Evening star., 1935-11-25
Five Provinces Invited to
Join Autonomy Movement
as Toxic Receives Plea
to Send Troops.
NANKING is FEARFUL;
STRIVES FOR SOLUTION
Coup Can Be Suppressed If Nip
pom Will Withdraw Backing,
Say Officials - Tientsin Disor-
ders Quieted After Demonstra-
tors Seize Buildings.
BACKGROUND

BACKGROUND
RelentleSSly Japanese military
leaders, dominating the Oriental
empires policies for more than
three gears, haze pursued q policy
OF aggression in China. First, Man
church fell in 1882; q year later
Jehol ProDince iU1S seized and in
cluded in the puppet state OF
Mdnchukuo. Resistance OF divided
China has been feeble. japanese
opposition to the nilitdry's plans,
led BY Foreign Minister Kokt
Hirota, is brushed aside by the
generals.
BY the Associated Press.
An autonomous government for a
large section of North China was in
augurated today and Immediately
called on Japan for assistance.
Yin Ju-Keng. head of the new nine
man autonomous council for Is coun-
ties in Hopeh and Chahar Provinces
asked Japanese government officials
and militarists to send troops "to purge
North China of Communists"
IT stand for the rescue Of China
and close harmony with Japan" Yin
announced in proclaiming political in
dependence from Nanking.
Five Other Provinces Invited.
At the simple ceremony of inaug-
uration of the new government, Yin
disclosed the five provinces of North
China had been invited to join the
IS counties in seH-government. AT
the same time he emphasized the
movement was autonomous, not sep
aratist.'
He said his government viii con-
troll all revenues except the salt and
customs taxes.
There was widespread belief that
the autonomy movement, now begun
after some delay, might spread to other
North China provinces. Gen. Sung
Cheh-Yuan, overload OF Hopeh and
Chahar Provinces. might continue the
process, it was thought. but the plans
of other leaders were unclear.
Chinese Troops Withdrawn.
Sung Cheh-Yuan Withdrew troops
which he had sent to Tungchow, capi-
tai of the newly declared independent
region, in response to accusations from
the japanese military that the pres
ence of the troops violated the agree
ment for demilitariZation of the zone.
Along the Great Wall Of China were
japanese troops, ready to meet any
attempt by the central government
to block the autonomy program by
military force.
Whether the autonomy movement
would spread appeared to rest with
Gen. Sung Cheh-Yuan. Nanking
officials pointed out he had not dis
closed his attitude in the situation,
although he was pressing for inaugu-
ration of reforms which have been
proposed by Generalissino Chang
Kai-Shek, military leader at Nanking.
100000 Persons Affected.
Observers at Nanking believed that
II Sung went over to the autonomiSts
all Of Chahar and Hopeh Provinces
would be cut loose from the central
government.
Yin Ju-Keng called his autonomous
government the East Hopeh Anti
Communist Council"
1t controls an area of about $500
square miles, running south of the
Great Wall to within short distance
of Peiping and Tientsin, with a popu-
lation estimated at 100000. Eigh-
teen of the 25 counties are inside the
demilitarized zone created when Sino-
Japanese hostilities ended in 1888.
Nanking Seeks Solution.
A foreign Office spokesman at Nam
king said the government was press
ing for Japanese cooperation through
Vice Minister for Foreign Affairs Tang
Yu-Jen, who was comforting with the
japanese Embassy. It insisted that
If Japanese support were withdrawn
the autonomy movement could be
easily controlled.
The Japanese have hitherto asserted
(See CHINA, Page 81