THE CHINA
Inner Mongolia Is In Need Of Material, But It Can't Pa
JAPAN IN URGENT NEED
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machinery
steel, American machinery, dollars' worth of capital goods of American capital or American electrical equipment and which they require for the develop in Japanese enterprises here. And American automobiles-millions of ment of mines, the building of roads dollar's worth - for development and the construction of smelters and exploitation of Inner Mon- and steel mills they ask hundreds of millions of dollars' worth of credits. And there's the rub.
golia, Apply Japanese army."
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All through Inner Mongolia we all right, and need it badly, but they have been given hints by Japanese
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now, in Kulgan, we have heard the same sentiment echoed by Maj. Gen. T. Sakai, who, às chief of the Japan- ese army's potent special service section in Inner Mongolia, is the dominating behind-the-scenes per- sonage in this border region.
ANSWERS DELICATE
QUERIES
Maj. Gen. Sakai received us in an office papered with maps, and quick- ly won our confidence with his frank and cheerful response to our most delicate queries. When ques- tions stumped him, he called upon the battery of secretaries and ad- visers who flanked him on both sides. At his command, one or the other or all would leap into action, to run down statistics requested by correspondents.
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Among these Japanese satellites, but obviously not of them, was
elderly gentleman with - a rat-tailed moustache and wearing a Chinese gown. Belatedly, he was in- troduced to us as Mr. Ma Yung-kwei, director of finance of the Meng- chiang Federated Council, the organ which co-ordinates. the financial activities of the various puppet gov ernments in Inner Mongolia, Just how much ice this Chinese gentle- man really cuts in the affairs of Inner Mongolian finance was in- dicated when we commenced firing questions at Maj. Gen. Sakai about the budget and other financial pro- blems of the Mengchiang organ- ization.
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General Li Shou-hsin, chief of the puppet Mongo and Prince Teh, chairman of the Autonomous Govern Leagues of Mongolia, on right.
Not once did the Japanese officer refer to the director of finance;
"Superficially the Chinese are co- in the eventual
the surface "The war wit instead he sent minor Japanese operating, but under clerks scurrying off after the de- they are resentful. They are like he declared con sired information.. Mr. Ma con- any other race. They do not like to campaign of re- tributed nothing to the conversation be under foreign rule. If this anti- and seemed to take not the slightest interest in what was going on. His importance seemed to be mainly or- namental.
TURNS ON PERSONALITY
Sakai turned on his engaging personality again for us later in the day, when he entertained us at din- ner. One of the correspondents, seeking to put the general's sincer ity to a test, asked him this ques- tion:
BY
A.T. STEELE
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BELITTL SO
"The Chinese
Japanese spirit does not disappear, soldiers. They the people will suffer."
the supreme sa
money are too.
"To what extent has anti-Japanese feeling been suppressed among the The general, like many of his col- When he had 7,000,000 people who populate the leagues of the Japanese army, has marks, the maj three states of the Inner Mongolian supreme contempt for the Chinese smilingly to t área ?"
as soldiers and supreme confidence faced him and
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