CHINA AND JAPAN.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 307, 28 December 1935, Page 9

CHINA AND JAPAN.

Combating Reds in Northern

Provinces

AN AMERICAN OPINION.

(From Our Own Correspondent.)

SAN FRANCISCO, December 10.

"Whatever happens in North China, the five provinces thereof will not be annexed to Manchukuo. Manchu Emperor Kang-Teh will never reign over them and the territory will not become an independent Nipponese State." This statement Avas made by Mr. Henry W. Kinney, political adviser for the South Manchuria Railway Company, who arrived in San Francisco from the Orient on the State's liner General Pershing.

"There is no question of Empire involved," Mr. Kinney explained. "When the trouble is over the present Chinese officials will still remain in charge of the northern provinces. The Chinese are working hand in hand with the Japanese for their mutual benefit. This is why: Communists Who were driven out of South and Central China are now too close to the Soviet Union bordering North China to make the northern provinces safe for Japanese influence. Japanese economic interests and aspirations are big in that part of the country.

"On the other hand the Nanking Government is piping out of the northern provinces almost half of the taxes and is giving nothing in return. Neither the Japanese nor the Chinese like this. It is just like California sending taxes to Washington and receiving nothing from the capital. So, unlilce the occupation of Manchukuo, where the Chinese leaders were ejected by force, Japan is backing the North China leaders and is killing two birds with one stone by pressing for an autonomous State."

Mr. Kinney, who passes through San Francisco frequently en route to his winter home in Tahiti, has a Japanese wife and a small son. He is the first and only Anglo-Saxon to be decorated by the Manchukuo Government, receiving a medal for "aid in the establishing of the Empire." He was once a waterfront reporter in Honolulu and spent 17 years in newspaper work.