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HONGKONG DAILY PRESS

PRIMARY AIM OF FIFTH Lyttleton,

COLUMN IN JAPAN

Continued from Page 1,

many This, however, icon-

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addition, the Fifth Column tingently dependent on future de now has outright control of, two velopments.

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WHAT NAZIS WANT What Germany wants today, and what the Nazi Fifth Column

Auchinleck

Interviewed

MR. OLIVER LITTLETON, the new Minister of State who k re-

CABLE

Mrs. Winant Admired By

London Wives

LONDON, July 8 (British Wire- Japanese dailler in Tokyo,

from Nazi censorship in Japan also presenting the War Cab net in the less) Beventeen firemen extends to fortune-tellers.

Middle East, and GENERAL SIR the Cathford area of London and Leading spirit in the Nazi Fifth CLAUDE ALCHINLECK, the new their wives had tea yesterday is working twenty-four hours dat Column after 1936 was, and 16 Commander-in-Chief, Middle East, afternoon with Mrs. Winant, wife ly to achieve, is an immediate General Ott, the then Military. At in succession to General Sir Archi- of the US. Ambassador here. Japan-America war-a conflict tache. On the Japanese side. Gen-bald Wavell, hoth gave Interviews This was the outcome of a letter which the Nazis are certain will eral Ott's outstanding aid is. Gen- in Cairo on Monday. be brought about fr they can in- eral Oshima, Military Attache to

Mr. Lyttleton said that his main recalved by Mrs. Winant from the duce Japan to launch a campaign Berlin and later Ambassador, and function would be to take over wife of a London Areman in Cat- against Singapore and the Dutch Tochlo Shiratori Shiratori ta ty-some of the vast number of duties fora, East Indies,

pical of the "Gorotsuk" type in that were hitherto held by the C.- The writer said she wanted Mrs. in-C. He would also be in close Winant to know that her coming and immediate touch with the to England to join the Ambassa

Pressure has been brought on all German nationals in Japan by methods which are familiar.

Take the case of Dr. Kurt Sin- ger, Professor of Economies at the

j

Japanese politics

PROPAGANDA MATERIAL

The Fifth Column reaches the Prime Minister and would super - dor had “roused the admiration of Education Ministry only indirectly, vime the administration of con- au wives and mothers in London that is, through the Home and quered enemy territory. Supplles especially those who know what Tokyo Imperial University from Foreign Offices. Nevertheless and shipping priorities would also an uncomfortable experience it 1035 to 1937, and who has been flood of propaganda materialbe dealt with by him.

was to endure a blitz in order to forced to leave Hamburg Univer- reaches Japanese schools, magą- Gen. Auchinleck said: "If this keep the home fire burning. the sity because he is a Jew. Renewal zines, newspapers and pamphlets. war is to be won properly, not added the hope that Anglo-Ameri- of his contract with the Tokyo The Education Ministry has also half-heartedly, It must not be in can co-operation would endure. Imperial University was refused, become Imbued with the Nazi Europe.

It must be in Germany

following pressure from the Ger-doctrine. man Embassy.

IMPORTANT CONTACTS When the Nazi Party in Japan gained strength, important con Lacts were established with in- Ouential Japanese pro Germans of the old school, the "young officer" class in the Army and po

tical malcontents of a varieties

GENERAL OTT TODAY WIELDS POWERFUL INFLI'- ENCE IN ALMOST EVERY PHASE OF JAPANESF POLI- 'TICS, MIS ACTIVITY WAS PARTLY RESPONSIBLE FOR THI KONOVE CABINET TO SET UP A TOTALITARIAN PO- LITICAL STRUCTURE.

When this movement for tunda.

and on German soll. The Ger- Expressing appreciation of the mans must be beaten like Napo-spirit underlying the letter, Mrs. leon was beaten,"

Winant sent out the invitation,

JAPAN BRANDED SOURCE

OF PRESENT WORLD

CONFLAGRATION

CHUNGKING. July 8 (Central)—GENERALISSIMO CHIANG KAI-

A good example of this contact method is seen in the case of the mental revision of the political Tohokai, the most Fascist minded system was in its formative stages Party in Japan and headed by last spring. Prince Konoye was at Selgo Nakano, who is noted for first reluctant to assume Its SHEK yesterday addressed a message to friendly Powers on the oc- the toughness of "Gurotsuk" in leadership. Accompanied by Gen caston of the fourth anniversary of the Sino-Japanese war, branding gral Terauch and General Sugi- Japan the source of the present world conflagration and urging close yuma, both former War Ministers. co-operation among all the democratic countries to defeat the forces General Ott called on the lies,tant of aggression. Prince, at his Maruizawa villa, last June and convinced him that the establishment

# Totalitarian

his pay

Dr.

