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Profit And Loss Account| JAPAN MAKES
Of Japanese Air Raids
Enthusiastle response has been received ta the National Comfort Committee's call for articles for members of China's air force, Officials of the committee spoke enthusiastically of the gallantry and hereis of the "force. Often outnumbered and fighting against great odds, the air defenders have written a glorious chapter of China's resistance.
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ANOTHER DEMAND
Of all the foolish things our nemy have done, nore surpasses. the indiscriminate bombings hy the loss at yen 10,000,000 for three Commission. which they hope to bring China planes.
GENERAL
HUGE DRUG HAUL MADE IN S'HAI
ANONYMOUS LETTER
An
the
TUESDAY, JULY 16, 1940...
BURMA ROAD ISSUE
"THE SHOW!
WILL
GO ON"
CHINESE PRESS
COMMENT
season.
BOMBAY TO
GO "DRY"
BOMBAY," July 13 (Reuter)--- The position regarding prohibition
be
SHANGHAI, July 15 (Reuter- The Japanese have warned.Bri-
"The Japanese may destroy the in Bombay has been clarified by tish shipping to leave China's
theaters, but the show will go on,”ati official statement,
Broadly speaking the effect of four remaining unoccupied coastal
SEQUEL
In an editorial today, the Li said an official of the China. Film ports, namely Foochow, Santuao.
Pao views with reserva Tokyo's re-Factory, "for we have itinerant the proposed new regulations is Wenchow and Ningpo as they in-
anonymous letter received port of a British compromise in movies. The street' of Chungking is that there is no restriction on the with purchase from Licensed vendor, or The sentiment expressed by the cost of 2,000 gallons of motor tend to start action against them by the French Police helped them connection with the Burma Road the theatre of the people.
on July 16, after which they to seize a large quantity of nar-15918.
the cooperation of the New Life Possession, of foreign Xquor. officials has been shared by all ou
The manufacture and sale of not Bombs: Each plane is capable of will
assume responsibility coticy in Route des Soeurs at circles. Speaking before the week-
Drawing a distinct line between Movement we will continue to give
liquor wil 11.30 am, on July 8,
French ty memorial service at the Cen- carrying 2,000 kilograms of ex-for any damage,
Indo-China-Yunnan entertaining and informative pic-country-made
| punishable, but country-made tral Kuomintang Headquarters, plosives. The total amount of It is understood that the Br!-
KOREAN NATIONALS
Railway and the Burma Highway, lures to the populace tri the open
liquor may be brought into Bar- Generalissimo
Bér," Chiang Kai-shek missiles carried by the 100 planes tish are insisting on their right
the paper belleves that Britain Since the drug traffickers were will not likely acquiesce in the
During the June 13 bombing, bay provided a special excise duty paid a high tribute to the succes- is thus 200,000 kilograms. Valued to remain, enter and leave these
at US. $1 per kilogram, the 200.- ports and will continue normal of Korean nationality, the French Japanese demands as the French when 154 Japanese planes dropped is paid. ses of the air force.
zen did regarding the railroad. Under the title "In Eulogy of 000 kilograms cost a total US. sailings. They will, it is further Police naked the "Japanese
bombs on the city proper, Chung- the Air Force," Ta Kung Pao. $200,000. If the ratio of exchange stated, hold the Japanese respon- darmerie to co-operate in making
The purpose for the construm- king's four cinema houses were OVERSEAS CHINESE Chungking daily, wrote: "It may is 10 yen to every American dol-sible in the event of any damage. the arrests and seizing the drugs. tion of the Burma Road and the among the non-military targets
STAND LOYAL Upon receipt of the anonymous rights and privileges thereof are affected. One of them was hit, be said that our air defenders have 1ar, then the total cost for explo
letter, the French Police went to sharply different
CHUNGKING, July 15 (Central) displayed the fighting spirit in its sives is 3'en 2,000,000.
PUPPETS JOIN
from those for while the others were shaken. The Houses 1 and 2, Lane 241 Route the French. Indo-China-Yunnan property damage, however, was-The Chinese General Chamber bighest caliber. The war record of Depreciation of planes: The life
CHINESE
des Soeurs, where three Koreans, Railway, the paper points our air force proves the superiority of each motor is 300 hours. The
out. small as the movie equipment had of Commerce, the Cantonese Gulla of its personnel, the excellence of rate. of depreciation for every
CHUNGKING, July 15 (Reuter) two of them women, were report- The nature of this overland route been evacuated. As a precaution and the Hainan Residents Gulid its morale and the high standard trip to Chungking is therefore
concealing total of 400,000 puppeted to be
large may be guaged from the report ary measure, indoor shows are in Singapore have sent messages of its moral conceptions. All these one-thirleth. In other words, the troops, over 150,000, with 75.789 quantity of morphine and heroin. that oficial Chinese circles em suspended during the bombing to the Chinese Air Force, "paying a
A. cordon of police was thrown orasise China has the right to de-
tribute to its gallant defence o* go to show, the perfection of its enemy "cses" planes in each trip rifles, have mutinled and joined training."
of 100 planes. The minimum cost the Chinese forces, according to around the bouses and the agents mand the Burma Road be kept
Meanwhile, Chungking's movie Chungking in recent Japanese air of each plane is yen 5,000,000. The General L1 Chal-sum, Deputy entered a room in house I where upen for traffic.
