Evening star., 1935-11-20

what the Chinese preferred.
More Expansion Seen.
Two years ago this new theft o1
Chinese territory would have drawr
fierce protests from the Western ma.
tions which have important interest:
in the Far East. They all realize thai
after Peiping and Tientsin, the Jap.
anese are going to establish themselve!
in Shanghai. on the Yangtse River anc
eventually in Hongkong.
Manchurid udS torn d,Udy from
China because there ,rere TOO
many brigdnds there. The fire
prorinceS are taken oUer BY Japan
to arrest the spreading OF Com
munism. What UiU be the grouse
for taking oUer Shanghai and the
Ydngtse Rirer palley is not knoun
yet-probably the expulsion OF the
phite intruders.
The Western powers fighting each
other for an illusory supremacy in the
Mediterranean and the still more
lluoOLy c-CSIdOAioliuiClIC VI lAic LCds d'
of Nations as an organization to pre-.
vent wars are powerless to prevent
Japan's expansionist policy. They ere
too busy cutting each others throats
So powerless are the proud Western
nations that quite recently a conSu
general at Marking called on Gen
Chang Kai Sheck advising him moi
to resist the Japanese but to put hi;
trust in Geneva again.
The shrewd Chinese smiled enig-
matically He gave that official all
the assurances Chinese can give
when he intends to do something else
and informed the japanese the next
day that the separation of the Five
Provinces from the nominal rule OF
would have his blessing.
Strong Action Hard to Believe.
Some optimists believe that this
time the League-that is to say, Great
Britain-might take some strong
action against Japan.
This is difficult to conceiue.
Japan is committing a less ofen-
size theft than in 1882 When it
conquered Mdnchukuo.
The Five Provinces are. for the
sake of form, declaring themselves
of Marking. There can
be no reason why the League should
interfere with decision taken by
the rulers of Northern China them
selves. Japan has. officially, nothing
to do with that move. Japan cannot
be called an aggressor. TOXIC has
played the cards with more skill than
Mussolini Changes Mind.
1t is not surprising that II Duce,
who was foaming at the mouth every
time the name Japan was mentioned,
should have changed his mind. He
still sees the grave menace Of the
yellow peril, but does not care much
about it. If the white races, says
II Duce, are foolish enough to risk
! fratricidal war and are willing to
allow Japan to oust them out of the
East Tor purely Sel1lSn motives, let
them do 1t.
This change OF mind of MusSo-
lini ,Dds expressed by him in an
interuietD granted in Rome to the
correspondent OF the Asdhi Shin
bun some three weeks ago.
He declared himself a great admirer
of Japan. This Observation-Disclosures
only in the last few weeks-was based
On three fundamental reasons: The
Japanese people are full of courage
and the Italians admire courage. The
Japanese continue to increase their
oirthrate in spite of the hardships such
an increase is causing 10 the individual
families, and, finally. the people of
Japan, though faithful to tradition,
Keep abreast of times.
Mussolini took advantage Of that in
,erview to throw a stone at the League
If Nations, describing that body as "an
,rgan of despots who do not under