"Earthly Paradise"

P:The Chinese Eastern Railway, vital link in the Trans-Siberian route between China and Europe, was cut last week 65 miles south of Harbin, Manchuria by 3,000 Chinese soldiers under General Li Hai-tsing. Ripping up the railway tracks, tearing down telegraph wires the Chinese waited until a train from Harbin chuffed into their clutches. They looted and dispersed before Japanese troops rushed on the scene. Other Chinese troops defied Japanese authority in Manchuria by setting three minor railway stations afire and gutting the city of Suifenho (reported loss: $64,000,000).

P:Japanese War Minister General Sadao Araki harangued Japanese Fascists in Osaka: "We are determined to make Manchuria an earthly paradise and nothing can stop us! There is no need to pay any attention to the Washington Nine-Power Treaty or the Peace Pact. If the League of Nations interferes we need only ask, Is the League going to disturb world peace?'"

P:Copies of the Constitution of the State set up by Japan in Manchuria were released last week. In form the new Government is an autocracy or dictatorship, absolute power being vested in Japan's puppet, the former Chinese "Boy Emperor" Hsuan Tung ("Mr. Henry Pu Yi"). He acts, according to the Constitution, upon the advice of his chief councilors, all Japanese.

P:Traveling last week from Peiping to Mukden, onetime Manchurian Capital, members of the Earl of Lytton's League of Nations Commission were saluted at Chinchow by White Russian troops acting as railway guards for the Japanese.

Charges that Japan is recruiting White Russian mercenaries in Jugoslavia and Czechoslovakia were made in the Czechoslovak Parliament last week, drew from Acting Foreign Minister Dr. Krofta this tart statement:

"The Government of Czechoslovakia has no cause to protest against any recruiting by Japanese among White Russian residents in Czechoslovakia."

P:China's Red Spot, the nucleus of self-styled "Soviet Republics" which have been slowly growing in southern China (TIME, April 27, 1931) reached the sea at last when Chinese Communists last week captured the important east coast city of Changchow. capital of Fukien Province.

Actually the capture was made, according to friends of Marshal Feng Yu-hsiang, "The Christian Marshal." by troops under his control who are not Communists. Dispute rages everlastingly about whether Marshal Feng is "really Christian" or "secretly Communist." He has visited Moscow in recent years, has taken some Red money.

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