1941-03-28 — Page 6

MATSUOKA'S

THE CHINA MAIL, MARCH 28, 1941.

MISSION

Chiefly Interested In Easing Soviet Relations

Analysis Of Far East Situation

A SPECIAL ARTICLE in the London "Times" yesterday entitled "Chiang Kai-shek ́s resistance,” declares there is much speculation in China about the Japanese Foreign Minister's missions in Moscow and Berlin.

an

and

war

has

would last three months which it still called not

but

"'Incident."

but been struggling vainly in China for more than three and a half years, When Hankow fell the military Japanese conquest phase of the Teame to an end. A wor of wat-

ing and attrition began.

Shock-Absorbers

MATSUOKA AND THE BELGRADE COUP

[SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL"]

The Belgrade coup is reported to have been among the topics discussed by Hitler and Mr. Mat- suoka

during their talk yesterday.

It is believed that American aid to Bri-}

the tain was one of chief topics. Inter- national News Ser-

vice.

It is generally believed that Mr. Matsuoka will aim at clinching a trade agreement with Soviet Russia, which will be hailed as the first diplomatic triumph of his round trip and o step towards a larger and more comprehen- sive political agreement, a pact of non- aggression. Whatever

The mere bulk of China is a value of such a pact its

capa ble signature would enable; On the other hand, the conquest powr riul shock-breaker

the most violent

them if the of Immo-Tuna, Mulaya and the of absorbing

Japanese im- Her Y Japan to release the ma- Thich East Indies would give Ja-Japanese blitzkrieg.

But that is not true mense manpower and inexhausti-ught them. jor part of her Kwantung pan fresh strength to renew her Army of

affack on the mainland when she ble natural resources have been of the craftsmen and mechanics | 300,000 hed her job in the south.

as to produce most who moved and took their tools so mobilised

with them. astounding results. in troops, new tied up

Her ancient history and cul- Manchuria, for her south-

ture have endowed her leaders and people with ward drive.

the actual

Some

The southward drive is there

China attempt fore an

to put into temporary cold storage.

Burma Road

China would then have become Sitting ast- Moscow will be pressed to stop completely isolated.

Thride Indo-China and Thailand, the sending supplies to China. recent dispute between Chungking Japanese would cut off the Burma]

Road and bar the way to Aus- and the Chinese Communists. which led to disciplinary action by rabun reinforcements to the Mid- General Chiang Kai-shek agains: dle East the Fourth Army operating guerillas in the central provinces, and which has caused So much wishful thinking in Tokyo on the possibilities of a break-up of Na-] tionalist China, will undoubtedly be played up.

In Berlin

as

the Indian

The situation in Ocean. which directly affects Suez and the Mediterranean, would have been rendered im poezible for Britain as well as China.

The Burma road is China's main supplies and It is believed Mrlautery for foreign Matsuoka wishes to discover forlor exports to the outside world. himes!! whether the chances of Singapore is the bastion of Burma. an Axis victory, now that thei

Lease and Lend Bill has open ed the Bloodgates of American supplies to Britain, still remaini as good as they seemed last au

tumn.

Timing Of Offensives

Invisible Exports

Another little known but im- portant economic factor involved

is the threat to China's invisible į

re-

courage, Fource and vision, Increasing aid from Britain, the United States and the Soviet Union is strengthening her de-

fences.

awaited

RESCUE MEN ARE TAUGHT BY FILM

Special schools for training A.R.P. rescue squads have been opened in various parts of the country.

There are now 15 of these where rescue workers are learning to re- lease trapped people from de- molished houses and to tunnel under collapsed buildings.

Originally there were 20 schools, set up to train the foremen of the squids. When their training was complete it was not considered necessary to keep the schools go- ing.

But the

of Ministry Home Security decided that other mem- bers of the rescue squads should be thoroughly trained as well as the foremen,

Six-Day Course

Each school takes about 20 men Seventy machine-workers of at a time. The course lasts six Ningpo pulied 200 tons of ma- days. chinery in handcarts over the

bills of Chekiang. They struggled Besides practical demonstra- on for months, frequently bombed | tions, the students have film shows from the air, but at last reached and lectures given by technical a spot where they could set the experts. Borough surveyors of the machines up again.

councils in whose areas the schools have been set up. and other technicians in the area, help in the training plan,

China can afford to wait. Gen-

It is bodies which are as tough eralissimo Chiang is convinced as as these which form the Chinese Prince Konoye can Industrial Cooperatives, of which never succeed in beating China to, there are some 20.000 of various

ever

That

her knees.

