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How Sanctions Would Hit the Japanese
Nor does he think that Tokyo has
A detailed study prepared average Japanese was one- portant machinery producer ed dependence on imports by a leading Chinese econo- quarter that of the average not actually at war and from the U.S.A. mist and just made public American. Since then it within reach. indicates that the U.S.A., by has dropped by 46 per cent, economic sanctions, can and
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5. The best barometer reached the point of col- the bottom isn't in of the trouble Tokyo is en- lapse,
ING HYDRAULIC BRAKE sharply reduce aggressive sight.
countering in trying to But from the data he has | Japan's ability to wage war.
Since the average Japa- keep her war machine go- gathered-and it must be The report says Japan is nese was broke to begin ing is her shipbuilding in- regarded as reliable, though without most of the sinews with, the drop since 1936 dustry, vital because of Mr Hu is a Chinese writing of war and depends on for- has come not out of luxuries Japan's dependence on for about Japan, for he is the eign trade to get them. such as autos and radios, cign trade, and vital as author of previous reports Unlike her Axis partner, but out of food. Even the auxiliaries for her flect. on Japan the accuracy of Germany, she does not have Japanese Army has found Annual capacity of Japa- which has been proved--it is either the advanced machine what this means: 40 por nese yards is 800,000 tons possible still in an effort to industries 01' scientific cent of the young Japanese (for purposes of compari- ease her headaches. techniques to get along called up for military ser-son: about one-third of Bri- For instance, the catas- chiefly on
Most vice have to be rejected.
tain's normal peace-time trophie drop in the real in- Japanese war imports come 3. The Army's huge capacity). Actual output come of the average Japan-
levies plus industry's en has been:
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ACKNOWLEDGMENT
Mr. A. E. Coales and daughters and
Miss L. M. de Souza express their deep gratitude to all friends sions of sympathy, Boral tributes
and relatives for their expres-
and attendance at the funeral of
the late Mrs. Gladys Coates. They wish to record their appre- ctation to the sisters and nurse of the Theresa's IIospital,
iso to the doctors and the
ersatz.
from the U.S.A. and the British Empire.
"Unless Japan can have BY LEONARD ENGEL
continued access to the
18
1030
455,000 tong
ese-how much food, cloth- ing and housing he can buy is due partly to climbing prices. Official Japanese material resources of the hanced demands for labour 1937
454,000 tona figures show a 50 per cent U.S.A. and the British Em- are stripping Japan's fields Sept. 1938-Aug., 1030 432,000 tons rise in retail prices since pire, and of areas within the of the all-important rice Sept., 1930-Aug., 1940 328,000 tons 1937; actual prices are some- range of their influence, growers. Tokyo this year Other declines in output what higher. To cope with whether through normal is having to take drastic have been reported in gold, this, Tokyo has instituted trade channels or a measures to prevent a rice coal, copper, petroleum and several price control special diplomatic conces- shortage, partly as a result railroad rolling stock. schemes, but they have been sion, she can never hope to of this and partly as a result Though the bulk of Japan's largely nullified by "black develop sufficient strength of a drought in Korea, copper and petroleum must markets." The answer - even to cope with the 'China Japan's first colony on the be imported, some of each is more rigid price controls. incident,'.let alone to realise mainland of Asia.
produced in the Island Em- her grandiose dream of the 4. Employment in Japan pire.
Another example: the Hongkong Telegraph. "Greater East Asia Co- is at an all-time high. Un- 6. The decline in ship-
Prosperity Sphere,'" the employment is almost un-building is significant be- Tokyo Government has had study declares.
known; there is a general cause
so many key raw increasing trouble in selling The report was prepared labour shortage, as well as materials enter into ships. bonds to pay for the war. The Bank of Japan, Govern- by T. Y. Hu, director of the an acute shortage of skilled Severe shortages are in-
Factories a redicated. Here is a list of ment central bank, has had Chinese Council, for Eco-workers.
to hold a larger and larger
Father for their kindness and
attention.
The
Thursday, July 31, 1941.
