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THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 10, 1989

PINCH OF WAR JAPAN ON HOME

GASOLINE AND METAL GOODS

LACKING

Japan's economic ribs are showing plainly to- day, after nearly two years of a war-induced "starvation diet."

In a commodity sense, the nation is painfully thin. But it is not weak. It has voluntarily dis- located its entire economic machinery in order to keep the engines of war in operation.

An almost unbelievable scarcity exists in the not because common, ordinary articles of living Japan could not buy or make them, but because her money and her factories are concentrated on more immediate needs. These, obviously, relate directly to the China fighting.

Figuratively, the nation is starv-ettes have disappeared from sale. ing itself so that the guns may eat. 1,000 TAXIS QUIT

Some examples:

BRITAIN TO LIST ALL NAZI AGENTS

London, Apr. 3.

The "Daily Express" reports that the Home Office has instruct- ed Scotland Yard to furnish it with a complete list of the names of all Nazi agents residing in Great Britain and an account of their recent activities.--Havas,

HITS FRONT

SWISS CHARGED WITH

NAZI ACTIVITIES

Berne, April 8.

For the first time in the history of Switzerland, a group of seven Swiss citizens appeared in a court here to-day charged with intensive Nazi activities.

The leader of the group from the Soleure canton was a foreman nam¬

All metals are severely rationed.ed Schaad, employed, in a munitions Paper and aluminum are replacing factory. The accused admitted that the lower-denominational coins in their main aim was to bring about circulation. The government has an annexation of Switzerland by dismissed been studying a new kind of heavy the Reich, Schaad was porcelain box which it hopes may from the factory on the interven- be suitable instead of the iron tion of the Swiss authorities and mail-boxes now in use. Japan needs despite the resistance of the Ger-

that iron.

Even this: Cast-iron and rubber

splash-guards have been taken off

man directors of the factory, who were waging an open campaign of propaganda.—Havas.

automobiles, and the bicycles no longer have tin license plates!

Compulsory sale to the Govern-solutely necessary for the present or future needs of the war- ment of gold articles is about to begin.

machine, they are not being bought or made. This national "starva- tion" is not the result of poverty. On the contrary, it is one thing that has kept Japan going for such a long time.

INSULIN SHORTAGE

All over the major cities are the skeletons of half-completed office buildings. The steel framework is The government is rationing there, but the concrete, marble and

In the same way, government gasoline. Recently, nearly 1,000 additional metal-work necessary to taxis were taken out of service in complete them is not to be had. control of textiles has reduced pur- one new gov-chasable linen, woollen and cotton Tokyo alone. The regular cars in This includes even Tokyo's biggest hotel are allowed lernment building, begun two years almost to nothing.

fuel for 35 miles a ago, before the war. The rein- only enough day. Privately owned automobiles forced concrete portions of anquires drugs and chemicals. Re-

a government are permitted one gallon and one-elevated railway half daily. In looking for passen-lineare' still unfinished after gers, taxicabs dare not cruise; they nearly a year's work. wait. And if a passenger lives in CONCRETE FOR PILLBOXES a suburb, the cabbie frequently Concrete is being poured, in will refuse to go. He simply has rivers, into the gigantic airbase no gasoline.

Japan is erecting near the Siberian Those brands of Japanese-made border. Aeroplane runways, ware- cigarettes that contain Virginia or houses, barracks, munition dumps, first when Egyptian tobacco are virtually un-pillboxes. They come obtainable. Foreign-made cigar-Japan thinks of concrete.

DR. BENES PREDICTS

RESTORATION OF CZECH FREEDOM

Cleveland, Apr. 8.

Speaking at a meeting here yes- terday evening, both Dr. Edouard Benes, former Czech President, and Mayor Fiorello La Guardia of New York City expressed their convic- tion that Czechoslovakia will find her freedom once again.

address by, stating that he would not resort to diplomatic terms.

"Czechoslovakia has not been taken," he said "The republic has not been destroyed. Cze choslovakia was kidnapped. When the kidnapper speaks of a pretec-

torate he uses the same terms as the man who kidnaps a child and keeps him until a ransom is pald, finally killing the infant if he re- ceives no money. Crime cannot continue to remain an object of respect."

"Victory will return," Dr. Benes stated. "It will be the victory of a free Europe. It would seem that Czechoslovakia was too prosperous and too democratic, from the view point of her totalitarian neighbours The dictator cannot afford to allow- Mayor La Guardia considered democracy to prosper in a neighbour that war could be avoided if the ing state."

Dr. Benes then expressed satis.ted States were to make known

the world that the American faction at the recent scathing at people would denounce the aggres- tack against the German action in sor and assist other democratic Czechoslovakia, delivered by Mr. countries, Sumner Welles, Under-Secretary of It was particularly noted here that Dr. Benes did not refer to his State.

"I do not suggest that brute force plan for the recovery of Czecho- should be opposed to brute force," | slovakia. According to well-In- he concluded. "But the world is formed circles, he could not let out beginning to realise that it must the details of the plan, but, it is put an end to the moral and social believed that it will no doubt in- disintegration, the development clude the formation of a provi- of which we are witnessing in cer- sional government the seat tain Central European states, or which would be created in a former else our civilization will disappear." Czech Embassy Sull outside Gar-

Mayor La Guardia opened his man hands,—— Havas.

The manufacture of medicine re-

cently, there was a temporary but very dangerous shortage of insulin (for the treatment of diabetes).

The people bear it with tradi- tional stoicism, They may com- plain privately, but not publicly. The stories of the hardships of at the front have been the men burned into their brains, and they, are told that they, the "people be hind the gun," must suffer too.

They are doing a very good job

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