JAPAN IN MANCHURIA

Taranaki Daily News, 29 March 1932, Page 10

JAPAN IN MANCHURIA

INDEPENDENT GOVERNMENT. Conditions ruling in China and Manchuria, out of which the present trouble has arisen, were reviewed by Mr. H. F. von Haast in Wellington in an address to the'Reform Club. - . ' Mr. von Haast dealt at length with the internal state of China, with- its banditry and its rival war lords. The army, he said, was a training school where the soldiers were taught to murder and to pillage. Professor Ming, of Mukden University, had told him that, the university had to maintain a bodyguard as a protection against banditry. In contrast to the disordered state of China was the situation in Manchuria, where there had been Japanese control. For Manchuria, Japan had a scheme carefully planned long in advance which included the occupation of a number of cities, when the Japanese would act as police until Chinese police could be trained, and the taking over of the Chinese railway, which had been 'built with Japanese funds, until the money owing was paid. This scheme had-been strictly carried out. Japan desired to form an independent Chinese Government in Manchuria, not to annex it.