Why We Should Say

" Manchuria "

WE have been tactfully informed by the Chinese Legation in Canberra, that the use of the word “Manchu kuo” is very offensive to Chinese people.

That is easily understood. Speakers and writers generally should accustom them selves to use the term “Manchuria,” instead of “Manchukuo,” which is a Japanese invention.

The Chinese use “Manchuria” to denote the three north-eastern provinces of the Chinese Empire. The name of Man churia was universally used until Sep tember 18, 1931 —only 11* years ago— when the hordes of Japan, following the plan that had been made by the war lords of Tokio, poured into north-east ern China, and seized and occupied the three Chinese provinces. The Japanese then created a puppet State, changed the name Manchuria to ' Manchukuo, and established the feeble-minded, tragi comic Henry Pu Yi as head of this sec tion of the Jap Empire.

It will be remembered that China appealed to the League of Nations to prevent this outrageous territorial rape.

The United States, although not a mem ber of the League, tried to persuade the other powers to take international action to restrain Japan; but France was already in the hands of the professional politicians who later ruined her, and the British Government around that period had reached a stage of feebleness in relation to foreign affairs which earned them and the Ramsay McDonald regime the contempt of the world. In conse quence, Japan “got away with the rob bery,” and her example was quickly fol lowed by the bombastic Mussolini, in Abyssinia, and the screeching, egocen tric, Hitler, in relation to Austria and other territories. Thus was laid the foundations of the present global war.

Therefore, whenever one uses the term Manchukuo instead of Manchuria, one is carrying out the bidding of Tokio. Let us restore the name of Manchuria, as an indication that the provinces themselves will be restored to China.