1941-09-22 — Page 23

THE CHINA MAIL, SEPTEMBER 22, 1941.

CHINA MAIL

WINDSOR HOUSE

THE COURSE IS FORWARD

Axis propagandists, assert that: the people of the United States are disunited and not behind the President in his foreign policy. They argue that the Unit- ed States can neither fight a war on its own behalf nor contribute effectively to the resistance of the nations which are fighting now against aggression and the: rule of force,

- In arriving at these conclusions the Axis propagandists also take much too short a view. It is ա- deniably true that there has been some let-down in the an- xiety of both Congress and the American people during recent weeks. This is the direct conse- quence of the fact that the war st.ddenly turned east at the end of June, since which lime the German armies have been fully occupied in Russia. But this is

merely # temporary shift ot. front; and the Axis ought to have no illusions about American po licy in the future, after what has been demonstrated. This let- down is only a small dip in a'

line that has been moving for-.

ward and that will continue to

move forward.

“WHAT! TRYING TO ENCIRCLE · YERSELF?”

THE

GREAT WALL

(It is reported from Shanghai that the Japanese are constructing

GIL 18-feet-high wall

from Tientsin for a hundred miles, along the coast, running parallel with the railway, as a protection against guerillas.)

Nazi Agents Busy In East

The change in American senti-

NAZI agents employing familiar any large number of Germans to, now in Japan but many in Shang-4 ment as the war progressed has

pressure techniques are hard arrive in Ching from the home-hai. been tremendous. Two years at work in Japan, and less visibly land, it is not felt that the influx

"Thought Offenders!" ago, it was thought that America in China, attempting to impel the of Germans can take on the char- Far East down a path marked out acter of a political "infiltration."

that the Meanwhile institution of a sys- was committed irrevocably to a by Berlin as essential to the im-It is not in evidence cold and anemic neutrality, The position of its pattern of conquest Germans are exerting any appre-tem of virtual concentration camps. on the Wangin Japan, one of the few hallmarks" in this vital segment of the world. ciable influence commitment was unreal. She

Japan, as the main instrument-Ching-wel puppet regime at Nan-of totalitarianism, heretofore miss neutrality. tality chosen by Hitler to further king, or on the Japanese in China, ing in that country, is under way. She has repealed the arms em- his Far Eastern ambitions, teems auhough Berlin's recent recogni-Prisoners will mostly be thought bargo which made it impossible with Nazi agents.

has

abandoned that

Nobusuke Kishi, former Japan- for friends abroad to obtain the

ese Vice-Minister DA Commerce from weapons of self-defence. She is and Industry, is reported now sunulying those weapons at Tokyo to have found an influx of German travellers in Japanese- her cost, gladly and gratefully. She occupied portions of China and in has taken steps which would Manchukuo. He has just returned have seemed incredible to the from a tour there. Writing in the

Tokyo newspaper "Nichi

Axis Powers when the war be- Mr. Kishi reported: gan: making the Lease-Lend Act,]

with

tions,

Nichi,"

"One thing I particularly noticed its far-reaching implica-in China was the number of Ger- man travellers. No matter how far the foundation of foreign I went into China Germans were policy; made Iceland an "Ameri- trying to

economic can base; raised an army by con- rights,"

establish

Japanese nationals in China

By A Staff Correspondent Of The "Christian Science Monitor"

tion of Mr. Wang resulted in flareup in comradely feeling.

offenders," a term used to describe: liberals. Communists, and any other persons ideologically, out of step with the national policies of the moment.

Ordinarily in the past "danger ous thinkers" have been picked up by police..on suspicion and, sub- jected to extensive grilling. Those believed to constitute a dangerous element have been held for years, 11without trial frequently, and the gaols of Japan to-day-are, jammed with liberal college professors, and political workers, students

a

scription peacetime history; put fifty but Mr. Kishi, added they were destroyers directly into British doing little "in the way of econo- service; used merchant ships. tomic establishment,"

Describing Hankow as "the first carry war supplies to the British line of Japanese military activi- Near Eastern front, and last but ties," Mr. Kishi reported that "many British and American fac- hot least the shooting order to the tories are closed, but the Germans Navy. What is more the United are. establishing. themselves States have reached a point, at

firmly,"

which more and more people are beginning to see clearly that, far] from being "too weak to fight"- if fight she must America. is superbly equipped in those wea pons which she would be, called upon to use.

for the first time: in have increased "five or 10 times,' The Japanese are angered be-·

Reservations By Japanese.

others. Many have been freed after

confessing a change of heart which the authorities believe is genuine; others prefer to suffer for their. intellectual crimes:

cause the Germans in evacuating Chungking. refuse to supply in-however, formation.