Walther Donat, Director of the Japan German Cultural Insti. tute, first met this uncultured per sonaity in the fall of 1938. There after the Tohokai took a

pro-

minent part in the anti-British Government WAS A condition of demonstrations in July 1939 and German support for any Japanese Frince again in March 1940. Its mem- move in the East Indies. bers were right out in front of Konoye thereupon agreed to head the assault on the gates of the the movement and resigned from British Embassy.

the Presidency of the Privy Coun- cil.

Just after the war broke out in Europe, Nakano's private secretary, Tadao Mutata, look

WHEN THE YONAI CABINET FELL ON JULY 16, OVER ARMY AND FUTA COLUMN PRES. SURE FOR A MILITARY AL LIANCE WITH GERMANY, PRINCE KONQYE BECAME THE NEXT PREMIER. TWO MONTHS LATER THE ALLIANCE WAS SIGNED.

Thus far the Fifth Column has

CHINA PREPARED FOR LONG WAR CHUNGKING, July 8 (Reu ter) "China is fully prepared to continue the war for four or 14 more years if necessary in order to win the final vic- tory," declared Pr. Quo Tai- chi. China's Foreign Minister, in a broadcast to America yes- terday

General Chang called the at- tention of the friendly Powers to three salient points.

a job in the German Embassy 25 contactman aud go-be- tween. His intimate know- ledge of the pairiotic societies and their personnel has been of infinite value to the Fifth Column in reaching other or

First, General Chiang said, the ganisations and individuals. been unable to bring about a full flame of the present world con- German "eu3tural” (war) films Totalitarian state in Japan. It is flagration was ignited by Japan's provide another

ap- too big a task. There are too many attack on Mukden on September proach.

interests involved. There is not 18, 1931. The Anti-Comintern Pact More than 3,000 German "docu enough genuine support and too mentary" fims have been shown much passive resistance from the In Japan since the European war, people at large.

effective

all glorifications of the Totalita- How do the Germang finance rlan State and "blitzkrieg"-war- this Fifth Column werk in Japan? tare.

That, too, is an absorbing story of intrigue and undercover activity.

FINAL STEP

In the same period, only one British Alm was shown, a feeble propaganda effort, about the beauties of the English countryside. Since May 1940, Home Office officials have re- fused to pass at British cul- tural films, 20 of which were pre-war products.

PRESSURE ON FOREIGNERS

Heavy Rains

Cause Floods In Shanghai

of 1930 emboldened her and mark- ed the beginning of the present world turmoil, Subsequently, she conspired with Germany and Italy

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U.S.-German Clash

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The DAILY EXPRESS said that

RUSSO-GERMAN CONFLICT DISCUSSED AT WEEKLY R.A.F. LUNCHEON IN S'HAI

The German-Soviet war and the reasons for the attack of Ger to form the Tripartite Pact and the decision had transformed the proclaimed the so-called "New Atlantic into an Anglo-American many on a country that had been supplying the Reich with raw ma Order in East Asia." Further, the lake and had given Britain su-

terials and petroleum were des't with by MR, H. G. W, WOODHEAD, Japanese have established naval preme aid and not only in the CBE,, editor of the "ORIENTAL, AFFAIRS,” in an address given at the weekly luncheon of the ROYAL AIR FORCE ASSOCIATION at the bases on Hainan Island and in Battle of the Atlantic. French Indo-China.

Tracing the source of the present world war and the course of its extension, Japan Is really the tinder box which kindled the flaing of the world Unless and until the war. Japanese menace is oliminated, there will be no end to the world

disturbance and 110 peace to mankind

In a broadcast from London last Dome, Shanghai, recently, reports the North China Daily News" night. Major Allen Murray- said In his address, Mr. Woodhead had begun that the Soviet Ambaa- that the secret of the landing of spoke öf Hitler's. treachery toward sador was aroused from his dum American troops in Iceland was the U.S.S.R of his cynical claims ber to be informed that Germany well kept though the decision an- in calling this war a struggle brand the USSR. were at war. nounced by the President did not tween Christianity and Allies, come as a surprise to him.

This

CYNICAL CLAIM

and of the revolting reason given

treacherous attack has by the Germans in Ankara about siner been represented as a Crusade FRONTIERS EXTENDED The DAILY MAIL, says British the need of "Russian prisoners as against Bolshevism-as a struggle

labourers since the French are between Christianity and Atheism Wireless, sees more in the move.

That a the cynical claim of the Secondly, the success or failure than lifting of the burden from useless, being tired and unruly.”

