EXPLAINS, Reasons Why He Agreed to Compromise Nanking, Apr. 14.
In a lengthy circular te received here last night, General Ma Chan-shan, Chairman of the Heilungkiang Provincial Government; officially announced his return }to the Government fold and severtance of relations with the new state of Manchukuo, of which: he had rd been appointed the Minister of War. The telegram is addressed to the [Central Executive Committee of the Kuomint National Government, Chiang Kai-shek, President Wang Ching-wei and other Government and civilian leaders.
The message begins with a review of the now historic battle of the Noni River Bridge as well as an Jaccount of the reasons why General Ma had withdrawn to Hailun. recalls that shortly after this with-Jdrawal, the Japanese launched their attack' upon Harbin. However, hardly had the reinforcements sent foy General Ma Chan-shan to assist [the loyal forces under Generals Ting Chao and Li Tu reached the northern bank of the Sungari River, [the latter had already been repulsed by the Japanese. Following up their success in Harbin, the Japan-forces swooped down upon the under General Ma in, an empt to annihilate them, With' Ino. strategic defence lines upon [which they might fall back and no reinforcements to which they might look for support, they found themselves in & quandary.
Undeterred by any personal fears, hho believed however that to hold on fand th subject his forces [wholesale slaughter by the Japanese Jwould not only be a meaningless sacrifice but would also put an end to all future possibility of revenge Jand recovery of the lost territories. That was the reason why he Jagreed to compromise with the JJapanese and profess allegiance to the new state.
After recounti ly" he met /which he was forced by the Japanese to attend, he suggested that plans for the establishment of the puppet state be abandoned. His proposals being bluntly rejected by the Japanese, he returned to Hailun under the pretext of illness, Ho then describes how the Japan-ere induced the deposed Manchu Emperor to become the Chief Executive of the new puppet state. According" to Bla, the despatched General Chang Ching-hui, si, Chao Chung-jen and 12 "dele, people" to proceed to seech the ex-Emperor to accept the new post. The ex-Emperor pretend: ied to decline the offer, thrice proffered and thrice _ceremoniously declined but finally accepted. this connection, General Ma also points out that it was ling Japanese
ceremony at Changchun, attended the inaugural General Ma proceeds to "a disclosure of the Japanese machinations in controlling and dominating the new government. In jthe first place, he points out, the government has under it a so-called general Affairs Bureau, which has actual control over the various government ministries. All important government business is transacted through this Bureau without Any sanction or even consultation of the government. As this s0- called General Affairs Bureau is headed by a Japanese, the actual governing powers are in the hands of the Japanese.
At a meeting of the so-called "State Council" of the state, a resolution was adopted, at the' intance of the Japanese advisers, that least half of the officials of the 'Central Government" of the state jand 40° per cent. of those in the various provincial and local governments must be Japanese. Another interesting fact disclosed by General 'Ma' is that all Japanese' residents 'Manchuria are to be considered citizens of the new State, though they may retain their Japanese nationality. 'The' so-called State Council was compelled to. adopt 2 resolution providing that all land owned by former officials should be confiscated while at least half of the land owned by private individuals ig to be expropriated by the Government, By means of $2,000,000, which represents only one-third of its actual value, the Japanese have now obtained a lease of the Hulan-Hailon
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.