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THE CHINA MAIL, OCTOBER 14, 1938.
The China Mail
Ninety-Third Year of Publication
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Soviet Influence in China, the det result of the war has been to make communism, or at least the Chinese Communists, more pow erful and more respectable, while Japan has been weakened vis-a- vis the Soviet Union.
The Japanese invasion has fur- nished much of the cement that has thus far held the Kuomin tang, and the Chinese Commun- ists together, despite the mutual
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war. In still another sense the war has caused conditions in which communism might be ex- pected to flourish. Millions of people have been uprooted and driven from their homes by the ravages of war. If the example of Russia, where communism in the beginning derived a good deal of its popular support from the despair and bitterness over an unsuccessful war, is of any general historical value, extre- mist ideas in China might most easily find followers among those classes which have lost all their
Hong Kong, Friday, October 14, 1938. property and savings through the
PARADOXES OF THE WAR
war. Although the Japanese ad- heres to the idea that Japan is fighting the Soviet Union in China, the actual centre of gravity of the war has been swinging - steadily farther away from Rus- The Sino-Japanese conflict maysia, to the Yangtze - Valley, and well be called a war of paradoxes. now to South China. Great bod- les of Japanese troops flounder in In surprisingly many respects its the ooze and mud of the valleys realities have run counter to its of the Yellow and Yangtze Rivers, The Japanese slogans. The most striking of Japanese troops are now advanc-
ing on Canton. these paradoxes, perhaps, is that, military effort is expanding itself in blows at objectives which are on Japan's part, it has been war to win a friend. Whenever very far indeed removed from a Japanese statesman or unoffi. the region of Soviet special in- terests, Eastern Siberia and cial spokesman discusses war Outer Mongolia.
Incidentally, Soviet influence in aims, a "friendly" or "sincere" attitude on the part of China China is almost inevitably streng- thened by a war which has forc ranks high among Japan's pro-ed China to look for military help, fessed objectives. The incon- especially in airplanes, very large- gruity between the end which is ly from Russia. A final paradox professedly sought and the means is that, just when Japan has opened with the sword access for which are being used to achieve its goods to a territory inhabited it (widespread military invasion by more than 100,000,000 Chinese, to dis and air bombings, with all the there is a positive effort
courage the exportation of attendant misery for the civilian Japanese goods to China. population) does not seem to im answer to this puzzle is that Japan is gasping, like a fish out press the Japanese mind.
of water, for currencies which English language Japanese news
can freely be used for the pur- paper recently observed, correct chase of munitions and essential ly, if a trifle naively, that "Stalin raw materials. Neither China nor Manchukuo can supply such cur- may learn some day that he will oncles, so there is now a marked never become popular among the anort to divert the stream of Jap. from these The anese exporta away people by killing so m
ceivably
nearby Aalatic markets and to- same reasoning mi
ward countries where the curren applied to the underlying clea possess international buying philosophy of Japan's war to win power. This is only one example friend. second paradox lles of a larger paradoxs that the In the fact that, while, Japan'. military leaders unquestionably believe that they communism
and und
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The
ore Japan swallows, In a military the more her capacity for economic digestion contracts, thanks to the sacrifices in capital - which must þe and resourc made to carry on the