Following are the excerpts of the greatest Pagan of all time Hitler British shoulders in the garrison-

evidently expected this move to address: of the war in the future dependsing of Iceland.

split the Democracies and probably Primarily on whether the strength "In effect," it says, "the Pre- of the anti-aggressor nations can sident has extended his country's thought that those of us who are cooperation in the attack upon the "It is a solemn but inescapable to lead to offers of peace and

population and resources, Asia is

ocean. He has established

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RUTHIESS THEORIES

be expanded in Asia. Both in frontlers across 4,000 miles of

alive today are living through the USSR The response of the lead- the richest Continent of the world, startling and courageous precedent tened civilization. This crista fa of mediate and categorical As Mr.

greatest crisis that has ever threa- mg Democracies, however, was im

If Asta. America and all the Eu- } the history of the United ropean Democracles can consoli-States." late themselves under the banner

of

An almost identical point of anti-aggression and co-operate view is put forward in the DAILY closely, the Democracles will be EXPRESS. sure of victory and the forces of aggression will be ultimately wiped

The next and final step in the Fifth Colvinn's programme is to bring about a Japanese-American war by fostering the Japanest

With stark reality, the all-day 'out. southward expansion. The time is deluge on June 25 brought home now ripe, the Nazis argue, for to Shanghallanders the fact that

SERIOUS WARNING

such magnitude as to appear to Winston Churchill put its many of us to be utterly fantastit "We have but one aim and one to be a bad dream from which single irrevocable purpose. We are some morning we shall awake to resolved to destroy Hitler and every say: "However I could have dream vestige of the Nazi regime,"

REPUGNANT SYSTEM

"And so we find ourselves sup--

& LONDON, July (Reuter)ed such nonsense--of such hor What amounts to a serious warn-rors?" Unfortunately, it is not IMPORTANCE OF PACÍFIC ing against any fielding to merely a nightmare. The crisis sporting one form of dictatorship ¡Japan -to move, to co-ordinate the wet season has undoubtedly All the Pacific Powers must fully threats from the Japanese Govern- real and so acute that the next which we dislike against another Early in 1937, Franz Huber, one- the East Indies, with a German out on the streets after six o'closiPacific is not below that of the McNutt, President Roosevelt's Fen decide the fate of civilization. being. It may be of some interest with an assault on Singapore and arrived. Those who had cause to be recognise the importance of the ment has been given by Mr. Paul few months or even weeks may which we now hate with a cur "Not a month ago anyone who to give a brief background to the Atlatle and in fact the position erai Security Administrator, de-had suggested that the Reich would curious situation In the evening were probably int is more important than clares the DAILY TELEGRAPH in today be at war with Soviet Russia Mr. Woodhead then spoke of the the best postiion to gauge the in that of Europe. The more serious an editorial,

would have been regarded as inauguration of the Bolshevik re- tensity of the rain-the wisest and the European situation, the more

The newspaper adds: "Nothing suffering from deluators, For time in Russia and the port Cher the wettest-as. It was from this imperative and

War thehad yet occurred in the time onwards that the downfall destruction of Japan's power of against Russia to suggest a suc be less likely to accrue to Hitler's that the Bolshevik system was and then appeared that nothing could many had played in it. Claiming was heaviest,

cessful issue for Germany's latest advantage than such a confict. He is repugnant to all reat democra- and most desperate campaign of might not have been securing alles, the speaker

Lim Nazi Storm-Trooper, was a pointed Information Officer in the Japanese Home Office, under the terms of the anti-Comintern Pact. In this position he could exercise pressure on all foreigners in Japan and on all operations of the Jap- anese Goverzument,

The Nazi Fifth Column has been able also to 'exercise sweeping tensorship over the Japanese Press by virtue of its agents in the Home Office.

All news favourable to Britain is toned down or eliminated altogether. All German suc→ cesses are received with the widest possible emphasis.

Beirut Food Situation Intolerable

JERUSALEM, July 8 (Reuter) -- Messages reaching Jerusalem from Belrut show that the food situa- tion in Beirut has become almost Intolerable.

knock-out blow in Europe,

It is a "can't lose" propost- tion, for Germany will defeat Britain and, if America makes trouble, Japan can count on Germany and Italy and all other Nazi vassals for support by virtue of this military ml- flance. And bøskles, the United States cannot or will not set because of internal disunity and labour dispute, the Jap anese are told!

