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THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 20, 1937:
JAPANESE ELECTION CAMPAIGN OPENS
BITTER ATTACK ON THE HAYASHI CABINET BY MINSEITO
Tokyo, April 16, ' session of the parliament to d Japan's urgent war needs have dissolved by Emperor Hirohito, a new been met by the government but urged the voters to elect the welfare of the labouring masses House qualified to carry out a pro- has been outrageously neglected, gramme necessitated by the grave the Minseito political party alleged situation facing the empire. Mil- to-day in an attack on the cabinet lions of copies of the premier's ap- of General Senjuro Hayashi.
peal were printed in the form of an The Mingeito statement asserted Official Gazette. that "to-day, the people are sorely Meanwhile the first large mani- strained. They are worried by festation of growing labour un- steady price rises and tormented rest due to soaring prices, tax in- by heavy burdens. Their rescue is creases and other burdens came in urgent and pressing.
the form of a strike of 1,000 work- "The masses will never forgive ers of the Tokyo Nikko Electric suspension of the wrong done by the government Railway, forcing
in dissolving the Diet, which was traffic. The employees are demand- the most unprecendented outrageing higher wages. Police arrested in parliamentary history. Con-ten strike leaders when they dis- sequently, the Diet's failure to persed a meeting of strikers and equalise the burdens of the people, their sympathisers. revise the present unfair tax sys-
Seiyukai Critics
tem, introduce social legislation, The Minseito attack on the ca- pass a farm land bill and the peo-binet was the second such attack ples' insurgent bill makes the gov-within the past few days by a ma- ernment responsible for the dis-jor political party. Previously the content of the people."
Seiyuki party demanded the resig- Cabinet Appeal
nation of the Hayashi government, Earlier in the day General Haya- alleging that it “recklessly, shi declared that the nation's acute wardly and, unconstitutionally dis- international situation is caused solved the Diet after, the parties by Russia's policy in Asia and the had generously co-operated in pas- huge United States and Britishsage of the budget," which carried naval expansion programme. The heavy items for the army and the Premier, who caused the recent navy,
CHINA'S LATENT ECONOMIC POWER
EXPORT FACTORS
FAVOURABLE
Latent but real factors of strong economic power are in evidence in China, declares M. Lucien Romier, noted French journalist,
in an article published by Le Figaro, one of the series devoted to the problem Lof the evolution of Chinese Economy and sent to the paper from China, where M. Romier is now visiting.
Com
The government has ordered pro- vincial officials to prohibit May Day parades and celebrations inde- finitely. Authorities said it was feared such labour demonstrations might interfere with peaceable gen- eral élections on April 30.
Political observers predict that the government, which dissolved the Diet on its last session day. will meet decisive defeat when it faces the new House.
CRIPPS AND THE DUCE
Agreement On "Parsons".
Firstly, the writer says, "there
Sir Stafford Cripps, addressing a is the human factor, i.e. China's in-
meeting of protest against the numerable labour hands, ambitious, Italian "atrocities" in Abyssinia at possessing highly developed arti- with sanship qualities, contented low wages, always ready for ex- patriation and capable of prompt acclimatisation.
the Memorial Hall, Farringdon-
London, said street,
that the methods used against the natives in Addis Ababa had always been the methods of imperialism.
The outlet factor comes next,
For perhaps the only occasion in China having an interior market,
his life he agreed with - Mussolini unexcelled in its capacity of cover-
when he said that the Anglican ing the manufacturing costs.”
Thirdly, on
should consider the parsons, should have perceived the extent to which China's trade has beam that was in the eye of Brit- spread throughout the Far East ish imperialism before they looked "Chinese communities have practi- for the mote that was in the eye of
Italian imperialism. cally monopolized direct trade and
England was a very respectable all credit relations with the native populations from the Sunda Isles and righteous nation-self-right- the people to Burma, from Malay States and eous mostly—and soon
wereito be made more aware of the Siam to French Indo-China.”
For the sake of comparison, the glory of the nation by the Corona- tion. And yet the methods which writer gives several examples of commercial expansion, which, he were now called Fascism had al- says, may also be witnessed day in ways been a common trait of Im- China. He mentions - America,
was hypocrisy to decry the which had absorbed enormous sums of European capital and became methods of Mussolini while per Europe's competitor, and what amitting the continued exploitation competitor closing her markets to of the black races by the British European trade; the US.S.R.. Empire, and it was about time that, "which is now building up its in- Englishmen began to dustrial power and which will do truth of the "white man's 'burden" minate the markets of half of Asia and the civilising mission of West- within the next 10 years; and final-ern Europe. ly, Japan, whose mass production
ial Governments.
learn the
The struggle of the natives and low prices bear serious pre-against imperialism was the same judice to foreign trade in the Paci-las that between the workers of fic and Indian oceans."
this country and the capitalists,