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SPOTLIGHT ON
Japan's dream of con- quest is fading away under the determined economic as- saults which are being directed against her.
She will not, however, abandon her ambitions with- out a fight, and the outcome of the current exciting events in the Orient will not be determined until it is seen how far this economic pres- sure will be carried.
Both the United States and Great Britain are em- ploying economic warfare
TOKYO TODAY
CONCLUDING AN UP-TO-DATE, INFORM- ATIVE SERIES OF ARTICLES BY THE FORMER TOKYO MANAGER
UNITED PRESS
OF THE
War Technique
That was a different techni- que from the old-fashioned way of declaring war and then mobi- lising. Since that time Japan.
introduced even newer.
PEACE OR methods, many of which aro
WAR IN THE PACIFIC?
BY H. O. THOMPSON
finding a place in the blitzkrieg warfare of to-day,
She is the nation which first found peoples in dire need of a *protector," perhaps giving Hit- Jer the iden for his earlier moves in Europe. Japan moved, into Manchuria because that part of China was, in the Japanese vers. sion, unable to maintain order
and protect its own people.
Japan persisted in her Man-
against Japan with extreme defeat which would not only some permit system whereby delicacy. Neither wishes to reduce Japan's world pres- the Japanese might be allowed see Japan a prostrate power, tige, but bring about harsh to purchase oil enough to keep churian, adventure even under them satisfied. It would be a world disapproval, withdrawing beaten into a position of im- internal disorders.
continuation, and probably from the League of Nations as potence. They hope that
From Japan's standpoint, tightening, of President Roose a result. The Manchuria of gradual tightening of econo- Phone 27778-9 mic bands will restrain Ja. the economic measures velt's announced policy where. 1931 is the "Manchukuo" of to- day, a vast section of the Asia- against her by the United by oil shipments to Japan were tie continent which Japan is pan from actions which might inflame the entira States and Great Britain are continued. for the purpose of developing as puppet state.
not so important as the rup- restraining Japan from fighting Japan's troubles with China Far East.
GARAGE
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The
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Thongkong Telegraph.they wish to curb Japan dies.
Friday, Sept. 12, 1941. Wyndham St., Hongkong Téléphone: 26015 THE prefix "Special to the Telegraph
is used by the "Hongkong Telegraph" to Indicate news which is strictly copyright under the provisions of the Telecommuni. cations Ordinance, 1975. - Buch 2101
the United Press Associations, who re-
polley has been unfolded.
Precedents
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oficially,
ture of trade relations with for it.
were aggravated between 1931 To put it another way, the Netherlands East In- Japan's attitude toward the, and 1987, and in the latter year oil curtailment, naturally, can- introduced to the world the not be determined until the full large-scale “undeclared war." while at the same time leav
Japan believed she would
China and Japan have been ing a pathway through
be able to get oil from the
fighting now for more than four which Japan might escape
years, but technically it is not a Indies even if the United toward better relationships States stopped oil shipments.
war because neither alde has Her history, short as it may made an official with the anti-Axis Powers.
declaration. If the Indies persists in be when compared with those of More than a million and a half
western Powers, contains The exact point at which bears the ludication "UP" is received inapan would abandon call- the Nipponese will be in a Japan, when aroused as a na-
refusing to sell oil to Japan, several precedents showing that persons have been killed-un- Hongkong on the date of publication by tion and fight against any situation which they might tion, can act with force and de-
Whither? serve all rights and forbid repablications. odds to preserve what she
Unable to bring the speedy either wholly or in part without previous considers her position as the decide calls for direct action, termination.
The Japanese say that they She went into the first war conquest of China which she "dominant power of East
have enough oil to supply against China with a feeling of achieved in 1894, Japan has Asia" is problematical. The
a fear that seen world events develop all their nation's need for a full inferiority and very uncertainty of that HIS Excellency Sir Murk limit to which Japan could year under wartime condi- Chinn, with her greater man- around her and has not been tions--and they mean a war power and size, might prove un- able to wring from them the beatable. That was in 1894. benefits which might have been Young struck an intimate and be driven only adds explo- against a first-rate power. Japan won an easy victory. hers if she had not been so deep-. inspiring note in his broad-siveness to the Far Eastern cast delivered over ZBW on situation. Wednesday night but a few hours after his arrival in the Colony, and everybody who either heard or have since read the address will feel the happier and encouraged for it.
strangement.
