The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-07-15
BY II. r. EKINS
Copyright 1887 by United Press)

N~OPyA's"h 1907 ny S"eSe . tSse/
NEW YORK, July Is. (UP)-
Deep hatred on the part of Chi
nese troops and high ambitions of
japanese militarists intent on re-
turning Emperor Kang Teh of
Manchukuo to the Dragon throne
of his ancestors under the glitter
ing yellow tiles of Peiping's for
hidden city, lie behind the hostili-
ties raging in North China.
Since September IS, 1881, when
Japanese troops occupied Mukden
and began the campaign which
lowered in creation of the empire
of Manchukuo-formerly China's
northeastern provinces - the peo-
pie now fleeing the war zone In
terror have feared japanese occu-
patton of Chinese territory be-
tween the Yellow river and the
Great Wall.
For six years calm japanese
statesmen held their hot-tempered
and intensely ambitious Kwan-
tung army-Japanese troops in
maitland Asian leash. Now the
leash appears to have been remov-
ed, perhaps as an event fraught
with lesser danger than the threat
of the Kwantung army to take on
the Red troops of Soviet Russia
on the Siberian frontiers.
In 1888 | was attached to Cen
eral Sung Cheh-Yuan's army when
the Japanese annexed Jehol prov
ince to Manchukuo and later ad-
vanced through the Great Wall
passes to within sight of the gates
Of Peiping. The japanese then
dreamed of occupying the forbid
den city but they were called off
on stern orders direct from En-
peror Hirohito. But the dream did
not die.
Nor did the hatred of the Chi
nese in General Sung Cheh-yuan's
army who sat in trenches beneath
| the Great Wall and watched TO-.
600 of their fellows die in the
| fruitless march of the Kwantung
army over the beautiful fertile
Hopei plain. ......
Another Chinese army, one
which had not before faced Jap
ianese guns and tanks and cover
I cd under raids by aerial bomberS
might permit the present Japan
, csc military activity around Peip
| ing to succeed without hostilities
But the ragged, gray-uniformec
soldiers of the 29th army have 8
| score to settle and they will fight
as they have fought for nearly 8
week. Resistance to japanese
troops serves only to heighter
their determination TO win. There
is no such thing as failure under
the code of Bushido, the code OF
the Japanese warrior.
1t is too early to say to what
| extent Japanese ambitions will be
| realized as result of the prevail
ing warfare. Once before the mil
itarists failed to occupy Pelplnlf
/ (WHICH IIledHS Hoi IiiSih pow
because of protests from chancel
tories abroad and because foreign
| flags flew over Peiping's legation
quarter. -.
1t may be that Emperor Hrohl
to will permit his war-hungry
young officers to win a grip or
| North China and dictate term;
giving them firmer political and
economic domination over the
area-but domination short Of
annexing the territory to Manchu'
kuo. If so, the militarists' dream
of an empire of Manchukuo IN
GLIDING the rich region between
the Yellow river and the Great
Wall will survive.
Meanwhile, war is certain be-
cause of the 10Th army's linger'
ing hatred and the immediate Is
sue-Japanese determination to
avenge their comrades who died
last week near the Marco Polo
bridge when japanese maneuvers
were transformed into actual hos
tilities because a soldier on the
walls of the seedy village Of Wan,
pinghsien fired into the ranks OF
deploying Japanese.