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THE CHINA MATL, SEPTEMBER 25, 1941.

WIDESPREAD UNREST IN JAPAN

SOME DAYS AGO PRINCE KONOYE IN- FORMED THE JAPANESE PEOPLE THAT THE COUNTRY IS FACING THE GRAVEST CRISIS IN ITS HISTORY. IT IS CURIOUS TO REFLECT THAT THE FULL GRAVITY OF THAT CRISIS IS PROBABLY LESS REALISED BY THE JAPANESE PEOPLE THEMSELVES THAN ANY OTHER PEO- PLE IN THE WHOLE WORLD, DECLARED A SPEAKER OVER STATION XGDN IN SHANGHAI:

It is hardly possible for anybody who has not lived in Japan, especially during the past four years, to have any idea of the state of ignorance concern- ing current events in which the Japanese people are deliberately kept.

Both press and radio are under; the gravest crisis in its history. It complete control. In regard to the has done so in the following man- latter, no short wave is allowed ner, Like most bigotted extrem- and the wave band for all prí-ists, the members of this group, vate radios is limited from 200 to though often of high ránk, are not 500 metres. The people therefore wide minded and they proved are compelled to listen to locall themselves to be perfect tools in broadcasting stations only, and the hands of the Nazis. Gladly practically all telegrams giving they adopted methods that had news of the world situation ori-¦ been so successful in Germany, ginate from Rome or Berlin. particularly in getting control of During the first two years of the press and in organising a spy the China incident the Japanese system.

air was loaded with stories of al- In this they were assisted by

GERMAN'S

SABOTAGE CALL TO GERMANS

Over Moscow radio Michel Niederkirch- ner, who in.. peace time had a job in a Berlin steel factory, broadcast to Berlin steelworkers a call to

Nazi sabotage

war production.

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"Remember, friends," he said, "each cartridge which does not explode is a shot into the heart of Hitler."

GIRL AT

most fantastic victories over the specially-imported members, of SEA ON

Chinese which, to some extent, Gestapo. But it has been through accounts for the present discon- the press that they have made tent of the people. For, say they, their influence mostly strongly if our military forces have been so felt. They have, in this regard,

the people will at last believe It

A TUBE

on an inflated inner tube.

uniformly marvellously victor-followed Hitler's advice os .out- A girl, 18, was rescued ious, why does this wretched in- | lined in "Mein Kampf" and cident drag on year after year brought to perfection by Goebbels after drifting in the At- and our personal lives become "If you lie, let it be a big lie, and lantic for sixteen hours more and more uncomfortable? repeat it over and over again, and

The same reasoning is now go- ing on in regard to the European

"My father had often warned war, since the beginning of which

me that it was sinful' to bathe they have been fed on Berlin tele-

in a short costume, so I got what grams and the Goebbellings of the

-I'deserved," she said after being D.N.B. and Transocean news a moment they would realise not picked up by a-steamer. agencies. In other words the only the falsity but also, the stú- The girl, Eleanor Waldonado, people of Japan are beginning topidity of this idea. In actual fact, daughter of a minister, was swept realise that the news as supplied since the Russo-Japanese war out to sea off the New Jersey to them is quite untrustworthy! | thirty-seven years ago Japan has coast. in short that to a large extent they not been attacked or threatened "During the entire sixteen hours

have been deliberately lied to.

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Simple Folk

The latest attempt to follow out this method is the word "encircle- ment." Of course if the Japanese, people were allowed to think for

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and asking to be

by any country. There has been just sat on the tube praying for no encroachment beyond the forgiveness boundaries of the supposedly en- saved," Eleanor said.

| circling countries during all that

time.

and bitterly regret their own The Russian-Manchurian bor-supineness which enabled this der remains where it was; China small group to gain such power han not moved and Hong Kong and thereby lead them into the and the Malay states with 'Sin-' sorry existence which they now gapore have always been sta-have to endure. But there is no tionary.

doubt at all that the people

of

and

and

Yet it must be remembered that very large proportion of the Japanese people are simple pea- sant farmers who, in normal cir- cumstances, would blindly accept anything that they heard over their local radio receivers, and it must be admitted that, even now, there are many of these simple There has been no movement: Japan are becoming more folk who regard all that they hear which might cause the smallest more politically conscious as gospel truth. Yet this again | apprehension either from the that this group of high placed has to be discounted by the large Dutch East Indies or the Philip-extremists will be most unpleas- number of soldiers, wounded and pines, In fact Japan is now inantly surprised when, for the otherwise, who have returned to precisely the same position vis-a-wind which they have so light- their country homes and who na vis these countries as she has been heartedly gown, they have to reap turally speak in the bosom of for so many years past,

so treinendous a whirlwind, their families and tell them just When we think of the Japan of exactly what happened. And so, fifteen or ten years ago, the hap- throughout the whole country,py smiling and contended people there is indubitably, spreading a living within their incomes which, spirit of unrest and distrust which | though by no means large, were may easily develop into a very well-sufficient for their needs; 'go- ugly situation for the Governing about their daily work in qulet ment in being.

| happiness, there was then no cry

Encirclement"

I suppose most of you who are of encirclement." It is, of course, listening recall the famous inci-jas averybody knows, nothing but dent of February 20, 1936, when a a parrotlike echoing of Füller rebel group of the Army in Tokyo from two years ago, and the cir made an attempt at a coup d'etat cumstances in both cases were which, through prompt action, was much similar nipped in the bud and resulted in the death sentence being passed on the young ringleaders. Though In a certain sense every indivi- the subsequent inquiry into this dual, as, every country-is encin abortive effort was conducted cled by neighbours. But it is not mostly in camera, yet enough in- usually a cause of complaint so formation emerged to show that long as neighbourly feeling is the Army itself was, far from be- continuing. If this ceases to exist ing united, actually full of divi- it is not generally difficult to find sions and groups, to the if great de- the one responsible for changing triment of both discipline and those neighbourly feelings into efficiency.

one of disilice and suspicion. hot, This fact may perhaps have: We have seen how the enclr- Come connection with the intercling countries" around Japan minable dragging out of the have in no way interfered with -China Inoldens..

ther for: many many ye In Japan, however, there is one and so this present uncomfortable group, in particular, which is re- feeling of “encirc gnt'rcan only cognised as being the most unit come from within her own con ed: the most powerful, and the sciousness. In other words. It is. most formidable because the most not the circumstances of the circle | daring and outspoken of all the that is contracting upon her, but oxtremists of the extreme right, that she is trying to press from Yet it is certainly the smallest. within against that circumference.. Its existence is well known to ‘all: In fact it is a tacit aŭmission of an the people and it has somehow aggressive policy. failed to gain their “confidence. But, ng we noticed before, the Open criticism in Japan has for Japanese people are now by no long time been entirely, suppress- means so gullible as they were ed, which is symptomatiq of the four years since. unhealthy condition of the body politie. But in private it is a very different matter,

Not Wide-Minded

It is this group alone that has brought Japan Into the position which Prince Konoye described ask

They know – precisely from whom these "catch' wonda" originate, and regard them with the suspiolon that these.......yoach of falso informatión "i would. naturally engender.

They look back with longing on their lives of so short a time ago

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