Abstract

North China Bows to Japan

The spectacular Japanese invasion of Manchuria, Shanghai, and North China was played up throughout the world, but no one has money to spend on cable tolls to describe the systematic and thorough but prosaic manner in which the Japanese have consolidated their victories, or the extent to which the Nanking government has become a vassal holding fief by pleasure of its Japanese suzerain. Nevertheless, the tightening Japanese strangle-hold on China is today the most important single development in Far Eastern politics. Let no one ignore the fact that Japan's adamant stand at the London naval conversations was in no small measure the result of its enormously strengthened position on the continent of Asia. The regional government in North China is headed by the notoriously pro-Japanese Huang Fu, a member of the Anfu clique which almost sold China to Japan lock, stock, and barrel during the Great War.