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THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 14, 1939
Japan Can Never Win: Economic Power The Decider
SHANGHAI, TO-DAY. THE GROWING BELIEF THAT JAPAN CAN NEVER WIN A
LONG-TERM CONTEST WITH CHINA IS REFLECTED BY "FINANCE AND COMMERCE,” SHANGHAI LEADING FIN- ANCIAL WEEKLY, IN A LEADNG ARTICLE DEALING WITH THE NEW PHASE OF THE FAR EASTERN STRUG- GLE, IN WHICH ECONOMIC POWER, THE PERIODICAL ASSERTS, WILL BE MORE IMPORTANT THAN MILITARY POWER. Reviewing the effects in Japan, sided. Although there may be no of the protracted hostilities, the suggestion of weakening in Ja- paper declares that business will pan's resolve to reach the goal of become more difficult and the her ambitious desires, two years of struggle more tedious, and it must war have brought the people of Ja- be evident that at some point apan nothing in return for the sa- non-ruinous peace will appear far crifices made, but only further res- desirable to the Japanese people trictions on business enterprise than the prospect of victory with with each succeeding week. Faced inevitable impoverishment.
with continually increasing costs Stating that the struggle between of living, it is not remarkable that Japan and China is gradually en- war enthusiasm should be replac- tering the economic phase, the pa-ed by a feeling of apathy.
per says that although air raids The Japanese military authori- will continue, they will not effect ties, it continues, have easily sc- the broad issue. Japan has accom- cured supplies in the country dis- plished all she' can hope to accom-tricts of the occupied territory plish from a military point of view. through the circulation of their In short, she has won the war, and, fown notes "at the point of the ba- as her military leaders predicted, yonet," but it is now left for the it has been an easy task.
other administrative bodies to clear MILITARY FOOLED
up this mess. These notes, with- Japanese Army leaders, how-out backing of any kind, cannot be ever, it continues, did not foresee entirely repudiated and conse- the present situation, where a na-quently they drag the yen steadily tion, thoroughly beaten according downward.
to all military rules, refuses to sub-
mit. The problems remaining are NEW TREND IN CHINA not of the kind which can be solv- While there is this depreciation ed by force and inevitably the Ja- in the yen and constant difficulties panese civilian officials, those between Japan and other foreign whom the army frequently pre-powers, the paper declares, China tends to despise, must take a more is directing all her energies to the the and more prominent share in the development of resources in direction of affairs.
great areas of territory outside Ja-
Two years ago, the paper goes on, pan's influence. While too much im- it was generally believed that Ja-portance may easily be attached to pan, a thriving industrial nation, the immediate possibilities of this was as much superior to China in new trend in industry, the results economic power as she undoubted- will be cumulative and two or three ly was in a military sense. In years hence China may find her- view of conditions to-day, that opin-self in a stronger position than she ion must be revised.
is to-day. China's strength, it says, ig When Japan, somewhat boast- broad-based. The war has demon-fully, proclaimed that she was strated in a remarkable way that ready to pursue her present policy that strength has its foundation in for the next five or ten years if "the good earth", and that no mil-necessary, Finance and Commerce itary reverses can destroy it. concludes, she failed to take into account the steady drain upon her will Meanwhile, states Finance and resources, accompanied as it Commerce, the patriotic fervour in be by a slow but very definite im- Japan, which acclaimed the out-provement in China's prospects.-- break of hostilities, has largely sub-Reuter,
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