THE CHINA MAIL DECEMBER 27, 1937.
JAPAN PAYS FOR WAR FIVE TIMES AS MUCH AS CHINA
..
were
Yet they
War is apparently costing Japan↑ At railway stations, bridges, and five times as much as it does China, airports dozens of bombs believe foreign military observers. showered from the air.
The Japanese emergency budget are estimated to cost $35 each... calls for $750,000,000, as compared On the Shanghai front the Japan- to China's $150,000,000.
ese probably dropped a hundred Most obvious reason for the dif- bombs where the Chinese dropped ference is that Japan is fighting on one, it is believed. foreign "soil. Half a million men Japan must also pay for the up- have been transported from 200 to keep of her imperial navy, of which 1,000 miles, depending upon their more than 200 war vessels are now base in Japan or Manchukuo. said to be participating in the Chi- A fleet of seventy steamers carry nese blockade shelling Chinese troops to different ports in China. ports, and assisting the land forces Railway operating costs in North wherever possible. China nearly all some from the Japanese Army's pocket.
Another drain on the Japanese war chest is the drafting of 400,000 men normally employed in agricul ture and industry. Their salaries are relatively low, but the army payroll probably exceeds $50,000,- 000 per month, it is estimated.
Prodigal With Ammunition
BRITAIN AND HER
WAR DEBTS
Statement Of Receipts And Payments
The aggregate amount paid by or China's normal standing army ex-for account of Germany in respect ceeds two million men, so her emer-of reparation and costs of occupa gency budget includes little new tion is 20,598,000,000 gold marks-
and £1,010,000,000 at the old par of ex- expense for salaries, food,
change. clothing for her soldiers.
Japanese are far more prodigal These figures were quoted from than the Chinese in the use of bul-the accounts of the Reparation
In-1 lets, shells, and bombs, state Commission and the Bank of neutral abservers.
ternational Settlements by Colonel Against the northern Chinese ar-Colville, Financial Secretary to the mies which used little artillery, the Treasury. Japanese used three-inch rifles and
com-
He explains that it is not possible six-inch howitzers extensively. As to give a figure for the United King- many as five hundred rounds were dom alone which is strictly poured into single villages, though parable to this figure. The surplus the shells are estimated to cost of liquidated ex-German property in this country is included in our from $12 each depending on size.
At Shanghai the Japanese Navy records but receipts on account of
its costs of occupation, which was even more liberal with heavy shells. When a single Chi-not be distinguished without great nese machine gun opened fire on labour, are not to be found there. On this basis our total receipts a Japanese destroyer, the navy would sometimes reply with several from Germany reparation payments
have been £122,000,000. hours bombardment:
100 Bombs To 1
The United Kingdom has
could
The enormous numbers of bombs ceived on account of war debts, ex- the debts. from the which the Japanese airforce drop-cluding ped on single military objectives Dominions and Colonies, £71,000,- have amazed all observers who have, 000. From the Dominions and Co- seen the official aerial photographs.lonies £110,000,000 has been
On the railways as Chinese forces ceived.
re-
prepared to retreat, every single The aggregate amount paid by switch block was bombed not once, Great Britain to the United States, but sometimes several times as the including token payments, is £416,- Chinese made hurried repairs. 000,000 at the old par of exchange.
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