The Philippines is the host of the Far Eastern Games, and since they are already on China's side, there is no need for negotiations to continue.

Although the Japanese side has been threatening to withdraw from the competition, the Philippine Sports Association has issued a special statement:

It has been decided that the Far Eastern Games will be held here next month, regardless of whether Japan participates or not. The Association was afraid to be resentful when it heard that Japan had been rejected because of the Manchurian participation in the Games, and that the Philippines had already spent all the money to raise the Games, so the Games would be held as usual regardless of whether Japanese athletes participated or not.

The Japanese plan to participate in the Far Eastern Games has gone bankrupt, and the question is now in front of the Japanese, that is, whether Japan is really going to withdraw from the games.

Within the Japanese Sports Association, there are also different opinions on whether Japan really wants to withdraw from the Games, and one side insists that it must embody the spirit of "Japan and Manchukuo are inseparable" and resolutely refrain from participating in the Far Eastern Games.

Basically, those who advocate Japan's withdrawal from the Games have political goals, but those Japanese who really care about sports have said that they should insist on participating in the Far Eastern Games. Among them are the vice president of the Japan Sports Association, Mitsuyo Hiranuma, the director of Takashi Go, and the "father of judo" Jigoro Kano in Japan.

Of course, among those who support participation in the Far Eastern Games, there are also some people who have political aims, and they believe that if Japan withdraws from the games this time, it will be tantamount to making the puppet "Manchukuo" completely lose the possibility of participating in the Far Eastern Games, so from the perspective of the overall situation, Japan should continue to participate, and only if Japan participates, it will be possible for the puppet "Manchukuo" to participate in the Games in the future. Even if you don't have a chance this time, you can wait for the next session to find another opportunity.

In the end, Japan decided to send athletes to participate in this year's Far Eastern Games.

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The 10th Far Eastern Games were held in Manila, Philippines, and the competition began on May 12, 1934 and lasted for eight days. In addition to China, the Philippines, and Japan, the Dutch East Indies also participated in the competition.

The Dutch East Indies were now Indonesia.

Among them, the Chinese team sent 156 people, the Japanese team sent 162 people, the Philippine team as the organizer sent 183 people, and the Dutch East Indies sent 27 people.

Due to Japan's plan for the puppet "Manchukuo" to participate in the Games, the national government also attached great importance to the Far Eastern Games in order to declare its sovereignty. This time to the Philippine Far East Games, the Chinese team needs about 90,000 yuan in total, the government has approved 45,000 yuan, and the central officials have also taken the lead in pledging, before the departure, 77,000 yuan has been raised, and the overseas Chinese in the Philippines have donated more than 10,000 yuan, so the funds for this competition are just enough.

The Chinese team departed from Shanghai on May 3 and arrived in the Philippines on May 8 after a five-day voyage.

Tens of thousands of local overseas Chinese came to the wharf and surrounded the entire wharf to make it impossible to get through, and the overseas Chinese groups specially found more than 200 cars to welcome the Chinese athletes.

In terms of accommodation, overseas Chinese groups have also been arranged, and in order to make the athletes eat well, overseas Chinese chefs who open local restaurants have spontaneously organized themselves to cook meals for the athletes.

In the evening of the same day, overseas Chinese businessmen held a banquet for all members of the Chinese team to wash away the dust.

Chen Qiang, the biggest star of the Chinese team, was of course seated at the main table, which consisted of only two athletes, the others were officials of the Chinese delegation and prominent figures among overseas Chinese businessmen.

With Chen Qiang's status and fame today, he is indeed qualified to sit at the main table, and in addition to Chen Qiang, another athlete who can sit at this table is Li Huitang.

Lee Wai Tong is a football player from Hong Kong, known as the "Asian Ball King" at the time, his career goals reached an astonishing 1,860, the future Federal Republic of Germany an authoritative football magazine once organized a selection, the result of Lee Wai Tong and Brazil Pele, Germany Beckenbauer, Argentina Stefano, and Hungarian Puskas are known as the "world's five biggest players".

