The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-09-15
Japan Ambitious To
 Rule Whole World
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 resources, then she would feel her. self so much stronger as to be able to challenge treaty rights and ter ritor1al possessions of Europe and America in the South Seas and the Pacific as well as on the mainland of Asia"
 What Koo Hopes
 Koo indicated that he hoped, even if penalties proved impossible, tc get the league:
 l. To denounce Japanese aggres- sion.
 2. To repudiate Japan's blockade of the China coast, which he called "the thin edge of the wedge against freedom of the seas."
 3. To condemn the alleged delib- crate bombing of -combatants by Japanese war planes.
 More than anything, almost de- spairing of material aid, China hopes to keep before the world at all times her charge that Japan seeks only war and conquest and that China seeks only peace and friendship. Though the league prov ed helpless when Japan seized Man rhuria, 1t is a fact that league na- tions, and the United States, never have recognized the seizure--a sit- uation as annoying to Japan as is the failure of the World to recognize Ethiopla's conquest to Italy.
 Big Battle Has Started
 TientSin, China, Sept. 16-(UP)- Two of Japan's greatest generals mapped plans for major offensives in China today while one of the largest battles of the war started on a 50-mile front along the Peip- ing Hankow railway.
 Gen. Juichi Terauchi, fiery Mt- tie man, former war minister, Q member of one of Japan's most famous military families, was named supreme commander of all north China.
 Arriving at the battlefront, Gen. Terauchi almost immediately launched a series of attacks that marked the beginning of the long, awaited Japanese offensive in North China.
 Today, according to the Domei News Agency, his troops faced ap- proximately 100000 resolute Chin csc in the vicinity of the LiuM River, a short distance south of Peiping.
 In the Shanghai area, where the fighting was reduced to sporadic ar- tillery duels, Gen. Iwane Matsui, @ tough and willy veteran, planned a new strategy to drive the Chinese from their second line defenses, where they were strongly fortified in modern barbed-wire trenches and pill boxes built under the su- pervision of trained German mill tary experts.
 Foreign Commanders Protest
 Shanghai, Sept. 15-(UP)-For- eign naval commanders again made strong representations to Japanese and China leaders today requesting and urging steps" to prevent war planes from flying over or near the international settlement and the French concession.
 They also asked that the armies direct their anti-aircraft fire in such a way SO as to "aviod further killings of innocent non.combat- ants."
 The commanders, representing the United States, Great Britain, France Italy and the Netherlands, made . joint protest to Admiral Kiyoshi Hasekawa, the Japanese naval com mander in Shanghai, and o. K Yui, mayor of Shanghai.
 They said there had been many casualties in the settlement and concession as a result of airplane bombings and anti-aircraft fire.
 Hostilities in the Shanghai area meanwhile were virtually halted by torrential rains that begged roads and landing fields.
 Missionaries to Stay
 Boston, Sept. 15-(UP) - The American board for foreign mis- sions voted last night to permit Its missionaries in China to decide in- dividually whether to allow the state departments advice to evacu- ate all Chinese posts.
 The board of commissioners also urged missionaries to aviod unneces- sary risks, to be 'scrupulously neu- tral" and to place personal safety for themselves and Chinese associ- ates above protection of property.
 Dr. Wynn 0. Fairfield, China secretary, said the board urged mothers. with small children to withdraw from Kukien, Hhansi, and Hupeh provinces. Evacuation oi missionaries at Peiping, Tungshein, TientSin and Peitaiho was not ad- vised.
 "Our missionaries have always been in China by their own desire and largely ct their own Ttsk,' Fairfield said. They are responsible adults with Q high sense of duty and ability to judge complex situa- ton. They went to China to serve Chinese people and are now needed more than ever before"