The Archive · 1932

BOY EMPEROR'S "ACCESSION" London Journal's Comment on Manchuria

London, Mar. 9.

In a leading, article to-day dealing' with the "accession" of the! Boy Emperor as Chief Executive the new State of Manchoukuo, the "Morning Post" says that it" was appropriate that Count Uchida, of the South Manchuria Railway, should have given away the bride, owing to Japan's vital interests. Manchuria, "China complains only of Japan to the League, but let us not for-continues the paper, that China allowed the Soviet to pen trate and organise Outer Mongolia until that great warlike Province ix now a Soviet Republic, "If Japan did not maintain her hold upon Manchuria we may be certain it would speedily become Part of the Soviet system, a con-Lingency which Lord Cecil and his friends have possibly overlooked.

As things axe, the paper con cludes, Manchuria owes its amazing, prosperity to two things, firstly to the strong arm of Japan and secondly to misrule in Ching, which makes Manchuria a haven of refuge for the Chinese.—Reuter,

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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