Li Huitang became famous several years earlier than Chen Qiang, and there was a saying in China at that time: "Mei Lanfang must be watched when watching dramas, and Li Huitang should be watched when watching football", and in the twenties, Li Huitang was a well-deserved "sports brother" in China. Li Huitang also led the Chinese football team to win the Far Eastern Games for four consecutive years. In the future, Lee Hui Tong also became the vice president of FIFA.

At the last Far Eastern Games held in Japan, Chen Qiang had already had a relationship with Li Huitang, but at that time Li Huitang was already a big-name sports star, and Chen Qiang was still unknown, Li Huitang may not have a deep impression of Chen Qiang, and Chen Qiang did not dare to disturb Li Huitang, the "Asian football king".

Now it is different, Chen Qiang holds the title of "World No. 1 Athlete", and his outstanding performance in the Los Angeles Olympics also makes Li Huitang admire. The two have no sense of generation gap in their identities, and they are more and more casual when they sit together and communicate.

"Chen Qiang, I really envy you, you can go to the Olympics, I don't know when our Chinese football will have the opportunity to participate in the Olympics!" Li Huitang said with emotion.

"Maybe soon, there are still two years before the next Olympics, and then we will go to Berlin together and participate in the Olympics!" Chen Qiang said confidently.

The reason why Chen Qiang is so confident is because he knows that the Chinese football team participated in the 1936 Berlin Olympics, although the first game lost to Britain and was eliminated, but the Chinese football team still played the style of Chinese, at least much better than the future "white chicken".

"I hope so!" Li Huitang was not as confident as Chen Qiang, he sighed, and continued: "My two biggest wishes in my life are to play in the Olympics once, and the other is to play in the World Cup. Ay...... I'm already 30 years old this year, and I don't know if these two wishes will be fulfilled. ”

"Brother Li, do you think our Chinese team can be in the top if we go to the Olympics or the World Cup?" Chen Qiang asked.

"How many first?" Li Huitang shook his head: "Our Asian football is still worse than the football of European and American countries. Although my South China football team is invincible all over the country, it is still much weaker than the strong teams in Europe. ”

Chen Qiang nodded: "So that's the case, I've always felt that our football is quite strong." ”

Li Huitang continued: "Two years ago, several players from the British national team came to visit Hong Kong, and I played against them, and their skills were better than most of the athletes in our Chinese team, which means that their overall level is better than ours. ”

Chen Qiang nodded again, he felt that Li Huitang's evaluation should be more pertinent.

I only heard Li Huitang continue: "Sometimes I think, if there is no war in China, how good it would be, then we can go to the Olympics, to play the World Cup......

"There will be a day." Chen Qiang looked at Li Huitang, he remembered Li Huitang's life deeds, and suddenly asked: "Brother Li, if one day, a brand new China appears in front of you, this new China may still be very poor, but it will no longer be bullied by foreign powers, there will no longer be warlords, everyone will live and work in peace and contentment, and the country is also willing to develop sports, are you willing to pay for such a new country?" ”

"Why do you ask?" Li Huitang looked at Chen Qiang in some surprise, and then he said: "Your question is very strange, I am a Chinese, no matter what China does, I am willing to pay for it!" Aren't you like that? ”

"Me?" Chen Qiang smiled, and then nodded very seriously: "You are right, we are Chinese, so no matter how China is, you are willing to pay for it!" ”

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On May 12, the 10th Far Eastern Games opened.

After the opening ceremony, the athletes of the four countries showed their skills on the sports field and fought for the honor of their motherland.

The overall strength of the Chinese team has decreased compared with the last Far Eastern Games, which is mainly due to two reasons: first, the Northeast has fallen, which has caused the athletes from the Northeast to lose their original training environment; The second is that in the "128" Songhu Anti-Japanese War, most of Shanghai was destroyed, and the training of Shanghainese athletes was also affected.

