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? ORMAL WARFARE FEARED BY DR. SZE elis Simon Government Has % Hard Time in Preventing (% Acts of Violence. BY PAUL SCOTT MOWRFR. Br Cable to The Star. PARIS, France, November 24—The Council of the league of Nations, in session here, has drafted s resolution expressing its hope that hostilities in Manchuria will cease, and that the Japanese will eventually withdraw their troops from occupied Manchuria, and providing also for an international com- mission to go to the spot and for the exchange of information among the members of the Council. ‘This text has been submitted to Nan- king and Tokio, and has been shown to the United States. Tokio's answer is mnot expected before tomorrow. Dr. Al- fred Sze, China's delegate, agreed to cable the text to his government, but told French Foreign Minister Aristide Briand, chairm; of the Council, that he feels sure Nanking will find it com- pletely inadequate. Four members of the council, Forelgn Minister Alejandro Lerroux for Spain, Erik A. Colban for Norway, Mr. Fotitch for Jugoslavia and Foreign Minister Au- gust Zaleski for Poland. are urging M Briand to write into the resolution a statement that the Manchurian situa- tion and the procedure adopted by the League are entirely exceptional, and must not be considered as in any way creating a precedent as to how the League may act in other cases. Sze Sizes Up Situation. Dr. Sze has told M. Briand that un- Tess the resolution as finally amended eontains a_definite Japanese promise to evacuate Chinese territory and provides for neutral observers to oversee this evacuation, China is determined to in- wvoke article 10 of the League Covenant. Dr. Sze last night handed Sir John Simon, British foreign minister and member of the Councli, a memorandum ‘wherein he made the following asser- tions: ‘That Japan now has 25,000 troops in Manchuria. ‘That the Japanese are pursuing the remnants of the Chinese Gen. Ma Chan- BShan's forces beyond Tsitsihar, north of the Chinese Eastern Railway, are preparing an expedition into Eastern Inner Mongolia, and are concentrating for an attack on Chinchow and Sha- haikwan, centers southwest of Mukden and north of the great wall. That the Chinese government is find- ing it increasingly difficult to restrain the populace from acts of violence against Japanese subjects living in Chinese towns. ‘That China fears in case such vio- lence occurs that Japan will imme- diately send warships up China’s rivers and land troops at the various ports. That China will never endure this and that the danger of a formal war between China and Japan is daily in- creasing. And, finally, that the failure of the foreign powers to keep their pledges and act in the defense of international treaties is endangering the prestige and existence of the Nanking government and is pushing China rapidly toward Communism. Out-and-Out Aggression Charged. Replying to the Japanese suggestion that Japan's action in Manchuria is not essentially different from that of the United States at various times in Central America and the Caribbean, Dr. Sze has told Gen. Charles G. Dawes, American Ambassador to Lon- don and non-participating observer at this Council, that his researches show there is not the slightest resemblance between these two forms of action, for Whereas Japan is committing straight- forward aggression against the will of China’s government and people, the United States has never landed troops around the Caribbean unless it was first invited by the foreign government concerned and there never has been the slightest doubt but what the United States would eventually withdraw its | troops and maintain the independence | of the country concerned. Astonishment has been caused in League circles by a Soviet Russian Tass Agency report from Shanghai calling the American attitude equivocal and | explaining this alleged equivocation by | the desire for a war between Japan | and Russia, Tesulting in the failure of | Russia’s five-year plan, in the partial ‘weakening of Japan and in large war orders for American business, (Copyright, 1931.) LARGE CASUALTIES REPORTED IN FIGHT NEAR HSINMINTUN (Continued From First Page.) ation, indeed.” No military action at Chinchow is contemplated, however, un- less it i found necessary, he said The government, meanwhile, let it be known it is still considering a pos- sible suggestion that the League Council endeavor to get rid of what the Jap- anese call “a disturbing element,” by | persuading Chang Hsueh-Liang to with- draw south of the Great Wall The Chinchow situation is to be put up to the League of Nations, it was decided