NEW MANCHURIA

Hokitika Guardian, 15 March 1932, Page 3

NEW MANCHURIA

1 The formal proclamation announcing •the independence of the .i.lanchoukou was issued on March 1, when it .was also announced that the inaugural ceremony would be held on March 5. One of the formalities at the inauguration was, to he the investiture of Hsu;; 11 . {•/< J Tung as President. Following tile complete eviction by the Japanese of Marshal Chang Hsueh liang and .the official Chinese forces, the ’.Japanese at once set about the organisation of a new and independent comovisihi. Manchuria and portions of Mongolia. The new State j! (which w,ill presumably be more 01 less as Japanese protege) will include .ne three provinces ot Manchuria pidper—i.e., M-kclen,. Kirin, and kiang—and eventually the district '.of Jehol and other more or less self-govern-ing parts of Mongolia, the southern, boundary being within 100 miles 'of Pekin. The members of the League Commission *of Inquiry just set' up' "jmf likely on arrival in Manchuria to" ibid a new Chinese Administration, claiming' independence of the Chinese central Government but recognising and rC-' speoting the rights claimed by Japan,’ duly installed and, the new order things a fait accompli. The Boy Emperor of China, H c uan Tung, who was dethroned in 1912. is the last of his line, “the Great Pure (Dynasty” (Ta . ch’iiig ch’ao). Hsuan is the tenth of his line, though the official genealogy is carried back six .generations earlier than' the real _ foun.-, del', and 'Hstian’s name will be .fhg six/ tee-nth name 'pn w the canonised Ijst of. (Emperors of the .Manclni House up to November 5/ 1925, when : it was abolished, Together with other rights of preferential treatment under the Abdication. _ Agreepient,. j Hsuan recently disappeared from his ■ quarters, in- the Japanese C.opcessipn, nnd it wa<j freely rumoured that . the Japanese had spirited him away,for the purpose of placing . him on a „.new throne in his ancestral ehnria. Mystery surrounded, his abouts. There were reports tliat b e W] ijone to Japan, ‘ had . . committed suicide, and had merely gone intoretirement to avoid the attentimi/s. .of assassins who sent bomb s to. him through , the post. However, . he" / reappeared in Manchuria, and. th'e phfnese Central Government ordered fill's arrest. When the new, State was the Chinese... Government asserted /that punitive. measures, would be, taken. Japan had solemnly declared to the League that/she has. no territorial ambition in Manchuria and that it is her intention to respecl, the principles of the open door and the Nine-Power Treaty. ”... .