The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-02-14
JAPAN TO DEFY
 WORLD ABOUT
 JEHOL PROVINCE
Her Manchurian Army Will Soon Occupy That Place Will Be Closed for Week
BY MILES w. VAUGHN

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 (C0pyright 1883 by United Prcss)
 Tokio. Feb 14.--NUP)--Japan will order occupation of Jehol soon, despite world opinion, 1t ap- peared certain to-day in tho face of c prospect of unified Chinese I resistance.
 Possibility that the green-clad infantrymen of the Imperial Chin. csc army would push on beyond tho great wall to occupy tho vitieh of Tlentsin and Pelping could not bo ignored. l Nanking, and tho statement 'of Acting Chinese Premier T. V. So. ong that any attack on Jchol would encounter the united re- sstanco of nil china, indicated tho likelihood of major military oper- ations.
 The Japanese press and public was most concerned over devel- opments ut Geneva. Tor Japun is sincerely anvious for the league or nations to approve her activities In Mnnchuria.
 however, declared bluntly that tho league and tho United state Wero mistaken if they believed there would be any deviation from Ja. pans fixed policy. Informed sources declared tho league and tho United States must be pre- pared to use extensive military force # they hoped to c1rry out my subsoquent efforts to onforc9 thoir viewpoints in tho Far Eost, assuming tho lenguo assembly adopted pending recommendation criticicing Japans Mnnchuriah
 Veteran observers horo had never seen Japan moro unitol' The entire nation has adopted "do or dc" attitude. The national fate has been cast into tho balance.
 The adulation and near-worship given tho memory of tho 'throe human bombs"---throe soldiers who during the siege of shanghai car rled explosives Into barber wire ontanglements and woro willihRly blown to bits to 0pon n path--ih- dlcated tho popular frnmo or inihd'
 Prospects of extensive upheaV- ais in the next flow months eih- crensed.
 Jnpnn unquestionubly will TO. feet inc leagues Manehurian rec. ommendations, although an at- tompt may be made Co delay pro- eeedlngs by suggesting revisions, amendments and reservations.
 Japun saw in tho present Situa. ton h parallel to tho "lmpraeticnl idenlistie efforts of Woodrow VII: son nt Versailles, which resulted merely in inereased European chaos" a spokesman Baid. He add: ed thnt refusal by tho league and inc United States to "soe roalitios' in the orient might lead to chaos which would permit Soviet inroads into Aglu.
 C,eneva, Feb, 14-(Up)--- Tho Manchoukuo government issuod m uitimntum today to Marshal Chang fjsueh- Lang demanding immodi' nto withdrawal of Chang's troops from Jehoi Province, Japanese sources said today. Manehoukuo md Japanese troops will foreiblN cioct the Chineso if they do not withdraw, tho ultimatum was un' derstood to have said.
 The uitlmatum coineidcd With delivery of a Jnpancso document 10 tho league of nations which was believed to end all hopo or coneil- int,on In tho Manchurinn dispute Tine document replicd' to tho leaguo's question whether Japan would agreo to nominal Chinese soyereignty In Manehurin.
 Japan, tho reply said, k con. vinccd that tho maintenance ana recognition of tho stato of Man. choukuo is tho only guarantee or peace in the far east.