today. On the heels of the decision to instruct Ambassador Yo- shizawa to urge the League Council to use its influence to persuade Chang * Hsueh-Liang to withdraw from there in order to prevent danger of a clash, the war office said 500 Chinese calvar: ‘men advanced eastward in the direction of the South Manchurian Railway and that several scouting detachments are operating in that direction. The foreign office still held out hope that a collision would be averted by the League, and in this connection it | was made clear that a clause being drafted at Paris providing for preven- tion of an offensive or hostile action would not be acceptable here, with the Chinchow situation being cited as an | example. Tokio contends that Chang Hsueh- Liang himself, who is held responsible for the attack against the railway on September 18, will not be allowed to return to Manchuria and that his troops, which are considered here to be massing on a war basis within striking distance of vital points on the railwa cannot. be tolerated much longer. BANDITS ROUTED AT TAIAN. Japanese Troop Train Reported De- railed at Mukden. LONDON, November 24 (#).—An Ex- change Telegraph dispatch from Tokio THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON, D. C., Where Armies Are Battling in Manchuria ECHO OF FALL BRIBE JAPAN SEEKS YO ENPLOIT RESOURCES AND TRADE ROUTES TO PACIFIC. HEARD I OLSUT Pomerene Charges Fraud in Kern County, Calif., Land Leases. SIBERIA By the Associated Press. SAN FRANCISCO, November 24— Charges that a group of Kern County oil land leases to the Pan-American Petroleum Co. were ‘“tainted _with | fraud” were made in Federal Circuit Court of Appeals here yesterday as the Government argued its appeal seeking | cancellation of leases given the E. L. | Doheny interests when Albert B. Fall | was Secretary of the Interior in 1921. | Special Prosecutor Atlee Pomerene, appointed by President Coolidge, | charged the leases were “tainted with | fraud,” in his opening argument be- | fore the court. | "A prior suit involving similar ofl | leases, ended when the Government | won cancellation of the leases on | gxounds they were fraudulent and in- volved s $100.000 bribe from Doheny to Fall, who is now serving sentence of a year and a day for its acceptance. That suit was appealed by both the Government and the company, the | Government. secking damages, and the | company seeking reimbursement for its | expenditures in_improving the naval ofl | reserve lands while under lease. | In tne present suit, involving leases said t> be worth $100,000, the Los An- | geles Federal District Court refused to | cancel the leases. Yesterday's argu- | ments ~formed the Government's | grounds for appeal. |~ Pomerene and his assistant prose- | cutor, Frank Harrison, offered four | grounds for cancelling the leases. They | charged: 1. Fraud taints all leases. 2. The leases were rendered fraudu- LecenD e Japonese Roilways burlt Chinese aparoted i ovasss RUSSION « Russe Chinese Rys TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1931. Washington’s Line |AIR TRAINING BASE Traced to Emigre | AT CHARLOTTE LIKELY Known as “Jane”| &!egntintlonl by Chinese-Americans Mother of Patriotic Fam-| Announced by Aircraft Cor- ily Came to America to| poration Manager. Wed Lonesome Settler. By the Associated Press. CHARLOTTE, N. C., November 24— George Washington's maternal an-| Negotiations for the establishment n cestry in this country began with a| CPariotte of onme of the first of the | air-training_ bases, which Chinese- young woman known to genealogists| ynoricans’have announced will be set merely as “plain Jane,” it wasrevealed | up in this country, were revealed by by Dr. John Baer Stoudt, Allentown, | Col. J. J. Grady, manager of the Weeks in an_ address here hefore the Aircraft Corporation here, yesterday. Genealogical Soclety last| He would not reveal the name of the 5 organization by which the negotiations Dr. Stoudt, who is historian of the were opened, pending clcsing of a coi Federation of Huguenot Societies of | tract, but said it claimed to have re. America, asserted he had established | sources of $47.000.000. He said present the relation between Jane and the first, plans were for the first class to total President, although little is known |100 Chinese-American youths from all about the lady except that she crossed | parts of America, and for this to be the ocean on the Seaflower in 1621. | followed by a similar class in six Jane, the scholar said, was one of months. five girls who embarked for America| The Chinese organization was said in answer to the Virginia colonists'|to be prepared to send 30 