Evening star., 1933-05-09
THRONE FOR PU-Y|
HELD JAPAN'S AIM
Establishment of New Chi
nese Empire Declared
Goal of Offensive.
BY CONSTANTINE BROWN.

While President Roosevelt and the
representatives of the principal world
powers are discussing the best means
for a successful conclusion of the
Geneva Arms Conference and the Lon
| don economic parleys, the japanese
government is proceeding in the Far
East, according to a well established
plan to reinstate Henri Pu-Yi, the
nominal ruler of Manchukuo, as En-
peror of China.
The japanese Army is engaged in a
new drive aimed at the conquest of
Tientsin and Peiping and eventually at
the occupation Of the Province of
Shantung.
ALI the agreements between civilized
nations, such as the Kellogg BRAND
pact, the nire-power pact and the
covenant of the League of Nations. are
thereby trampled under the feet of the
advancing japanese armies.
But the japanese don't seem to care,
since the principal powers interested in
the maintenance of the peace pacts are
engaged in other matters, more vital to
their own existence. and do not seem to
be able to COME, for the time being, to
positive agreement. And nobody has
halt Japan's advance in Northern
China.
New Slant on Recognition.
According to reliable information
from the Far East, the japanese gov
ernment intends to occupy before the
end OF this month the ancient capital
OF the Chinese empire and its seaport.
Once this is done, it is believed the
present regent of Manchukuo, Henry
Pu-Yi. will be installed on his ancestral
throne in Peiping-which will be re-
named Peking-and will be proclaimed
Emperor of China.
In this manner the whole question
of the recognition of Manchukuo and
the accusation against the japanese
that they have violated the nine-power
pact which guarantees the territorial
integrity of China would disappear
and one of the important points which
have caused The withdrawal of Japan
from the League of Nations would
come to an end.
The young regent of Manchukuo can
legally be described as the Emperor of
the hands of the leaders of the Chinese
republic, on the basis of an agreement
whereby in exchange for the payment
Of substantial subsidy and the right
to maintain his household in the old
capital of China, the former boy en-
peror transferred all his rights and
prerogatives to the new republic.
Agreement Kept by Pu-Yi.
Pu-Yi kept his part of the agreement;
he had, at that time, no possibility of
doing otherwise. But the rulers of the
Chinese republic did not keep theirs
and paid for only very short time the
promised subsidy. Consequently, the
Chinese republic having broken its
pledges. has voided the contract entered
into with the last scion of the Manchu
dynasty
In view of world opposition against
the occupation of Manchuria and Jehol
by the japanese, it is reliably reported
the Toxic government intends now to
go ahead with its military operations,
smash up all resistance of the Chinese
troops which are still south of the Great
Wall. enter Peiping and Tientsin ana
establish a new Chinese empire.
In this manner the japanese hope tc
overcome all objections of the West
ern nations to their actions in the Far
East. There will be no longer a ques-
ton of taking for their own benefit
slice of Chinese territory and erecting a
puppet state, which has no chance Of
being recognized.
Difficulties Faced.
Pu-Yi will address the world and
announce that he has reoccupied his
ancestral throne. There will be diff
culties at first in granting him an in
ternational recognition, but most of
the Western powers are so tired of this
Chinese puzzle that the Japanese be-
lieve, they will be only too happy to
jump at any solution which might be
considered sufficient to get them out
OF the present predicament, without
much loss of prestige.
The new Chinese empire would be as
much under the heel Of Japan as
Manchukuo is today. But from the
strictly technical point of view, the
japanese government can talk about
the reinstatement of the Chinese
dynasty in country torn up by civil
wars and where ambitious war lords
play their own game without regard to
the national interests of the country.
Pu-Yi won't admit he Is reigning
over Northern China alone. He will
insist his jurisdiction extends over the
.! same territory as that of his ancestors.
But until he is able to consolidate his
present territories he will not advance
toward the South to bring the Marking