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FINANCE & GENERAL
Warsaw Shambles Seen OVERSEAS-CHINESE Reich Employs Prisoners Of
By U.S. Writer
RECONSTRUCTION
BANK
The establishment of an Over- seas-Chinese Reconstruction Bank has been proposed by Mr, Chow "Chi-kang. Vice-Minister of Over-
seas Affairs.
War To Step-Up Output
WASHINGTON, Dec. 21-With From: 1,000,000 to 2,000,000 rewer workers," Germany has maintained peacetime industrial production since outbreak of the war by lengthening hours and mechanising production methods, reports to official government agencies reveal. -
Mr. Chow has drafted a scheme
Full statistics are not available | for the projected bank and has
of greater importance was the submitted. it to Generalissimo but the reports said that an im- dismissal of an unknown number Chiang Kai-shek for examinationprovement in monthly production or hotlding workers 1ormerly con- and ratification. Generalissimo was expected, since a large num-structing land-fortifications. This Chiang has referred it to the Joint ber of war prisoners and civilian permitted resumption on
a mu- now engaged in har derate scale of private Head Office of the four government labourers,
construc- Crops, soon tion. particularly of residences.. banks, namely, the Central Bank vesting agricultural
for Industrial and work was resumed on some of China, the Bank of China, the will" be available Bank of Communications and the pursuits.
butldings in Berlin and other large cities. Farmers Bank of China, for con-
́Alvin J. Steinkopf, member af The Associated Press staff in Berlin, visited Warsaw as the first and only non-German cor- respondent permitted to make an exhaustive. Inspection of the Uttle surrounding State which, since the German conquest is called the "General Government of Poland "—as distinguished from the parts of the country actually annexed by Germany and Russia. The "General Government." is German - occupied. Mr. Steinkopf made a week's tour of the area with Dr. Josi Walibanm, director of health in the Polish" "General Govern ment" and Dr Hand Klaeve e of the German Mediest Cham- ber.
not a wall against the Jews." I was told by Dr. Jost Wallbaum, eminent Berlin physi clan who is health leader (Minis Building stones lle helter-skelter ter of Health in any other coun-sideration... in the great city which was once try) of the "General Government the capital of Independent Foot Poland, "It is a wall against
typhus."
Warsaw.
A year after the German con quest Warsaw still looks like an untidy 'backyard.
land.
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י;
Great open spaces yawn where Several months ago 30,000 of the once stood apartment houses, district's population were quaran- shops and stately government tined by a part of the wall and by building...
guards for fourteen days.
1,000,000 Indus-
FEWER WORKERS Approximately trial workers were drawn from the oldest and "youngest age groups, hundred thousand and.. several
used in agri- war prisoners were
The object of the bank is to utilise overseas Chinese capital for the development of industries in China, to encourage savings among the overseas Chinese and to facili- cutture. Despite this there were 1,000.000 and 2,000,000 tate overseas Chinese remittances. between
The bank will be capitalised at fewer industrial workers than the There is ruin everywhere; houses- Authorities said the 30,000 be- $100.000.000 (Chinese currency) to peacetime total. The latest peace withcut roofs; booses without came infested with typhus-spread- be divided into 10,000,000 shares of time figure was 21,840,000 workers
were kept isu-$10 each windows, houses that now are huting lice and they a few blackened wais
lated until gas, brought from Ger-
An Industrial Planning Commit- Warsaw had 22.000 buildings, many, could be used to fumigate!
tee will be formed to draw up in- Two thousand Were destroyed, their homes.
of dustrial projects. 8,000 extensively damaged,
1/
45
There are fifty-eight cases
this region.
and wage 1939.
earners on
June 30
This, reports showed, was offset by longer hours and rationaliza- tion which included particularly mechanization of many production processes, permitting use of un-
Conscription of a small number of women workers continued dur- ing the summer, these recruits" being used mostly in aviation
industries.
BUILDING TRADES Building trades were expected to receive the labour of 175.000 war prisoners in the fall to augment the 1,000,000 employed during the summer. This figure was believed to be the maximum the trades could obtain even with conscrip-
tion
war
French and "other prisoners of war were put to work during the" The old central railway stationphus in Warsaw today, a um-
September on Germany's super- is gone. German Stukas hamber which would cause. alarm in
(automobile highway construction, mered it to pieces. The debris has any American city but which is these days. Is authoritative in skilled labour and releasing skilled and observers reported that been hauled away, and where the [not regarded 15 extraordinary
labour for other purposes,
general war prisoners and workers station stood there is a vast va- jin Warsaw under present condi-
CHANGE OF WARFARE
from occupied territory are So Warsaw declines-but with cant space, without even a pebble tions. Typhus is a disease which
-Production programmes have most important factor in en its smooth surface and ble abounds in the Winter months, some show of probably superficial
and the German "authorities are briance. The lights gleam at been shifted to harmonize with economy, concerned lest there, be an upward night among the ruins, electric the present phase of the war, with trend through the Autumn. I signs on the windowless buildings military operations in the air and there is they will not hesitate a advertise German headache tab- on the sea succeeding land opera- moment to wall the ghetto and lets, and, the night clubs startons. The change in the type of pen up half a million people while their programmes in the after-warfare enabled dismissal of some
noon-there
seems to be one in but not very large categories they fight the disease.
