1937-10-02 — Page 5

THE CHINA MAIL, OCTOBER 2,

125 JAPANESE TRANSPORTS ARE BELIEVED CARRYING MILITARY SUPPLIES TO SHANGHAI AREA

Evidence of the extent Japan's In other words, it would foreign trade must be suffering jappear evident that Japan's foreign as a result of hostilities in China is trade is suffering a heavy blow as a to be seen in the large number of result of her invasion of China, transports, both supply and troop, observers state. which have been making regular

calls to Shanghai.

Of the 20 or more

Such ships LABOUR

which come up the Whangpoo almost.

daily, unloading their cargoes of

WARNING

foodstuffs and soldiers at TO ROOSEVELT

the

Support May Be Withdrawn

wharves along the Wayside and Yangtszepoo waterfronts and at the Jukong Wharf and Woosung, the majority are, ocean-going freighters which have been taken off regular

A thinly veiled warning to Presi trade routes."

This is according to the observadent Roosevelt that, if he deserts Labour, Iabour will desert him and tions made by a China Press re- presentative on a recent trip down seek its own political salvation, was uttered by Mr. John Lewis, chairman the Whangpoo..

of the Committee for Industrial in a nation-wide

In his speech, which had been

To estimate the actual number of such freighters, which range in size Organisation,

broadcast all the way from 800 to 5,000 tons, is impossible but when it is consider- ed that more than a score of these eagerly awaited, the strongest La- bour leader in the United States, vessels enter the Whangpoo or un- load at positions along the Linho-who is suspected harbouring Presi

dential ambitions himself, said: Woosung coastline almost every day, then it is possible to obtain some idea of the number of vessels actually

in use.

"Labour next year. cannot avoid the necessity of a political assay of the work and deeds of its so-called friends and its political beneficiaries. Granting that it takes a day for It must determine who are its these vessels to unload in the Shang-friends in the arena of politics hai area, two days, possibly three to elsewhere.

TOTAL BELIEVED OVER 125

as

return to their ports in Japan, a "It feels that its cause is just and day or maybe two to load, and then that its friends should not view its another two days to get back to this struggle with neutral detachment or port, it is evident that more than 125 in a tore of constant criticism of its such ships are being used in the activities.” transport of troops and supplies in the Shanghai area alone.

With these vessels averaging about 2,000 tons each, bottoms constantly on the job in this area aggregate | more than 250,000 tons.

LABOUR'S WOE

Then, apparently referring to Mr. Roosevelt's recent speech on Roanoke Island lauding democracy, Mr. Lewis asserted:

"Those who chart their praises of The figure becomes more impres-democracy but who lose no chance to sive when it is considered that thel movement of transports to and from fenceless back must feel the weight

North China has been conducted on

drive their knives into Labour's de-

of Labour's woe even as its

open

a far greater scale. Assuming that adversaries must ever feel the thrust

of Labour's power. the bottoms in use in the North China seas are only half again as "Labour, like Israel, has great as in the Shanghai area, then bottoms with a tonnage of 625,000 have been diverted from normal trade routes to engage in war tran- sport activities....”

де

many

Its women weep for their SOITOWS. fallen, and they lament for the fu- ture of the children of the race

In this last sentence Mr. Lewis replied to Mr. Roosevelt's quotation from Shakespeare during the recent "A plague o' both

"It il behoves one who has supped jat Labour's table and has been shel- tered in Labour's house to curse This figure, however, is to

im- taken as conservative. Most foreign with equal fervour and fine observers are agreed that shipping partiality both Labour and its ad- tonnage being used between China versaries when they become locked and Japan today because of hos in deadly embrace.” tilities is really near the million ton mark. These are no definite figure. however, to confirm this. DIVERTED FROM TRADE ROUTES steel strike:

It must be remembered in this your houses.” connection that the gross tonnage of Japan's merchant fleet at the end of 1936 was 4,215,000 and that if million tons of bottoms have been diverted, she is still left with gross tonnage of more than 3,000,- 000 Nonetheless, it is a sizeable slice of tonnage to be taken off cus- tomary trade runs.

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Again, it must also be considered that of the remaining 3,000,000 tonnage, much of this being used for transportation of raw materials

from foreign countries for the manu- facture of goods needed for carrying on warfare in China; that instead. of these raw materials being con- verted into products for marketing | abroad, thereby making it possible to keep Japan's outgoing bottoms bound for foreign ports to be well filled, such materials are being sent to China for the support of the Japan- ese armed forces.

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