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THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 22, 1941.

CHINA MAIL

WINDSOR HOUSE

THE BATTLE OF THE WEST

As Dr. Goebbels con- tinues hastily putting out photographs of, presum- ably, good. Nazis painting "V's" on locomotives, he only deepens one's inter- est in the progress of the second great battle on the Continent the secret Battle of the West, in which there are no fronts, no war maps and few communiques, but which can be of critical impor- tance. We have seen two great wars— the Napo- leonic and the first World | War won neither in the| East nor in the West but by interaction between the two. It is not with their bombers alone that the British are now fight- ing in the West. The "V" campaign, as it was an nounced from London, may have seemed only a gigantic publicity stunt to the strains of Beeth- oven's "fate" motive. There is no doubt that there is more to it than that.

about

SPIRIT OF FREE FRANCE: REMEMBER SYRIA?

Nazi Stooges In Japan

ly members of the

powerful Meirinkai). Go into Maruzen's Book Store at Kyobashi, Tokyo, The largest retail bookship In Jupan. Almost half the foreign book section covering the second floor is given over to German publications, mostly rank Nazi

There are more than hints of large-scale sabot÷ age organised on the Con- tinent. There is, more- over, somewhat less credi- ble, a story from Berne

As in other countries, the Nazi a bomb at and severely injuring propaganda enterprises.

Japan relies Lord Hardinge; Viceroy of India. It is by control of the Japanese the wrecking of Fifth Column in

heavily on non-German stooges In still other ways, in addition | press, howevery that the Nazi German troop trains in and go-betweens.

to the use of non-Germans, the Fifth Column in Japan has been occupied France, with Nationals from occupied terri- story of Nazi propaganda methods most successful This was made! tories in Europe. Gerinan vassal in Japan follows the pattern em-possible by working agreements. British parachutists as-states and doubtful. neutrals like ployed by German fifth columns with the Home, Office censors and sisting the French sabo- Spain and Sweden provide a in other countries. teurs, and painted "V's" left to decorate the wreck-

There is age.

a story about a colossal explosion in Austria, when a huge

bizarre assortment of stool pig-Japan, cons and informers, some posing' as anti-Nazi, who frequent such places as hotel lobbies, summer resurts. foreign-style restaurants the Tokyo and and bars, and

American clubs.

There are the sordid types, the underground benzene broken-down renegades, beach- store was blown up; there combers and bar-files of Tokyo's foreign community, who get their! are stories about destroy-hand-outs from the German Emi- ed munitions factories; bassy. there are stories about serious sabotage behind the lines in Poland. How much reality there may be behind these stories or how far they are simply part of a "war of nerves' we do not know; but the German munitions train which was; beyond doubt, recently wrecked and ex- ploded in Sweden at least gives pause.

By Charles N. Spinks

Its aims in the Kempeitai, or, military-police. however, are specialised To suppress unfavourable news is only half of this propaganda job, Of equal importance is to obtain the publication of the right kind of news. This-the Germans have achieved by a number of ways.

amounted Through what

to outright bribes, the Nazis have the gained complete control of "Hochi" and the "Kokumin Shim- bun," third-rate Tokyo dailles. editorial Both have carried the

of the Fifth Columin's and influenced by Japan's present brunt

and position in the Pacific

the campaign in Japan. The "Ko- Glamour Girls Imported Japanese Government's present kumin" was reached in the autumn obligations under the Tripartite of 1939 through its long-standing Japanese connections with the The

is Alliance. more romantic side

Nazi propaganda- objectives, Army. provided by White Russian Alles

In the spring of 1988 the de joie imported from Shanghai therefore, are directed toward the

of two principal "Hochi" passed into the hands of a bankrupt political agitator, and Tientsin, glamourous ladies achievement from Central Europe and the goals:

(1)' The rightist revolution formerly president of the Japan Balkans, slightly tarnished but terilles who fit mysteriously about which will make Japan a totalitar-German Anti-Comintern Society, who was supplied with the neces-. sleek Chinese bar girls the Far East with ample funds, lan vassal of the Third Reich:

(2) The promotion of a Japan- sary funds by Nazi Presseleiter ese-American war by convincing Jacob Sahl. mute Japanese. cafe waitresses,

The German fifth column un Japan that southward expansion into the East Indies can be achiev-successfully attempted to buy out cd without such a war.

two American-owned papers irr The German Embassy in Tokyo, Tokyo, the "Japan Advertiser" The Great Mogul of the In the fountain-head' of this propa and "Japan News-Week." Three dian, collaborators is Rash Behari gandu campaign; is assisted in times the value of the latter Bose, head of the India Independ- this work by DNB" and Trans-Publication, in-U.S. dollars,

German news offered. But the American own The stories are timed ence League in Japan, a naturalls- ocean, the two

ed Japanese. He fled to Japan in agencies which deal in editorial er refused to negotiate with the not only to Beethoven's 1915 after attempting a number fabrications. Both have head-Germans.. theme but to the thun-of revolutionary, plots and hurling quarters in Tokyo. In addition, derous crash of British |- bombs on western Germocratic forces latent un-ioned in Japan, as against only six correspondents from the U.S. many-about which the der the German dictator and about three from the British Nazis have shut down an ship, to proclaim the peo-Empirei iron silence. It is all a ples war which will drain Distribute Nazi part of single great battle, the strength of that dic-

and de-

Scores of ultra-nationalist Asia- tics act as henchmen, go-betweens the and agents provocateurs for

Nazi fifth column.

there are no less than 150 Ger man "press representatives" stat-

Literature

raise the right sort of questions

a battle of destruction of tatorship much as the re- one of the principal tasks of resources and communi bellion of the Spanish the Nazi newspaper men: is to cations and factory cap- people, with British sup for Omcial Spokesman Ko Tshil acity, a battle of sabotage, port, once drained the of the Cabinet Information Burt

during his regular press con a battle of nerves, a bat life blood out of the Napo-ferences and to head of too direct tle of propaganda, at once leonic colossus. So, at or embarrassing queries poised by

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