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WIDESPREAD UNREST IN JAPAN
SOME DAYS AGO PRINCE KONOYE IN- FORMED THE JAPANESE PEOPLE THAT THE COUNTRY IS FACING THE GRAVEST CRISIS IN ITS HISTORY. IT IS CURIOUS TO REFLECT THAT THE FULL GRAVITY OF THAT CRISIS IS
·PROBABLY LESS REALISED BY THE JAPANESE PEOPLE THEMSELVES THAN ANY OTHER PEO- PLE IN THE WHOLE WORLD, DECLARED A SPEAKER OVER STATION XGDN, IN SHANGHAI.
It is hardly possible for anybody who has not lived in Japan, especially during the past four years, to have any idea of the state of ignorance concern- ing current events in which the Japanese people are deliberately kept.
Both press and radio are under the gravest crisis in its history. It complete control. In regard to the has done so in the following man- latter, no short, wave is allowed ner. Like, most bigotted extrem- and the wave band for all pri-ts, the piembers of this group, vate radios is limited from 200 to though often of high rank; are not 500 metres. The people therefore wid minded and they proved are compelled to listen to local themselves to be perfect tools in broadcasting stations only, and the hands of the Nazis. Gladly practically all telegrams giving they adopted methods that had news of the world situation or been so successful in Germany, ginate from Rome or Berlin.
GERMAN'S SABOTAGE CALL TO GERMANS
Over Moscow radio Michel Niederkirch- ner, who in peace time had a job in za Berlin steel factory, broadcast to Berlin steelworkers a call to sabotage Nazi war production.
Remember friends," he said, "each cartridge which does not explode is a shot into the heart of Hitler."
particularly in getting control of GIRL AT
During the first two years of the press and in organising a spy the China incident the Japanese system.
air was loaded with stories of al- In this were
most fantastic victories over, the specially-imported members of the SEA ON
A TUBE
A girl, 18, was rescued
Chinese which, to some
extent, Gestapo. But it has been through accounts for the present discon- the press that they have made tent of the people. For, say they, their influence mostly strongly it our military forces have been so felt. They have, in this regard, uniformly marvellously victor-followed Hitler's advice as out- tous, why does this wretched in-lined in "Mein Kampf” and cident drag on year after year brought to perfection by Goebbels after drifting in the At- and our personal lives become "If you lie, let it be a pig lie, and lantic for sixteen: hours more and more uncomfortable? repeat it over and over again, and
My father had often warned me that, it was sinful.to bathe in a short costume, so I got what I deserved," she said, after being picked up by a steamer.. The girl, Eleanor Waldonado, daughter of a minister was swept- out to sea off the New Jersey
The same reasoning is now go- the people will at last belleve it" on an inflated inner tube. The latest attempt to follow out ing on in regard to the Europe war, since the beginning of which this method is the word “encircle- they have been fed on Berlin tele- ment." Of course if the Japanese grams and the Goebbellings of the people were allowed to think for D.N:B.
Transocean and
news a moment they would realise not other agencies. In
words the only the falsity but also the stu-. people of Japan are beginning to pidity of this idea in actual fact, realise that the, news as supplied since the Russo-Japanese „ war to them is quite untrustworthy! thirty-seven years ago Japan has coast. in short that to a large extent they not been attacked or threatened I just sat on the tube praying for "During the entire sixteen hours have been deliberately led to. by any country. There has been
and asking to be no encroachment beyond the forgiveness
saved," Eleanor said. boundaries of the supposedly en- circling countries during all that time.
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Yet it must be remembered that very large proportion of the
and bitterly regret their own Japanese people are simple pea- The Russian Manchurian bor-supineness which enabled this sant farmers who, in normal cir- der remains where it was; China, small-group to gain such power cumstances, would blindly accept. has, not moved and Hong Kong and thereby lead them into. the anything that they heard
and the Malay states with Sin: sorry existence which they now their local radio receivers, and it| gāpore have a niways been sta-have to endure. But there is no must be admitted that, even now, tionary.
doubt, at..all that the people of there are many of these simple There has been no movement Japan are becoming more and folk who regard all that they hear which might cause the smallest more politically conscious and as gospel truth. Yet this again apprehension either from the that this group of high placed has to be discounted by the large Dutch East Indies or the Fhilip extremists will be most unpleas- number of soldiers, wounded and pines. In fact Japan is now in antly surprised when, for the.. otherwise, who have returned to precisely the same position vis-a-wind which they have so light- their country homes and who na-vis these countries as she has been heartedly sown, they have to reap turally speak in the bosom of for so many years best.
so tremendous a whirlwind, their families and tell them just When we think of the Japan of exactly what happened. And so, fifteen or ten years ago the hap- throughout the whole country, pysthiling and contended people. there is indubitably spreading a living within their incomes which, spirit of unrest and distrust, which though by no means large, were may easily develop into a very well sulficient for their needs, go ugly situation for the Governing about their daily work in quiet ment in being.
happiness, there was then no ery
I suppose most of you who are of "encirclement." It is, of course, listening recall the famous inci- as everybody knows, nothing but dent of February 20, 1936, when u a parrotlike echoing of Hitler rebel group of the Army in Tokyo from two years ago, and the oir made an attempt at a coup d'etait cumstances in both cases were which, through prompt action was much similar. nipped in the bud and resulted in
*** “Encirclement" the death sentence being passed
on the young ringleaders. Though In a certain sense every indivi- the subsequent inquiry into this dual, as every country, is encir | abortive effort was conducted cled by neighbours." But it is not mostly in camera, yet enough in-usually a cause of complaint so formation emerged to show that long as neighbourly feeling is the Army itself was, far from be- continuing. If this ceases to exist ing united, actually full of divi- it is not generally difficult to find sions and groups to the great de-the one responsible for changing triment of both discipline and those neighbourly feelings into bfficiency.
one of dislike and suspicion.
This fact may perhaps have We have seen how the "encir- some connection with the Inter-cling countries around Japan, minable dragging out of the have in no way interfered with China Incident, my Vher for many many In Japan, however, there is one and so this present. uncomfortable group in particular which is ra- feeling of "end
cognised as being the most unit- come from
circle
ed, the most powerful, and the selousness. In her most formidable, because the most not the circumstan daring and outspoken of all the that is contracting upon extremists of the extreme right, that she is trying to press Yet it is certainly the smallest, within.
that circumiere Its existence is well known to all In fact it is a tacit admission the people and It has somehow aggress
failed to gain their confidence, But, as we noticed before, Open criticism in Japan has for n Japanese people are, nów „by long time been entirely suppress- | means s gullible as they were cd, which is symptomatic of the four years since. unhealthy condition of the body. They know precisely from politic. But in private it is a very different matter.
Not Wide-Minded
It is this group alone that has brought Japan into the position which Prince Konoye described as
whom these "gatóhíwords" originate, and regard them with the susplolon that these yeard of Falco, Information would naturally angonder.
They look back with longing on their lives of so short a time ago
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