industry goes on. "We are still raids. most conservative estimate places Chairman of the Political Affairs they found three trunk, full of
PLENTY OF SUPPLIES producing new pictures," asserted Messages from overseas Chinese morphine." In another room, ot cupled by the Koreans in House
The paper believes that Japan the omcial. A visit to the studio have, meanwhile, teen pouring in in ltne, the journal begins. Japan Accordingly, the enemy loss in crew would cost Japan: yen 6,000, 2, the police, after a long search, will tot dare to exercise the same proved the statement. A scene was pledging continued support of the has used a million troops to con-leach raia is ten times that of 000 in their recent Chungking found about five pounds of heroin,
measures against Burma as he has being aimed showing a Japanese war of resistance which has enter
soldler abducting
Chinese ed the fourth year. The latest re- against French Indo-China. the costs secreted In a double-bottorried „quer China against which China China, the Journal says. As in raids. in addition to
The paper concludes by assert-woman inside a Buddhist temple ceived included those from the Chinese in Singapore, bas persisted in her resistance illustration, it mentions the few estimated by the Ta Kung Pao.
few of the invading
ing that the Burma road issue will Hunan, for the film" "North overseas for three years. Is it not pure thousand dollars the Central Daily
Only a
hove little adverse effect Hunan Victory." The informant | Mexico, the Philippines, Malacca, fancy that they now try to sub-News spent for repalis to
planes were brought down by the
Not satisfied with this search. China's resistance. Ever the added that this picture will be re- and Milwaukee, ingate China by employing over building damaged · in one
of Chinese anti-aircraft guns. Most
the law oficers continued to road is closed, China" will be able leased in Kunming and Hongkong. 100 planes to bomb Chungking?. the raids. Around the building of the hits were scored by the ransack the room and found $20.ot continue her resistance, for she within two months: Two other a "News of the Day" picture depict- How fulle the enemy efforts have more than ten duds were found!
fighting planes.
been may be seen from the ex-
1,000 in notes Police officials could has already stored up large quan- pictures will be shown simultan- ing the recent Chinese victory on Heavier losses were infarcted on Besides, up to June 17, at least
sum titles of supplies.
eously. "Light of Fast Asia," and the Honan-Hupeh border. Another. tremely low list of casualties 39 Japanese planes which had the enemy raiders when they came not say where such a large
Sharing the same view the Lm "Our Hometown.*
company, the Central Motion Pic Chungking has built
rellable raided Chungking and its outskirts in larger numbers during the last of money came from, but believed
was obtained through Pao, the Wah Khu Yat Pan says
WORK AS USUAL
ture Studio, is continuing its film- dugouts to take care of its tens since April 22 were brought down, few ralds. In the four raids be that it
that there is still the China-Soviet- He explained that the pictures ing of pictures. & third one, the of thousands citizens.
according to a report released by tween June 10 and 16 the Japan- selling narcotics,
The arrested women and man Russia highway left, if anything would have been released earlier. Northwest Film Studio in Chengtu, COST OF EXPEDITION the Chungking Air Defense Hend-ese lost nineteen planes. Their The Journal then calculates the quarters. This number does not wrecks are being gathered for an were handed over to the Japanese happens to the Burma road. Traf- bad work not been hindred by is producing a picture called "Long
gendarmerie and will answer tafic is going on smoothly on this bombings. Nevertheless, in the in- Live the Chinese People."
These three studios, together. cost of a bombing expedition to include wrecks of planes not yet exhibit in Chungking.
Altogether there were seventeen the charges of drug trafficking in route and it is difficult for Janan tervals between air raids the peo-. Chungking. Even if all the 100
ple in the studio continue to work with two others in' Hongkong-the alarms in Chungking, but only the Japanese Consular Court. The to disrupt it enemy planes return safely, the
fourteen turned out to be actual narcotics were also handed over.
as usual. The release of "Secret Christian Films Company, Ltd,.. cost of a trip amounts to over Most of the known casualdes of bombings, during the 57-day per- When questioned about the
Agent of. Japan" and another pic and the Tat! Pictures Company.... yen 12,310,000.
enemy raiders were heavy bom-lod between April 22 and June 17. letter, French police oficials
ture dealing with Sino-Mongolian recently formed a syndicate for The paper's estimate Is; »
bers. Only one scouting plane was The longest alarm was on May 17 stated that they had idea LONDON, July 15 (Reuter) →→ cooperation against "Japanese in-marketing their output abroad Oil; If each plane consumes 70 brought down during that period, which lasted six and a half hours whatever where it came from, An Admiralty communique an- perialism will be postponed until and regulating H according to gruons of gasoline per hour, then If each plane carried an average from dusk to early next morning. but thought that the trackers nouncing the loss of the des- late this year.
demand. Lo Ming-yau, secretary- the 100 planes will burn 70,000 crew of five, the human loss to the On the average, each raid lasted were betrayed by one of their troger, Escort, says that she was The China Film Factory is now general of the Hongkong chapter gallons in ten hours on the entire Japanese aff force is estimated at three and a half hours, and the dissatisfied colleagues.
lost in the western Mediterranean making a cross-sectional record of of the Wartime Chinese Movie trip. Calculated at three yen a around 200. If it takes an average people o Chungking spent 59 and
The value of the seized nar-when she was hit by a torpedo, the various tribes in China who Workers' League, has been élected. gallon, the cost for the 70,000 gal- of yen 30,000 to train a member & halt hours in or near dugouts cotics was estimated by the French and was damaged, and sub-are doing their bit for the nation, general manager of the syndicate. tons is yen 210,000. This excludes of the enemy air force, the dead during this time.-(010.)
police at about $25,000,
sequently foundered while in tow. Recently It released in Hongkong | -(CIC.),
discovered.
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