- INSPIRING SPEECH
Sir
Mark emphasised A sympathetic bond with the hus. bands who are fretting under
tions by not only expressing the
'
The Indies
That statement is debatable.
Aghin, in the early 1900's, ly involved with Chiang Kai- But even if they had a year's
Japan was greatly concerned shek's forces. supply, the Japanese would about Russia's advances in Now two of Japan's allies, not be content to see it eaten Manchuria and Koren and fin- Germany and Russia, are locked Japan would fight if her into without replacements, ally, in 1904, tackled Russia in a desperate war. Japan, leaders thought she was be- and the urgent need for oil with the greatest of misgivings, while giving lip service to her Russia was Axis commitments to Germany ing driven to a wall, because will be largely responsible Japan against her militarists have for whatever policy they de- united and of single-purpose, and Italy, is more interested in developing an-enthusiasm which strengthening her position in preached invincibility and cide to follow.
has not been approached in the the Far East. She has just because the people, wearied
current Sino-Japanese war. completed a coup in French In- do-China, one which was sup- by more than four years of
Japan defeated Russia and,
defensive and offensive post-
can.
Some Japaneso leaders felt that the move into French Indo-
the lash of evacuation restric- the warfare against China, China, with possible increases in so doing, brought to the in- -Posed to put her in a better fervent hope that this unhappy have stood about all they in their trade concessions from ternationalacence the first oftion. The United States, Great-
She could not give in Thalland, might case Japan several innovations in modern Britain and the East Indies feature of war blight on the
to superior international along with its need for oil, rub- warfare. Colony may soon become a thing of the past, but that he pressure without a domestic ber and tin. Oil from Indo- China and Thailand, however, himself has been deprived, for upheaval, and it is reason would not be suficient to make the same reasons, of the pre-able to suppose that the men up for the quantities Japan has sence of his wife and family in who direct Japan's destiny been shipping from the Indies. Hongkong. The cause of the would attempt a desperate On the other hand, the Indies was ready to strike at the mo- whether the Western Pacific is husbands therefore becomes as gamble rather than accept a authorities might work
much his as it is theirs, and Sir Mark's desire for a happy solu- tion no less than that of the
men.
That our new Governor In- tenda to adopt no autocratic methods in the carrying out, of
| his duties was also indicated by
have brought quick economic re- The Japanese Fleet was prisals against her, and Japan's steaming toward Port Arthur, next moves
will determine the Russian-occupied harbour of whether some semblance of or- Manchuria, before the Japanese der can be maintained in an al- Government declared war, and ready disturbed Far East, or
out ment the war became official."
Reds Continue To Advance: Offensive Now in Full Blast
Special to the "Telegraph"
MOSCOW, Sept. 11 (UP).—Continued successes by the Russians in their
to be the scene of warfare of ' -remendous, world significanco.
Agreement On Wages
Tramway Workers To Get-Increases.
An agreement relating to a request reached between
his ardently expressed wish for counter-attacks against the Nazis are claimed in Moscow. According to dispatches for an increase of wages ongkong the co-operation of the com- from the front, tank units under the command of General Yeremenko yesterday Tramways Lid and rear. B. G. E.
occupied 10 points, advancing in some areas as far as 13 miles.
munity. "I have been promised to-day the co-operation of all
ing
C.
it was learned from Mr Hawkins, Labour Officer, this mern- Negotiations between the Green' artisan staff are proceeding smoothly The remaining divisions are expect and an agreement is expected to be ed to be despatched shortly at the reached urgent request of the Germans.
cries of the shock troops.
Tho Red Army counter. | horses and other animals, over-turned|patched and only one is in the fighte members of the communities re-
attack is proceeding in full lorries, abandoned guns and muni- ing line operating behind German Island Cement Co., Ltd and their sident in this Colony. I shall blast," declare the dis.tonless tanks. The
guns and bomb explosions.".
