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WHEEE-E CLANG ECLANG:
August 23, 1940.
By Walt Disney.
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FACTS: The Japanese Navy consists of 9 capital ships,
6 aircraft-carriers, 38 cruisers, 121 destroyers, 58 æubmarines,
The United States Navy has 15 capital ships, 5 aircraft- ~ carriers, 37 cruisers, over 200 destroyers and 87 submarines. The Dutch East Indies squadron is small but still intact - cruisera, & destroyera, 7 submarines and some coastal boats.
The size of the French squadron in the Far East at the present is not divulged--nor is that of the British China station.
The Royal Australian Navy comprises 7 cruisers and 4 dextropera,
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have agreed that Army shall adopt "an atti- tude as strong as iron and rush for its obectives" in connection with the "present golden opportunity" in the Fast East.
This is the latest indication all her that Japan, for pledges of non-involvement in the European war, intends to take advantage of Allied preoccupations to spread her influence to parts of Asia other than her immediate field of operations in China.
The
in China has been used as д cover for her claims
French Indo-China and
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demands, the cessation of supplies to Chiang Kai-shek's Govern- ment through both Indo. China and tho Burma- Chungking road. She has followed this up with the atatement by the Japanese Foreign Minister, that the uniting of East Asia and the South Sças in AL single Japanese - controlled sphere is a "natural conclu- The possibility of sion." Japan declaring a "Monroe Doctrine" is being discussed in Shanghai
There are five Western Powers directly affected by these Japanese claims: U.S.A., Great Britain, Aur- tralia, Holland and France. The richest parts of the
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INTO "No.
I WALKED
By EDWARD G. GAYLER, "Sunday Dispatch"
Finance News Editor
MY job often takes me to
Government offices in and around Whitehall, but I cannot claim to be so well known 19 to gain easy entry to such high- places.
I am accustomed to following the usual routine adopted with callers, and either have a fixed appointment or send in my card in the usual way.
The other day I went to the Treasury to collect the National Revenue Returns and to seek infor- mation about the sale of the new War Bonds. It was my frst visit since the regulations against Fifth Columinists were tightened up, and 1 quite expected, to have to show my identity card and other papers to prove my bona fides.
ON the contrary, despite a chalk- ed notice at the door saying "All Passes To Be Shown," I just walked up the steps, told one of the porters that I had come for the Treasury `Returns, and went straight in.
The porters did not know me, and I did not know them. I went to the room where I know the Returns would be handed out, and did not see a single person on the way, I could have wandered about the building at will.
When I got the Returns, I was told that I had to inquire at No. 10, Downing-street about the War Bonds.
I certainly could not hope to be allowed inside No. 10 itself.
·HOWEVER, I left the Treasury, walked 60 yards' down Whitehall, and turned Into Downing-street.
I walked to No. 10 and knocked at the door. Having explained the
reason for my call. I was admitted, and waited in the hall while the porter went to And somebody who could deal with 'my inquiry.
While he was gene I was alone
In the hail, except for one poilce-
man.
Thus was I ntlowed to enter the very nerve centre of Britain's war
elfort. I might have been дл ⚫urmed traitor for all that anyone
knew.
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What damage 1 could have done ir! few minutest The direction of our war effort might have been thrown into hopeless confusion.
WHEN I left Downing-street, I went back to the Treasury again, but this time I Was Not Challeng ed At All I walked straight through the building without hindrance.
How different from Nazi Ger- many! But how much more dan gerous. The Prime Minister and Tils Cabinet, and the chicts of Government Departments, are as vital to our war effort as our planes, our Navy, and our Army.
Whether they like it or not, they must be subjected to a constant vigil.
This slackness In protection shocked me, and I feel it is my duty to draw public attention to the
danger of allowing unidentified people to enter No. 10, Downing- street, the Treasury, and other vitally important bluldings in this
way.
BRITISH ISLES (SAME
French and Dutch Empires fall in this "Japanesa sphere."
U.S.A.