German Efforts

sizes.

Among the subjects taught are building construction, ahor- ing up of buildings; the use of derricks and jacks, acetylene cutting, scaffolding and various methods. The men are even taught the proper way to tie knots.

New Phenomenon When Nanking fell, China was

most acute These form of patriotism are alone and facing a

demoiltion the, a new phenomenon in the land. crisis. Yet Dr. Trautman, Nazi Ambassador, failed to per- No doubt the vast size of the cunde General Chiang Kai-shek country, which renders total mili. to make peace.

tary occupation impossible, has

A recond German attempt at mediation to-day would be fore doomed to failure.

helped, as also has the immensity of the population, which can spare millions of men for the

millions army and

for more industry.

These are the moral, strate- gic, political and economic fac- tors involved. China will not yield to threats or be ensnared by treacherous peace offers. "The indomitable spirit of re-

The Japanese make no disguise exports.

of the misgiving with which they There are roughly eight million view the war outlook. Prince Chinese overseas fiving in Dido-, Konoye in January admitted peace China, Thailand, Malaya, the Dutch was not in sight, General Tanaka It he is satisfied about this. the East Indies and the Philippines. in February told the Diet it was timing of Jaman's southward ad- Their joint contribution to invest-needless to crush the Chungking venture concurrently with Hitler's! proclaimed offensive, will be fixediments for reconstruction and in-regime by force of arms, but it

dustrialisation of Free China has was essential to develop econo- | volutionary China knows no reached enormous proportions mically the areas already beeu- defeat." General Chiang Kai- approximately $800,000,000.

pied, which could then afford to shek has said. It is well that ignore the Chungking regime. this plain truth is brought out to

be borne in mind.

This wi!! involve technical collaboration to overcome the tremendous odds arising out of

be- the geographical distance tween the Axis powers and Ja-! oan and to ward off intervention by the United States in the At- lantic and Pacific.

Finally, some agreement For n share-out of the Asiatic booty will not be excluded.

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Their gifts towards the relief of distress at home have en- abled the Government to re- case funds carmarked for re- lief and for the purchase of cupplies estimated at one-quar. ter of China's total war expen- diture.

Japanese conquest or control of If, on the other hand, an Axis those regions would result in the victory is found to be doublínt, wholesale ́eviction of Chinese re- Mr. Matsuoka will have no wish idents and the seizure of their to repeat Mussolini's blunders by property, putting a stop to this burning his fingers and staking steady flow of revenue and sup- his empire.

ply of foreign currency into China.

Moral Factors

Using The Pact

Japan's Casualties

Japan still has perhaps a mil- lion soldiers engaged on the main- land and has suffered probably as many more casualties.

Japan's Displeasure

schools for training rescue squads, It is not intended to open more

but the present 15 will be kept open to train as many men can be spared for the course.

BLUFF WON'T DO IN ARMY

as

Men who believe them- Nazi agents in Chungking have selves to be of superior in- emphasised that Germany has

are being

not yet recognised Wang Ching-telligence Her armies live largely aff wel's puppet regime in Nanking "found out" in the Army. the country. In 1940 they were to the intense displeasure of caid to extract 60 per cent of Japan-because Hitler has no their rice from China, paying intention of handing

over the

These tricks will not succeed. China will not be persuaded

or expected to make peace to

When the Army has put them find through their tests many themselves graded well down the scale while many manual workers → who don't claim to be Intellectuals—come out on top.

