The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-10-09
Second Church Forum Opens New Season Sun-
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aICer DeIng Caken py JapAueSe lOECSS | from Germany in the First World War and hel dby Japan for several years, had been returned to China. These men weer seeking occasions 1 to create incidents in the hope that Japanese troops would again be landed and quantities of arms were brought in by the Japanese and stored secretly for later use. On one occasion excited Japanese elements invaded and burned to the ground the buildings of the Chinese nation al party headquarters.
 Pre-War Events
 Mir. Chase's assignment at Muk- den was particularly interesting as it occurred during the three years immediately following the famous 'Manchurian Incident" of Septem- Der IS, 1881, when Japan suddenly invaded and occupied Manchuria in defiance of treaties and world opin- ions, and, abandoning the "concilia- tion policy" toward China that she had pursued for a few years, re- stunned her expansionist program of aggression and conquest which she has since followed. While at Mukden he had almost daily contact with Japanese officials, usually in con- nection with the Japanese Army'S violation and disregard of American treaty rights and interests. At Muk- den, and later at Dairen, he also had opportunity to observe the vpnnvNtnl&fxY nf %11n ATf1nU leaders and the brutal methods by which they set out to expel foreign commercial interests and missions from Manchuria, to monopolize the entire economy of the country, and to reduce the native Chinese popu- lation to state of abject slavery.
 MT. Chase was at Canton at the outbreak of hostilities between Japan and China in 1887. Prior. to the hostilities, Canton, like other sections of China, was making rapid progress in industrial development and toward national unity under Chiang Kai-shek which MT. Chase found very impressive. He observed the unsuccessful efforty which the Japanese made to present this pro- gress and unity in order to keep China weak and unable to resist Japanese demands for economic privileges and strategic bases. From the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese hostilities until the spring of 1888 he witnessed the almost daily bomb ings which Japanese planes carried out on Canton and the courageous manner in which the Chinese, with very little military defense facilities, managed to carry on under these attacks.
 Reaches Dairen
 MT. Chase arrived at Dairen in January. 1940. Dairen, city ot about 600, 900 population, is situated on the southern coast of Manchuria at the tip of the Liaotung Penin- sula. It is important as the princi- pal port of Manchuria and as the capital of the Kwantung Leased Territorly, which territory comprises the southern part, of the Liatoune Peninsula and which, while, legally part of China, was taken by Jap an on a long term lease basis ano has been administered as If it were a part of the Japanese Empire. The bulk of teh population of the Ter ritory is Chinese, but the Japanese as in all other lands they have taken over, monopolize all import ant political and commercial posi- tions.
 During 1940 and 1e41 the atmo- phere at Dairen was already tense with anti-American feeling and wal mentality on the part of Japanese officials and police, and the mem- bers of the American Consulate al Dairen observed and experienced many manifestations of Japanese animosity. The situation was so bad throughout the Far East by the autumn of 1940 that the American Government advised all Americans who could evacuate to do so, and al this time MT. Chase'S wife and son Thomas joined many Americans in returning to the United States.
 Editor of ''Life'
 With MT. Chase on the platform will also be Russell Davenport, edi- torial writer of Life" magazine who will be presented by Mrs. Wales Latham, National President ot Bundles for America. Inc. MT. Day. enport will speak on the subject What We Need to Win This War This Forum is being sponsored by the Second Congregational Church, Beth-El Synagogue and Bundles for America, Inc.
 Others taking part in the service will be the Rev. Raymond J. Ken nedy of Middlebury, Rabbi William P. Greenfield of Beth-El Synagogue, Waterbury, Dr. John c. Walker and the Right Reverend Frederick G. Budlong, Bishop of Connecticut.