BREAKING PEACE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 267, 10 November 1937, Page 7

BREAKING PEACE.

"BOYCOTT JAPAN!" British Peer Raises Question In Canada. AGGRESSION ON ALL NATIONS. United Press Association.—Copyright. (Received 12 noou.) TORONTO, November 9. "Peace-loving nations should boycott Japan," urged Viscount Cecil of Clielwood, one of Britain's most enthusiastic peace workers and League of Nations supporters, in un address at the Toronto University. "Nowaday*," he added, "any break in peace is aggression on all civilised nations. Peace-loving nations should do nothing to help Japan to slaughter the Chinese. That is exactly what we are doing." Such countries, he believed, should refuse to sell Japan war material and should refuse to admit Japanese goods.

WAR FERVOUR.

Auckland Business Man's Tour In Japan. INTENSE ACTIVITY. Japanese business men in Tokyo passing a resolution not to buy new suits fur 12 months, in order to reduce imports and assist the <iovernineiit to maintain the value of the yen. Intejise military activity, with troop trains 011 the move down the coast all day. National fervour cleverly stimulated, with each individual soldier enjoying a brief day of adulation. These and other impressions were gained by Mr. J. J. Kingston. Auckland manager of the South British Insurance Company. who returned l>y the VVanganella after a tour of the Kast. It had been Mr. Kingston's intention to visit China, but lie was advised against it. and had, instead, made a visit to Japan. He states that everywhere he was allowed to come and go as he pleased, and was only once <|uestioiied by the authorities. That was in Hakkido. a strongly fortified town well off the ordinary tourist track. Japan's financial position had been endangered by the war in China, he said, and the Government- was discouraging the importation of luxury articles. Referring to recruiting Mr. Kingston told how the military authorities were calling men up from the various villages one at a time. Day by day there were triumphal procession* to the railway stations, each new soldier being given a touching send-off. On one occasion the bodies of two Japanese soldiers were carried a distance of IiOO miles across the country. They weru in white caskets, covered with flowers, and alongside were photographs of the soldiers and their relatives. One was a private and one a non-commis-sioned ollicer. neither of them famous, vet they were watidied over by a guard of two naval officers, and at the end of the journey were received by a crowd of people, including many girls dressed in white.

WOMAN RULES CHINA.

Madame Chiang is the Nation's Real Brain. JAPANESE ARE SUSPICIOUS. "Madame Chiang Kai slick is infinitely more clever than her husband. and is the real brain behind China's present unity it iid regetieration."' So said Commissioner McKenzie, of the Salvation Army, wlieii lie was welcomed back to Sydney by 800 people recently. "Madame Chiang Kai-shek is a woman of enormous brain capacity," he said. "She merely hiden behind her husband and pushes him to the front." Commissioner McKenzie's impression of the Japanese who rule Manchukuo is that they «re suspicions and arrogant, and have no conception of liow to manage a subject people. "When I held meetings in Manchukuo tiiere were from two to five detectives present taking notes," he said. "When the meeting was over they would come up and ask me for copies of my arguments, but I told them they had been present to hear what I said, and if they hadn't taken it down that whs their business." Commissioner McKenzie said that -the people of Manchukuo were In a state of incipient rebellion against the Japanese, who sought to quell them by terrorism.

MANCHUKUO UNREST

Martial Law Proclaimed Owing To Revolts. RISINGS AGAINST JAPAN. LONDON, November 9. The "Daily Herald" states that, after two months of restlessness, martial law has been declared at Mukden. Manehukuo. As the result of anti-Japanese revolts by the Chinese and Korean inhabitants of many towns, the Japanese are fleeing, taking their valuables with them. Chinese bandits' raids are incessant. Japanese troops shot down soldiers of Mukden regiments, who twice mutinied. A reign of terror prevails in the cities of Manchtikuo, where Japanese are murdered nightly, the murderers escaping. Other Japanese dare not traverse the country except in armed bands. The risings throughout the country have compelled the Japanese to withdraw 80.000 troops from North China. Clashes are also occurring between Japanese and Russian guards at Ussuri Bay, Siberia.