Northeast China and Shanghai, which were more abundant in athletes in China at that time, were affected by the athletes, which also led to a decline in the overall strength of the Chinese team compared to before.

However, in some events, the Chinese team still performed very well.

For example, in the swimming event, the women's swimming team composed of Yang Xiuqiong, Liu Guizhen, Liang Yongxian, and Chen Huanqiong achieved extraordinary results and won five championships. The Chinese football team, also led by Li Huitang, defeated the Philippines 2-0, then the Dutch East Indies 2-0, and finally defeated the Japanese team 4-3 to win the championship.

In track and field, the Chinese team was not satisfactory, but fortunately, Chen Qiang, a "real thigh", helped the Chinese team save a lot of face.

At the Far Eastern Games four years ago, Chen Qiang was still a fledgling and only participated in one event in the 100-meter sprint, and the competition between him and Japan's Yoshioka Lude was quite fierce at that time.

Today, four years later, Chen Qiang is already the "king of world sprinting", winning the world record in three sprint events, and the sprinters of the Japanese team can no longer pose a threat to Chen Qiang.

So the sprint race has also become a one-sided contest, and Chen Qiang's victory is not in suspense at all.

In the long jump and triple jump events, although the Japanese team still has the world's top level, it still seems powerless when facing Chen Qiang.

The Japanese team's "first brother in the long jump" Tadahei Nanbu did not come to the Philippines to compete, and it is said that because of a physical injury, he is recuperating in Japan and was unable to participate in the Far Eastern Games.

Without Nanbu Tadahei, other Japanese players are no match for Chen Qiang, and they can't stop Chen Qiang from winning the championship in the long jump and triple jump.

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The Far Eastern Games are in full swing, but the Japanese Sports Association has not given up its plan to allow the puppet "Manchukuo" to participate in the Far Eastern Games.

Previously, the Philippines' excuse for refusing to allow the puppet "Manchukuo" to participate in the Far Eastern Games was Article 3 of the constitution, that is, if there were new members to join, all members had to approve it. As a result, Japan called for a meeting to revise the regulations of the Far Eastern Games.

This time, Japan sent a man named Keitaro Abe as the Japanese representative, the Chinese side was represented by Hao Gengsheng, a physical education inspector of the Ministry of Education, and the Philippine side sent a man named Arras.

On the first day of the recollection, Japan asked for a correction to Article 3 of the Games' regulations.

Article 3 of the statute of the Far Eastern Games stipulates that the entry of new members shall be approved by all members. Japan requested that the words "unanimously adopted" be replaced by "majority agreement". In other words, as long as both Japan and the Philippines agree to the entry of the puppet "Manchukuo" into the Far Eastern Games, it is useless for China to oppose it.

China, of course, will not accede to such a request and refuse to amend this clause.

The Japanese representative Abe Keitaro demanded that Article 3 be amended, but it was nothing more than a sky-high asking price, and he was a drunkard who did not mean to drink. Then he revealed his true intentions, which was to amend Article 10 of the tournament's regulations.

Article 10 of the statute of the Far Eastern Games states that the participation of non-member States in the Far Eastern Games requires the consent of other Member States. Japan, on the other hand, would like to change this article to allow the host country to join the competition without the consent of the other country, unless it is exchanged.

In other words, if non-member countries wanted to come, they had to agree to China, Japan, and the Philippines, but after the amendment, as long as they were invited by the organizers, non-member countries could directly participate in the competition. That also means that when Japan hosts the Far Eastern Games, it can directly invite the puppet "Manchukuo" to participate without China's consent.

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At the negotiation table, Hao Gengsheng said with a serious expression: "We do not agree with the Japanese side's proposal to amend Article 10 of the charter of the conference. ”

Japanese representative Keitaro Abe said eloquently: "When China hosted the Far Eastern Games, it invited British India to participate in the Games, which shows that China has violated Article 10 of the conference charter. Therefore, there is a basis for my proposal to amend! ”

It is true that the invitation to British India was not approved by a vote of all member states, and this is a weakness of China, and now it is being used by Japan as a weapon to attack China.

