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Stubbs Id,
How Sanctions Would
economic
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 he think that Tokyo has mist and just made public American. Since then it within reach. indicates that the U.S.A., by has dropped by 46 per cent, 6. 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 1936 dustry, vital because of Mr Hu is à 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, eign trade, and vital as author of previous reportsTM 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 por nese yards is 800,000 tons possible to see that Japan industries ΟΙ
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
crsatz. chiefly on
Most vice have to be rejected. tain's normal peace-time headaches. Japanese war imports come
Army's 3. The
Actual output huge capacity). from the U.S.A. and the
levies plus industry's en- has been: British Empire.
"Unless Japan can have. BY LEONARD ENGEL
access
to the
For instance, the cutas- trophic drop in the real in- come of the average Japan- ese-how 'much food, cloth- ing and housing he can buy` 454,000 tons is due partly to climbing U.S.A. and the British Em- are stripping Japan's fields Sept. 1930-Aug, 1939 432,000 tons prices. Official Japanese Miss L. M. de Souza express pire, and of areas within the of the all-important rice Sent., 1930-Aug., 1940 328,000 tons figures show a 50 per cent Tokyo this year Other declines in output rise in retail prices since and relatives for their expres- range of their influence, growers.
ACKNOWLEDGMENT
Mr. A. E. Coates and daughters and
their deep gratitude to all friends
and attendance at the funeral of the late Mrs. Gladya Coates. They wish to record their appre-
ciation to the sisters and nurse also in the doctors and the Rev: Father for their kindness and
of the St. Theresa's Hospital,
attention,
continued material resources of the hanced demands for labour 1937
trade channels or
as
1038
455,000 tons
sions of sympathy, floral tributes whether through normal is having to take drastic have been reported in gold; 1937; actual prices are some- a measures to prevent a rice coal, copper, petroleum and what higher. To cope with rolling stock. this, Tokyo has instituted special diplomatic conces- shortage, partly as a result railroad sion, she can never hope to of this and partly as a result Though the bulk of Japan's several price control 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 bonds to pay for the war. THE prefix "Special to the Telegraph by T. Y. Hu, director of the an acute shortage of skilled Severe shortages are in- increasing trouble in selling
Factories aredicated. Here is a list of used by the llongkong Telegraph to Chinese Council for Eco-workers,
The Bank of Japan, Govern-
The
Thursday, July 31, 1941. Wyndham St., Hongkong Telephone: 20015
indirate news which is strictly copyright
"
under the provisions of the Telecommuni nomic Research in Washing- working at close to capa- some of the more important ment central bank; has had Hongkong on the date of publication by ton. It is one of the first city. Two-fifths of Japan's of the raw materials which
estions 1034. Buch newE KA bears the indication "UP" is received in
United who
either wholly or in part without previous arrangement,
RUSSIA'S GREAT FIGHT
No one will take issue with Mr
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 fight that the Red Army and Air
Force is putting up and the courage States which is proving literally to be
ous stand on our behalf by the United
sources
to hold a larger and larger serve all tight and forbid republications; detailed pictures of what workers work 12 hours a are imported, and of Japan's amount of the bonds. The for indicated Tokyo remedy: 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. In years of war with China. fact, found it necessary two
Philippines; oil, the Dutch other words, the Japanese and a half years ago to rule
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 a day. Japanese the U.S.A.; copper, at least economics got in the way of These are the highlights: work 1. Japan's industrial ma- labour is working very until recently, the U.S.A,; their armament effort, they chine, after a decade of run- nearly as many hours as tin, Malaya; rubber, Ma used police power to break ning at ever higher speed, human beings can work. laya; machinery, the U.S.A. the laws of economics.
