THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 11, 1941: -MUTT AND JEFF
I'LL NEVER FORGET HOW COLD IT WAS AT THE NORTH POLE THE TIME I WENT WITH DOC COOK!
ICE
I'LL NEVER FORGET HOW COLD IT WAS AT THE SOUTH POLE WHEN I
WAS WITH ADMIRAL BYRD!
I'LL BET YOU TWO BITS IT WAS
AND ILL BET YOU
NORTH POLE!
IT WASN'T
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By BUD FICHIED
IT WAS SO COLD WHERE WE WERE
THATS NOTHIN'!' IT WAS SO COLD
COLDER AT THE / TWO BITS | THE CANDLELIGHT AT THE SOUTHPOLE.CE
FROZE AND WE COULDN'T BLOW IT OUT!
EVERYTIME I SPOKE TO THE ADMIRAL THE WORDS CAME OUT OF MY MOUTH" IN CHUNKS OF ICE-
“AND HE HAD
TO FRY THEM
TO SEE WHAT
I SAID!
FLIP
FOOD INEQUALITIES IN OBVIOUS
INDUSTRIAL AREAS JAPANESE
DURING AN EXTENSIVE tour of industrial areas in north-east England, Yorkshire and the Midlands to investigate the food situation, I have been impressed by the cheerfulness of the workers, writes a London correspondent.
• equalities between
and
Despite shortages of many unrationed food- stuffs, housewives were confident of being able to provide their families with adequate meals.
But action by the Ministry of "Heavy workers really need to Food is required to remove in- leat more bread
potatoes, various dis-which are energy-giving foods," an official told me. "The public has not sufficiently realised the importance of eating more potatoes and other home- grown vegetables. There is no difficulty in distributing potatoes, und the price is reasonable."
tricts.
I came to the conclusion that the in general following steps are desirable:
Better distribution;
Rationing of very many classes of goods to obviate food queue;
more
the
GAME
An obvious Japanese manoeuvre lies behind the recent Thai credit to Japan amounting to 10,000,000 baht £900,000, according to British financial circles in London.
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ment with Thailand, these circles Tokyo, in concluding the agree- observe, had three aims; first, to wrench Thai currency away from Sterling and absorb it in the Yen Fresh allocations of quota sup-
Bloc; second, to utilise the credit plies on the basis of altered Pointing out that the total sup-
10 get round the British and population;
ply of many unrationed foods is American economic embargo and Bigger rations of staple com- greatly reduced, the Ministry the freezing of Japanese assets, modities for workers in heavy in-official said that large quantities and third, to use Thai
DAILY economic dustries.
were distributed by wholesalers submission as a lever towards Eat More Potatoes on the basis of pre-war sales. This completion of political subjuga-
did not give fair distribution be- tion, Local shortages consist not so cause of the movement of popula- much of different commodities intion. different districts as £) general To get over the difficulty the dearth of unrationed goods in all Ministry regularly gave to the parts becoming more acute in the large trade associations Agures more heavily populated areas. showing the fluctuations, of popu- Raising these points with thelation in the hope that they would Ministry of Food. I was told that adjust supplies. centres of heavy industry are not Special allocations of the scarcer getting less rationed foods than foodstuffs to particular sections of less Dopulated areas.
was the community were made after It difficult, however, to generalise on consultations other foods.
unions.
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The whole arrangement has been thinly disguised. Technically. in order to finance That exports to Japan, a credit was given by a Thai private banking firm to a Japanese private banking firm.
the namely,
Thai Commercial Bank to the Yokohama Specie Bank.
Actually, it is well-known that the former is a Government-con- trolled bank which finances Thai- land's most important domestic and foreign trade, while the lat- ter is the financial agent of the Japanese Government for foreign transactions,
Sterling Peg
The reason Tokyo urgently needs Thai credit is that she in- sists on continued purchases of rice, tin and rubber from Thai- land. Thai currency has been on a gold basis and pegged to Sterl- ing for nine years. Consequent- ly, all Thailand's foreign trade has been effected in Sterling. The recent freezing of Japanese Sterl- ing assets paralysed the finance mechanism
Thai-Japanese of trade. Hence a new apparatus had to be devised to enable Japan to continue her trade with Thai- land.
Under existing circumstances, it is considered unlikely, that Japan will be able to pay.in gold or ex- ports to Thailand as a liability against Thailand's currency serves.--Central News.
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