FAR EAST CRISIS

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXIII, Issue 11833, 14 January 1933, Page 5

FAR EAST CRISIS

NO DOUBT OF JAPAN'S JNTEN--1 , TIONS. GENERAL CAMPAIGN PLANNED. FROZEN CORPSES. (UP.A. by Elec- Tel. Copyright) SHANGHAI, Jan. 12. No- possible dou^t' is loft in the minds of the Chinese foreign observers regarding the future intention of the Japanese. It is now certain that the Shanhaikwnu affair is a- preliminary move Dr a general campaign. Chiumenkow Pass is definitely in the hands of the Japanese, but the terrible privations experienced on both sides during the fight for' this strategic point, beggar description. Too Japanese, unaccustomed to the cold, are faring badly. Many have been frozen to death, and when the Japanese captured the first Chinese defences they found hundreds of frozen corpses, many not wounded having died from exposure. CHINA'S THREAT TO LEAGUE. MULL FIGHT TO LAST TO DEFEND COUNTRY. (TCP.A. by Elec. Tot. Copyright) GENEVA, Jan. 12. The Chinese Premier, Wang ChingWei, returning to China after convalescing in Germany, staled (hat the Chinese were determined to fight to the last to defend their territory if they were unable to obtain satisfaction from the League. NOT NOW IN DOUBT. JAPAN’S ATMS AS TO JEHOL. (U.P.A. hy Eire. Tel. Copyright) (Roe. dan. 14. 12.33 n.m.) LONDON, dan. 13. The Times says:— “The statement issued by the Tokyo War Office leaves little doubt that Japan’s object is to obtain control of ihe province of Johol, whereof i-hq master can overawe" the northern region ol China proper. Politically, its value is enhanced by the large revenue from opium. The Japanese authorities are convinced that ■ the grist for the anti-Jap. agitation in the three Eastern provinces was largely supplied from Johol and their purification is inpossible while the Governor of Johol is uncontrolled and unfriendly. The main Japanese proposal is that Shnnhaikuan should be regarded henceforth as a neutral zone. The plan has much to recommend it. It affords proof of Japan's conciliatory spirit at Sh.nnhaiku.nn. There is a slight, response hy General Chang to Ihe Japanese proposals, which might be established in tranquility. The keypoint to the matter is the pro-

found concern of all the Powers if the fighting spreads south to the Great Wall, in which event they r-nnld hardly remain inactive long-