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ACKNOWLEDGMENT
How Sanctions Would
Hit
the
Japanese
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. Nor does mist and just made public American. Since then it within reach,
he think that Tokyo has
economic
indicates that the U.S.A., by has dropped by 46 per cent, 5. The best barometer reached the point of col-
sanctions, can and
the bottom isn't in of the trouble Tokyo is en- lapse.
countering in trying to. But from the data he has sharply reduce aggressive sight. 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 1996 dustry, vital because of Mr Hu is a Chinese writing of war and depends on for- has come not out of luxur es Japan's dependence on for- about Japan, for he is the eign trade to get them. such as autos and radios, eign trade, and vital as author of previous reports Unlike her, Axis partner, but out of food. Even the auxiliaries for her fleet. 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 per nese yards is 800,000 tons possible to see that Japan industries or scientific cent of the young Japanese (for purposes of compari- may go more totalitarian techniques to
get along called up for military ser- son: about one-third of Bri- still in an effort to ease her chiefly on ersatz. Most vice have to be rejected. tain's normal peace-time headaches.
Japanese war imports come 3. The Army's huge capacity). Actual output For instance, the catas-
from the U.S.A. and the British Empire.
levies plus industry's en- has been:
"Unless Japan can have BY LEONARD ENGEL
continued access to the
1938
455,000 tons
trophic drop in the real in- come of the average Japan- ese-how much food, cloth- ing and housing he can buy material resources of the hanced demands for labour 1937
454,000 tons ---is due partly to climbing U.S.A. and the British Em- are stripping Japan's fields Sept., 1930-Aug., 1949 432,000 tons prices. Official Japanese pire, and of areas within the of the all-important rice Sopt, 1930-Aug., 1940 320,000 tons figures show a 50 per cent Tokyo this year Other declines in output rise in retail prices since whether through normal is having to take drastic have been reported in gold, 1937; actual prices are some- range of their influence, growers.
as a measures to prevent a rice coal, copper, petroleum and what higher. To cope with rolling stock. this, Tokyo has instituted clation to the sisters and nurse special diplomatic conces- shortage, partly as a result railroad
Mr. A, E Coates and daughters and
Miss L. M. de Souza express their deep gratitude to all friends sions of sympathy, floral tributes and relatives, for their expres and attendance at the funeral of
Mrs. Gladya Contes. trade channels. or the late They wish to record their appre-
of Theresa's
attention.
the
Thursday, July 31, 1941. Wyndham St. Hongkong Telephone: 20015
THE prea "Special to the Telegraph"
in-
also to the doctors and the lesion, she can never hope to of this and partly as a result Though the bulk of Japan's several price control Father for their kindness and develop sufficient strength of a drought in Korea, copper and petroleum must schemes, but they have been even to cope with the 'China Japan's first colony on the be imported, some of each is largely nullified by "black incident,' let alone to realise mainland of Asia.
produced in the Island Em- markets." The answer -
more rigid price controls. her grandiose dream of the 4. Employment in Japan pire. 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
Another example: the study declares.
known; there is a general cause so many key raw The report was prepared labour shortage, as well as materials enter into ships. Tokyo Government has had increasing trouble in selling by T. Y. Hu, director of the an acute shortage of skilled Severe shortages are
are dicated. Here is a list of bonds to pay for the war. is used by the "longkong Telegraph to Chinese Council for Eco-workers. Factories
The Bank of Japan, Govern- under the provisions of the Telecommun nomic Research in Washing- working at close to capa-some of the more important ment central bank, has had ton. It is one of the first city. Two-fifths of Japan's of the raw materials which to hold a larger and larger serve all tights and forbid repabration, detailed pictures of what workers work 12 hours a are imported, and of Japan's amount of the bonds. The
is happening inside the day, and most of the rest 10. customary
the use of force to make poverty-stricken, ambitious This can't be increased; the them: Island Empire after four Government, as a matter of
Iron ore, Malaya and the private Japanese banks and
citizens take the bonds. fact, found it necessary two and a half years ago to rule Philippines; oil, the Dutch other words, the Japanese years of war with China.
East Indies and (all except will do what the Nazis did out more than 12 hours of the higher aviation grades) when the ordinary laws of
day. Japanese the U.S.A copper, at least economics-got-in-the-way-of- These are the highlights: worka fight that the Red Army and Air 1. Japan's industrial ma- labour is working very until recently, the U.S.A,; their armament effort, they Force is putting up and the courage-chine, after a decade of run- nearly as many hours as tin, Malaya; rubber, Ma- used police power to break
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RUSSIA'S GREAT FIGHT
NO one will take Issue with Mr
Churchill on his weighed words that we cannot expect Russia or Amerlea to win this war for us, but we are “mightily ̈comforted by the superb
ous stond on our behalf by the United
the arsenal of democracy.
