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DEATHI
Fortunes
The Mend
by
O. M. GREEN
former Editor of the "North-China Daily Nows," writing in "The Listener."
·
and
her man-power, especially as it is known that her industries suddenly entered on
are feeling the want of labour. an extremely interest-
At the same time, it is clear. that hor foreign policy is caus- ing phase. After a
ing her no little perplexity. spring and summer of
The signature of the Threo. Power Pact is not working out. almost complete quies-
at all as its authors expected, cence, the Chinese have
partly owing to Great Britain's taken the offensive in
refusal to be crushed by Hitler, to America's owing several directions and China's fortunes seemed at explicit
experience
all partly their lowest ebb. Yet her through the war has shown that pugnacious reactions. The eva- have scored notable suc-
of Americans from people remained undaunted, such reports are generally trust- cuation cesses. At the same
worthy. The Japanese would be Japan, and many also from Even before the Burma well aware of the tremendous China, has made the Japanoso time, there is much to Road was reopened they moral effect which the tous public so uneasy that Mr Mat- suggest that the Japan-had begun to hit back at donment of such a place as suoka, the Foreign Minister, ese are finding their their enemy with vicious Nanning-even if it were done was recently driven to lead a statement saying that he cannot. voluntarily would have all
what has conceive
Induced present position in force.
through China. Also its posses- America to take auch stops as China too great for their
BOOT ON THE sion opens the way to Lung the situation in the Far East
OTHER LEG
chow, a port through which has strength and are des-
not in any way bean 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. rectify it..
the Lower Yangtse, the Nanning. They are reported
THE SOUTHWARD already to have regained Lung- Let us look back a little. fighting which began in late chow. In the past twelve months September spreads over so
MOVEMENT The Chinese General com- Another factor is to be con- Fate has dealt hardly with huge a field, probably not
manding in these operations is sidered. The ease with which the Chinese. Just a year less than two hundred miles Pai Chung-hsi, the most brilliant Japan has established herself in BRANKSTON At Queen Mary Hos- ago they lost Nanning, square, that I can only men- of all the Chinese lenders. He is Indo-China has converted many sus of Mr. A. B. Drankston and key-point near the border of tion two points. One was the idol of his troops, hardy Japanese leaders to what the the late Mro. Brankston of Shang Indo-China. This meant the the recapture of a town mountaineers of Kwangsi, the Navy has always preached, passing monument at 5. loss of a valuable road by called Matang on the south province which borders Indo- namely that Japan's destiny lies which they had drawn sup-bank of the Yangtse, the China, men who can march in on the sen and in. Southern credible distances on the meagre look more attractive than the Asia. This certainly begins to plies through the French
possession of which should rations. They are probably the Colony. Then the Japanese enable the Chinese to worry most formidable soldiers Army's prolonged and expensive failure to crush General Chiang Hongkong Telegraph. pushed up the Yangtse and Japan's shipping up and China.
Kai-shek. There is no lack of 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 presx 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 indicate Dewi which is strict copyright famous gorges. This gave most famous wine-growing- The Chinese assert positively China, in order to launch out on under the provisions of the Telecommunt them an air base within five district in China, but is along it without serious inter- Indo-China and other possible that traffic continues regularly new schemes of spoliation in bears the indication "U" is received in hundred miles of Chung chiefly interesting because it ruption. In this connectin it regions, the United From Associations, who a king, of which they have lies close to Hangchow Bay, is to bo remembered that Be that as it may, she cer- either wholly or in part without previous made merciless use to bomb it was the landing of a Japanese aviators never suc- tainly has excellent reasons for the capital. Then came the Japanese army in Hangchow ceeded in interrupting railway trying to reduce her commit- services for more than two or ments in China. It has often 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 ago 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 ig road to Nanking, though it was ern provinces, which she easily will be changed; the acceptance
right under their noses and overran in the first two months of facts now strange and un- finally, the closing for three on the other leg.
abounds in bridges.
of the war. They are stuffed thinkable will have become com-months of the Burma Road.
