THE CHINA MAIL AUGUST 22, 1941:
CHINA MAIL
WINDSOR HOUSE ——
THE BATTLE OF THE WEST
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As Dr. Goebbels con+ tinues hastily, putting out photographs of, presum- ably, good Nazis painting | "V's" on locomotives, he only deepens one's inter- est in the progress of the second great battle on the Continent the secret Battle of the West, in which there are no fronts, no war maps and few communiques, but which - can be of critical impor- tance. We have seen two great wars · the Napo- leonic and the first World War won neither in the] East nor in the West but by interaction between the two. It is not with their bombers alone that the British are now fight- ing in the West. The "V" campaign, as it was an- nounced from London, may have seemed only a gigantic publicity stunt to the strains of Beeth- oven's "fate" motive. There is no doubt that there is more to it than that.
than
There are more hints of large-scale sabot- age organised on the Con- tinent. There is, more- over, somewhat less credi- ble, a story from Berne about the wrecking of German troop trains in occupied France, with
SPIRIT OF FREE FRANCE: REMEMBER SYRIA?
Nazi Stooges In Japan
summer
places as hotel lobbies, resorts, foreign-style restaurants; and bars, and the Tokyo and American clubs.
There are the sordid types, the broken-down renegades, beach- combers and bar-flies of Tokyo's hand-outs from the German Em- foreign comununity, who get their bassy.
in
however, are specialised
By Charles N. Spinks
ly members of the powerful Meirinkai). Go into Maruzen's Book Store at Kyobashi, Tokyo, the largest retail bookship in Japan. Almost half the foreign book section covering the second floor is given over to German propaganda enterprises. publications, mostly rank Nazi
press; however that the Nazi It is by control of the Japanese
most successful. This was made Fifth Column in Japan has been
with the Home Office censors and possible by tworking agreements the Kempeitai, or, military police. To suppress unfavourable news is only half of this propaganda job. Of equal importance is to obtain the publication of the right kind. of news. This the Germans have achieved by a number of ways.
Through what amounted to outright bribes, the Nazis have gained complete control of the "Hocht" and the "Kokumin Shim- bun," third-rate: Tokyo: dallies. Both have carried, the editorial and influenced by Japan's present] brunt of the Fifth Column's position in the Pacific, and the campaign in Japan. The "Kol Glamour Girls Imported Japanese Government's present kumin" was reached in the autumnTM obligations under the Tripartite of 1939 through its long-standing connections: with the Japanese de joie imported from Shanghai therefore, are directed toward the
propaganda objectives, Army: "
In the and Tientsin, glamourous ladies achievement of two
spring of 1938 the principal "Hochi passed into the hands of Balkans, slightly tarnished but- from Central Europe and the goals:
a bankrupt political agitator, (1) The rightist- revolution formerly president of the Japan- terflies who fit mysteriously about which will make Japan a totalitar- German Anti-Comintern Society, sleek Chinese bar girls and de- the Far East with ample funds, ian vassal of the Third Reich. who was supplied with the necess (2). The promotion of a Japan-sary funds by Nazi Presseleiter: mure Japanese cafe waitresses. ese-American war by convincing Jacob Sahl. tics act as henchmen, go-betweens into the East Indies can be achiev-successfully attempted to buy out
Scores of ultra-nationalist Asia- Japan that southward expansion The German fifth, column. un-l and agents provocateurs for the ed without such a war.
As in other countries, the Nazi a bonib at and severely injuring Fifth Column in Japan relies Lord Hurdinge, Viceroy of India. heavily on non-German stooges In still other ways, in addition and go-betweens.
to the use of non-Germans, Nationals from occupied terri- story of Nazi propaganda methods the British parachutists as-states and doubtful neutrals like ployed by German fifth columns tories in Europe, German vassal in Japan follows the pattern em sisting the French sabo- Spain and Sweden provide a in other countries. Its aims teurs, and painted "V's" bizarre assortment of stool pig- Japan,
eons and informers, some posing left to decorate the wreck- as anti-Nazi, who frequent such age. There is a story about a colossal explosion in Austria, when a huge underground benzene store was blown up; there are stories about destroy- ed munitions factories; there are stories about serious sabotage behind the lines in Poland. How much reality there may be behind these stories or how far they are simply part of a "war of nerves" we do not know; but the German munitions train which was, beyond doubt, recently wrecked and ex- ploded in Sweden at least gives pause.
The more romantic side is Alliance. provided by White Russian Alles,
Nazi fifth column.
Nazi
The Great Mogul of the In diun collaborators is Rash Behari Bose, head of the India Independ- The stories are timedence League in Japan, a naturalis not only to Beethoven's 1915 after attempting a number fabrications.
ed Japanese. He fled to Japan in theme but to the thun- of revolutionary plots and hurling derous crash of British
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Distribute Nazi Literature
two American-owned papers
Advertiser-Is-Sold
in
"Japan Advertiser" was sold to Last, autumn, however, the controlled by the Japanese Foreign the Japan Times Publishing Co
The German Embassy in Tokyo, Tokyo, the Japan Advertiser" the fountain-head of this, propa-and "Japan News-Week." Three ganda campaign, is assisted in times the value of this work by DNB and Trans-publication, in U.S. dollars, was the latter ocean,,, the two, German, news offered; But the American own agencies which deal in editorial cr refused to negotiate with the quarters in Tokyo. In addition,
Both have head- Germans,
there are no less than 150 Ger- bombs on western Ger-mocratic forces latent un-ioned in Japan, as against only
man "press representatives" stat many-about which the der the German dictator- and about three from the British six correspondents from the US Nazis have shut down, am ship, to proclaim the peo-Empire iron silence. It is all a ples war which will drain
Office. Now known as the "Japan Times and Advertiser," the for part of single great battle, the strength of that dic-
mer American daily has been a battle of destruction of tatorship much as the re-
fully geared to the Nazt fifth resources and communi-bellion of the Spanish the Nazi newspaper men is to keep it a first-rate newspaper... One of the principal tasks of its able publisher Toshi Go, to column, despite the efforts of cations and factory cap people, with British sup for Official Spokesman Kol Ishil
raise the right sort of questions Shortly after, the change of acity, a battle of sabotage, port, once drained the of the Cabinet Information Bur appointed to the paper's staff, a dwnership, a special stooge was a battle of nerves, a bat life blood out of the Napo- ferences and to head off too direct ese diplomatic service. His tasle
cau during his regular press con
worn-out fofficial from the Japan- tle of propaganda, at once leonic, colossus. So,
at or embarrassing queries poised by is not to see that this Japanese- to weaken the German any rate, it must be in other correspondentsi hope of victory and rouse tended; for no one needs
owned and edited paper does not publish material harmful to the spirit of undying re- to tell Mr. Churchill that sistance in the victim this is, above all, the peoples. It is an attempt moment for every possible by every possible means offensive. effort in the to utilise the immense de West.
Loaded With German Books