The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-15
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 Treochery, Evil Tactics
tBy United Press)

Seventy Years Ago = In 1875 = Japan began her March of aggres- sion that, before it wound up in utter defeat, was to lead her to virtual control of the Far East.
 From the time she acquired title from Russia to the Kurile Islands in 1875 she had little to daunt her unil the United States began to recover, late in 1942, from the treacherous blow struck at Pearl Harbor year before.
 She first seized small islands-the Bonins in 1876; the Loohoos in 1879. Then in 1895 after a short decisive war with China, she seiz- ed the big island of Formosa.
 Ten years later Japan made a sneak attack on the Russian Naval base of Port Arthur in Manchuria. The war was brief. Russia was de- feated The Russian fleet was sunk in the Tsushima Straits. And Japan controlled Manchuria.
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 Two audacious moves in hte next decade consolidated her position of power. In 1910.she moved in on Korea, an empire in itself. Tn 1914, while the European continent was fighting World War One, the Mika- dos fleet seized Germany's island colonies in the Pacifis. Her action went unprotected after the war, tht League of Nations gave the islands to her by mandate. under condition they remain unfortified. Japan violated the condition.
 From 1918 to 1881, Japan lay low, plotting, building, watching = and waiting. The newly-born Soviet Russia threatened Japan's growing power: the Chinese were strength ening their nation and a strong China threatened Japan's dream to conquer Asia.
 So Japan, led on by fanatics whose mania was to march an army from San Francisco to Wash ington to dictate peace terms to the United States from the White, House, speeded up her drive to take Asia for the Asiatics cs"-meaning Asia for the Japanese.
 Assaulted Manchura
 In 1881, she swallowed the whole of Manchuria, renamed it Man Chukuo, and struck out at China with terrible, quick force in the Shanghai area. The then American Secretary of State Henry L. Stim- son called for intervention, but his efforts failed.
 The league of nations looked the other way - toward Europe, where the rising menace of Fascism had resulted in the power of Adolf Hit Ter; in the conquest of Ethiopia; in the Spanish civil war. Purges dis turbed the still confused Communist state of Russia Political scandals beset France. Depression and fear of war Strangled Britain. Depres- sion and domestic reform busted America.
 So Japan struck again-in 1887. At China. Her intention was a short war, the subjugation of China.
 So myopic was the world that Japan bought her war materials in the United States and in Europe. Only Russia gave military help to L1lC NlllIICcc. oub lU Wdho IlOt d SllOI war. Though Japan punched the feather pillow of China with mill lion steel fists, the feather strong Chinese fell only to rise again.
 Lurked in Readiness
 For five years the Chinese incl dent" went on, and Japan bided her time to strike the United States. Then in June 1941, Germany att tackled Russia = and hope of Rus sian help in the Pacific against Japan weakened. The Black Dragon society overthrow the Japanese civilian government, General Hideko Tojo became premier, the military clique was in complete control.
 December ', 1941-the Japs at tackled Pearl Harbor. The boomerang blow was struck, even while Japan's most famous diplomat, Saburo Ku- rusu was in Washington, with peace talks prepared.
 1942 = the war went almost en- tirely the way the Japs had planned it. Hong Kong, Singapore, the Philippines, the Solomons, New Bri- tain all were lost to us by the spring.
 Then in June, the, Japanese were in the Aleutians. That was the high water mark of the Japs. The last