The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-07-11

where else. His last instruction
was that he was to be buried right
there; he didn't believe he could
even rest satisfactorily in any
thing but a Chinese grave.
; The old chap had been a kind OF
a commercial conqueror OF Orien-
tai businessmen. That is, he was
a highly astute trader, and .invari-
ably out-bargained EN- when he
made a deal, piling up a big for
tune at their expense. Oh, yes,
he'd conquered 'em, but they'd as
simulated him while he was doing
it: he was as Chinese as they were
before he got through.
Military invaders of the Celestial
realm have the same luck. His
tory's full Of instances in which
they've broken in and held their
own, but they've completed their
lob only to discover that they'd
Chinahed themselves in the proc
ess.
Just a very small but well
trained and well equipped invading
force (maybe as few as a regi-
ment Of say, United States ma
rines) can win stand-up fights and
progress, if it can transport its
supplies, probably clear from the
coast to Tibet. But what's the
use? They can't hold anything ex-
cept the spot they actually are oc-
cupying AS they pass, the Chi
nese close in behind 'em, like wa
ter In the wake Of a ship,
Making No Roadway
That appears to be what the
Japanese are up against now.
Their war on the Asiatic main
land preferred to by the Toxic
government and press as the Chi
nese incident") is just wagging
into its NTH year. The laps WIN
the fights, but the main incident"
doesn't liquidate itself bit.
What's more, news Washington
gets from the Orient indicates
that the Mikado's soldiery on the
mainland is becoming Chinafed.l
Seemingly it doesn't want to win
iecisively and be called back to
Nippon. Accounts generally agree
that it's appreciative Of its plum
der, graft and rapine right where
II is, and is ripe to resist being told
to abandon such luxuries and re-
turn to hard work on its native
Isle.
AdHces our state department
receive indicate that Jap troopers
object to being moved about, I'M
der Tokio's orders, in China itself,
from places which they already
are pretty well satisfied, to other
places where they really are mill
tarily needed.
One such case Is mentioned In
detail. A Jap division near Pc
king. having evidently thoroughly
pacifed its neighborhood, was told
to transfer itself to a more dis
turbed vicinity. It was attacked
Immediately and the order had to
be cancelled.
The presumption Is that officers
Of the, division in question, being
engaged in grating and looting to
their hearts content, exactly
where they were, didn't propose to
be switched elsewhere. where the
pickings might not be so good, and
engaged some nearby Chinese
guerillas to provide 'em with a
fake raid, in order to be left alone
by their Toxic higher command.
In fact, it's beginning TO be sus-
pected in Washington that the
Mikados army in China is about
as serious problem to him as
are the Chinese themselves.
Japan Hopes TO Appease
Indeed, it's considered that Toxic
still has hopes of appeasing the
Chinese, by setting up their puppet
but ostensibly Chinese government
in Marking under Wang Ching
wei, a Chinaman himself-a Chi
nese Quisling. The scheme doesn't
show many signs Of taking effect,
but even if it should, it probably
wouldn't appease the rapidly
Chinafying Japs on the mainland.
OF course, the Axis wants Toxic
to get China off its hands, so 1t can
be Axisly helpful in other fields.
That's why Germany, Italy and
Germany dominated Hungary,
Bulgaria, Rumania. Slovakia and