When the Assembly adopted its Report eighteen months ago it had before it the Andings of the Lytton Commission which drew a terrible picture of the conditions produced by the Japanese invasion, concluding with the statement that "Manchuria for a year past has been given over to strife and turmoil. The population of a large, fertile and rich country thas been subjected to conditions and distress such as it has probably never experienced before." That the situation Is worse to-day attested "from unimpeachable and Independent sources.
"The Times" in London on August 23, Jess than a month ago, published a despatch from its 'Mukden corres~ pondent which states, "There have been two attacks by' bandits daily' fon an average since August 6. A. table issuel by the "Manchoukuo™ newspaper. to-day also lists 31 bridges" destroyed, sixteen overturnings of trains clu derailments, and 91 attacks stations along the Eastern section of the Chinese Eastern Railway. Reports: Teaching the foreign authorities here indicate that danger from bandits to again published a cable as follows: the oft-repeated platitude, now that Peace and order have been restored,' Which prefaces many of the pronounceents concerning "Manchoukut 'SMlorded little confirmation in the list of outrages by bandits ina single ews. On Saturday "33" out of 35" "Korean settlers ina "village Seventeen miles northwest of Chaohotse tacked by bandits after the locomotive find four gare had been derailed."
As the lurid lst of attacks and disorder just quoted refers to the trunk system, the conditions in the rest of Manchuria may be left to legitimate imagination.
Very recently the palace of the puppet Emperor in his so-called capital was set on fire, and one of the biggest Japanese acrodromes just outside the so-called capital was, at the second attempt, burned to the Sround last April, ai a loss of many. millions of yen.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.