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AUGUST 23, 1939

ND WAR MATERIALS

haps

show with extent of Chinese

behind the official s the countryside se groups (even.

where Japanese eing water-borne, e frequently sees he middle of "Ja-

By A Special Correspondent

THE ORIENTAL POLICY OF "SQUEEZE"

as

cur-

areas" circled in Out of a residue of dislike a more

arrows pointing positure nationalism has grown, ins that they have man first rose

primeval from the the Chinese Na- slime. Guerilla operations are sup- is more, are now ported by the Chinese national onalist Adminis- rency, in which the peasant prefers a some cases by to trade, and proof positive of the eneralissimo. power which this gives to the gueril- paign that suc- las can be found in the attack levell- anking has been, ed again "British support" of the cur- f China. It has rency of the militarists of Tientsin own the ratio of and Tokyo.

war losses from Conversely, the Japanese have fail- Fere in 1937 to the ed during the last year at the more gestimates them subtle Oriental warfare of persuasion he other hand, it and "squeeze". Despite the Lawren- g of the cost of tian reputation of Gen. Doihara nd a raising of (something of a "back-number" to- or China need no day), they have been unable to get heavier weapons, any Chinese of repute beside Wang

nd Japan must Ching-wei to support their puppet men to fight a Governments in North and Central ar. The melan- China. Their marionettes are a set who bear the of notorious scallywags representing ious operations is none but themselves; even Wu Pei- captured letter fu, no particular friend of the Kuo- sungking, and in mintang but an accomplished barome- of suicide (al- ter of political pressure, has not been endency) in the lured from his retirement on their be-

half.

The Ite

and books from the democratic coun- tries which were

considered anti- German have been banned. Many of the Czech classics are now for- bidden in school libraries and book- shops because

their nationalist tendencies.

of

There are only about 60,000 Ger- nctioning. Then mans in Prague, yet their cultural ment of a single needs must be catered for in three ich appears quite theatres. The last of these to be has been pre- taken over is the famous Stavovske ing properly be- Divadlo (Estates Theatre), which was es of the Czech an annex of the Czech National t demands dupli- Theatre, and of particular historical me National So- significance to musicians, since d in Germany. Mozart's opera, "Don Giovanni," was

Fascists appear first performed here in October, 1787.. lt of encourage- The financial upkeep of these thea- an authorities or tres will have to be borne by public an only benefit funds, which means that the Czechs they desire later will be taxed to pay for encouraging Burther on the German culture at the expense #chs themselves their own. The strenuous efforts

rnal order.

of

which are also being made to con-

, in the realms trol all branches of public education onomics every from the university downward is Germanize the quite contrary to the cultural ble. The state- autonomy which was promised to the

r, of Protector Czechs less than three months ago. ath and others In the economic field, the Ger- that Bohemia- manization of industry has proceeded better off as a at a tremendous pace, Aryanization an independent in reality means Germanization, since f the greater the business taken from Jews ру.

rarely allowed to find their way into

are

ng in the realm Czech hands. to be expected The Czechs are naturally despon- made an official dent, but they have not surrendered Be with Czech; their hopes. In fact, they con- ech street signs fidently believe that a change must chief cities. But come, and are determined that whe- irst step. The ther it comes in one generation or 20, Jay busy every- they will not surrender their national

ers, periodicals, heritage.

By George McManus

No wonder, then, that land control Cas well as the marine blockade of the China coast is so weak that the Gov- ernment in Chungking is still able to smuggle a great part of its petrol supplies up from the China Sea, and seems at no time to have lacked for fuel.

LINKS With the OUTSIDE WORLD

I have before me as I write a map of the workable minerals that, under the quickening pace of events, have been found and opened to develop- ment in the last year; gold and silver, iron, tungsten, asbestos, tin, mangan- ese, copper figure among them. China's links with the outer world, the Bur- ma and Indo-China roads and the Yunnan railway, are not yet perfect; but the last, though of only a one- metre gauge, is already carrying 14,-. 000 tons a month and is working up to 20,000 tons; and together with the more sketchy route to Russia

they appear to provide China with a wealth of war material (infantry munitions being manufactured on the spot).

As a backing to the Chinese Gov- ernment, a compact and physically efficient mass of 150,000,000 South- Western Chinese must provide an also efficient, but copybook, army like the Japanese with an enormous num- ber of military problems which they have never been trained to face. Their set battles in the plains have been easy going; the occupation of the ports have long lain in black and,

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