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THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 15, 1941.

GERMANS NOT SO POPULAR IN JAPAN

WHAT DOES THE AVERAGE Japanese think about Germany? He thinks that his Government thought it expedient, at a time when England ap- peared to be in greatest danger, to tie up with Ger- many, and now he has begun to wonder very seri- ously whether that was wise, writes a special cor- respondent of the “Sydney Morning Herald." What does he think about Italy? He doesn't think about Italy at all.

It would be a mistake to describe the Japanese as pro-German, or pro-British; they are merely pro- Japanese. Certainly you find plenty of now general- ly elderly business men who are pro-British, and plenty of militarists who are pro-Nazis. But they are not representative.

Realities Of The Situation

The average Japanese, waiting tons of people from every corner in the Ginza, and meditating on, of the world. the quality of sake trese days, or, on who is going to win the sumo- wrestling tournament, cares mno note about the respective merits

The explanation 15 that the and demerits of British and Ger-

tie-up nam than the average Australian Japanese-German-Italian

interpreted as expediency, [cares about the respective virtues was

In-

of Senegalese and Annamites. He and that Japan has no inore is alarmed, perhaps, by what he tention of swallowing Nazi "idea- conshiers American helligez ence; logy" than it has of conferring he usually let it go at that.

upon Chiang Kai-shek the Order Amung the minority who makes of the Chrysanthemum,

But the extent of the German policies and public opinion, Df Course, it

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IS a different matter drive for Japanese support is not The Nazis have They are very much alive to the to be minimised.

made "cultural"* They are beginning to

penetration studion. wonder whether they have not fine art, and, indeed, have left been left holding the Axis bag. other nations standing, No less a Richard Strauss At the time when the tripartite personage than

music for the alliance was signect, a large num-composed special ber of Japanese firmly be-2600th anniversary of the Japan- lieved that Britain was about ese Empire; you can buy the re- collapse ridi that in cords in Tokyo to-day. There are cooperation2 with શ friendly finely produced German magazines Crmany, Japan could proceed to for sale at low prices-printed in Axis and reparcel the world, taking as her English, of course, for

speak it in share a protecturate over the East non-Axis alike must Indies, Than Indo-China. and Japan.

to

were

Burma for a start. In the first

Nazis dush of enthusiasm enenuttaged or al lenst allowed tol enter Japan in droves. Now there are some thousands. On one plea and another they wormed their way into Japanese departments.

"Background Workers" are faced by

TYPHUS OUTBREAK IN SPAIN

Spanish govern- ment authorities hove imposed rigid sanita- tion measures in an effort to stem am epidemic of typhus. At least 200 cases of the disease have been reported. Of the to- tal, 40 were fatal. Typhus is a contagi- ous fever marked by a peculiar rash, with delirium followed by stupor. Associated Press.

DR. QUO

BIDS HIS

FAREWELL

DR. QUO TAI-CHI, OUTGO- ING CHINESE AMBASSADOR TO THE COURT OF ST. JAMES, YESTERDAY BID FAREWELL TO MR. WINSTON CHURCHILI.. HE REMAINED WITH THE BRITISH PRIME MINISTER FOR ABOUT HALF AN HOUR.

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Que was honoured at send-off luncheon by representa- tives of the Chinese community in Britain. Dr. P. W. Kuo, Vice- Minister of Finance, acted as chief host, and Dr. C. C. Wang, Chairman of the Chinese Purchas- ing Commission in London, was among other representatives the Chinese community present.

