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January 30, 1941.
China's
Fortunes
On The Mend
THE war in China has
by
O. M. GREEN
former Editor of the "North-China Daily News," writing in "The Listener.”
her man-power, especially as it is known, that her industries are feeling the want of labour, suddenly entered on
At the same time, it is clear an extremely interest-
that her foreign policy is caus- ing her no little perplexity. ing phase. After a
The signature of the Three spring and summer of
Power Pact is not working out almost complete quies-
at all as its authors expected, partly owing to Great Britain's cence, the Chinese have
refusal to be crushed by Hitler. taken the offensive in
owing all partly
to America's several directions and China's fortunes seemed at explicit and experience
of Americans from have scored notable suc- their lowest ebb. Yet her through the war has shown that pugnacious reactions. The eva-
such reports are generally trust- cuation people remained undaunted; At the same
worthy. The Japanese would be Japan, and many also from Even before the Burma well aware
China, has made the Japanese of the tremendous time, there is much to Road was reopened they moral effect which their abari. public so uneasy that Mr Mat- suoka, the Foreign Minister, suggest that the Japan- had begun to hit back at donment of such a place was recently driven to issue a are finding their their enemy with vicious Nanning-even if it were done statement saying that he cannot
.cesses.
ese
.
voluntarily would have all conceive what has Induced through China. Also its pos8CB- America to take such steps as present position in force.
BOOT ON THE
sion opens the way to Lung the situation in the Far East China too great for their
chow, a port through which has not in any way been: strength and are des- OTHER LEG
from Hongkong the Chinese did changed by the Three Power perately trying to
In central China around a lot of trade before they lost Pact.
Nanning. They are reported rectify it.
THE SOUTHWARD the Lower Yangtse, the already to have regained Lùng-
MOVEMENT Let us look back a little fighting which began in late chow. In the past twelve months September spreads. over so Fate has dealt hardly with huge a field, probably not manding in these operations is sidered. The case with which
The Chinese General com-
Another factor is to be con-
the Chinese. Just a year less than two hundred miles Pai Chung-hsi, the most brilliant Japan has established herself in BRANKSTON: At Queen Mury los ago they lost Nanning, a square, that I can only men- of all the Chinese leaders. He is Indo-China has converted many pital, A. D. Brankston (Archie) key-point near the border of tion two points. One was the idol of his troops, hardy Japanese leaders to what the the late Mrs. Brankson of Shang- Indo-China. This meant the the recapture of a town mountaineers of Kwangsi, the Navy has always preached, passing monument at Funeral loss of a valuable road by called Matang on the south province which borders Inde- namely that Japan's destiny lies Asia. This certainly begins to éredible distances on the meagre look more attractive than the which they had drawn sup-bank of the Yangtse, the China, men who can march in- on the sea and in Southern plies through the French possession of which should rations. They are probably the
Army's prolonged and expensive Colony. Then the Japanese enable the Chinese to worry most formidable soldiers in failure to crush General Chiang Kai-shek. There is no lack of Hongkong Telegraph. pushed up the Yangtse and Japan's shipping up and China.
seized Ichang at the foot down the river considerably. THE BURMA ROAD close observers who believe that of the mountain barrier The other is the defeat of a One word about the Burma Japan is planning to pull in her through which the Great
Japanese force at Shaoh- Road. The Japanese claim to horns as far as she can without THE prenx "special to the Telegraph" River passes down the sing. It happens to be the have cut it to pieces with bombs, loss of material interests in indieste aswa whlen Keletly famous gorges. This gave most famous wine-growing. The Chinese assert positively China, in order to launch out on that traffic continues regularly now schemes of spoliation in under the provisions of the Telecommuni- them an air base within five district in China, but is along it without serious inter- Indo-China and other possible beard the indication "Ut is received in hundred miles of Chung- chiefly interesting because it ruption. In this connectin it regions.
