THE PRODUCE OF
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For more than three years salvoes of "silver bullets" have been blasting holes in the Japanese blockade of the China coast. Money, flowing in huge quantities into outstretched Japanese hands, has kept Chinese trade routes open and saved Chiang Kai-shek's government from economic strangulation.
German
Japan, as a nation, has poured and the
accepting the billions of yen and scores of thou-money and granting the ship sate) sands of lives into a so-for fruit-conduct.
less effort to conquer China. Yet, Or the port authorities at Ham- the Japanese armed services have burg allowing free passage to a TIL taken a number of simple ship carrying a cargo of British .and obvious steps which would luxury goal. to be suld in Ger- have rippled their enemy and many with the profits going to pow Sably have feed China to the British gave up the struggle
The awer is that the hee of personal pindlits has stymied Japan's military might.
Phony Phase Modified
come
the capture of three important eastern roastal cities. These operations modified, but did not terminale, one of the "phoniest”! phases of the long drawn out war, its 4th anni- now approaching versary on July 7.
Eut the exact counterparts of these situations still exist in the cockeyed Oriental war to day. The Japanese land and sea blockade was, until recently, as full of holes as a giant sieve, only
plugged
isolated This highly contradictory situa-partially
points tion was underlined
Through these holes war recently by
have poured and peace supplies raids along a series of Japanese
into unoccupied China and from the south China const, and by
the products them have which China sells abroad 10 finance her war effort.
Japanese soldiers and sailors, officers and privates, officials and made money civilians have all on this trade. There are numer- if unexplained. few hun-ous substantial, At the cost of only a
Shanghai's foreign dred bombs and an even smaller accounts in number of casualties, the Japanese banks to the credit of high rank- in mud-April walked almost un- ing Japanese officers. upposed into the cities of Ningpo Wenchow and Foochow and then drove a short distance further to cut in portas.1 supply and coni- mmunications untes leading to
Wert Chana
ider the Japanese withdrew Capone Wend how, but they are still
Holding the other two ports
It is doubtful that Japan's horne public will ever get to the bottom of this potentially ex. plosive situation, but the ans. wer has long been known in
has, for the first time, made what appears to
In the past three months Japan
br
sincere effort to plug up some but not all of In a series the blockade Jeuks.
of raids, the Japanese destroyed arge stocks of Chinese goods and
three unpo effectively shut off
fund bade routes,
However, it
Hmpossible to
fell as yet whether dapat, will nghten her stranglehold of China's upply Imes, ur rẻlax it. If past the indication an
events are
"KNIT-FOR- BRITAIN"
Two American stockbrokers, D. Dud- dey Brill and Norman R. Finch, have got out
а
song urging the women of the US, to knit for Britain.
The song declares that "every Tar would for a his swop
grog pair of Yankee socks,” and goes on:--
"In the subway or
take the bus
your
needles, do not fuss.
Your helmets and
your
Will
cheer and thrill the Britons,
mittens
So,
come on,
Get a hank
Yankee yarn
girls,
of
for
And knit--a bund- le of socks Britain."
LONDON'S
MESSAGE
TO CANADA
The
Lord Mayor of
China, where open graft and squeeze racket will be going full London, speaking to
{bbot again shortly. The golden- torpedoed Japan's greed have
hard To kill in national policy and compromis.ged goose is
China. Associated Press.
ed her war effort.
City Ransomed
SENTENCE
OF DEATH PASSED
The Japanese armed services
orcupied-China have run
as [] gigantic money-making racket money-making for individual members of the army and navy. The army's exploitation of the narcoties trade has been inves- tigated and reported upon by
So observers, as responsible foreign
was
in Canada
connection with the opening of Canada's Victory Loan campaign said he convinced the amount aimed at would be very quickly over - subscribed, "and all the more so in that you realise as much as we do here that the
a Shantung Commonwealth is constable, Wan Teh- stake and that without that certain Chinese cities have shing, on
victory, the freedom and purchased "protection" from in-the Peak, was this morn-liberty of the individual
Shing, paint
have its numerous monopolistic scraper, charged with the future of the British
busmess and financial schemes
for
extorting money Chinese populace.
from the murder of
Not so well known is the fact
vasion. A guild confirmed to the
March 24 on
will be no more."
writer that the businessmen of ing found guilty by the
toi and Foochow Jury and sentenced
sumis
to
at
Ningpo. Wenchow
After saying that work in the had paid large spare those cities from occupation. death by the Chief Jus- City of London continues unabat- ed and the spirit of the people is The same source said that tice.
higher than ever before, the Lord the Japanese withdrew from
J. P. Murphy, Crown Mayor continued, "Germany Wenchow, following Its recent Counsel, assisted by Inspector L. been preparing for years. capture, because the merchants Whant, was for the prosecution, own people and the nations she of that part had raised and paid while the defence was conduct- hus so ruthlessly enslaved
a substantial "ranson."
Mr.
Has Her
are
All three of those cities, like ed by Mr. George She, instruct- forced to toil unceasingly to in-
crease her war production. numerous other coastal points of ed by Mr. H. Botelho,
The jury was composed of "Surely the free peoples of the lesser importance, had been under Messrs. C. F. Pragnell (foreman), British Commonwealth will accept nominal blockade for many
Irving T. Hul, Tsoi Kuen. Lee that challenge to provide even months. In actual practice, the
Shui-cheung, Chan Ki-keung, more 'planes, tanks, guns and Japanese navy never seriously
E. J. Elarte, Kwok Ylu-kai.
ships. attempted to cut off trade through those ports.
Under the pressure of profits, the blockade had become little more than a means of collecting tribute. So many people —
and they included many members of the imperial army and navy have made so much money out of contraband that the blockade has never been effectively enforced.
Stränge Setup
A
YOUNG GAMBLERS
Two juveniles charged with keeping a gaming deh, each were fined $20 or one month's hard labour.
BROKER REMANDED
"May I pay a tribute to the wonderful, part your Dominion is taking in the war?
"The production of your factories, is going forward by Tehpa and bounds. Your forcës are taking part in all theatres of war.
Courage Not Enough "The enthusiasm and intrepid Lo Tak-hing, 38, broker, charg-courage of your airmen and sol- no limit and their ed with stealing two and a half diers know The key to blockade running tons of rivets, valued at $1,694 desire is always to be where the was "squeeze, the equivocal term from the Taikoo Docks yesterday, danger 18''greatest. for a system of payments which was remanded for three days onBut courage will be of no counteracted the coastal warship bail of $1,000.00, Chung Ying, 82, | avhil' - without a continuous in- patrol more effectively than could clerk, charged with receiving, the crease in the supply of weapons. any war weapon at China's dis- rivets was remanded on $500.00 posal,
The squeeze system, created strange, Setup in China.
"The testing time of the deci- sive battle for the life of Britain and the Empires opening how but because of the immensity of that battle it cannot be of short duration and "It will require the of resolution, Inga
German submarine com- labour by Mr. H. G. "Shelde greatest powers mander several thousand dollars K.C., at the Central Magistracy endurance and self-sacrifice." -
British Wireless, as protection against torpedoes--this morning,
bail.
For the theft of an iron pulley, It is difficult to imagine a Brit- Ho Nagau, 20, unemployed, was month's hard ish merchant ship captain pay- sentenced to ohe