But police power can't has begun to run down in But still the goods of war
provide oil. That takes Turning to reports of the actual the last year. It is more and the necessities of life do 7. All the indications
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.
mic jam showed a turn for mans making false and over-optimis- what it can get in the way
the worse at the same time dustry and a swarm of This means that Japan last summer. That was outside source. The same crackerjack chemists or an the invasion of Russia--a strategem of tools, iron and steel, oil
with more modern machin- precisely when Japan ran applies to other raw mater that the Reichswehr have so far and other goods from the must build new factories scorned or found unnecessary. ALU.S.A.
ery, or improve old ones, most at the outset they declared that
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 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.
the arsenal of democracy.
tle communiques on the progress of
from the skies yet this same force
support to the armies on all fronts,
ials.
into her most serious mili-
Since Japan hasn't the technique or the indus- Mr Hu doesn't carry his try, Japan's principal sup-
but it actually finds the extra margin 1987, the real income of the the USSR, is the only im-the Island Empire's increas- "P. M." (New York).
to enable persilent bombing of the
I SAW COLOGNE BOMBED
Humanlan oil fields. Divisions of the Red Army have been "annihilated" only to prove strong and irksome im- 'pediments in the rear of the Naz!
A whole row, 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
It is told by a German who lived in from the Burgergesellschaft to were careless and raids on German cities. Ing supplies of petrol and munitions
oing 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. ittle 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 contesting 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 Sen and will certainly joined to the next by a door of what is happening in Berlin, Hamburg, Bremen, Mannheim, saw ning 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. anged in that aren.
Admiration will be given unstinto make). Then, months ago,
from premises on tho Touton- burgerstrasse, and afterwards it was said officially that there were only three killed.
I have seen or heard of con-
tingly to the Red Army 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 believe Germany is Sometimes we see the damage
traditions. In towns which' ding
mechanised forces had pass-
pass which lasted from about ten in winning the war, the people do that happened when the West ed
or surrounded they continue to re-the evening until three or four not know and do not believe the railway bridge was hit, and siderable damage in the suburbs. when the suspension bridge was of Bayenthal, Klettenberg, Sulz, sist so fiercely that
closed for some days, and when Braunsfield, Ehrenfeld, Nippes, in what rely on the enemy, halted in the morning and caused things they are told.
a time bomb fell in front of the Kalk and Deutz.. Central railway station.
ong progress.
has
યાત
complained bitter-
be head great havoc. ly of their "stupidity." Hitler has Since then people have been
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been silent of late as well he may for very depressed. We were not One night after a raid there
nlo
young men
We also heard that saboteurs, One day I tried to go on the er an enemy spy, had partly de-.
he has thrown uncounted you
fray
which 11ad n
no justification permitted to speak of the raids, was a great fire at the works even before his own people, and no but sometimes, in shops, when of I. G, Farben Bayer, which electric railway to Godesburg, stroyed a big anti-aircraft en- ne knows how
many he will bring there were no secret police 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
Hermann Goering steelworks 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.
In low voices about the damage heard that all the children of between Wesseling and Godes- or Leningrad will not deckle the
the officials and employees of Hungary and Rumania may be
the company who live at Wiesburg, and because there was so much damage that they could satisfied with slices of territory which though we have warned that we will dorf Leverkusen were assem
not allow sympathy for that small have already been yielded and may require further German stiffening angle of Europe to deter us from bled and told by their teachers not get the trains past the
our pursult of Hitlerism.. that there had been no fire, and placo.
There is, therefore, every renson they were not to say thoro had
hope that the Russians will more been a fire. than keep their end up. In a war
insue.
Finland will almost certainly be satis- fied with the restoration of the terri
wresled tories recently
from her
but, though not the
not the fuckals that the
to
Rumans and the Manyars have proved af endurance they have the great "We hear little of damage done
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COLOGNE is a Catholic city,
the treatment of Catholics, and there is great anger over
though no one speaks his thoughts. Priests can no longer walk through the streets bo-
In Old Cologne, the centre of cause they are insulted by chil-
to be, they may not feel able to abnn-advantage of being on their own tor to factories because the work the city, I myself saw ten bulld- dren whom the Nazi Party off-
on their alliance with the enemy,ritory, having innumerable reserves There are mixed feelings about Find't vast hinterland to which winter people know well what will hap- Ings in a row blown away by a cials and police encourage and land and that fire is best not kindled will soon come as an invaluable ally, pon to them and their families British bomb. It was in the protect from punishment.
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