"And it won't be persecution of every block.-(Japan Chronicle),
Wallbaum sald. the Jews," Dr.
enough for a football field
JEWS WEAR ARM BANDS
Wal.
To the rear is what is left of the new Central Station, which burned shortly before the Improvised boarding makes a sort of a barn where Polish trains, un- der German management, come in exactly on tizi.... The Ministry gone-Stukas,
V
E-
of Agricuture 18
The Ministry of Post and com- munications is gone again Stukas Beside it. the post-office stands, barely scratched, and a block long line of people waits Detare 11.
mail trying to
letters abroad Foreign mall must be handed In personally
,"
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"It could be a national, even + European, catastrophe to let a situation like this get out of hand; and when it comes to communi- STOCK EXCHANGE, cable disease I'll lock up any pos- sible spreader of contagion, be he. Jew, Gentile, price or pauper.""
In between the piles of debris on every street, in the houses that were only slightly damaged in the war, a life
bath Kues on that is
The Opera House is as good intense and urave gone: a bomb
The Poles are facing their at smashed the reaf
courageously. and fire gutted the interior.
The Jews walk down the streets. in white ang"blue armi dažus
These are their tags of identi. fication, and every one of them 'must wear them on their right
sleeves
There are inany jew There is a new concrete wall around the ghetto, which lies in the central district
The Germans say the wall, which is unique in modern times..
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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 1, 1941 -PAGE 9
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TOTAL ELIMINATION OF OPIUM IN CHINA URGED
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CHUNGKING, Dec. 31 (Central)-In a circular telegram to the
entire nation yesterday Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek announced
the termination of the Six-Year Oplum Suppression Programme and threatened death penalty to any opium producer, addict or traffic- 'ker arrested hereafter.
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VICHY, Dec. 31 (Reuter)-The Vichy Government is establishing Generalissime Chiang said that. Any oplum producer, trafficker a Central Research Bureau to according to reports, submitted by of addiet arrested, whether he be deal with the urgent problem of different provincial and municipal rich or poor, will be subjected to
governments, oplum suppression the death penalty. It will be under the direction of work as provided in the program- the Inspector-General, of Food me had beer, brought to-a conclu- Supplies and will work in cou-sion last September at the latest Junction with a scientific com and all licenced oplum supplying mittée studying products to remedy organs had been closed down last malnutrition.
October.
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"All Chinese in enemy occupied areas should fight against the Ja- panese policy of narcotisation in the same courageous spirit as in the bâttlefield." Generalissimo
Chiang instructed.
Year New
The National Government also Chiang en-issued a mandate announcing the Joined, all Chinese should march completion of the Six-Year Oplum on the road of glory and rejuvena- Suppression Programime and in-
and |tion spiritually
physically,structing the Executive Yuan' and LONDON. Dec. 31 (Reuter) -
and should redouble their efforts the different provincial and muni- "Fortified positions to the west of for the elimination of the last cipal governments to continue 13 ct. Pogradets have been wrenched
their efforts to ensure the total trace of the opium evil."
elimination of opium. Despite the termination, of the
Declaring that the elimination good results all along the front," six-year programme," suppression er oplum is the foundation for. stated the Athens radio last night, will continue to be in force at all national rejuvenation, the man- quoting a communique of the time and in all places, Generalis-date-urged all Chinese not to relax.
simo Chiang declared.
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is not anti-Semitic, but simply a cause, of course, desolation hangs desperate health measure neces- over the town. Certainly, no great sary to protect Poles and
Jew city in modern alike from the pestilences which brought so close to total destrue- are likely to follow in the wake of Hom
total war
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Jews can and in use any other street in Warsaw I met two in the waiting room of Warsaw's chief sanitary officer, a German This used to be the Forelim Office of Colonel Josef Deck, Poland's Foreign Minister.
The wall is eight feet high and so tight a cat couldn't get through
it.
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POLES STILL SMILE
I did, however, see smlles in Warsaw, some of them brave, some frivolous. There is even music, in hundreds of cafes. The old Slavic. gypsy tunes stilare the favourites. The town is thtonged with shop- pers-unable to buy this and that.
Street venders peddle toy bal
... surrounds the central district loons to children and, on the side ghetto comprising a hundred or streets, itinerant musicians play mare olty blocks into which the harmoniens under the windows. population is crowded with as Flower women as of old, ragged as tonishing density, and clikes off lever, ell dahlias at the curt 200 streets and even street car Automobiles race about, but there lines-it built right Over the are not so many of them. for gasoline is scarce, and there are more horse cars to tanele the traffic.
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Warsaw, actually, has grown in necupation authorities but condi. population. The latest estimate is tions in the ghetto which the 1,500,000 people.. The past Polish German officials are trying to cut figure was 1,390,000
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