Berlin, Dec. 22.
The possibility of an anti-Chinese and anti-Soviet feeling among the Moslem populations of Central Asia and Turkestan materializing with Japan's help was referred to in an article published in the "Voelkischer Beobachter today, from its Far Eastern correspondent, The correspondent declared that Japanese interests in the Far East are by no means limited to Sinkiang province but involve all populations living from the. Dardanelles to the Yellow River, limited in the North by Soviet Russia, and in the South by lands under British influence.
He pointed out.ihat most of these populations are Moslems, and that Japan, through political interests, even favoured pro-Islamic propaganda in her own land.
"He asserted that the Moslems of Urumchi are alleged to be highly hostile to Moscow and to General Chiang Kai-shek. This is so also in Tsinghai, Kansu, and Ninghsia, he added and stated that Generals Ma Pu-kang, Ma Pu-shing, and Ma Hung-kwei, all. Moslems who depend upon ihe Chinese Government, are really "autocrats acting as they please." They are in a position, he added, "to cut at any time the most important communication lines between China and Soviet Russia."
The possibility is not discarded, he continued, of a new revolt starting cne day in Sinkiang: although the Moslem chiefs are not pro-Japanese "it is possible that they might accept Japanese help to recover their independence."—Havas, London, Dec. 22.
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