training pleas for feminine companionship. | planes here within 15 days, and also to Lieut. Edward Berkley, also known |build barracks for the students. Col. as Bartley, was the first person to|Grady sald eight or nine instructors whom Jane was companion. The would be added to the regular air school lieutenant died. She then married | staff here. Nicholas Martiau, a French Huguenot refugee, Who is said to have led the llections in Lon this year' first rebellion against British govern- | Alooieoi dor wonaons o year's Alexandria day, Britain's annual street mental policy in this country. Co- | collection for ex-soldiers, totaled over incidentally, " the first “indignation | §250,000. meeting” was held at Yorktown, where | SOVIET PRESS CHARGES U. S. BACKS CHINA WAR America Trying to Involve Russia in Conflict, Papers Contend. By the Assoeiated Press. MOSCOW, November 24 (#).—The newspapers Isvestia and Pravda laid down an editorial barrage today, charg- | ing the United States is trying to drive | the Soviet Union into war with Japan for the fourfold purpose of undermining the five-year plan, getting orders for military equipment, weakening Japa- | nese competition in the fic and setting up a Manchurian buffer state against bolshevism. The charges were based on dispatches from Shanghai, New York and Wash- | ington. They included an attack on Secretary of State Stimson and upon the “authors of the Kellogg pact, who, | while they declare that they strive for peace are now revealed as the open in- stigators of war.” ————e Head Legion Group. LEESBURG. Va., November 24 (Spe- | eial) —Harry G. Breckenridge, member of Loudoun Post, No. 34, American Legion, and State Executive Commit- teeman from the eighth district, has been appointed chairman of the State Rehabilitation Committee, with repre- | sent tives from each congressional dis- | trict of the State to serve on the com- | mittee. The appointment was made by Comdr. A. T. Finch of Chase City. ‘Washington later achieved the final | victory of the insurrectionists. | Elizabeth Martiau, daughter of Jane and Nicholas, married George Reade. ‘The daughter of Elizabeth and George Reade married Augustine Warner, and their daughter, in turn, married Law- rence Washington. _ The Lawrence Washingtons were George Washing- ton's grandparents. The genealogical substantiation of this sequence will be turned over to the Bicentennial Commission, Dr. | Stoudt announced. Meanwhile, he will To become suce means effor the highest id 5% Interest Compounded Twice a Year t be “thrift i e b2 @ W0oiren = Druchion ol Deported UAPANESE. Adverce BY CONSTANTINE BROWN. The above map represents the scene of the battle which is taking place in Manchuria. This battle is a struggle for the survival of the fittest. Man- churia has a population of about 30,- 000,000 Chinese and 150,000 Japanese. 1t is rich in all kind of minerals and | has a very fertile soil. | The Japanese object is twofold: (1) They want to obtain a permament foot- | hold and exploit for their own benefit | the tremendous natural resources of the country, and (2) they want to con- trol all of China's trade routes to the Pacific. This second consideration is undoubtedly the paramount reason of Japan's daring step of occupying & country in spite of the protest of the | whole “civilized world and In deflance | of all treaties and pacts they have solemnly agreed to observe. | Japan is entitled by treaties she has | made with China to control and main- | tain an army to guard the Japanese railways she has constructed in Man- | churia. These railways run from | Mukden to Dairen and from Muk- | |not been yet clarified, | week the s nese-operated lines built by the Japa- nese, They run north of Mukden to Anganki and eastward from Changchun about 70 miles east of Kirin. The Jap- anese have been trying to complete that line as far as Huening, but the Chinese overnment has objected. On September 17, taking advantage of an incident the nature of which has the Japanese Army was ordered to move forward from the treaty zone and has been mov- | ing worthward ever since, entering last alled Russian zone of in- | fluence. This occurred when the Japanese Army after routing the forces of Gen. Mah occupied Tsitsihar. According to Teports received from Tokio it appears that the Japanese in- | Students of the Far East do not con- ceal their concern over these develop- ments. In their opinion it is not mere | territorial expansion the Japanese seek. 1t is control of the entire Chinese trade | and the outlets to the Pacific. If the | occupation Manchuria the apanese becomes an accomplished fact he whole trade from Northern China