Evening star., 1933-01-07
TROOP MOVEMENTS
PRESAGE SPREAD
OF JEHOL CONFLICT
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planned to begin the drive no earlier
than late February, but that a Chlnese
Offensive" may cause the Japanese to
act sooner They said Marshal Chang
HSiaoIiang. North China war lord, was
continuing to mass large forces in the
province, former Summer playground OF
Chinese Emperors.
At the same time the army head
quarters made q sensational disclosure
Of an alleged Chinese plot to assassinate
Gen. Nobuyoshi Muto, Japan's supreme
representative in Manchuria, which it
said was responsible indirectly for the
outbreak of the three-day battle this
week at Shanhaikwan.
Marshal Chang Accused.
1t accused the highest Chinese au-
thority in the north, Marshal Chang
himself of financing the scheme, which
allegedly included the killing of other
powers in the Japanese-fostered Man
chukue government in Manchuria
The japanese headquarters asserted
Korean, Kigyo Son, member of the
alleged terrorist organization commits
stoned to carry out the plot, was cap
tured at Tientsin and was being trans
ported TO Changchun just before the
Shanhaikwan battle started Sunday.
Chinese tried to rescue him at
Changli, southwest Of Shanhaikwan,
the japanese said, and failing in this
later threw three bombs in the japanese
police headquarters at ShanhaikWan on
the Manchurian border This provoked
the Shanhaikwan battle. (Chinese mill
tary leaders accused the Japanese of
placing the bombs themselves.)
The Japanese said the Chinese
thought the Korean was being held at
the police headquarters and sought
either to rescue him or seal his lips as
result of the bombing. Two other al
legged conspiratoIs, whose confessions
arrest, were held here.
Financed From Abroad.
The japanese said money raised in
the United States and other countries
where Chinese were residents was for
warded to Marshal Chang and used to
finance the scheme. Russians and jap
anese Communists were reported among
the conspirators.
Gen. Muto's headquarters here re-
iterated that Japan sought to local
ize" the Shanhaikwan outbreak-unless
the Chinese made it impossible"
Ten thousand Chinese troops march
ing from Pinchuan, about 100 miles
into Jehol Province from the border city
of Shanhaikwan, toward the Peipiao
Railway Station were bombed yesterday
by Japanese Army planes.
While China, torn by internal disSen-
sion, has held feeble grip on Jehol as
well as the rest of inner Mongolia, the
japanese chief of staff, Gen. Kuniaki
KolSo, declared 1t was necessary to put
Jehol under Manchukuo's control in
order Ito maintain peace and order"
He had predicted it would take two or
three years and 10000 Japanese SOL
diers to suppress banditry in territory
west of the Manchukuo boundary.
Realize Complications.
Concerning Chinese fears that ia
pans occupation of Shanhaikwan
would lead to movement along the
railroad into Tientsin and Peiping, Gen.
Kioso said japanese leaders were fully
conscious" that international complica-
tions would ensue if this was done He
cited the large foreign population of
the ancient capital, Peiping. and its
seaport. Tientsin.
An advance of so miles toward Tien-
tsin, about half way from Shanhaik-
wan. would put the Japanese ON the
Great LWan River. whence they could
swing northward up its valley, the cas-
lest route into Jehol Access would not
be difficult. northWestward from Shan
haikwan. This would avert an advance
south of the Great Wall, which
stretches westward from Shanhaikwan.
Gen. Kioso said the Japanese would
not push farther south of the wall un-
less the Chinese "incited" such action.