The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-11
CH|NA'S FAITH
ON HELP FROM
GENEVA EBBS
Population Is CIamoring for
Immediate War With
Japan.
BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS
Soripps- Howard Foreign Editor


WASHINGTON, Jan. 11-Grave
anxiety is felt here over what the
next few DAYS or weeks may bring
forth in China.
Next Monday Jan. IS - the
League Of Nations, ct Geneva, will
begin another try at solving the
crisis preciOhated by Japan's seizure
of Manchuria in defiance of the rest
OF the world.
In China, the writer is informed,
faith in The league is fast ebbing
Territory greater than France and
England combined were seized from
her by Japan in violation of the
covenant, the Kellogg pact and the
ninepoWer treaty, and, after six
teen months of stalling, the league
yet has to reach a decision.
If the league, which NETS next
week, fails again, feeling, already
running high in China, may get out
OF control. 1t is with the greatest
difficulty that the Ranking govern
ment even partially has restrained
the population, which clamors with
increasing heat for war against
Japan.
Betrayal Is Charged
Should the peace machinery, upon
which China has depended, now
definitely iail her, there is no tell
ing what the Chinese may do in
their establishment. Even now
they feel they have been betrayed.
All the great powers quietly are
holding ships and men in readiness
to protect their nationals should
Japan and the league let off an ex-
plosion in the far east
The United States has approx
mately 1900 troops in China. At
Peiping, serving as legation guard,
are seventeen officers and SOC men.
These are marines.
At Shanghai is the Fourth marine
regiment, with sixty-one officers
and 1,645 men.
Then there is part of the Fiji
teenth infantry, serving along the
Peiping- Tientsin- Mukden line as a
railway guard These number
forty-four officers and 705 men.
Since the Boxer uprising a third
of a century ago, all the leading
powers nave maintained, under
treaty with China, legation guards
at Peiping, nlus other contingents
to keep the road open to the sea in
event of further trouble.
u. S. Marines in China
= During the nationalist drive on
Picking five years ago, entailing the
capture of Shanghai Marking and
other large cities, incidents arose
treatening foreign lives
In fact, a number of Americans,
British, French, Italians and Jap
anese were killed or wounded par
ticularly at Marking where con-
sulates were violated either by the
retiring or the advancing soldiers.
American marines have been in
Shanghai ever since, along with
other foreign troops.
Foreign interests in China are
estimated to be worth 50 500 ,0O0,0 900.
Japanese investments are by far the
largest, with the British next and
American third.
American interests total about
$20000000O, of which some $80000,-
900 is represented by missionary en-
terpriSes, colleges, schools, hospitals,
and so on.
Foreigners Own Railroads
There are about 100000 japanese
in China, the bulk being in Man
Churia. There are some 10000 Rus
slams, most of them refugees from
Portuguese; $500 Germans, and 3OC
French.
Customs figures indicate there are
about 5000 Japanese firms doing
business in the country; 200 Rus
slams; 500 British, and 500 American
Foreign business interests in China
proper center mostly around Shang-
hal. Hongkong, Hankow and Tient-
sin.
The Russians. with the Chinese
own the Chinese Eastern Railway
aEin northern Manchuria; the Jap
aneSe own the South Manchuriar
Railway and the French own short
railway line in Yunnan Province
South China. The British are in.
tereSted in the line from TientSir
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