Be that as it may, she cer- to be remembered that
suc- tainly has excellent reasons for serve all rights and Torbid celicious, king, of which they have lies close to Hangchow Bay. is either wholly or in part wout previous made merciless use to bomb It was the landing of a Japanese aviators never
or ments in China. It has often the capital. Then came the Japanese army in Hangehow ceeded in interrupting railway trying to reduce her commit- French collapse, the Japan- Bay in October, 1937, which three hours; and that during the been pointed out that she never THE wars in Europe and Asia ese control of northern Indo- turned the Chinese flank at fighting at Shanghai three years ought to have allowed herself to are long affairs and before they China and the closure of the Shanghai and forced them age they never hit the motor-launch out from the five north are over the face of many things railway into South China; to retreat. Now the boot is road to Nanking, though it was ern provinces, which she easily right under their noses and overran in the first two months abounds in bridges,
of the war. They are stuffed of facts now strange and un-finally, the closing for three on the other leg.
with the things she needs coal, thinkable will have become com-months of the Burma Road. Greatest triumph of all was
While there is no doubt about iron, cotton, etc. The lie monplace. In Asia already the It is true that the Chinese the Chinese recapture of Nan- what happened at Nanning next to Manchurin, her own and have for the figures of the dead and wounded had three times sharply de- ning on October 29, after
The there are also distinct indica- ground, have climbed over the million mark since August, 1936. In feated the Japanese, when week's hard fighting.
to shorten their the south and west, caslly de- Europe the corresponding figures they tried to extend their Japanese say they gave up Nan- tions that the Japanese are most part a natural frontier of are in their hundreds of grip.
But this could not ning voluntarily as their occupa- preparing
tion of Northern Indo-China had alarmingly long lines elsewhere. fended, the Yellow River, China But The Chinese report that the ex- could never have evicted her. thousands,
compensate them for the made It useless to them. Both totals will grow and loss of their last direct com- this is highly improbable. The treme south of China is practi- Instead, the Japanese Generals munications with the sea. Chinese official reports are quite cally clear of them. They have allowed themselves to be led on
A WAR PROBLEM
will be changed; the acceptance
in their impersonal, colourless columns will be the names or people acknowledged to be great among us; the names of young- sters whose unlived lives fell before the dull bruta- lism of bombs; the names of the aged whose sky- lighted passing must be fraught with frustration that an allotted span had not exceeded the age of carnage,
In point of fact the world faces a drustic curtailment of white peoples! which will be particularly pointed
PRIVATE LIFE OF A PRIVATE
Getting Into
WATER
HOT
because of the drain on males and from the diary of a journalist
the accentuation of unbalance pro- duced by the Arst World War. These ravages will take generations
to be so acute because
The position in Asia
will
e
who is now a soldier,
ET ready for a bath." said
90
starved!"
*
a
services for more than two
withdrawn from Blas Bay near all over China by Insane ambi- Hongkong. They are believed tions of conquest-and-illusory Ito be getting out of Swutow-. dreams of a new order in East one hundred and seventy-five Asia', and now the problem is miles north of Hongkong. They to trim the cloth of their tat- are reported to be reducing the tered garment to a more wear- garrison in Shanghai. And the able pattern. Chinese think that they are also
THE PRICE OF AGGRESSION
are
considering a withdrawal from CHINA IS CONFIDENT Ichang, the place I mentioned a But will that be easy? The moment ago.
Chinese have already a regular That part of China which the army of two-and-a-half millions. Japanese have invaded is two Their estimated available man- The Yorkshireman says, "Eh, I'm thousand miles long and in power is twenty-three millions. places, eight hundred to one They also have at least one The Good Boy from Godalming Army career; and adds, "I'm boiled." over this, they are estimated to las are indifferently armed, it is uses the first naughty word of his thousand miles deep. Scattered million guerrillas. The guerril one million men, few true, but they are so agile that the Sergeant," "Get your
A thick steam rises, impregnated have with the smell of a dozen kinds of enough to hold down so huge a it is impossible to pin them towels and your soap. has always been prolific and faminer "Don't let me catch nobody soap, from the good old biting red territory, of which fully three--down to pitched battle, and they
carbolic to
to the scented stuff that fim quarters behind and between are invaluable in harrying the to which millions have succumbed have hund
little
permanent effect: trying to duck out of it, or
There is a sound of slapping. Then the Japanese lines is still com- Japanese from behind, cutting women have suffered equally with help me I'll come and get him stars use
under the Chinese off their supplies most of the men and concubinage has always if he's in the middle of a shoe-nevitably-somebody starts to sing, pietely
guerrillas, by 'the' way, It is the Kid from Widnes, with Government's control. been a means balance a
a dispropor- shine. shave or a haircut, and
I. don't
armed with Japanese weapons tlonate number of females.
Although the Battle of Britain has run him into the cooler so fast bis everlasting "Trees."