and its tremendous hinterland must go | through Japanese occupied territory. A glance at the map will show this. The Japanese are credited with the | intention of building a port south of Vladivostok as soon as they can com- | plete the railways from Kirin to Yenki. | This port has a great advantage over the Russian port of Vladivostok, be- tend to occupy the second vital rail- | cause, being further south, it is never way junction by taking Chinchow. This | blocked by ice. Consequenty when that news has not been confirmed, but it is | port is ready, the goods coming on the considered in well here as highly probable. If this and Northern Manchuria, as well as materializes the Japanese would have those coming from Northern China, its occupled within six weeks, under the | hinterland, will have to pass through nose of the League of Nations and the | Japanese territory. All the Chinese United States, the most important |built or operated railways will be in a points in_the three Manchurian | territory China no longer controls and den to Changchun. Besides these railways there are a number of Chi- provinces, Kirin, Liaoning and Heilung- |these will ultimately have to go to kiang. " Japan. is said to have forwarded from Nan- | king today. After the session Chairman Briand invited the members of the Council to have Junch with him at the Quai d'Orsay. In anticipation that Dr. Koo's new plan would be at hand the Coun- cil made a tentative arrangement for & meeting at 11 a.m. tomorrow. The attitude of the Council seemed | to be that there is no possibility of | forcing Japan's withdrawal and that the Inquiry Commission, which was re- jected in September by Japan, opens such possibilities that the Chinese should accept it without insisting on | evacuation. May Ask U. 8. Intervention. GERMAN E[:[]NUMI iWAR PRETEXT IS SEEN ; IN JAPANESE INVASION BUUNBII_ FRUI."_ESS‘L’N Advisor to Chinese Waticnal: SR Judge Paul Linebarger, legal advisor Bruening Advisers Adjourn to the Cbinese national government told the Inquirendo Club in an ad- Without Finding Solution Empire Is Object. | invasion of China “was merely a pre- The Chinese, however, have replied that the Nanking government would not last overnight if it accepted a set- tlement which did not provide for evacuation within a reasonable time. There was a forecast in some quarters here that if the Council continues in- | disposed to take steps to get Japanese | troops out, China will appeal directly | for American intervention. | Lawyers on the Council were said in | foreign circles to believe that if Dr. | Sze, as has been expected, invokes Ar- | ticle X of the League covenant, which guarantees territorial integrity of mem- | ber nations as against external aggres- | sion, the Council will be unable to act | under this article, because unanimity | i+ necessary, and Japan would undoubt- | edly object. | | FIGHT ON NEW FRONT. | ist Government Says Manchuria ! dress last night that Japan's economic i to Country’s llis. | text to make war, in order to selze as ‘the first step this mighty Empire of Manchuria.” He asserted the dream of “world con- trol is stronger in Japan today than it ever was in the Germany of old.” He deprecated the possibility of Japan ever reforming, declaring sbe is ‘“toc thoroughly under control of the ‘junk- ers,” or war lords, to admit of any im. mediate reform to peaceful attitudes. WILL REPRESENT D. C. Miss Gurnee and Mrs. Mason to Attend Conference in Detroit. By the Associated Press. ! BERLIN, November 24.—Germany's | economic salvation has failed to come from Chancellor Bruening's advisory council, which held its final session | under the chairmanship of President | Paul von Hindenburg yesterday. The net outcome of 26 days of labor was a lengthy document setting forth generalities about what should be done, but failing to say how. | Instead of leading to internal truce, informed quarters | Transsiberian Rallroad from Mongolia | lent when Fall accepted the $100,000 hl'lbe'x%fiymtnl. 3. leases were granted on illegal terms at Fall's orders after he re- | ceived the bribe November 30, 1921. 4. The $100,000 transaction between Doheny and Fall is evidence of fraud. Attorney Hornam Sterry of Los-An- geles, who, with T. T. C. Gregory of San Francisco. is representing the Pan- American Oil Co., eliminated Doheny from the arguments with the state- ment: “I hold no brief for Mr. Doheny, a man who considered himself big enough to bribe a Government officer. He is out of this case. “We contend,” he continued, “the leases were wholly regular, following competitive bics called for by the Bu- reau of Mines, because the Navy De- partment, Standard Oll and other large | companies were drilling and threatening | to drain the field.” | AMERICANS IN CHINCHOW 1 FOR SURVEY OF AREA Military Attache at Peiping and | Aide Report Bandits Cause Lots of Trouble, | By the Associated Pre PEIPING, China, November 24.