HE INSTIGATED
Head  of  Patriotic  Society
i   Says Further Attacks On
• I   Japanese Will Follow
(Associated Press by Wireless)
SHANGHAI, May 9. — Kim Koo,
reported head of a Korean patriotic
society, said in a statement issued
here today that he was the instigator of the Hongkew bombing.
Kim said he sent Yun Kil, a
young Korean revolutionary, to
Hongkew. Kim said Kil "achieved
his purpose" and is now in the
hands of the Japanese, "'He may be
dead   or   alive."
Kim said he left Shanghai before
the statement was issued.
"Our association seeks to kill Japanese civil and military leaders," it
said. "There will be other affairs
similar to that at Hongkew soon,
both Japanese and Manchurian."
The Japanese began the evacuation of their front line trenches today and Chinese police took over
the  territory.
Division Withdrawn
TOKYO, May 9. — The war department announced today that the
14th  army  division  is  being  withdrawn from Shanghai.
Four hundred Manchurian rebels
are reported to have been killed in
two battles with Japanese troops in
northern Manchuria, a Rengo dispatch from Harbin said today. The
Japanese lost 19 dead.
General Nakamura's Japanese
brigade occupied Fengcheng after a
two days' battle against 5,000 rebels,
who retreated westward, leaving 300
dead, the dispatch said.
General Yoda's brigade defeated a
large rebel force at Moutankiang.
The rebels retreated to the east,
leaving 100 dead.
To Reorganize Kwantung
(Special to Liberty News)
HONGK.ONG, May  9.—Plans  for
reorganization of   the   Kwangtung
provincial government are    to    be
carried out in the immediate future.
Hu Han-min, former president of
. the legislative yuan of the Nanking
government;   Siew Fat-seng, formerly of Siam, and Gen. Chen Chi-
tang, governor of Kwangtung, are
taking the lead in the reorganization.
(Special to Liberty News)
SHANGHAI, May 9. — Quo Tai-'
chi, chief delegate to the recent
armistice conference in Shanghai,
who is in the hospital after an attack by the students, has tendered
his resignation as Chinese minister
to Great Britain. Mr. Quo, who is
vice minister of foreign a flairs, was
appointed to his new post after Alfred Sze resigned.
Reports from Harbin stated that
troops under General Ma Chan-
shan are marching southward from
Suifa to attack the Japanese forces
in Harbin.
ANSWER TO NITOBE'S STATEMENT
Editor, The Star-Bulletin.
Sir: Dr. Inazo Nitobe's statement regarding the
Far-Eastern situation delivered at the Oahu Country club, April 22, deviated so far from the truth
that we Koreans of Kauai feel it necessary to make
a reply.
Dr. Nitobe "is a hired servant of the imperial
government of Japan, but he is not representing
the mass of people in Japan who seriously opposed
Japan's military expedition to Manchuria and
Shanghai.
"Russian peril," Nitobe says, "menaces the peace
of the world." This is a pure nonsense. When
Japan invaded Manchuria September 18 last under
the pretext of punishing Chinese bandits, her military forces penetrated beyond the line fixed by
treaty, thus infringing the right of the Soviet Union
in control of the railroad.
Japan repeatedly assured the world that there
would be no clash of arms between Russia and herself, yet she has sent Dr. Nitobe to the United
States to make such false verification of conditions
existing. It is a scheme on the part of the Japanese government to blind the eyes of American
. public and silence their voice of protest elecited by
her military expedition to Manchuria and Shanghai. That is the purpose of Nitobe's present mission. #
KAUAI KOREAN.
CHINESE CONSUL'S REPLY TO NOMURA
Editor, The Star-Bulletin.
Sir: To explain the Chinese side in the Shanghai
"Explosion" and reply to the statement on "Japan's
Angle On Trouble In China Related," by Yozo Nomura, Japanese delegate to the National and Pacific Trade convention, I have prepared the following:
The so-called anti-Japanese agitation including
the boycott of Japanese goods does not come up
without cause. It seems to Mr. Nomura that the
Chinese are born anti-Japanese and that they boycott Japanese goods without provocation. I wish
to point out the fact that anti-Japanese sentiments
in China have been aroused time and again only
by Japanese acts of aggression.