It is curious to hear someone saying in perfect English to a Japanese. "Well, did you hear the good news about the fleet?" and to realise that he is a Ger- man, and that It is to Gerrian claims that he is referring. In spite of all this, the Japanese

Dr. very thought-pro- voking realities. The China War Because Japan was fright- does not show the slightest sign ened of Communists, and Ger- of conclusion; the United States many was notoriously anti-Com-'has adopted what is construed to munist, German advisers were be a threatening attitude; and the allowed in the departments con- Soviet Government is quietly cerned with internal safety. Ger- squeezing the Japanese in the many signed her agreement with north, exacting a concession here, the Soviet and staggered the a concession there, Japan has ac- Japanese, who are in some required two allies, one of whom is spects an ingentious people. But, useless, in any case, and the other

Dr. Quo, in a brief speech, the advisers remained.

Junable to render any practical stressed the necessity of national These fifth columnists of Hitler assistance. And she has around unity and cooperation in resis-

attain China's freedom likewise made their way into her in a far from friendly con- tunce to other departments. They have dition three of

largest and and equality in the world.-Cen- succeeded in subverting portion of two of the most powerful countries tral News, the Press and even gelting anti-in the world-China, Soviet Rus Jewish drivel published, althoughsia, and the United States. the average Japanese would not know a Jew from a jeroboam.

in!

The German Embassy is re- ported to subsidise one Japanese journal to the extent of 20,000) усп a month - probably smuggled yen at that, bought at repreciated rates in Shanghai. German language students are scattered all over the country. In

the

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UPROAR IN JAPANESE

CHICKEN

HOUSE

WOMAN'S DEFENCE

of

"I AM A CHINESE SUBJECT." DECLARED A 39-YEAR-OLD JAPANESE " WOMAN, ко OHMORI, OF NO. 10. LUARD BEFORE MR. G. T.

Á RE-

Munchoukuo Germans nde abouti Awakened by an uproar in a the country lording it over the poultry pen at 3 a.m. yesterday, inhabitants. Being unable to get a Chinese woman, residing at No. their propaganda material out of 20, Pau Cheung Street, was just Germany, they have made Japan in time to apprehend a Chinese, the base for the printing of vast who was about to escape with quantities of which is being dumped

in the chicks. South American countries. At the This morning at the Kowloon same time they are stirring up Magistracy, Li Fuk, 30, who anti-American sentiment,

turned out to be a life banishee, They are background workers, was sentenced by Mr. D. J. N. Anderson to 12 months' hard la- Their social behaviour is impec-bour for burglary and for return- cable. There are no frictions in Ing from banishment.

ROAD, German publicity six large chickens to escape with

Tokyo's extraordinarily cosmo- politan foreign community. The Imperial Hotel in Tokyo to-day is filled with a larger proportion of the world's diplomats, official and backstairs, spies and counter- spies, log-rollers, and lobbyists, than has probably gathered toget-

HEMINGWAYS AT

TEA RECEPTION

LOWRY THIS MORNING, WHEN SHE WAS CHARGED WITH BREACH OF THE ALIEN GISTRATION REGULATIONS.

Defendant was alleged to have committed an offence by falling to report her arrival in the Co- lony on March 22.

Sho contended she was a Chin- ese subject and that the Regula- tions did not affect her. She had requested her papers from Chung- king but these had not yet arriv-

her since the great days of es- Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Heming-ed. pionage in Switzerland in the last way were gues's, of honour at a

war,

de

Colony

tea reception in Chungking_yes- Detective-Sergeant Manu, of Here you may find Germans and terday afternoon given jointly by the Special Branch, agreed that Americans, Vichy Frenchmen, and nine cultural organisations, in- defendant was the wife of a Gaulle Frenchmen, Italians,cluding the Chinese Institute of Chinese official, and that she had Poles, Thailanders, Chinese, Journalism, the Chinese People's been in and out of the Indians, South Americans, Dut- Foreign Relations. Association, the for the past two years. chmen, Scandinavians, people who China. Branch of the International have escaped from Finland, over Peace Campaign, and the Chinese- Siberian rallway, refugees American Institute of Cultural from Hitler, all sorts and condi- 'Relations.--Central News,

the

The case was adjourned for a week, pending receipt of defen. dant's papers from Chungking.