1939-07-07 — Page 14

THE CHINA

Inner Mongolia Is In Need Of Material, But It Can't Pa

JAPAN IN URGENT NEED

Chahar, Inner don't pay cash it. advisers

the

KALGAN South Chena", meer with the hundreds of millions of which would await war in welmont

can

machinery

steel, American machinery, dollars' worth of capital goods of American capital or American electrical equipment and which they require for the develop in Japanese enterprises here. And American automobiles-millions of ment of mines, the building of roads dollar's worth - for development and the construction of smelters and exploitation of Inner Mon- and steel mills they ask hundreds of millions of dollars' worth of credits. And there's the rub.

golia, Apply Japanese army."

"

Don't rush, men. There's a catch

in it. The Japanese need this stuff,

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All through Inner Mongolia we all right, and need it badly, but they have been given hints by Japanese

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now, in Kulgan, we have heard the same sentiment echoed by Maj. Gen. T. Sakai, who, às chief of the Japan- ese army's potent special service section in Inner Mongolia, is the dominating behind-the-scenes per- sonage in this border region.

ANSWERS DELICATE

QUERIES

Maj. Gen. Sakai received us in an office papered with maps, and quick- ly won our confidence with his frank and cheerful response to our most delicate queries. When ques- tions stumped him, he called upon the battery of secretaries and ad- visers who flanked him on both sides. At his command, one or the other or all would leap into action, to run down statistics requested by correspondents.

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Among these Japanese satellites, but obviously not of them, was

elderly gentleman with - a rat-tailed moustache and wearing a Chinese gown. Belatedly, he was in- troduced to us as Mr. Ma Yung-kwei, director of finance of the Meng- chiang Federated Council, the organ which co-ordinates. the financial activities of the various puppet gov ernments in Inner Mongolia, Just how much ice this Chinese gentle- man really cuts in the affairs of Inner Mongolian finance was in- dicated when we commenced firing questions at Maj. Gen. Sakai about the budget and other financial pro- blems of the Mengchiang organ- ization.

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General Li Shou-hsin, chief of the puppet Mongo and Prince Teh, chairman of the Autonomous Govern Leagues of Mongolia, on right.

Not once did the Japanese officer refer to the director of finance;

"Superficially the Chinese are co- in the eventual

the surface "The war wit instead he sent minor Japanese operating, but under clerks scurrying off after the de- they are resentful. They are like he declared con sired information.. Mr. Ma con- any other race. They do not like to campaign of re- tributed nothing to the conversation be under foreign rule. If this anti- and seemed to take not the slightest interest in what was going on. His importance seemed to be mainly or- namental.

TURNS ON PERSONALITY

Sakai turned on his engaging personality again for us later in the day, when he entertained us at din- ner. One of the correspondents, seeking to put the general's sincer ity to a test, asked him this ques- tion:

BY

A.T. STEELE

Chiang Kai-shel advance to Chu fu; but we are i Chinese resista Stab a lizard in will squirm for it is dead. C dead, but the C

BELITTL SO

"The Chinese

Japanese spirit does not disappear, soldiers. They the people will suffer."

the supreme sa

money are too.

"To what extent has anti-Japanese feeling been suppressed among the The general, like many of his col- When he had 7,000,000 people who populate the leagues of the Japanese army, has marks, the maj three states of the Inner Mongolian supreme contempt for the Chinese smilingly to t área ?"

as soldiers and supreme confidence faced him and

EAT AT

Kitchen

Bringing Up Father

THERE THEY ARE· NOW BE NICE AND SHOWER A LOT OF ATTENTION ON HIS LITTLE WIFE-

DON'T SEE TH

LITTLE BABY

LET ME TALK TO HER. NOW- JIGGS - DEAR-

WELCOME

TO OUR CITY

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