The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-09-09

The War
.. BY JAMES D. WHITE
Associated Press St,ss

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. writer writer
As;sl japanese surrender ~ :,
emma tomorrow will be -l ce f0'
Ho Ying-Chin, chief of staff G4 e e
erallssimo Chang Kai-sbnk " YER
This mild-mannered nrns.
al looking militarist thus ps0i ss.
to-lf he ever left-the front te rsl1
of china's powerful mont mont rank 1l
choice by Chang Kai-she ti'' !. His
present the nation in her EN- No. 10 re
supreme triumph may hold aOa n. Of
Icy. i0'ufe 20,
From the japanese standro;.
is possible that they would v raa It
surrender to him that 10 AN, rather
Chinese. He was educated t. 0'1s'
pan and understands the Jara Al "a
They never have attacked b pisnese'
sonally, nor Chang Kai.s s.la Per-
ers. '-'ese lead.
Ten years and three month, .
to the day, they linked Hn' ',s "a, as''
to a Chinese capitulation IL name N
pan-the famous Ho-Umetsu :" "a
ment which enabled Jansn S a. ss'ee'
her foo more firmly in FL tba ~ get
IN north China. '' uO0'
Ho Ying-Chin then was W.,
lister and head of the north c rla'
political council. The Japanes s' INA
crossed the great wall and thre,t t,a'
ed to invade Peiping. som et,sa'
made a deal to get them FL ' staE
Inc japanese said Ho made il I WHY
General Joshijiro Umetsn ~ a vi.
boss of the Kwantung armv ~ .s9
the same Umetsu who signed ' 1A
pans surrender the other dav w. o,
the battleship Missouri. '' VI
The japanese said the agroo,..,,
% demilitarized on north ( rbiaa
province and (2) provided for tbs
cessation of anti-J Japanese apitatos
in another. The Chinese never ss
mltted the Ho-Umetsu agreeme sr
and no present-day official Chi
nese account mentions it.
But this is what happened. cp,.
mar province was den ilitarized and
Chinese officials in another CHonsa
tried to stop anti-Japanese actvi,
ties. It didn't work, and the Ian.
anese invaded outright in 1891
The anti-Japanese tide was strors
in China, even after the crisis Of
1885 when Ho allegedly made hi,
agreement with Umetsu.
Americans helping with arrange,
ments for tomorrow's surrender
ceremony at Marking say it will
be "entirely Chinese show" even
though Chinese troops are beDa
flown into Marking in American
transport planes. At the head of The
show will be General Ho Yinq. Chin
He signs for China in his capacity
as chief of staff to the national mill.
tary council, post he has held all
along. Through it, he controls one
of China's two secret police w.
TENS.
The choice of Ho to run Chins's
huge redeployment (which est.
mates say will continue by air along
for 40 days. may have been partly
out of the need to have someone
familiar with the touchy attitude
of the full million japanese troops
who will have to be disarmed in
China as Chinese troops struggle
to get back into liberated areas
over a few broken railways and
innumerable cart-tracks.
The full meaning of Hos re-
emergence remains to be seen He
has been accused of being pro-Jap'
anese, and anti-Western, and Fas'
cist-by his declared enemies.
But neutral observers say the
outstanding thing about him in his
answering loyalty to Chang Kal'
Shek.
It was Ho who ordered the Jap
anese on Hongkong to surrender 70
Chinese forces. That was August u
A few days later, after the British
said no one was going to accep
Hongkong's surrender but them
selves, Chang Kai-Shek said China
would not attempt to regain Hons
Kong, ceded by treaty to Britain
more than 10 years ago, Wltnou
negotiating first. Since then, Ia
eral Ho has been silent.
But tomorrow, in Marking Will
be his big day.