-and they are making a mess heavy toll of civilians it is his feet won't touch the ground! know why a man bursts into cong taken a
of the Japanese communica- .. "Come on there! Get out of it as soon as he gets into warm water. a fair assumption that the manpower
The Ingleton Grocer lets out a few
Besides her armies in China, tions. of all tho
the belligerents will suffer Towels under your arms! Cicanli bars of "On Ilkley Moor Baht 'At," greatest losses. Germany early saw ness is next to godliness, and there and the Tall Boy from Sunderland Japan has to keep some three Wherever the Japanese may the need of a greatly increased birth- fore compulsory."
The Lad from the Elephant and retaliates with a couple of bursts of hundred thousand men in Man- try to shorten their Ines, the rate and offered financial induce-
churia, and at least as many, Chinese will be at them like ments to larger families. France Castle asked if the water was hot, the Volga Boat Song,
"La the water hot?" sold the Ser-
probably some thousands more, hornets. As is well known, followed suit and Italy soon took up
with dreadful scorn. "'Yes. Then the Sergeant raises le voice. in Koren, Formosa and Japan there is nothing more difficult the cry. Under the Nazi regime the geant.
The howitzer roars against the itself. Her losses in the war, in warfare than a rearguard financial prize was not sufficient and the water is hot.
"And I'm going to wash your little popguns: almost officially, re- the Germans from marriage, en- back, I am, and rub you with eau Outside! Out of 11! You grent killed, died of disease and dis- action, and the Japanese would thede ruddy Cologne, and dust your babies! I have to chase you in, and fabled, are estimated by neutral have to fight not one but fifty of couraged promiscuity among
then I have to chase you out! Come observers at about three- these without enough men to young unmarried and bullled the little tummy with violet powder.
"Get cracking! Is the water hol? onl"
concentrato efficiently at any lawfully wed into furnishing young- sters
the for
State,
Japan is now What is Unis Army coming to?"
Here is another important point against the swarms of looking nakanee at her own popula- tlon and in secking on average family The bath-house is long and severe, "It's funny to see the change. fact. The Japanese Ministry of Chinese attackers,
Bismarck, I believe, once said five. Britain's birthrate was the scoured by fatigue-men to a naked When they first come, they're like Welfare recently drew serious serious concern of the Government a
sly little girls. They stand just like attention to the fact that out of that there were a hundred ways it is made up of cubicles. In each the bird in that picture 'September two million seven hundred thou- of getting into England, but few years ago when attention was drawn to the decline in population rublele there is a shower, with an in- Mut now, they're at their case. Sand youths between the age of only one of getting out. I do but Government nover took the mat-dicator marked "Cold-Tepid-Hot-
They forget how they use to need fifteen and twenty-five when not for a moment imagine that to the point of intrusion into the off."
to "Cold," and, sure privacy.
medically examined, only twen- the Japanese even begin to out. Turn Evacuation of masses of popular enough, cold water com
"They eat in one room, sleep inty-seven per cent. passed the think of getting out of China. tions, the enforced separation of it to "Tepid," and cold water still one room, bath in one room, and tests, owing to the low standard Nor do the Chinese, who frank- husbands and wives fighting in dis- comes out. Try "Hot," and the rose don't give a damn.
There's one thing to be said for of living in Japan. Yet the ly admit that they have still. jant lands and the prospects of of the shower goes off like Ok Re-
war give these problems a liable, the Great Geyser, in an awful it, this life. It broadens your out- Japanese Military Propaganda long struggle and possibly many keener noto. It is possible that the
of boiling water and super- look. It knocks some of the ruddy Department is urging the people disappointments yet to face. Lexplosion of "test tubo" baby may again makes heat steam.
to make still greater sacrifices But they are perfectly confident, its bow on the platform of
public
Somewhere between. "Hot" and "It makes the rookies get together and to cut down their eating, and more and more foreigners consideration. Experiments on human "Tepid" there is a point at which nice as man to man. It's do them a particularly of rice, their staplo agree with them, that sooner or beings have shown that the theory warm water can be got. But this is warld of good.....
"Come on, come on, edma ON diet.
later the Japanese, who plunged can be put into practice and remain a delicate thing to aclfieve. safe. To all but exceptional people
With these figures before one, Into China so casily, will realise Getting at it is like balancing a D'you want celluloid ducks to play the idea is repugnant and unnatural, feather on the end of your nose you with?
one may well conclude that that to get out again is a very but war has a way of breaking down can't do it unless you nee born with "Get out of then showers, you Japan is feeling the strain on different matter. theso prejudices, “
the knack..
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As the noise subsides, I hear him quarters of a million. remarking to a corporal:-
nonsense out of you,
#lasics, and get dressed!"