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THE CHINA MÀIÙ, APRIL 14, 1941
JAPAN SENDS AXIS GOODS VIA RUSSIA
MORE THAN 100,000 tons per month of vital strategic materials are pouring over the Trans- Siberian railway into Russia there into blockaded Germany well-informed foreign economic experts in Shang-
hai.
and probably from it was reported by
Unofficial British trade observers declared that the Trans-Siberian rail line has become “one of Hit- ler's life lines," and Germany's chief means of cir- cumventing the British sea blockade in the Atlantic and the Mediterranean.
EXPERT
IN LOVE
ASKS AID
Famous throughout the "The has United States as
Voice of Experience," Mr. Marion Sayle Taylor earns
Tak that Rusia grows sufficient ent- Thale on the 5.211-mile way the world's longest has retom for its own needs, and
even been an exporter in the past. cently reached unprecedented le ¡vels, and Russian and Japanese steamship lines are working over- time to carry cargo to this Siber- ian railheads.
(31.
Dairen Docks Piled
of entry
of
come
Big Copra Shipment
Another important recent ship-£37,500 a year telling cou- ment through Shanghai was 500 ples over tons of copra, pius a large amount
50.000 were
the radio how
The Voice of Experience has applied to a Hollywood court to end his own matrimonial dis-
wives of tress with three own, former and present.
his
He is charged by wife No. 2 with having persuaded her to give him a triendly divorer to prevent wife No 1 from siling an alienation of. affections
of coconut oil. The copra, which peacefully to settle their other Bocks and warehouses at Dair-is used in the manufacture of nu-matrimonial and
finitions, was brought to Shanghai
domestic differences. the principal port
ship from Manchukuo, and at Vladivostok. on an American
March and Far Eastern terminus of the rail- [Philippines early in read, are piled to averflowing with immediately transhipped to Dair- (11 This was the latest of several goods wailing rail transit, as are
station similar shipments the railway yards and
the a
A few
ago weeks platforms at Manghouli, nem
pounds of crude rubber Manchukuo-Siberian border
in Manila by purchased Shanghai Chinese firm. The ori gin of the rubber was believed to be either Malaya or the No. Indies. From therlands East
it
shipped Shanghai
was Dairen in transit to Russia.
Observers Commercial that Russia either delivered rubber directly to Germany. released an equivalent amount It is re- from its own stocks. ported that Japan has made a sim- lar arrangement with regard to the rubber it has oblained through military and economic pressure un French Indo-China,
of the Some
goods are American origin; others from Japan, from South Ameri ca, from the Philippines and the Netherlands East Indies
1
to
belve
th
The ostenable destination these cargoes is Russan, but foto American and British traders be lieve that most of them are even- fually delivered to Germany.
German commercial agents are Past active throughout the Far working openly through govern ment purchasing boards, or se cretly through camouflaged
The Trans-Siberian railway neutral go-betweens. panies and Their purpose is to obtain
now carrying Java sugar from the terials needed to feed and cloite Netherlands East Indies, purchas- Germany's fighting forces, and, toed through Japan: American cop-
a lesser extent,
to supply
many's war machine.
Export Licensing Working
Ger-
Until recently, German agents were successful in purchasing in- portant supplies from Through the
America
medium of Chinese
and Japanese agents in Shanghai, and even obtained some goods from parts of the British empire.
This trade has now
bean
en- sharply reduced through forcement of the American Ox- and pant
system licensing
the the vigilance of through
Ministry of Economic British Warfare.
But Germany is still obtaining considerable quantities of μοιχίε in the Far East, chiefly with the thus assistance of Japan, which fulfills her economic obligations under the Axis alliance.
Attention was first called to the Vladivostok blockade leak by Bri- fish government representatives in Washington. The extent and im- portance of this trade can now be reported through information gathered by the Associated Press in reliable foreign trade quarters. Wanted 50,000 Tons
Authoritative informants slate that Germany had counted on ob- tons of goods talning 50,000 monthly through Vladivostak and had made arrangements with So- that viet authorities to purchase amount.
However, the German trade. and network, centred in Japan
in Shanghai, has worked so smoothly and efficiently that Ger- the many is now getting double
supplies. anticipated amount of These figures are based on the Trans- bellef that most of the Siberian traffic goes to Germany. Part of the shipments consist of American goods not on the export licensing Jist.
from Shanghai, sugar per wire
Brazil; cotton from from Peru, Chinese tea, tungsten and tung oil; American animal tats and a score from a dozen of other products countries. ---Associated Press.
FEWER
IN. GAOL
Britain in war-time is better was in peace behaved
time.
than it
the
aro
There are fewer people in prisons, and fewer offenders
before the courts- being brought for criminal offences.
Moreover, some of the convicts who were released from prison in the early days of the war-before the expiration of their sentences
in the
ariny -have made good and have become first-class sold- iers.
The only classes of offenders numbers increasing in
who are are juveniles.
The largest single cargo to date was 138,000 bales of American cotton shipped from gulf ports to Vladivostok, in transit, in 64-bale lots, each of which filled one-rail-, way car. It was purchased « by Amtorg, the Soviet trade corporu-{ · tion, in New York.
Experts doubt that the Soviet for this hád any domestic use cotton, the Arrest quality produced anywhere in the world, and the most expensive. They point out!
that the Wife No. 2 alleges Voice of Experiance promised he as soon as would remarry her danger of such a suit had pass ed.
But instead of remarrying her he married another woman, who became wife No. 3.
The Voice of Experience denies the charge and is sure he will be "completely vindicated.”
WHY PEOPLE SWEAR
SPEAKING AT GLOUCESTER ASSIZES MR. JUSTICE HAWKE SAID HE THOUGHT PEOPLE OFTEN USED BAD LANGUAGE BECAUSE THEY HAD A PAU- AND CITY OF VOCABULARY
TU WISHED TO GAIN TIME FORM THEIR THOUGHTS.
a
He was giving judgment in
al- libel action in which a man leged that two other men had pu
falsely accusing blished a leaflet him of using bad language.
the Mr. Justice Hawke said leaflet was justified and that the language sald to have been used by the man making the claim for damages was highly' objectionable.
En Gärdel Tyrone Power and Basil Rathbone here pro vide one-of many thrilling sequences in "The Mark of Zorro,' 20th Century Fox film now at the King's Theatre. Cast as the great bandit. Power is starred. In the most famous and colour. ful of all acreon roles. Linda Darnell and Rathbone head the cupporting cust...