Evening star., 1937-09-26
JAPAN UNDECIDED
ON RULE IN CHINA
Government Believed Likely
to Be Put in Charge of
Natives.
BY Radio 10 The Star

BY Radio TO The Star.
TIENTSIN, China, September 25.-
Determined not to repeat the mistakes
of their costly Manchurian expert
ment, Japan's empire builders are
feeling their way slowly in the estab-
lishment Of puppet government in
North China. 1t is too early to say
what form the new government will
take-in fact, it is doubtful if the
Japanese themselves have made up
their minds-but several things may be
said with a fair degree of assurance:
/. North China viii not be an annex
or replica of Manchukuo.
2. The government will be headed
by Chinese and will be Chinese in
complexion.
g. While the northern provinces will
be given special autonomous position
under Japanese dictation, the door
will remain open for nominal al
legiance with Marking when the final
reckoning in the Sino-Japanese crisis
comes.
Based on Conversations.
These observations are based on con-
versations with japanese military and
diplomatic officials who tend TO dis
cuss their part in North China's des-
tiny with realistic frankness, in re-
freshing contrast with the sham pre-
tense surrounding the founding Of
Manchukuo.
There is still good deal Of Japa-
nese-inspired propaganda about the
will of the people" evidenced in badly
staged, meaningless autonomy demon
strations, but notably less than fea-
tured the Manchurian adventure.
1t is no secret that Henry Pu-Yi. the
former boy Emperor of China, desires
to move out of his glorified boarding
house at Hsinking, capital of Manchu-
kuo. and return to the splendor of the
golden-roofed palaces of his ancestors
in Peiping But it seems that that is
not to be unless the turn in events
gives the more radical army elements
control
In Manehuria, the Kwantung army
Japanese army in North China was
mother, father and midwife to infant
Manchukuo, but it is a different pic
ture here. Toxic has a pretty firm
grip on its generals in North China,
and there is noticeable anxiety about
the set-up of an administration which
may eventually be acceptable to the
Chinese and the world, and, at the
same time, will not be costly TO MAIN
tain.
Display Reluctance.
Japan's big problem is 10 find
Chinese of prestige and ability who
will take the job of leadership under
Japanese dictation. Most Of the big
men have fed to the south and the
few remaining are reluctant 10 sub
ject themselves to condemnation as
traitors by joining the puppet gov
ernment.
Because Of its strategic importance
vis-a-vis Soviet Russia and its ira
ditional isolation from China proper,
inner Mongolia is likely to be given
separate StdIuS. II 10 HOUeNOiItly ltidI
the conquest in North Mongolia via
Chahar and Suiyuan is being carried
out by the Kwantung army as quite
a separate enterprise from the CAM
paign in other Northern provinces,
which is being directed by the Tientsin
headquarters.
The Kwantung army chiefs have
not disclosed what their plans for
inner Mongolia are, but the original
scheme, frustrated by the Suiyuan
hostilities last year. envisioned the
tablishment in Mongolia of Mon
goliap state including Northern
Chahar and all of Suiyuan with
Kweihua, frontier city of 10000. as
its capital.
The Mongolian program may be de-
layed pending the occupation of Sui
yuan Province, whish has only Just
begun.
(Copyright, 1872