卢

Large Increase Recently the prison authorities to convert

It has suddenly been realised; that some, dangerous thinkers" in the past were given legal gaol terms which are about to Berlin ordered: German: bust-end and that they still refuse to nesses in Shanghai to hold tight admit the error of their ways. The to present, stocks, purchase addi- question therefore arose as to what tional supplies, and await even- to do with such persons and the tualities in anticipation of German concentration camp scheme-dis control over the Trans-Siberian guised as "preventive detention Railway, but many Jack.funds and stations"-was hit on as the are therefore selling their stocks answer, undoubtedly, with some in order to meet current expenses, Nazi prompting.;

A Commünist group, whose, 10-. Nazi firms discharged many year term expires this autumn and as which maintains its ideology in- For a variety of reasons, Japan non-German employees, such has been selected by Nazi strater Russians and Chinese but Ger- tact will be the star attraction, They are reported to have shown gists as their chief Far Eastern man staffs were not affected.

active resistance to the efforts of tool. The Japanese, with Oriental cynicism, have accepted a place in

them," the Hitlerian orbit under full re

Germans says the number of he In the development of Amert-servations against the day when

this pact of convenience might be their nationals in China was about Preventive, Detention can opinion toward the issues of scrapped, as was the one between the same last year due to constant Once in, the "preventive deten- travel, homeward via the Transtion station the unreconstructed this war there have been periods Germany and Soviet Russia.

Nazi Germany's most immediate Siberian Railway However, dangerous thinkers" can be kept of pause, during which the nation strategic aim in the Pacifierently there undoubtedly has been there indefinitely until the author stopped to take account of mia mobilising the United States Navy

a large increase

itles are convinced they have been cures already adopted, and there and as much other. Allied power as

converted, possible accounts for the prepon Due to the fact that Atlantic

The concentration camp, harshi have been periods of momentary derance of Nazi attention to Tokyo travel is impossible, many. Ger-

mans in the United States and in as it may seem, is actually halled relaxation, when some new and instead of to China.

That China is not being over Latin America who were travel-98, evidence of Japanese, humani- unexpected development, such, us looked in the larger strategic plaing homeward used the Pacific tarianismo, Original suggestions would have instituted capital pua- Hitler's excursion into Russia, ture as seen from Berlin is indie

ishment for those, released, offend seemed to lighten the pressure of cated by the prosence of Nazi and the Trans-Siberian line.

ogents, German sources say that The outbreak of the Russo ers who refused to change their immediate danger. But there hus about 4,000. Germans are in China German war therefore marooned thinking. been no departure from the main to-day about half of them in many Germans in Shanghai, and. In an interview with the Tokyo line. That line has led, steadily Shanghai. This figure includes in Japan. Recently, many, Nazis "Nichl, Nichi". Yoshiro: Nekamura. and unmistakably and irresisti- casual residents and businessmen in Free China have been coming head of the first camp set up in

to Shanghai following the rupture connection, with the Tokyo, pont as well at more active. Nuzis. bly, towards a closer association

of Chungking, Berlin, rolations. tentiary, declared that such an with those nations which are Doubtful On Influence There are also some from Manila Idea was repugnant to the Japan

plus Vladivostole consular officinis.esp since "Japan is not the Soviet fighting for their freedom and to-dent

The Netherlands Indies recently Union or Germany where, we are. ward the use of American power Due to the difficulty of obtain-

ing ship accommodations from the released hundreds of Nuzi women told, they condemn thought as the decisivo factor, in the win United States; and due to the fact and children held in internment offenders of the darkest hue, to ning of this wor

that it is virtually impossible for onmps, of which the majority are capital, punfähment”

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