The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-02-24
BY HENRY F. MISSELWlTZ
United Press Cable Editor
1o23 by limited Press

Copyright, 1888, by United Press
NEW YORK, Feb. 24.-UP).
A feeling apparently is growing
among American and ether for
eign residents in the Far East that
Japan's defiance of the powers IN
her conquest of Manchuria and
Jehol province is rooted deep IN
a conviction that she has a mis-
sion to perform--namelv. the hnal
eradication of western domination
in the Orient.
But in recent dispatches and III
correspondence from persons III
that part If the world, there has
been a noe that underlying i'm
mediate developments is feeling
in Tokyo that the Japanese are to
emerge in history as the liberia
tors of the Oppressed peoples" of
the Far East.
The Japanese feel that control
of Manchuria. and now OF Jehol
province, is essential 10 their pro-
gram for two major immediate
reasons. namely:
THE need a market for
their manufactured products on
one hand, and a readily-controlled
source of raw materials, chiefly
iron and coal, for war supplies
and manufactures, on the other. e.,
2-The Japanese want control
of a buffer state between them
and Russia.
In connection with the first of
these points it may be explained
that japan in Tecert years has
suffered from.a raniGly increasing
population, until her; crowded
cities have become a major prob
lem. Il has come TO feel that the
very life Of the island empire de-
ponds on an outlet not only for
their goods. but people.
The population increase IS
roughly 100000 q year: Man,
churia was regarded as a natural
outlet. Japanese statesmen have
pointed out that Great britain,
France, the United States and
other powers have i'll the past in
creased their territories by force
that means Japan now has
turned to in what to them IS q
struggle for national existence.
And they feel it is not for these
nations now to throw stones.
japanese expansion in Asia be-
gan with subjugation of Korea.
The next step was the Russo-Jap.
anese war in 1904. and control OF
the railway zone in South Man.
churia.
The next was seizure of Man
churia and establishment Of Man
choukuo. Now the japanese want
Jehol province to Ground out"
their new state in Asia. The prov
ince of Jehol is little known,
sparsely populated. wild, mostly
mountainous area lying just over
the Great Wall north of Peiping.
1t is a little larger than New
York state, covering $4,000 square
miles. Of its 38,792,56S acres,
only roughly about 10 per cent is
under cultivation. Its population
Of about 100000 persons. semi
migratory and restless. tills but
little of the land that the Japanese
are willing to risk outlawry by the
rest of the world to control. The
people are tall, typicallv "North-
ern Chinese" with some Mongol
blood in them.
The mountains give way to the
west to the great desert area, the
Cobb, populated by rowing bands
of semi-barbaric Mongols. Cara
vans trek tediously the many hot
miles in summer, or the sub-Arc-
tic freezing temperatures in win
ter. across the shifting sands to
Urga. the Monaghan capital.
This route, while slow. could be
one way in which troops from
Russia would have access to China
and Manchuria. The caravan
routes are well defined and con-
stantly travelled. The Japanese,
military strategists stress, would
control Jehol and the mountains,
as a first line of defense in a Man
churian buffer state between Rus
STA and Japan. ,'