Hao Gengsheng had already thought of the reason, and he said: "When China hosted the Far Eastern Games, it was true that British India was invited to participate, but no member state raised objections at that time, so we believe that allowing British India to participate in the Games was unanimously approved by all member states. ”

Abe Teitaro pursed his lips disdainfully: "It is true that we in Japan have no objection to the participation of British India, but you, China, as the organizer, have not asked our opinion!" Our athletes arrived in China to learn about the British Indian athletes. You Chinese yourself have not observed this charter, so why should we Japan do so? ”

The two sides said a word to me, and began to fight with each other.

The representative of the Philippines, Arras, still hoped that both sides would take a step back, and in the end the Philippines said that it did not support the amendment of Article 3, but that it could amend Article 10. It is tantamount to shouting cheers for both China and Japan, and no one wants to offend.

Hao Gengsheng did not give an inch: "Mr. Arras advocates maintaining Article 3, which is really fair and just, and we are very much in favor of it, but amending Article 10 so that non-member countries can join the competition at the invitation of the host country without the consent of other countries, then what is the legislative spirit of Article 3?" Isn't it a piece of paper! China cannot agree with such an opinion, which runs counter to fundamental principles! ”

Unfortunately, Arras sided with Japan this time and expressed his support for the revision of Article 10.

The Philippines has no sovereignty disputes with other countries in the Far East at this time, and the Philippines hopes to conclude negotiations as soon as possible, so this time he sided with Japan and put pressure on China.

The U.S. Minister to China, Nelson Jensen, was far away in Shanghai, and could not help China at this time, so it was almost a foregone conclusion that Article 10 of the Games would be amended.

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Japan Sports Association.

"Mr. President, Abe Teitaro really lives up to expectations, the Philippines has agreed to amend Article 10 of the Constitution of the Games, and now China is just still stubborn, under the joint pressure of us and the Philippines, the Chinese will not last long!" Kenjiro Nakano handed a telegram to Kishi.

Kishi Kiyoshi took the telegram, but instead of looking at it, he said, "Abe Keitaro did a good job, but it was all a little late. I have already consulted with Lieutenant General Oshima and decided to dissolve the Far Eastern Games and form a new sports organization! ”

"Want to start a new sports organization? Why? Kenjiro Nakano didn't expect the change to come so quickly.

Kishi Seiichi continued: "Even if Article 10 is successfully amended, it will not be of much use to the Empire. Since the next Far Eastern Games will be held in China, do you think China will invite the Manchurian Empire to participate? He certainly won't. Therefore, even if Article 10 of the Constitution is amended, if the Manchurian Empire wants to participate in the Far Eastern Games, it will not be until eight years later, when we Japan will host the Far Eastern Games again, and then we will be able to use the rules of Article 10 to directly invite the Manchurian Empire to participate in the Far Eastern Games! ”

Kishi Kiyoshi stretched out eight fingers as he spoke, and continued: "Eight years, then it will have to wait until 1942, the time is too long, Japan can't wait that long!" Perhaps by 1942, the whole of China would become the territory of Japan, and what would be the point of inviting Manchuria by that time! Rather than that, it would be better to take advantage of the fact that a sports organization is being held again now, and then directly invite the Manchurian Empire to join! ”

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On May 21, 1934, Japan dissolved the Far Eastern Games without authorization, and decided to recognize the new organization under the name of "Oriental Sports Association".

At this point, the Far Eastern Sports Association was dissolved, and the Far Eastern Games, which had been held for 21 years, came to an end!

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After learning the news of the disbandment of the Far Eastern Games, Chen Qiang let out a long sigh.

"Weak countries have no diplomacy!"

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