At a Northern Command train-

the Chinese in yen notes which country to Japan, but they have buy nothing and are causing also hinted at the wisdom of starvation in the occupied areas. losing limb rather than life. Japan has also increased her wool, salt and coal imports from China, Even this easing of the He might consequently intimate There are also several moral | burden leaves a heavy strain and,

enable her enemy to concen- ing depot the Army doctor has to London and Washington that factors ut stake. China is com- with a decline of three-fourths in

trate all its forces in an attack been joined by trained psycholo- Japan will be prepared to detach mitted to a policy of united resis- cotton exports from China to

In the South Seas.

gists. All men coming from civi- herself frorn the triple alliance at tance till victory is won at what- Japon, caused by Japanese army

Inasmuch as China is prepared lian life to the depot pass through no cost to the Allies and the Unit-ever cost. She is fighting not control of trade and refusals to to play her full part in the fray the hands of a man who by sim- ed States but ol some cost to only for her existence but also pay in economic price, "coopera-it must be plain that no attempt ple tests can place the recruit in

against the rule of force and in tion" with the occupied areas does by Mr. Matsuoka to detach Japan his particular class of intellect. The question arises, if Japan defence of law and order.

not promise to cover war costs. from the Axis at the expense of should attack Singapore and the President Roosevelt in his last

China could succeed.-Reuter. Dutch East Indies, would China great speech said obedience could seize the opportunity to make be enforced but loyalty was differ- peade? The drower In Chung.cnt. It springs from the mind king is emphatically "No." that is given facts und that retains In Chinese eyes the Japanese ancient ideals. That is true of southward drive is regarded as a England, Greece, China and the mere diversion. It does nothing United States to-day. to eliminate the permanent ·Já- paneso metiace 'to China,

China.

To the Chinese capacity for dealing with "Facts, to the sort joomiling "realism which 'han always been part of their phiso- sophy, has 'been added under Japanese pressure a

new Ideat of military efficiency.

China's Losses

China has, of course, suffered immeasurably more than Japan by the war. Wür Uēvaštation and the deliberate depredations of the Japanese army have wrecked wealth in the constal and central provinces.

"SEND PRIVATES MONEY, TOO"

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Jig-Saws

Various tests are used. In one the recruit is given a pattern with a plece missing. He is also given half a dozen ségments, each of which fits 'exactly in the empty spade, but only one of which will complete the `pätterri

A number of these tests are progressively more

It is typical that the puppet overnment of “Wăng Ching,- wel Captain Margesson, War Min-set; getting at Nanking darives its reister, has been asked to abolish a difficult. venues largely from the drug distinction between British officer According traffic run, by the invading army and private soldier prisoners of accuracy with which the recruit Withough that faction couples war in Germany. What ufed to be the richest pro-

Tinber

Japan's Vision

"Tokyo ́calculates that the two countries would form a large eco- nomic Bloc which could be 'morel casily defended élrategically than a long chain of flinds scattered| over thousands of miles Und

The chinese millitoly retretit to stretching from the tip of Kam-tion, of contempt for soldiers and the interför Was doilled by the chatka, in the north, to Port Dar- a total absence of modern train-cultural and industrial migration, win, in the south,

ing. But they rasted an army of The removal of students to the

China's Army

The Chinese had a long trail-

He will agree, it lɛ expected. that privates—as well as officere -can have, £2 sent to them from time to time

The Health Minister, Mr. Mal

to the speed and

completes the pattern he is grad- ed för geheral intelligence and sharp-wittedness.

It le not always the school. masters and 'well-educated who come out on top. Beotion one "may contains torry drivers, Uni- varsity studante," "dockers and

· musicians, - while the lowest igrades have "often 'been known to include company secretarie and men of good édúnátión. Much of the work which the

{on the psychologist's report.

The millions of square miles of five million, parts of which have interför preservell kontinuity in colm MacDonald, told Parliament rich Chinese soil would provide proved compétent guerilla figliters, education. From their distant re- that he hoped soon to introduce -Japon with food and materials. they have created an arms Indus- formed colleges men have gone legislation to protect the health The 450,000,000 Chinese subjects try and they have found an out- | out to staff the administration. and pensions Insurance rights of would be exploited and harnessed standing commander in General to Japanese industry. Conquered Chiang Kai-shek and several good China would be a market with army generals. 'Immense possibilifles for Japanese The Japanese Imperial Army It might be said that the studs held in the Nazi gobl-ship Alt-recruits' do after the tents is based

goods and investment,

*promized en texauretch whien ("ents had to leave since only death | mark.

Ningpo Trek

British seamen prisoners of war.

This question arose, over the back subscriptions of the seamen