JAPANESE OBJECTIVE
TO CONTROL JEHOL WILL CHINA COMPROMISE ? [BY CABLE —PRESS ASSN. —COPYRIGHT.] (Recd. January 13, 8 a.m.) LONDON, January 13. “The Times” says that the statement issued at Tokio by the War Office leaves little doubt that Japan’s object is to obtain control of the province of Jehel, whereof the master can overawe the northern region of China proper. Politically, its value is enhanced by the large revenue from opium. The Japanese authorities are convinced that grist for the anti-Japanese agitation in the three eastern provinces is largely supplied from Jehol, and their pacification is impossible while the Governor of Jehol uncontrolled and unfriendly. The main Japanese proposal is that Shanhaikuan should be regarded, henceforth, as a neutral zone. The plan has much to recommend it, and it affords proof of Japan’s conciliatory spirit at Shanhaikuan. A slight response by Chang to the Japanese proposals might establish tranquility. This is the keypoint of the matter, and is a profound concern of all powers. If the fighting spreads south to the Great Wall, they could hardly remain inactive any longer.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 14 January 1933, Page 7
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