(Ly Arrangement vith the "Daily Tetegeaph™ considerable discourtesy and. attempted to display a truculence and offensiveness which wa: nob Jconfined to the Chinese officials concerned.—Even more discreditable was an attempt by the Japanese to fuse armed civil Chinese police in loverawing the Salt Inspectorate and the manager of the Bank of China. The Japanese explanation of the presence of the police was that they Wore necessary because the disturb-Jed conditions of Newchwang ry Inecessitated the conveyance of funds from one bank to another under 1 armed escort. The view of non-[Chinese observers of the whole episode is that these police were merely being employed in order to intimidate the Chinese officials responsible to the Nanking Government.
If Japanese military occupation of Manchuria is accepted as a necessary corollary to their original action on September 18 and the creation of a new government is also Jooked upon in the same light, it cannot of course be objected that these proceedings were inconsistent. But it must be remembered that the Japanese in the first instance claim od that they were merely protecting the South Manchurian Railway, that the last thing they wanted to do was to ceeupy Manchuria, just as the last thing Count Uchida wanted to Coot ait ame) de sas ie gemenurnae the eieraton
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