Greatest triumph of all was
with the things she needs-coal, monplace. In Asia already the It is true that the Chinese the Chinese recapture of Nan- While there is no doubt about iron, cotton, etc. The lic figures of the dead and wounded had three times sharply de- ning on October 29, after a what happened at Nanning next to Manchuria, her own have climbed over the million
hard fighting. The there are also distinct indica- ground, and have for the mark since August, 1986. In feated the Japanese when week's 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 their the south and west, easily de- fre 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 compensate them for the made it useless to them. But The Chinese report that the ex- could never have evicted her. 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 in their impersonal, colourless columne will be the names of munications with the sea. Chinese official reports are quite cally clear of them. They have allowed themselves to be led on people acknowledged to be great |-among-us;-the-names-of-young-
to-day.
The
5.15 pm.
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news
cations Urdinance, 1936. Bach news a
Itongkang on the date of publication dy
servo all rights and forbid republications,
A WAR PROBLEM
thousands.
sters
of
whose unlived lives fell before the dull bruta- lism of bombs; the names the aged whose sky- lighted passing must be fraugist with frustration that an allotted apan had not exceeded the age of carnage.
In point of fact the world faces a drastic curtailment of white peoples which will be particularly pointed
PRIVATE-LIFE_OF_A_PRIVATE
Getting Into
HOT WATER
because of the drain on males and From the diary of a journalist
the accentuation of unbalance pro- duced by the Best World
These ravages will take
var.
who is now a soldier.
starved!"
stors use.
to shorten
in
withdrawn from Bias Bay near all over China by insane umbi- Hongkong. They are believed tions of conquest and illusory to be getting out of Swatow 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 CHINA IS CONFIDENT considering a withdrawal from
THE PRICE OF AGGRESSION
There is sound of slapping. Then the Japanese lines is still com- Japanese from behind, cutting Inevitably-somebody starts to sing. pletely under the Chinese off their supplies--most of the It is the Kid' from Widnes, with Government's control.
guerrillas, by the way, are don't
armed with Japanese weapons and they are making a mess of the Japanese communica- Besides her armies in China, tions.
Wherever the Japanese may hundred thousand men in Man- try to shorten their lines, the churia, and at least as many, Chinese will be at them like probably some thousands more, hornets. As is well known,
of all the belligny early saw ness is next to godliness, and there, and the Tall Boy from Sunderland Japan has to keep some three
up
*
Ichang, the place I mentioned a But will that be easy? The moment ago.
Chinese have already a régular That part of China which the army of two-and-a-half millions, Japancae 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 ET ready for a bath," said uses the first naughty word of his thousand miles deep. Scattered million guerrillas. The guerril Army career, and adds, "I'm bolled," over this, they are estimated to las are indifferently armed, it is the Sergeant, "Get your "A thick steam rises, impregnated have to remedy. The position In Asia
one million men, few true, but they are so agile that will scarcely be so acute because life towels and your soup.
with the smell of a dozen kinds of enough to hold down so huge a it is Impossible to pin them has always been prolife and famines
"Don't let me catch nobody soap, from the good old biting red territory, of which fully three- down to pitched battle, and they to which millions have succumbed
so carbolle to the scented stuff that Blin quarters behind and between are invaluable in harrying the have had little permanent effect; trying to duck out of it, or women have suffered equally with help me I'll come and get him men and concubinage has always if he's in the middle of a shoe- been a means to balance a dispropor-shine, shave or a haircut, and tlonate number of females.
Although the Battle of Britain hos run him into the cooler so fast is everlasting "Trees." taken a heavy toll of civilians it is his feet won't touch the ground! know why a man bursts into song a fair assumption that the manpower "Come on there) Get out of it! 05 800n as he gets into warm water. The Ingleton Grocer Jets out a few will suffer Towels under your arms! Cleanli bara of "On Ilkley Moor Baht At,” greatest lanses. the need of a greatly increased birth-fore compulsory." rate and
offered Anancial intucz
recom the Elephant and retaliates with a couple of bursts of ments to larger families.
