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THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 1, 1941.

CHINA MAIL

WINDSOR HOUSE

ONUS ON JAPAN

It is too early to judge whether the swift mea- sures of economic action, expressive of the ABCD group's disapproval of Japanese encroachment

in Indo-China, will result in any important shift in Japanese foreign policy. It is clear, however, that the steps taken have deeply impressed upon the Japanese mind the neces- sity for carefully weigh- ing every further move before it is taken, and that, as a direct result, the crisis of last week-end has diminished.

Tokyo's primary ob- jective to-day is to lull suspicion and create the necessary atmosphere for appeasement by various forms of kite-flying and .conciliatory gestures. Britain and the United States are no more likely to be deceived than they are impressed by the Tokyo-Vichy explanations of the military occupation of Indo-China. From the point of view of immedi- ate loot, Japan's objectives could hardly be mis- understood. With Great Britain totally involved, .Russia fighting for her life, with United States

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ECONOMIC

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WHY NOT

MAKE IT AN

EXHIBITION Вонт?

THE PACIFIC !

Damage Berlin

а

were

raid of

attention concentrated on the Battle of the At- lantic,

time the

must Axis propagandists have been Berlin was

until inmetall armament colossus; not bombed telling tremendously busy have seemed peculiarly world what terrifle damage Ger- way, when British

the the time of the invasion of Nor-powder plant in Berlin-Lichter- 'planes ap- felde and an army storehouse bombers have opportune for the Jap-many's

inflicted peared over the city a few times, near the Lehrter Bahnhof towns. At the dropped half a dozen bombs, and among the "strictly military" tar- military to upon English

same time they poured out no end made off again. Not much dam- gets hit in the heavy strengthen their foothold of atrocity-tales--asserting that age was done, of course, but these April 12. Among the streets and;

schools, raids had 3 certain nuisance squares hit in the same raid were in the south. The dis-in Germany itself only

apartment build-value; chasing tired hospitals and

Reppichstrasse, frightened the

Alexander -| been hit by those men and women out of covery that democraticings have

warm strasse, Waitzstrasse, Hohenzollern' comfortable beds into cold wet Damm, Unter den Linden, Adolf unhealthful cellars. There preoccupations with the murderous British,”

Wittenberg are Hitler Platz,

Platz, in Berlin,

the Well, raids on Germany

Alexander Platz (home 01

of tremendous struggle in

may no deep shelters

anywhere not have been as heavy as those for that

Kantstrasse, in Gestapo).

Kleis- Europe were not so great

on England-but there cannot be

strasse, and Warmbrunner Strasse.}

In Hannover the Continental that they could not turn the slightest doubt about it: Ger-

rubber works were repeatedly swiftly to the Far Eastern many has been hit-and

times badly. It's hard to get at

bombed, and were set afire twich theatre and intimate that the complete truth, of course, and

In this spring. Nuremberg the main railway station was severely a line has been drawn it was quite a job to compile even

contained the material

damaged.

the In Frankfurt on over which it would be article, I talked to dozens of

Main, factories were bombed, al- though I could not find out which, dangerous for Japan to people, both Germans and Ameri-

Wesermuende, an industrial and fishing town near Bremen

transgress, came as sharp shock to the Konoye Cabinet.

Some-

in this

cans, who have actually seen Ger- amany being bombed and I have

to omit.

always welcome.

Thank the R.A.F.

it

read

was

matter.

By

PETER FURST

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