If one reads the history of Sino-Japanese rela-
, tions during the past decade or so, one will find
nothing but a record of Japan's repeated attempts
to humiliate China. The notorious 21 demands,
the Tsinan incident, the Korean massacre—these
are only some of the Japanese acts that have provoked a fire of deep resentment in the hearts of
the Chinese people. The present anti-Japanese
boycott has been solely due to Japan's unwarranted
seizure of the three eastern provinces. It is only a
natural expression of indignation of the Chinese
people who cannot meet the Japanese in their own
way. It is the only weapon by which the Chinese
hope to ward off Japanese aggression. If Japan
does not like it, she has but to stop her aggression.
The Chinese are a peace loving people and they
have no prejudice against any nation.
It should be made emphatic here that the enforcement of the country wide economic boycott
against Japan is entirely a spontaneous expression
of the Chinese people, uninspired by and without
official direction.
The alleged unprovoked assault on a small party
of Japanese priests, resulting in the death of one,
by a Chinese mob on January 18 does not warrant
acts of aggression and military occupation of a
friendly power's territory. If every other power
should follow the example set by Japan because
some of its nationals are assaulted or murdered in
a foreign country, there would be little peace in
the world.
In his article.Mr. Nomura has conveniently forgotten the plain facts thrc, are detrimental to
Japan's cause. When he tried to put the blame
on the Chinese for the Shanghai war which all
neutral observers know was started by the Japanese
marines, he conveniently forgot Admiral Shiosowa's
ultimatum to the Chinese troops followed by the
Japanese attack less than an hour later. When he
decried against Chinese propaganda, he forgot to
mention the far more intensive and extensive
propaganda carried on by Japan and the legions of
propagandists that have been sent abroad to turn
world opinion in her favor.
As to the charge that Chinese soldiers fired upon
the Japanese marines who were proceeding to their
duty in the International Settlement, it has been
established beyond a doubt by persons who are familiar with the geography of Shanghai that it is
entirely unfounded.
The whole world knows that the Japanese started
+V«»   fihonffhoi   War.
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me i act that China has laid the Shanghai case
before the League of Nations shows China is peace
loving. In fact, she has sought and canvassed every
possible channel for an amicable settlement. She
has since accepted every and all proposals from
disinterested parties to bring about a settlement of
the Sino-Japanese conflict. Being a member of the
League of Nations, China respects its covenant and
has solemnly pledged to uphold it. On the other
hand, Japan has disregarded and still ignores it
for no other reason than she feels strong and
powerful enough to do so.
She has wilfully reduced a system of peace to
"scraps of paper." The Japanese say they have
not declared "war." But thousands of innocent
civilians, including women, children and flood refugees were ruthlessly killed. The deliberate destruction and burning of hundreds of million dollars
worth of property and centers of culture and education, such as the Shanghai Commercial Press
plant and the oriental library of ancient Chinese
manuscripts have been committed by the Japanese
in Shanghai.   Could a declared war be any worse?
Japan is fond of telling the world that "China
is only a geographical expression," that she can
not be treated as an "organized state." Mr. Nomura
alleges that "there has never been in the last half
century or so any regime in China worthy to be
called a government." If Mr. Nomura's assertion
were true, then we are at a loss to know why is it
there is a Japanese minister to China.
We do not want to deny the fact that there have
been civil wars in China in the past, but we must
bear in mind that the troubles that have occurred
in China during the last 20 years were but the
troubles which one would expect from a country
which has made such sweeping and wonderful
changes both politically and otherwise.
The statement now under reply, however skillful
and plausible it may be, can not win the sympathy
and confidence of the world. Sympathy and confidence can be won not by word but by deed.
KING CHAU MUI,
Consul of China.