Castle asked if the water was hot, the Volga Boat Song. followed suit and Italy
"I the water hot?" said the Ser- took soon the cry. Under the Nazi regime the geant, with dreadful scorn. "Yes. Then the Sergeant raises his volce.in Korea, Formosa and Japan there is nothing more difficult financial prize was not sufficient and the water hot.
The howitzer roars against the itself. Her losses in the war, in warfare than a rearguard almost oMelally, "And I'm going to wash your little popguns: moved the halo from inarriage, en-back, I am, and rub you with cau "Outside! Out of it! You grent killed, died of disease and dis action, and the Japanese would Med promiscuity among thede ruddy Cologne, and dust, your bables! I have to chase you in, and sabled, aro estimated by neutral have to fight not one but fifty of young unmarried and bullied the little tummy with violet powder. then I have to chase you out! Come observers nt about three- these without enough mon to
Gel cracking! Is the walor hatt on the noise, subsides, I hear him quarters of a million.
concentrate efficiently at any Here is another important point against the swarms of tion and is seeking an average family The bath-house is long and severe, "It's funny to see the change. fact. The Japanese Ministry of Chinese attackers. of five. Britain's birthrate was the scoured by fatigue-men to a naked When they first come, they're like Welfare recently drew serious Bismarck, I believe, once said serious concern of the Goverment
a purity.
shy little girls. They stand just like attention to the fact that out of that there were a hundred ways. few years ago when attention was IL made up of cubleles. In each the bird in that picture 'September: two million seven hundred thou- of getting into England, but drawn to the decline in population cubicle there is a shower, with an in- Morn now, they're but
Government nover took the mat- dicator marked "Cold-Tepid-Hol
at their care, sand youths between the age of only one of getting out. I do ter to the point of intrusion into the Of"
They forget how they use to need Afteen and twenty-five when not for a moment imagine that family He
Il to "Cold," and, sura Evacuation
privacy.
medically examined, only twen- the Japanese even begin to of misses
of popula- enough, cold water comes out. Turn
"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 "Tepld," 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 Ule e mere one thing to be said for of living in Japan. Yet the ly admit that they have still a tant lands and the prospects of a of the shower goes off like Old Ne- There's long war give these problems ailable, the Great Geyser, in an awful it, this life. It broadens your out- Japanese Military Propaganda long struggle and possibly many keener note, It is possible that the explosion of boiling water and super- look. It knocks some of the ruddy Department is urging the people disappointments yet to face. "test tube" baby may again makes heat stenm.
nonsense out of you.
to make still greater sacrifices But they are perfectly confident, Its bow on the platform of
of public Somewhere between "Hot" and "It makes the rookies gel together consideration. Experiments on human Tepld" there is a point at which nice as man to man. I'll do them and to cut down their eating, and more and more foreigners. beings have shown that the theory warm water can be got. But this is world of good.
particularly of rice, their staple agree with them, that sooner or: can be put into practice and remain delicate thing to achieve.
"Come on, come on, come ONI]diet.
Inter the Japanese, who plunged safe. To all but exceptional people Getting at It is like balancing a D'you want celluloid ducks to play With these figures before one, Into China so easily, will realise the kien is repugnant and unnatural, feather on the end of your nose-you with?
can't do it unless you are born with Get out of them showers, 30 Japan is feeling the strain on different matter."
may well conclude that that to get out again is a very... · these prejudices..
the Germans,
lawfully wed into furn what is this Army coming to?"
is now
sters for the State, looking askance at her own popula-
but war has a way of breaking down
Uie knack.
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remarking to a corporal-
stumn.
alsales, and. get' dressed!”
one
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