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Which Would Win? The occidental who knows most about which side might win a Chino-Russian war is hard-boiled "Major General" Frank Sutton. He used to be chief military advisor to rapacious, barbaric old Manchurian War Lord Chang Tso-lin, father of the present Governor-Dictator of Manchuria, Chang Hsueh-Liang. Since Old Chang waged most of his wars from Mukden-and finally died there when his armored train was dynamited-the doughty General Sutton knows every inch of Manchuria's prospective battlefields and also the calibre and equipment of Chinese and Russian troops. Sought out in London...
Asked about Marshal Chang Hsueh-liang-son of his old employer, Marshal Chang Tso-lin-General Sutton meaningly said: "His qualities as a strategist remain to be seen. If they are anything like his father's Russia will not find victory so easy to attain...
Back to his capital at Nanking went satisfied President Chiang; up to his fortress at Mukden, Manchuria, 400 miles from Harbin went the "Tiger's Cub," young Chang, after helping to break the railroad treaty concluded by his father, the late, mighty Chang Tso-lin (TIME, July 2, 1928). Both went to marshal armies against further trouble for both knew that seizure of the C. E. R. was open signal to a battle by which they hoped to crush the Russian domination of China's wealthiest region...
Simultaneous with the seizure of the Railway, last week, the Chinese Government announced dead the treaty negotiated by Marshal Chang Tso-lin in 1924 covering its joint operation by Russia and China. President Lu Yung-huang, unmuzzled at last, explained: "Since 1924, violations of the Treaty have been numerous. . . . Soviet Communist propaganda through . , . the railway is proved by documentary evidence seized in the recent raid of the Soviet Consulate at Harbin. We are constrained to take the present drastic measures to safeguard China's interests." Distinctly a threat was his conclusion: "If Russia resorts to retaliatory measures, China is prepared...
...reasons popularly given for the fall of the Tanaka government-lèse-majesté and the Manchurian murder of Chang Tso-lin-Tokyo businessmen added a third last week. Baron Tanaka's "Positive Policy" of intervention, vigorous protection of the Japanese colony in Tsinanfu, had brought a boycott of Japanese goods throughout China. By the most rudimentary bookkeeping, balancing the $250,000,000 colony of Tsinanfu against $500,000,000 annual trade with China, Tokyo businessmen realized that the "Positive Policy" must...