The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-06-07
BY III. r. EKINS
United Press stan Correspondent
Downright. 1895. BY United Press

tOOp4IlkHL, 1879. D1 DhltHu EAtoot
WASHINGTON, June 7-Four
and a half years after her seizure of
Manchuria and little more than
year since Henry Pu vi was pro-
claimed Emperor of Manchoukuo,
Japan today appeared ready to put
the former boy emperor Of China
back on the Dragon Throne in
Peiping.
Dispatches from Peiping, Shang-
hal and Tientsin describing renewed
activity by the japanese military
indicate that again the mighty
forces of Nippon's Kuantung army
are prepared to march through the
time encrusted passes of the Great
Wall and put the last Of the Man
chus back on the throne of his an
cestors under the glittering yellow
tiled roofs of the Forbidden City.
A dozen times since Sept. 10, 1881,
when Japan seized Mukden and
from there extended her sway
through Chinas northeastern prov
inces, the Chinese in North China
have anticipated the day when an
other great chunk of China would
be swallowed by the crack, brown
clad troops of Nippon.
Conquest Is Anticipated
Accounts of Japanese military
moves south of the Great Wall ap-
pear to conform with a long antici-
pated program which may add all Of
eastern Inner Mongolia to the En-
peror of Manchoukuos domain.
Should Manchoukuo'S influence be
farther extended, Pu vi or Kang
Teh. as he is now known, will also
rule over that portion Of China be-
tween the Great Wall and the yell
low River on the south and west
ward into solated Shensi province.
During the past five years Japan's
"undeclared war" on China has been
marked by the following develop
ments:
Sept. 10, 1931-Seizure of Mukden
and extension of japanese rule
throughout all of Manchuria.
November and December, 1881
Extension of influence north Of the
Sino-S Soviet Chinese Eastern Rail-
way into the Soviet sphere of inf1u-
ence in the Hardin area.
January, 1932-Opening of hostil-
tiles at Shangi, a move designed by
Japan to obtain command of the
mouth of the Yangtze River, the
gateway to Central China.
Pu vi "Chief Executive"
March, 1932-The Shanghai truce
and China's abandonment of hope
that the League of Nations would
restore Manchuria to her.
March, -Proclamatio nof Pu
vi as chief executive of the indie
pendent state of ManchoukuoI"
The autumn of 1932-Japanese
military incursions in the direction
of Tientsin.
March. 1933-Japanese seizure of
Jehol, the easternmost province CT
inner Mongolia.
April and May, 1933-Japanese
advances to within Is miles of Peip-
ing and Tientsin.
May 80. 1933-The Tangku truce,
under which Japan held out the
hand of friendship to the skeptical
Chinese and created the "demili-
tarized zone" south of the Great
Wall into which Chinese troops
could not venture, but which was
the stamping ground for the Jap
anese.
March. Proclamation of Pu
vi as Emperor Kang Teh of Man
choukuo.
Soviet Hostilities Postponed
The Summer of 1934-Japanese
negotiations with Mongol princes
for the annexation of Inner Mon
golia to Manchoukuo.
The Autumn of 1934-Japanese
announcement of her eastern Asiatic
hegemony.
Japan'S present moves, which may
not stop until the shores of the yell
low River have been reached, follow
! her failure to achieve economic
domination in north China.
With danger of Japanese hostil-
tiles with the Soviet Union indef-
initely postponed, the Japanese may
have decided that only by actual
military occupation of North China
and its addition to Manchouuo can
her plans for full economic eXploita-
ton of the region be realized.