THE REAL MANCHUR[?]

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 398, 6 December 1932, Page 4

THE REAL MANCHUR[?]

RESIDENT'S V1EV "japanese mean bus1n] says business lyian EFFECTS DF INVASIO: "Make no mistakq about it,1 Mr. Jack Jones, of Mukden, churia, to a "Morning Post" sentative yesterday, "the Ja] mean business in Manchuria." i Mr. Jones who is with the I American Tobacco Compat spending a holiday in -Opotik his sister, Mrs. (j^iffiths, and] a fund of interesting reminis to draw upon, but in newspap; lance is "hard to draw." This first interview he has given coming to New Zealand, on Ma | ian conditions though numero; i tempts have been made in Ac and other centres to obtai: views. Mr. Jones was most empha to the intentions of the Japanes regard to Manchuria for he sai j there was no question that [\ i tended to make it an integralj i the Japanese Empite. f'Wh; said, "the Japs have planted tec sand militia farpier-soldiers along the frontier and they; trained men ready to be cal! gethey at a moment's notice, are a solid, industrious type i gradually settling down on f arms, and also constitute ti: leus of a most f ormidable armt much the Japs really know ak country no one knows but theic but their maps are the otj which are at all reliable an! officers are continually goingt; the tundras on shooting expec Thus they get to know the t and the general resourees as: else, not even the Chinese do." Rich Province "Manchuria is a province k worth owning too," said Mr.j "For one thing it is wonderfi in minerals as well as petroles one really knows just what 6 • to he found in the interior I f ormer Chinese masters of ti had the anti-foreign feeling strongly developed and then really few people who have pe ed into the inner lands. If: has it is the Japanese officer i taken his life ip his hands toi: gate the country- Of cone country has been torn in pis the different factions and te practically in a state of warfoi ever since the outbreak of i vism in Russia. Successive ti Reds, Cossacks, White Armiedit armies and Chinese adver have swept over it leaving ti. dead peasants and burnt vil!a hind them. The railways hau torn up periodically and the have been systematically pilla: every Chinese war-lord who hold a ragamuffin. army of hau: gether for long enough to stc place before his following ( away into looting and excesse "What about the atrocitiess about?" asked the "Morning man.

"Atrocities? Of course the: atrocities," was the response, no Chinese bandit ever leavi one in a village he sacks whot to be able to identify him aftei But for all that the rank and the bandits don't get such i lot out of it. The war-lord ally grabs the lot and then vat Life in Manchuda. Turning to the life of the man in Manchuria, Mr. Jon; that there were plenty oi amenities, mainly such as ari found on an Indian station. " tre of life 'in European circi Mukden was the club. To ti longed all the British, Italiat or five Americans the Portugni the French. There was a f community there and althougl tempt had been made to indue to link up with the other wK ionalities they had held ak established a club of their o\rt number s were dwindling, and: .they- would probably have toi The Russians were a differk lem. Some of them were t lows, but on the other hafc was the Bolshevistic ele®; these were quite impossibh mostly messed by themselvess peared to distrust each other: as all the other whites. The club had tennis courts ming baths and every wode ury and was used both by® women. Where the tenf was close pn 100 during the. months and 20 degrees belorfj winter, the eontrast ueede. care and the club provided1 all seasons. "The ground / five feet down sometimes, Jones, "and this had orie effect- Before the winter / sexton goes round and digs • dozen or more graves, bcca® unahle to dig when the frozen. Curiously enough1 not for years been wrong iD/ ber he has got ready," "Yes," concluded Mr. shall have fo watch the Jap^ churia. He is going to diL right in and when he once P will take all sorts of getting .