—Col. | Nelson E. Margetts, military attache at | the United States embassy at Peiping. | and Lieut. Harry S. Aldrich, assistant attache, arrived at Chinchow this after- noon for a tour of investigation in that area. | British and French military attaches also are on the ground, and reports from them said bandits and a remnant of the Chinese army are causing con- siderable trouble in the vicinity. Prac- tically all the inhabitants in an area of | about 30 square miles to the east of | Chinchow have abandoned their homes, | these reports said. | 'The foreign observers are quartered in | the University Building, which was bombed on October 9. | SIS Fauquier County Court Opens. WARRENTON, Va., November 24 (Special).—The November term of Cir- cult Court for Fauquier County was opened yesterday by Judge J. R. H. Al- exander. The docket for this term is usually light. The grand jury, T. H Maddus, foreman, brought in seven in- dictments, two felony and five mis- demeanor | eVERFRESH, I CITRATE or MAGNESIA continue research on this subject in the effort to discover more about “plain Jane,” he said. Systematic saving through this Associa in you that spirit of thrift which will sf road to succ One Dollar or more will open your account. Ch Farmer Dies of Wound. POPULAR BLUFF, Mo., November 24 () —George Carlos, 55-year-old Wayne County farmer shot Friday by his ten- ant, Ed Helmich, 60, has died in a hos- | pital here. | Officers said no charge would be placed against Helmich, as they were convinced that he shot in self-defense during an argument over a crop division between en accounts or 716 11th Member United Stat saving checks will be accepted Columbia Building Association UNDER GOVERNMEN;!‘ SUPERVISION cashed for you. St. NW. and Loan League - the two men. the meetings of the economic council brought the resignation of the three agricultural members and a declara- Hon on behalf of the six labor members that e hey did not agree with Chancellor Jananese and Chinese Forces Clash Bruening's conclusions. | Along Peiping-Mukden Railway. | Hindenburg Gives Thanks. MUKDEN, Manchuria, November 24 | President von Hindenburg thanked (#)—Pighting began on a new Man- | the members of the advisory commis- churian front today between Japanese |sion. Then he turned to his own cab- and Chinese forces southwest of Muk- | inet ministers, adjuring them to decide ghe company of Japanese lnhntryifli‘%;: into -cm‘m. : and one company of engineers, sta- | e suggestions of the council re- tioned - at Chuliuho, were making a | ceived a frosty welcome from the after- practice march when they clashed with | noon press, which for the most part ex- a Chinese detachment of uncertain size | pressed the opinion the country would and identity at Kautaishan, 4 miles | be disappointed to realize valuable time | northwest of their encampment. had been lost and no accomplishments | News of the beginning of the conflict | achieved. | was telegraphed to the Japanese head- | Farmer representatives felt the Eco- | quarters here this morning, but early K nomic Council was not doing anything | this afterncon no further reports had | decisive for agriculture, and Labor dele- | come through and it was surmised that | gates were perturbed because no sug- | | hard fighting was in progress, Igesuo’n rtrgr a compulsory 44-hour week was | [ Reinforcements Sent. i | | A company of Japanese infantry was Fear Cost Cut. dispatched to the scene from Mukden | The Labor members also fearéd re- | in motor lruckz m; nforce the battling duclzgedm production_casts woul? be soldiers in mid-afternoon. | one-sided, resulting primarily from | | "An official communique said it was [ wage cuts. Further diminution in pur- | | uncertain whether the Chinese belonged | chasing power resulting from such cuts {to the so-called Self-defense Corps, | would have disastrous social and eco- | hich is scattered throughout South- | nomic consequences, they declared. Mrs. Beverley Mason, secretary of the | District Council of the Women's Organ- ization for National Prohibition Re-| form, will represent the local group at | & meeting of the national organization’s | Executive Committee in Detroit Decem- | ber 1. | The meeting has been called to lay | plans for bringing the prohibition re- form issue into the 1932 presidential | | campaign. 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