Radio Talk Sees in Northern Crisis Similarity to Occupation of Manchuria in 1931
MPHASIZING that the present Japanese strategy in North China is exactly similar to that which led to the occupation of Manchuria in 1931 and that China cannot continue her peaceful policy when she sees more of her rich territories being alienated by a powerful and aggressive neighbour, Mr. Hollington K. Tong, Press Adviser to the Chinese Government, made a radio address to the United-States yesterday morning, at 6.45 o'clock, Shanghai time.
Mr. Tong's speech, which lasted for thirteen minutes, was delivered over station XQHC, 1300 kilocycles, 230.77 metres. It was transmitted from Shanghai by the Chinese Government Radio Administration station to San Francisco where it was relayed by the R.C.A. Communications station throughout the United States over the Columbia network. Mr. Tong said:
I deeply appreciate the opportunity ihat has been given to me by the Columbia Broadcasting System to speak a few words on the Chinese-Japanese crisis which threatens world peace, First of all, let me, with a few swift strokes, paint in the essentials of the historical background of the relationship between China and Japan since 1915.
Tu that year, suddenly and without warning, Japan, in the belief that the world Was too preoccupied with the Great War to interfere, presented 21 demands. Had these demands been accepted in their entirety, they would have made China a dependency of Japan, In 1922, mainly through the influence exerted by the United States of America, a Nine-Power Treaty was signed to guarantee the territorial integrity of China, but in 1931 this treaty was violated by Japan when she invaded Manchuria and threatened to occupy Peiping and Tientsin. China then was incapable of offering an effective resistance and agreed to the Gemilitarization of a zone in the eastern portion of a Chinese province, called Hopei, adjoining the Great Wall,
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