sources
for indicated Tokyo remedy:
In
laya; machinery, the U.S.A. the laws of economics. States which is proving literally to be ning at ever higher speed, human beings can work. has begun to run down in But still the goods of war
the indications But police power can't Turning to reports of the actual the last year. It is more and the necessities of life do 7. All
not come from the factories that Japan is in an econo- either a synthetic fuel in- provide oil. That takes front it is revealing to find the Ger-dependent than ever on fast enough.
mic jam showed a turn for nana making false and over-optimis what it can get in the way tie communiques on the progress of of tools, iron and steel, oil
This means that Japan last summer. That was outside source. The same the worse at the same time dustry and a swarm of crackerjack chemists or an must build new factories that the Reichswehr have so far and other goods from the with more modern machin- precisely when Japan. ran applies to other raw mater-
into her most serious mili- scorned or found unnecessary. AL-U.S.A.
ials. ery, or improve old ones.
Since Japan hasn't most at the outset they declared that
the technique or the indus- the Russian air force had been wiped paying for the war by a cult if all access
2. Japan's people are But this is particularly diffi- tary difficulties in China.
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. living standards.
the invasion of Russia-a strategem
from 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).
I
SAW
From
COLOGNE BOMBED
A whole row,
to enable persitent bombing of the Rumanian oll fields. Divisions of the Red Army have been "annihilated" only to prove strong and irksome im- pediments in the rear of tho Nazi army, threatening the isolation of the
When the British raids first This is an eye-witness story of the effect of R.A.F. bombing Rohrergasse. invaders' advance forces and hamper- 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
ing 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. little 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. His story of what happened in Cologne in the story and looking round a wall. I something in contesting domination houses (each basement being to Lisbon. 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 in that area.
Admiration will be given unstinto make). Then, months ago,
singly to the Red Army which has the raids began to increase and done. Though the soldiers are if they say a word to anyone met fanatical and suicidal onslaughts grew more terrible until, on cheerful and believe Germany is Sometimes we see the damago
of the greatest March 10 or 12, there was a raid traditions. ng mechanised forces.had
worthy
with a phlegm won towns which which lasted from about ten in winning the war, the people do that happened when the 'West
ed or to re- not lalow and not railway sist so fiercely that the enemy, halted in the morning and caused things they are told... In what he thought would be head-
long proptunia Plained bitter great havoc.
-ly of their"
he bas
Lasuo.
young men
по
the
✰
from premises on the Teuton- burgerstrasse, and afterwards it was sald officially that there
were only three killed.
I have seen or heard of con-
when the suspension bridge was of Bayonthal, Klettenberg. Sulz, ..
siderable damage in the suburbs
closed for some days, and when Braunsfield, Ehrenfeld, Nippes, a time bomb fell in front of the Kalk and Deutz. Central railway station.
Hitler ha
Since then people have been
We also heard that saboteurs, been silent of late as well he may for very depressed. We were not One night after a raid there One day I tried to go on the or an enemy 'spy, had partly de- Intorown uncounted venni
permitted to speak of the raids, was a great fire at the work electric railway to Godesburg, stroyed a big anti-aircraft en- even before his own people, and no but sometimes, in shops, when of 1. G. Farben Bayer, which ne knows how many ho, will bring there were no secret polico near, we were able to see across the but the trains were cancelled campment in a field at Wahn, back or whether they will return with you would hear women talking Rhine. But the next day we because bombs had fallen on the near Deutz. victory, Certainly the fall of Moscow in low voices about the damage heard that all the children of Hermann Goering steelworks or Leningrad will not decide.
the officials and employees of between Wesseling and Godes- the company who live at Wits- burg, and because there was go Hungary and Rumania may be satisfied with slices of territory which though we have warned that we will dorf Leverkusen were assem- much damage that they could have already been yielded and may not allow sympathy for that small
that there had been no fire, and place. Finland will almost certainly be satia our pursuit of litlerism. fed with the restoration of the terri- There is, therefore, every reason they were not to say there had tortes recently wrested
ested from her. to hope that the Russians will more been a fire. though not the jacknis that the than keep their end up. In a war Rumans and the Maryars have proved to be, they may not feel able to abun
COLOGNE is a Catholic efty,
Hongkong -Benevolent SoeiCLY" || require further German stiffening. angle of Europe to deter us from bled and told by their teachers not got the trains past the and there is great anger over
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the treatment of Catholics," though no one speaks his thoughts. Priests can no longor walk through the streets be- In Old Cologne, the centre of cause they are insulted by chil.. of endurance they have to great! We hear littlo of damage done advantage of being on their own ter- to factories because the work the city, I myself saw ten bulld- dren whom the Nazi Party offi ritory, having innumerable reserves and a vast hinterland to which winter people know well what will hap- inge in a row blown away by a cials and police encourage and will soon come as an invaluable sily pen to them and their families British bomb. It was in the protect from punishment.
.