Wyndham St., Hongkong Telephone: 26615
THE predz "Epecial to the Telegraph"
i used by the Hongkong Telegraph to under the provisions of the Telecommuni-
Indicate hows which li strictly copyright
cations Ordinance, 1938, Buch powS AS bears the Indication “UP” is received ta Hongkong on the date of publication by Lo United Press Associations, wlio, re-
either wholly or in part without previous RITARKOIEnt
RUSSIA'S GREAT FIGHT
Churchill on his weighed words that we cannot expect Russla or America to win this war for us, but we are mightily comforted by the superb Oght that the Red Army and Air
indicated Tokyo remedy:
nomic Research in Washing. Working at close to capa- some of the more important ton. It is one of the first city. Two-fifths of Japan's of the raw materials which amount of the bonds, The Rerve all rights and forbid republications, detailed pictures of, what workers work 12 hours a are imported, and of Japan's the use of force to make inside the day, and most of the rest 10. customary is happening
sources for
private Japanese banks and poverty-stricken, ambitious This can't be increased; the them:
citizens take the bonds. In Island Empire after four Government, as a matter of
Iron ore, Malaya and the other words, the Japanese No one will take Issue with Mr years of war with China. fact, found it necessary two
and a half years ago to rule Philippines; oil, the Dutch will do what the Nazis did East Indies and (all except when the ordinary laws of out more than 12 hours of the higher aviation grades) economics got in the way of a day. Japanese the U.S.A.; copper, at least their armament effort, they These are the highlights: work 1. Japan's industrial ma- labour is working very until recently, the U.S.A,; used police power to break chine, after a decade of run- nearly as many hours as. tin, Malaya; rubber, Ma- the laws of economics, ning at ever higher speed, human beings can work laya; machinery, the U.S.A. has begun to run down in But still the goods of war
7. All the indications provide oil. That takes Turning to reports of the actuat the last year. It is more and the necessities of life do
not come from the factories that Japan is in an econo- either a synthetic fuel in- front it is revealing to find the Ger-dependent than ever on fast enough. mans making false and over-optimis- what it can get in the way
mic jam showed a turn for dustry and a swarm of the worse at the same time crackerjack chemists or an This means that Japan last summer. That was outside source. The same tie communiques on the progress of the Invasion of Russin-a strategen of tools, iron and steel, oil that the Relchswehr have
and other goods from the must build new factories
with more modern machin- precisely when Japan ran applies to other raw mate into her most serious mili- ALU.S.A.
ery, or improve old ones.
rials. Since Japan, hasn't the technique or the indus-
Force is putting up and the courage ous stand on our behalf by the United
States which is proving literally to be the arsenal of democracy.
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most at the outset they declared that
But police power can't
2. Japan's people are But this is particularly diffi-tary difficulties in China. the Russian air force had been wiped paying for the war by a cult if all access to the Mr Hu doesn't carry his try, Japan's principal sup- is to-day not only giving adequate frightful lowering of their markets of the U.S.A. is cut discussion of conditions in plier is in a position to exert Before off. The U.S.A, aside from Japan beyond pointing out effective pressure. From living, standards.
trom the skies yet this same force
support to the armies on all fronts,
but it actually finds the extra margin 1937, the real income of the the USSR, is the only im-the Island Empire's increas- "P. M." (New York).
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BOMBED
to enable peraltent bombing of the Rumanian oil fields.. Divisions of the Red Army have been "annihilated" only to prove strong and irksome im- pediments in the rear of the Nazi army, threatening the isolation of the
When the British raids firat. This is an eye-witness story of the effect of R.A.F. bombing Rohrergasse,
A whole row, invaders' advance forces and bamper-began we
were careless and raids on German cities. It is told by a German who lived in from the Burgergesellschaft to ing supplies of petrol and munitions ping to the front. Of the Red Fleet didn't trouble to go down the Cologne until a few weeks ago and who has reached New York the Appellhofplatz, was down. tittle has been heard but it is doing shelters in the basements of our after travelling in a sealed train from Berlin to Paris and thence I saw it by leaning over the rope something in cantesting domination houses (each basement being to Lisbon. His story of what happened in Cologne is the story and looking round a wall. I of the Baltic Sea and will certainly joined to the next by a door of what is happening in Berlin, Hamburg, Bremen, Mannheim, saw nine bodies brought out keep some German naval forces en- which we were obliged by law and other cities of the Reich visited by the R.A.F. gaged that area.
