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THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 16, 1941.

JAPAN TURNS TO EXAMINING U.S. ATTITUDE

ONE WINTRY MORNING a slight, spare Japanese stood alone before the snow-mantled tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Washington, D. C., where he reverently clapped his hands and offered a sin- cere Shinto prayer. Then, ignoring the cold, he silently removed his overcoat, doffed his hat, and climbed slowly up the stone stairs to worship.

"Unknown Soldier," he whispered, "I trust you know who is this Oriental offering a prayer at your tomb. Twenty years have passed since you were sacrificed on a European battlefield.

"When politicians are Trying of America to his experiences al

inauguration de prately to get big hands and the

T President jattemptin to become heroes of Roosevelt. And there agam he į journalısın. You silent victims found a sentiment entirely differ- sherificed your lives for the eatise ent from what he had expected. of nations, as God only knows He describes the purchase of #1 "It must be a wonderful thing 870 stat Lit Ent of the White for be known only to God.

House to see "that historie m- Po Japan, I hope sincerely pop snd then continues with a that mony

would persons

be sets on he had with his friends known only to God."

to determine whether they shouli take a camera with them.

Returns To Tokyo

Now this Fapiruese. Tetsuma Hashimoto, has returned to Tokyo and he is writing his impressions of an America teeming with do- fense activity for the powerful industrial newspaper. "Chugai."

Considering conditions

in his homeland, where even a Japan. csc carrying a camera or field glasses is a suspect. foreigners are questioned whenever they appear in places they are not expected, his decision is natural. He would, he concluded, leave

It is not as though Hashimoto the camera at home since he might was a member of the Japan- be searched at the entrance. America society, a chap friendly

to the United States through the years.

Amazed At Friendliness

"We entered without trouble or being stopped and were greeted with friendly smiles," he wrote,

"Again our misjudgment with the Japanese ideal! "We regretted

NAILS IN

THE BELFRY

A Rumanian drove a nail into his head to relieve a headache. Though the nail was 4in. long, he only in- jured an eye nerve and his wound healed in ten days.

No sooner had he left hospital than he drove in another nail to prevent another headache, but this time he seriously in- jured his brain and is not expected to live.

JAPAN TO WAIT TILL ATTACKED

Instead he is loader of The Shlunso, a resolute right wing group, and the mere fact that these articles are appearing in

Colonel Jiro Saito, chief print, let alone being writton. is a straw in the wind of what

of the Japanese military apparently

happening In

failure to mission in southern Tokyo.

bring our camera. When Presi French Indo-China, told Hashimoto spent many weeks dent Roosevelt left the White touring through the United States, House we took off our hats and the "Associated Press" from coast to coast, and north bowed our heads. The President's correspondent in Saigon and south, as a men:ber of a warm personality was reflected

the

three-man economic group. While as he acknowledged the cheers of "it is highly unlikely that there will be a Japanese-

he says nothing about the persons the people."

with whom he talked, he dennite- Hashimoto said he naturally ly conferred with Some of the thought California, "the cradle of American conflict in the most powerful business, Anuncial the anti-Japanese movement," south Pacific in spite of and government leaders in both would be antagonistic. but "my Washington and New York.

Throughout the late months of 1940 and in the early part of the year. the vernaculars

have been beating the drums of antagonism A significant change has taken place within the month, of which Hashimoto's reasoned, impartial analysis is typical.

us. Of course Japanese firms are soon will be fighting Ger- expectation again proved errone-appearances that America suffering from regulations enforced from the

policy, particularly since the con- Minister Yosuke Matsuo- standpoint of national many and despite Foreign clusion of the tripartite pact."

The conclusion Hashimoto in ka's assertion that Japan evitably reached after his visit would be forced to fight was that, based on how he per- sonally was

received and wel- the United States if the Marvels At Police comed, there is no antagonism latter joins in the war in

toward the individual Japanese Hashimoto told how at first he in the United States, but that the Europe." was a bit put out by the thorough-two governments are in a "head- ness of the police at San Fran- long collision position."-Associat- cisco,

where they examined his ed Press. shoe soles and seams of his cloth- Ing. but afterwards he said he concluded this was all right, for ufter all, he was a member of a mission there to inquire into in- dustry.

"From then on," he writes, "we were never visited by the police."!

This astonished him, since foreigners in Japan usually are required to report departures from the city where they live. must register with the police. provide pictures, and register their addresses.

CHINESE "TEASER"

STRIKE

"teaser"

The Colonel maintained "Japan He will fight only if attacked." stated there were many "loop- holes" in the Japan-Axis agree- ment regarding Japan's part in I connection with the European

conflict.

The predominant opinion in Indo-China is that Japan stands to lose vital imports and her great advantageous economic position in she this French colony which would be unable to protect should Japan participate in a south Paci- ftc war.

Matsuoka's Pacific war declara- tion caused intense interest among the French in Saigon, they seeing in that connection American inter- vention and Indo-China's reprieve from Japanese military control should Japan and the United States clash.

Forty Chinese workmen, scom- Hashimoto writes in detail of, ing the brusque "walkout" and the plenty which surrounded him, the violence-breeding "sit-down" and no wonder, for in Japan now methods of Occidental labour, there are lines of people waiting have introduced in Manila the to buy bread from the bakeries, quieter but still potent and frequently they don't get It, strike. rice is strictly rationed, every Denied a 20-centavo raise, the scrap of old iron is saved and con- 60-and 80-centavo-day men kept tributed to the government and a on reporting for work-but every little extra sugar in the house day the group in the shop was hold is something to boast about. one man smaller. Then the last "Scrap fron is seen everywhere of the 40 men failed to appear. in America," he writes, "America Chua Sun Pek, operator of the The newspapers paid no attention

Factory, 845 San to it. has no time to pay any attention Metal Sheet

to old things. She advances with Fernando, told the police. He new things. I told a friend of asked that the policeman on the mine-it-would be easy for Japan beat drop by the plant oftener. and the United States to be friend though he does not expect any ly and cooperate In exchanging violence.

what they have.

Japanese Too Impatient

Chua explained that business had been so bad

he could not the afford to give

men the increase they demanded.

BLITZ BELL FOR

CATHEDRAL

Signature of the Thailand-Indo- China peace treaty at Tokyo received, no publicity in Saigon.

It was the opinion that Japan _was_not__ gaining Indo-China navel bases although it was bo- lieved the treaty might contain secret clauses providing for such bases. Meanwhile Indo-China army chiefs announced demobilisation of the 1920 and 1930:classes, leav- ing few more than regulars in the colony's armed forces,

"But Japan may not be able to use America's abundant natural (resources as long as the two

Hanoi travellers arriving / in nations are opposing each

Saigon reported growing Japan- other. In my opinion the Japah4;

ese-German tension In that cse are too infpatient.' 'They are Bells salvaged Intact from a area resulting from. alleged

London mad, because America has so blitz-damaged

to church Nippon efforts

"BQUIDORE much of natural richness and re-have been installed in Guildford's | out”. arriving Nazis, who ¡sources. The Japanese are too (Surrey) new cathedral. They were reported to be looking for envious."

will not be rung until after the "sugar plum" business opportuni- Hashimoto turns from his-des-war-unless there is an invasion tles in that region, - Associatod cription of the economic wealth warning in the district.

Press.