TORRENTIAL DOWNPOUR Until well past midnight there. was never a single break in the torrential downpour. Sheets of water swept along the roads, and inch by inch the water in the The Germans are confident that streets crept up; and the first flood any further expansionist moves by of the season was in its making. Japan would bring the much-

Even early in the evening the most desired Facific war. This is an notorious low-lying districts of the essential point in their entire pro- gramme. This spring, working city were under water. with the patriotic societies, the Fifth Column helped to promote mains unabated until daybreak.to-

If the fury of the rainfal⋅ re-

urgent is

aggression. ...

General Chiang tertiter

nevertheless

pointed out that China has aggression, but in Tokyo wishful the raw materials and food which pressed the fact that from 1920 to thinking has been a powerful in-he had hoped from the UBER, 1930, the, Bovieta entered into al fuence on policy ever since the but he was free to concentrate alliances and other commitments fll-starred, Chinese adventure em-his malevolent energies against the designed to check aggression, the barked upon in 1937,

British Empire. Had he not just only thing tulta favour

fought a hard struggle for the past four years not only for own self-preservation but also In the performance" "of her sacred duty to the mankind of the world. For the sake of their own interests and the future, of world order, he salt. the friendly Powers should first suppress the ringleader of the present world war, Japan.

Thirdly, inasmuch as the divi-

was not

"It is as well then that warn persuaded Boviet Ruals, and Japan The exclusion of govlet represen ings such as this now uttered in to sign a non-aggression pact tatives at the meeting in Washington should be given. It which excluded Japan from any an affront that Stay should also be borne in mind that obligation to come to Germany's likely to forget and which in 1939 Great Britain is entirely solved assistance if she attacked the rendered all attempts to conclude to maintain to the utmost her im- 16.6.Re MoM an Anglo-Franco-Russian, defen mense interests in the Pacifc

** HONGKONG POSITION Yet in the very early hours of called by the speaker since, he The security of Australia the Sunday June 22 (it is curious to said, the Soviet dictator took the

NAZI BOASTING dive alliance a tallure was also re-

the most aggressive "Southward- day. It appears inevitable that Ho!" campaign ever witnessed in Shanghai will be facing a transpor-sion of the aggressor nations and prime imperial concern our post- note how tier and Mussolint in view that Britain and

tation difficulty this morning. the anti-aggressor nations is clear tion in Malaya and Hongkong le variably select a Sunday or a endeavouring to embrod him with Many areas will likely be isolated and that Japan, Germany and not to be surrendered and we Christian festivals for ach new the rich, while dodging their ow by water and motor cars will pro Italy have formed an aggression have now an immense new field of act of aggression), without de commit

Japan.

・・ WHETHER OR NOT JAPAN

EFFECTIVELY THE GERMANS CAN CONVINCE THE KONOYE CABINET, ARMY^ "AND" "NAVY THAT THIS MOVE CAN RE CARRIED OUT WITH WAR WITH THE UNITED STATES.

only if they are fortunate,

"LAKE DISTRICT"

the

RESPONDS TO THIS ENCOUR-, AGEMENT DEPENDS ON HOWbably escape stalling the foods bloc, General Chiang urged all the interest in the protection of the mands or warning, without a

peace-loving and freedom-loving Dutch East Indies from any mea-ultimatum, Nasl forces along

1600 mile front, started an nations of the world to unite in sure of aggression. the common struggle against the

provoked attack upon Soviet Rus Shee One of the first regions to suffer force of aggression. when the flood-gates of the skies

The Nazis heve since then been. were opened was the famous. "Lake |

they book the Rus and slang with whom they had signed. ater year Non-Aggression Pact on

ULABORATE PLANKĄS District" around the Binceres, Wing

Because of this contingency,

WOP PRISONERS FOR KENYA

In the House of Commons yes-

• All our apparatus of de- fence in the Far East has been for a long tline past under- going formidable expansion. Skould there be any threat of danger: whether by way of

surprise Wh the fact remarit

The Vichy authorities are re- In the event of the United On's and Sun Sun's. And in the ported to be learching private Statey going to war with Germany western district, water was already

· French · Indo-China -or- troja houses and confiscating any food (as an aggres of course) lapping over the crown of the road

any other quarter, measures stocks, they find.

Jaman must came to her ally's ald early in the evening and there day, Capt. H. D. Margusión bald will be taken to deal with is

the two Fowers have perlented every likelihood of nearly all of Tutat in accordance with the polloy It la bur intention to keep open some nou

Yuen Road befog under water when of removing Italian prisoners from the traffic with Ching by way of ice-goers make their brit ex- the theatres of war they were the Burma Road Japanese states.

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Several prominent banesa urc reported to be arrested for pet- tioning General Dents to declare Beirut an open town.

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and naval on-operation in the

Pacific and elsewhere?

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In the French Concession, rio12 Bri

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