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Evacuation From China
A locally unpublicised but tremendously important" chapter on Japanese-Ameri- can trade relations in China, having direct bearing on the evacuation advice from Wa-. shington, concerns the re- cent crisis forced upon the foreign oil companies operat ing in China by the Japaneso controlling the occupied areas, says the Shanghai correspondent of the "Chris- tian Science Monitor." In. this test the Japanese have now come out loser, not only in the immediate issue. but in the whole train of re- cent events toward which this secret chapter contri- buted.
The crisis came when the Japanese tried to force two things upon the oil companies- import control for Central China. similar to that already in effect in North China, and réplacement' of foreign oil, company trade- marks on their tins with marks of the Japanese who now mono- polise retail trade in the oc- cupied area.
Demands Rejected Rejecting these demands, the American oil companies followed up with the significant move of advising their personnel to stand ready for evacuation of their families. This was done prior to the Washington advice to all Far East Americans. Very like- ly this was designed to give the Japanese a shock. All the for- eign oil companies, British ag well as American, stood firm on
the proposition that they would
Bources.
January 4, 1941.
FASCIST
ANOTHER CLASSIC BUST UNEARTHED IN GREECE
(from the "Philadelphia Record.")
What Sort
Are These
of Men Greeks?
like
Wine is very
cognac and wine cost
close down rather than yield, it THIS is practically, the Stais is a Cypriot, and, entertainment.
understood from reliabla only story about Greece like most Cypriots, is 100 cheap and beer is very dear. Subsequently the Washington Greeks had a word for it. per cent. Greek. That com- something like tuppence a glass. that doesn't say that the per cent. British and 100 You see, the normal drinks advice (believed to be largely based on Anglo-American under- The Greeks haven't a word bination makes him 200 per Beer costs ninepence, You're standing and the announced Bri- for it. They are just as cent. anti-Italian. We had throwing a party beyond the tish intention to reopen the speechless as the rest of us another glass of the wine of ordinary when you serve beer. Burma Road into China) came about the whole business of Samos, and he spoke of the out, affecting all Americans and
Average wage is about £4 a administering a terrific though war.
tough little Greek warriors month for better-class people. quietly received shock to Japan- ese who had been anticipating a
Over a glass of Samian Italian advance.
who are now holding up the They live like fighting cocks on that. If they pay 10s, a month general foreign backdown before wine-Byron eulogised the
for their villa, they are in the the "New Order in East Asia" same drink if you remember
He knows something swank class. juggernaut.
about them, for, like most Greek restaurant in Percy-with Venizelos in the last the Near East don't eat bread -Proprietor Stais, of the
These hardy little men who good Cypriots, he joined up have become the guardians of street, W., said:-
Publicity throughout the oil company crisis, was rigorously avolded because of the no doubt well-founded belief by the com-
war. He was transferred and cheese like our Tommies. panies that anything printed in
"Like most people, we to the British forces and They carry in their pack wooden to have an adverse effect uponing the way fighting goes IMPLE, agricultural people brown, oily, lovely olives. this part of the world was bound don't particularly like fight- fought at Salonika.
bottles in two pieces that screw into each other. In the wooden their negotiations.
bottle they carry olives-dark
Once the
element of "face" was involved nowadays. But we do like S they are. The country is for the Japanese, it was felt by taking a smack at the ma- small and rugged, and the TMPORTANT in the social life the foreign side, there would be caroni-eaters."
an almost if not completely un- surmountable obstacle in the way of a Japanese retreat from the position taken. According- ly not a whisper got out, in spite of the fact that oil com- pany officials were called to Shanghai all the way from North China and that there were other outward signs of "something doing."
Japan Backs Down
By the time the Japanese
finally concluded to back down,
people find most of their own
CHINA DROPS
LATINISATION
OF LANGUAGE
they had had additional evidence AFTER long debate, the ated to have 23,206 monosylin-coats under their army tunica.
that there was reason to do so.
memories. Latinisation
heroes.
of the Greck soldier is his waistcoat. When he gets him- self engaged to a girl, it is her pride and joy to sit for hour after hour and embroider a waistcoat for him. Involved, cunning patterns are stitched into it, colours are woven on top of each other in a gay loving pastiche. Every girl tries to make it bolder, more flam- boyant than any other one in the village. They're not sup- posed to, but most of the boys wear their engagement waist-
Gay, swarthy little men these project 'of official ble characters, # staggering mountain soldiers. They have Anglo-American Far East col Chinese support of a Latini- number for the best
of an historic inspiration. They laboration appeared finally to
two have become a fact, and there sation of the Chinese write ploys five new dipthonga, dis-They have their ancient heroes
em-have
sets of heroes. were two dramatic developments ten language has been aban- cards the letters h. q, and v, and and they have their modern only a week before the quiet de- cision not to press the onslaught
doned. The National uses the rest of the alphabet. against the of companies the Government Ministry of It is declared by some to be Byron comes first of the one, Britain's announcement Education has decided that superior to the Wade Romanian- Moderns. Of the Ancients, that the Burma Road would be opened to China supplies after for both pedagogic and still cannot surmount the pro-
tion and other systems but it why, even the Greek waiter will
hurl Pericles at you.. three months of closure, and the political reasons, the tradi- blem of differing dialects an
There are mighty other, Washington's advice that
tional Chinese character issue that does not arise when
monuments of our power non-essential Americans should
which will make us the leave the Far East.
best serves Chinese pur- Chinese characters are used. wonder of this and of suc-
The word "," with different in- ceeding ages, ・ ・ poses.
. For we tonations, has 113 different have compelled every land dren, the oil companies followed For A decado or more, characters each with a different and every aca to open a up their earlier discreet threat Latinisation hos been pro- meaning.
path for our valour and have everywhere planted eternal memorials of our friendship and our enmity. Such is the city for whose sake these men
nobly fought and died; they could not bear the thought that sho night be taken from them; and every one of us who survive should gladly toll on her behalf." The little swarthy mon have not forgotten.
In the first moves toward evacuation of wives and chil
ค
by taking a leading part. How-moted by a small group and a Those favouring retention of over, It now appears clear that few years ago a monthly the old characters say that only language a problem is developing with re- | English
magazine 2,000 to 4,000 are actually in forenco to how far the American | (Communistic in sympathy) everyday use, and Dr Y. C. evacuation should go. There is was started in Shanghal where James ("Jimmy") Yon has no desire on the part of the oil in all Chinese words were achieved wonders in educating companies, the banks, traders expressed in a now system illiterates to read with only 1,000 In motorcars, and a thousand particularly striking through its carefully chosen characters. other American commodities to liberal employment of the letter Books have been written and clear out, because any such move "X" as "Xura" for the word newspapers published with only entails a possibility that the crials usually written "Hwa."
the Yen thousand-character list, may go no further but that their
point out that Chinese is estim- weeks at the most.
Supporters of the movemont which can be mastered in a fow
place may be taken in their absence by others not easy to dislodge.
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