America is directly in- because of terested (1) her important trade and industrial connections in
China (2) because the Philippine Islands with their important naval base, Manila, are only 400 miles from China; (3) because the naval base at Guam, in the Caroline Islands, would be included in Japan's claim to the "South Seas."
GREAT BRITAIN
We are directly interested (1) through the Japanese claims on the Burma-Chufig-
Trials of
king road; (2) because we have large possessions in Borneo and Malaya; (3) bo- cause we have largo invest. ments and trading intereste in China; (4) because Singa- pore, our main naval base in the Far East, would be threa- tened by any extension of Japanese influence in Indo- China.
AUSTRALIA
Although Australia is perhaps not directly includ- ed in Japan's claims to the South Seas. it has long been feared that Japan looks to Australia for profitable field of expansion, and any extension of the Japanese Empire would be a menace to this continent.
FRANCE
Although France has been defeated in Europe, the terms of the armistice-left the French Eastern Empire intact. But Indo-China is now cut off from help from Europe and must rely for support either on America or Great Britain.
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**** HONGKONG EVACUEE: If they come down talla I'll be bust.
It is imperative that the lives of 750 our leaders should be as adequately protected as are our aerodromes, Our coastline, our railways, and our food ships.
(Australian national gambling gan *played by tossing two pennies into the
lose:)
"Two. Up" da heads win, tatla
HOLLAND
The Dutch East Indies offer the richest prize of all in the Far East—especially for A nation like Japan, which depends on constant oil supplies for its war- machine. America at once declared itself against any alteration of the status quo in these islanda after the
Nazi Invasion of Holland.
U.S.S.R.
There i. one other Power interested in claims of the Japanese-Russia. Though Russia is not terri- torially affected in the pre- sent area of debate, any change in the balance of power in Asia would directly interest the Soviet Union. Russia has constantly up- ported
China against Japan's aggression.
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The line-up is clear. What remains to be seen is whether concerted action can be taken against the Japanese claims or whether
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more "appeasement” will be tried to stave off difficulties. The situation is reminiscent of Europe from 1930 to 1938-but with this difference: Japan has laid all her cards on the table. She has stated her ambitions en bloc and at one time--not piecemeal, with false pro- mises of "no more territorial ambitions" in Asia.
No more trade with
France
ALL trade between
Great Britain and" France has been stopped by Government order. What does that mean to us-and to France?
In the last normal trade - year, 1938, we imported French goods worth £23,838,000, and sold France nearly as much.
There was this striking differ- ence, however, in the character of of the trades. What we bought were mainly luxury goods, which we should learn to do without now, anyway; what France bought of us were mainly essentials of every- day life.
Coal, for instance. That was our biggest item of export to France, 6.155,000 tons of It in 1938, worth £6,540,000, South Wales will be sorely hit by the loss of this trade. Olher big single Hems were; machinery, £1,427,000; vehicles, 2500,000; woollen goods, £579,- 000; chemicals, dyes, etc., £735,000 --all things that France will find it very hard to do without and dificult Germany.
just now to get, from
On the other hand, we shall miss, but can do..without, the 1,088,000 gallons of wine (value £1,400,000), and the 507,000 gallons of brandy (£050,000) the French sold us in single year. In the Ogures above, by the way, champagne slono accounted for. 438,000 gallons
(£910,000).
£1,000,000 worth of fresh fruit and vegetables wo had from France can be grown in our own gardens. Women will have to do without Paris fashions (France used to send us, about £700,000 worth of wear- ing apparel a year), hats, cosmetics, scents, lingerie, pure silk stockings, and cut flowers-all of them big Items in the trade returns.
The taste of Camembert and Brie
cheeses, of crystallised frulla, 'and many other good things to ent we' 'shall ́ ́also miss'. until the war in
over,
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St. John, Newfoundland, Aug. 22. A conference on common defenen between representatives of Canada and Newfoundland closed here last night. It was announced that a seneral agreement had been reached on all points involved. Newfoundland was given full con
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