Kiev Strikes Back MOSCOW, Sept. 11 (Reuter).
constantly and incessantly claim patches. "Soviet bombers are wounded are louder than machine-
the fulfilment of that promise, actively and effectively giving for I am convinced that it is only by working together, and by working with all our might, that we can do our bare duty in this crisis of human affairs.
west-
∙LONDON,-- ŠopĹ 11. (Neutor) ---- Violent fighting is reported by the German news agency to have dave-
Midnight Communique MOSCOW, Sept. 12(Reuter).—-
Regotiatin a few days. Tho Increase of WOXCH.
relate to a demand for
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The factory staff of the Green Island Cement Company, are also The following is the text, of the understood to be negotiating for an Soviet mid-night communique issued increased to be ne
ingreement fis' expected to be sigued "On' September 9, German planes shortly, between the two pártles,» destroyed in air combats: by anti- The Scaffolders, Guild's demands aircraft... Ard- and on aerodromes for an increase of wages and im- totalled-91. We lost 41 planos." proved working conditions have been
7 met by their masters. Brig
* The Safe Makers- Association and their masters will be holding their Arst meeting to-day, at which certain demands by the employees will' be. considered,
assistance to the Soviet advance and are not giving the Fascists a Twenty thousand Germans were lost minute's peace, dropping tons before Kley according to the secret of metal and routing enemy tank muloft Party Writing to the now-
munist news by the Soviet Information Bureau! Except for a small point which columns and troops."
"Pravda" paper that
"On September 11, our troops requires further consideration, nego The "Red Star", reported
The 44th, 95th and 200th Infantry stubbornly fought the enemy alongations between the Rattan Workers Russian troops continue to advance divisions and other big units were the entire front. Cur air force in co. Guild and their masters, relating to towards the Soviet-Finnish border completely routed: German losses in operation with Jard troops dealt a demand for an increase of wages in the Karellan isthmus on the shores Here is a call to duty and of Lake Ladoga. "Finnish and: Gera armoured equipment were not large. blows to enemy' panter troops;-in-, dnd an adjustment of food, allowance,
23. German tanks, 72 lorries and 11 aircraft. on his nerodromes. man troops are resisting fiercely, but The Soviet ärilllery destroyed some fantry and artillery, and destroyed have been satisfactorily concluded, an comradeship which Hongkong they have been pushed back we A.A. FUNE. - cannot ignore. A common task wards with heavy losses. Violent Fighting confronts the Colony, in the The report added that Point "D"
recaptured, had been
radio station fulfilment of which, all classes
seized and an infantry battalion must contribute according to destroyed their means and ability. Local One of the fiercest battles of the loped yesterday in the area north of problems cannot be ignored be war has been raging during the paste in which two Germen divisions
One division L cause they too will play a part ortnight in the direction of Veliki are said to be involved
claimed by the Ruki, 125 miles due north of
Soviet in shaping the future, of Hong Smolensk, where the Red Army had Germans to have broken up. kong, but it is the greater issue repulsed all attacks and destroyed
this battle into isolated LONDON, Sept. 11 (British Wird upon which there must be co- 12,000 omcers and men, 40, tanks, groups and to have captured a large- less). The Secretory for India
alzed town, taking 1,200.
stated in the House of Commons uit Dutch Destroyer prisoners. operative action-the war effort 100 machine-guns, 400 motor Care Similar mearures of success are on July 12those serving bentences BATAVIA, Sept 12 (Router).
and everything possible must and 47 planes according to dispatches being attributed to the second der in connection with the gaivil disobe Contributions towards the new Dutch man divistoria second Ger dience movement in India amounted destroyer Van Galen received by the be subordinated for that. Mu to the "Red Starr om pismene tual confidence and singleness Battle For Odessa valdegger
Hallons Remiss und 2000 m of Amp gamated War Funds so far total FRENCH FRONTIER, Sept. 11 and 200 members of provincial legis 1,300,000 rullders: Come of purpose between the public ZURICH, Bep 11 (Reuter) The
Italianing: nawapaper Amroslano (Router). Of the ten (Italian: divi latures.
The Netherland East Indies dov
Indioridor. the Administration will writer: Odem I dne of the most biona which the Germans required In addition, seven of the former Binment will pay 30 per cent, of die aké, possible, a 100 per cent, Terrible battle-falds in history. The on the eastern frontlar; it is under and 31 of the latter were under total contributions with a maximum
round is covered with the bodies of stood that only three have been d detention, FEWE
of 1,700,000! mulidárska 3:
unit
Civil Disobedience Imprisonment
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