The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-18
JAPANESE TROOPS
MASSED IN CHINA:
NAVAL Trace BEGUN
Mighty War Machine Is
Ready for Action Inside
Great Wall.
CONCERN GRIPS NANKING
Campaign to Annex All
Land North of Yellow
River May Be Started.
BY United Press

By United Press
SHANGHAI, May 18.-The
mightiest war machine Japan
has ever modified on Chinese
territory inside the Great
Wall caused grave Chinese
fears today that five northern
provinces are about to be an
neXed to ManchukuO.
Rapidly moving developments
north of the Yellow River convinced
many in the Marking government
that by force OF arms Japan intends
to place Henry Pu-yi, Emperor Kang
Teh of Manchukuo on the dragon
throne of his ancestors beneath the
glittering yellow tiles of Peiping's
forbidden city
Chinese concern increased when
the Japanese embassy announced
that henceforth there would be no
statements regarding the strength
OF Japan's vastly augmented North
China Garrisons.
Tientsin dispatches reported that
with completion of present japanese
troop movements between the Great
Wall and the Yellow River Japan
will have the most powerful military
machine she has ever assembled for
action against the Chinese.
Increased 800 Per Cent
Normal japanese garris
strength in North China will have
been increased by approximately
300 per cent
A week ago Japan had only about
$500 troops in Peiping, Tientsin.
Fengtai, Tangku and at small posts
along the Peiping-Mukden railway,
in which British bond holders are
heavily interested.
Thursday and Friday Japan
poured from 100 to 1000 troops into
Tientsin and Peiping. Most of the
soldiers reinforced the North China
garrison headquarters in the Jap
anese concession at Tientsin while a
detachment was sent to Peiping to
double the strength of the embassy
guard in the legation quarter there
Other units were sent to Fengtai
an important railway junction con-
trolling rail connection between
Peiping and TientSin, Peiping and
Marking, and Feiping and Hankow
5000 More Landed Quietly
Meanwhile, an additional 5000
troops landed unobtrusively al
Chinwangtao, the port for Shanhai-
kuan on the China -Manchurian
border where the Great Wall comes
down to the sea.
An additional 1000 to 5000 troops
are expected TO land from trans
ports during the next two weeks
Tientsin dispatches reported that OF
the new arrivals only 1900 represent
requirements.
nese authorities was the fact that
the Kwantung army, Japanese mil
itary unit in Manchukuo. was
rushing strong detachments TO all
Great Wall passes, from Shanhai-
kuan on the sea to Kalgan, gateway
to the caravan routes running into
inner Mongolia.
These Great Wall garriSons were
reported as ready to spring" into
North China. Officials emphasized
that all has been quiet along the
Great Wall since Japan's conquest Of
Jehol Province in 1888. Hence. they
believed, troops concentrating in the
Great Wall passes were assembling
to Join an expeditionary force
southwark.
Open Campaign Feared
Chinese familiar with the North
China activities of the japanese
military long have feared an open
campaign to annex the provinces OF
Hopei. Shantung, Chahar, Shans
End Suiyuan to Manchukuo making
1t possible eventually to restore Pu
vi to the forbidden city from
whence. under japanese tutelage, he
would rule a vast territory extending
from the yellow River to the ST.
berian frontier.
China, it was pointed out, would
be powerlesS to resist such a move
by force of arms since the japanese
have forced the standardization OF
North China since 1888 when Mar
shall Chang Eseuh-Liang was
obliged to fee Peiping and take
refuge with his troops in the
Yangtze valley territory controlled
by Generalissimo Chang Kai- Shek
The only Chinese troops tolerated
by the japanese in North China
have belonged to the private armie:
of war lords avowedly sympathetic
TO Japan's ambitions for mainland
expansion. All others have beer
termed bandits" and have beer
withdrawn to the Hankow area
where Chang -Hsueh-Liang nov
holds sway. under threat Of being
expelled by the Japanese.