Evening star., 1942-03-08

d, oulSd Id, D, CsypGy d al SCillliid,
Total, 1928.
pute I confined myself to the mar
ration of things seen and heard
from a reportorial viewpoint, with
only occasional and passing obser-
vations respecting the international
complexes which were evident, at
times distressingly so.
No Evidence of Tanaka Memorial.
Had there been in evidence and
so informative and revealing dOcu-
ment as the so-called "Tanaka Me-
mortal" frank and explicit pro-
gram of japanese conquest and
almost literally worldwide domin-
ion, the matter written by the men,
bers of our party, certainly by my
self. would have been considerably
different. But none of us had ever
heard Of the Tanaka Memorial
And 1t may be further questioned
whether Japan would have invited
the American journalists to visit
that country, through the good Of
fees of the Carnegie Endowment
which was certainly innocent of
knowledge of that remarkable state
paper-if it had been revealed be-
fore 1929, though it had been pre-
sented to the throne by Baron Ia
naka in 1927.
Questions were constantly aris-
ing in the course of our journey to
which answers could not be had.
For instance, in letter to The Star
from Changchun, Manchuria-in the
heart of the area of disputation-I
mentioned a visit to the agricultural
experiment station at KHnchuling
conducted by the South Manchuria
Railway, which was owned and Op-
Grated by the government of Japan
writing Of it as an interesting eX-
hibition of japanese enterprise and
foresight, making more business for
the railway, and adding:
"At least that is one purpose
Whether there is another, with a
political bearing, is one of those
things that can not be definitely
learned in this land of many COM
plexes."
And in the same letter I noted
an effort to improve the Manchuriar
soybean-an item of large impor-
tance in the japanese economy
and asked why the Japan govern
ment-controlled railway should thus
seek to create rival in Manchuria
to a home product, adding:
The answer may lie in that
strange spirit OF the new Japan
which is causing her to regard the
mainland of Asia as her own by
right of race and contiguity and
necessity"
Control Policy Suspected.
Again. June %, I wrote from
Dairen, with reference to the re-
cent conflict between Russia and
Japan:
"Mukden, Pei Ho Lao Yang. Port
Arthur! Scenes of combat. areas OF
japanese sacrifice. hostages of his.
tory! Great numbers of Japanese
soldiers died on those fields. They
will not be forgotten. And that is
why japan is today in Manchuria
To stand. as We stood today
on the broken ramparts of North
Fort at Port Arthur. and to look
over a field upon which japanese
troops died by the thousands, is tC
get a closer conception of the Japa-
nese purpose to control if it can not
officially and actually govern this
land
There may be changes in do
mestic policy at Toxic. but it is
improbable that there will ever be
any change in that policy, whatever
may be the consequences of its pur-
suit in the future"
The final letter of the series
written July 81 at Toxic. briefly
summarized the experiences of the
party in the course of the journey
through Japan, Korea, Manchuria
and China, including the following
1--WE have traversed Southern
Manchuria and witnessed the de.
velopment of land that is certain
to figure largely in the worlds eco
nomic equation in the future anc
may at some early date be the scene
of combat between nations"
This forecast was fulfilled within
few months.
Marshals Death a Puzzle.
just a short time before our visit
Chang Tso-lin. marshal of Man.
churia, was killed by an explosion
as he was entering Mukden. ir
virtual fight from Southern China
The Chinese charged that the Japa-
nese had plotted his death. The
Japanese intimated that young
Gen." Chang Hsieu-liang, mar
shall of Manchuria, son of the late
marshal, was guilty of the plot
against mis- father. In a letter from
Mukden I wrote, regarding this
matter:
There Is in evidence at Toxic a
disposition on the part of some OF
the politicians for the sake of en-
barrassing the ministry to impute
at least guilty knowledge of the
plot against Chang to the Toxic gov
ernment. Every few weeks ques-
tions are put in the Diet regarding
a certain grave incident in Man
churia, under which camoufage
everybody recognizes the murder oi
Chang. And the ministry refuses
to discuss the questions, a position
which has the effect of arousine
suspicion rather than allaying it
From Dairen I wrote, with the