Admiration will be given unstin-
-military forces hnd Invading me
In towns which
pass
to make). Then, months ago,
from premises on the Teuton- burgerstrasse, and afterwards
were only three killed.
it was said officially 'that there
tingly to the Red Anny, which has the raids began to increase and done. Though the soldiers are if they say a word to anyone. net fanatical and suicidal onslaughts grew more terrible until, on with a phlegm worthy of the greatest March 10 or 12, there was a raid cheerful and belleve Germany is Sometimes we see the damage
I have seen or heard of con- which lasted from about ten in winning the war, the people do that happened when the West ed or
or surrounded they continue to re-
the evening until three or four not know and do not believe the railway bridge was hit, and aiderable damage in the suburba when the suspension bridge was of Bayenthal, Klettenberg, Sulz, sist so fiercely that the enemy, haited in the morning and caused things they are told.
closed for some days, and when Braunsfield, Ehrenfeld, Nippes, head-
a time bomb fell in front of the Kalk and Deutz, Centrul railway, station.
DO. TRADE MARK
MADE IN ENGLAND
in what he thought would be
ty of their stupidity." Hitler has
ong progress, has complained biller-
ead great havoc.
Since then people have been.
he has thrown uncounted young men
into
Hongkong Benevolent Society
Room - 11, Ice House Street...
The Society'ï› Room will be open on
MONDAYS & THURSDAYS
fromƑ10 ̄A.M. to noon
been silent of late as well he may for very depressed. We were not
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One night after a raid there
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We also heard that saboteurs, One day I tried to go on the or an enemy spy, had purtly do- stray which had no justification permitted to speak of the raids, was a great fire at the works electric railway to Godesburg, stroyed a big anti-aircraft. on- even before his own people, and no but sometimes, in shops, when of I. G. Farben Bayer, which
nc
back or whether they will return with
ne knows how many ho will bring there were no secret police near, we were able to see across the but the trains were cancelled campment in a fleld at Wahin, victory. Certainly the fall of Moscow you would hear women talking Rhine. But the next day we because bombs had fallen on the near Deutz.. or Leningrad wid not decide the In low voices about the damage heard that all the children of between Wesseling and Godes- Hermann Gooring steelworks
isque.
and there is great anger over.
the treatment of Catholics, though no one speaks his thoughts. Priests can no longer. walk through the streets bo-
✩ the officials and employees of burg, and because there was' no, Hungary and Rumania may be satisfied with plices of territory When though we have warned that we will the company who live at Wice much damage that they could COLOGNE is a Catholic city. have, niready, been yielded and may
not allow sympathy for that small dorf Leverkusen were assem- require further German stiffening angle of Europe to deter us from bled and told by their teachers not get the trains past the
place.. that there had been no fire, and Finland will almost certainly be satis our pursuit of Hitlerism. fled with the restoration of the terr! There is, therefore, every reason they were not to say there had forles recently wrested from her but, to hope that the Russians will more been a fire. though not the jackals. that the than keep their end up. In a war Humans and the Magyara hoye proved of endurance, they have the great to be, they may not feel able to abun-advantage of being on their own tore to factories because the work- the city, I myself anw ten build- dron whom the Nazi Party off- Jon-thefe alllages with the enemy ritory, having tumurable reserves There are mixed feelings about Find a vast hinterland to which winter people know woll what will hap-ings in a row blown away by a cinlts and police encourage and land and that are "is best not kindled will soon coms as an invaluable ally. pen to them and their families British bomb. It was in the protect from punishment,
We hear little of damago dono.
In Old Cologne, the centre of cause they are, insulted by chil