier,
that any attack on Jehol would en-
counter the united resistance of all
China, indicated the likliho ii of
major military operations.
The Japanese press and public
was most concerned over develop
ments at Geneva, for Japan is sin
cerely anxious for the League OF
Nations to approve her activities
in Manchuria.
Japanese diplomatic leaders,
however, declared bluntly that the
league and the United States were
mistaken if they believed there
would be any deviation from jap
ans fixed policy. Informed sources
declared the league and the Uni
ted States must be prepared to use
extensive military force if they
hoped to carry out any subsequent
efforts to enforce their viewpoints
in the Far East, assuming the
league assembly adopted pending
recommendations criticizing Jap
ans Manchurian program.
Veteran observers here had never
seen Japan more united. The en-
tire nation has adopted do or
die attitude. The national fate
has been cast into the balance.
The adulation and worship
given the memory of the three
human bombs" bs"-three soldiers who,
during the siege of Shanghai, car
ried explosives into barbed wire en-
tanglements and were willingly
blown to bits to open path-in-
dicated the popular frame of mind.
Situation Dangerous
Prospects of extensive upheavals
in the next few months increased.
Japan unquestionably will reject
the leagues Manchurian recon-
mendations, although an attempt
may be made to delay proceedings
by suggesting revisions, amend
ments and reservations.
It should be remembered that
there is only one basic point in
volved: whether Manchuria is, or
is not, part of China. japan has
flatly declared she is ready to use
every resource of the empire to up
hold against the whole world the
Japanese thesis of an "independ-
ent Manchuria."
Military leaders here based their
hopes on the belief that interna-
tional rivalries would prevent con-
crete action from following the
leagues recommendations. Japan
was confident that Great Britain
and France would find an excuse
to drop the proceedings. possibly
because of Russian non-coopera-
ton.
japan saw in the present situa-
ton a parallel to the impractical
idealistic efforts of Woodrow Will
son at Versailles, which resulted
merely in increased European
chaos" a spokesman said. He ad-
ded that refusal by the league and
the United States to "see realities"
in the Orient nigh lead to chaos
which would permit Soviet inroads
into Asia.