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Tuesday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

December

1940:

JAPAN'S TRADE WITH UNITED STATES

ABROGATION

OF

Italy Loses. Half Of Her Trade

LITTLE

OF PACT EFFECT

By OTTO JANSSEN

United Pross Staff Correspondent

WASHINGTON, DEC. 2′ (UP).—DESPITE THE STEADY DE- TERIORATION OF DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS BETWEEN TOKYO AND WASHINGTON SINCE THE UNITED STATES DENOUNCED ITS TREATY OF COMMERCE AND FRIENDSHIP WITH JAPAN In a study of Italy's economic EARLY THIS YEAR, TOTAL TRADE BETWEEN THE TWO COUN- circumstances the Milan corres-TRIES HAS NOT BEEN REDUCED, AND LATEST FIGURES EVEN pondent of the Borne newspaper : Bunda shows that by entering INDICATE SOME DEGREE OF IMPROVEMENT. the war she has lost 43 per cent. of her imports and 47 per cent. of her exports.

Her industry has lost 1 per cent. of its rony materials and 37 per cent.

oll seeds..

Trade in certain commodities, notably petroleum products, scrap iron and steel, refined copper, automotive and aircraft parts, has declined, but the total trade be tween the United States and Japan has held up better than was expected.

Preliminary and hitherto unpublished figures for trade during the first eight of the semi-finished articles it needs-months of 1940 show that the two countries exchanged goods valued at about $147,-

Italy no longer receives any wool, cotton, juto, rubber, coffee, tea, and 500,000 (M) or an increase of more than $12,000,000 (M), over a similar period in 1939.

The Treaty of Commerce and Friendship was denounced by Things, nevertheless, are not too Washington January 26, 1940, as implied evidence of United bad, as Italy bad time to

prepare States displeasure over Japan's Far Eastern policies. At that herself during her nine months of time it was widely predicted that trade with the Island Empire "non-belligerency." She gets much from Germany-tor instance, 4,000,- would be adversely affected by the action, despite the fact that 000 tons of coal a quarter, Liquid abrogation simply laid the legal groundwork for "retaliatory" fuel, however, is very scarce, in spile economic action against Japan and did not, of itself, affect trade. of the annual output of 3,000,000 tons in any way. of anythetic petrol which covers only a fifth of the need.

cause

However, it was felt in some some "punitive" economic steps. The pooling and State distribution quarters that termination of the might follow. of agricultural producis is giving pact would

hesitation As a matter of fact, some much satisfaction, but the cost of

traders among

of the two hesitation was manifested in Uving has greatly risen and is now nations due to the fear that both countries, but trade quickly higher than in Switzerland.

returned to normal after the carly fears were at least par tially overcome.

PUPPET KING-Expected to do whatever, Germany tells him is youthful King Michaol of Rumania, shown reviewing delegation of Gorman Youth Movement, in Pradoal, Rumania. With him is Commandant Toofil Sidorovici, youth loader.

Woman

Underground

In Shelter Five Weeks

Two doctors who have been working among East End people since the big raids on London began two months ago, discovered in a large shelter an old woman, who had not been above ground

for five weeks,

In a joint statement to The Times appealing for a more comprehensive policy to meet the combined effect of bombs and the rigours of winter, they said that in some London districts there were few people who did not spend every night in some sort of shelter.

Women and children, after leaving a shelter at dawn, often return and queue up before, midday to ensure a place for the next night, they declared,

More Sense From Women

On the basis of present statlalics, some exports belleve that trade bo tween the two countries in the nine

Belgians Cut German Army Wires

UFS

TIN HEIRESS--Mts, Chrostina Patina, wife of Simon Patino, Bolivian tin king, as shò arrivóð. In New York by ocean plane. She is called one of best-dress- ad European women,

NAZI CALLS FOR BREAKFAST

Just after 0 à.m., in a' village on Ue South-east coast, game limping down the rond A man

in drab uniform, with one boot missing, From the window of their bungalow a young married couple named Whit- more saw him and went to accost him

cd.

"I am a German officer," he explain-

"I have had the misfortune to be brought down. My comrades are All released men of the former down"

It was breakfast time in rural Eng- Belgian Army now living in land, so the Whitmores bade him three districts of Liege Pro-enter, and gave him two rounds of vince are to be seized by the bread and butter and two cups of ten, He expressed his gratitude, evinced Germans as prisoners of war in great interest in toy aeroplane with reprisal against an act of sabo- which their son had been playing, lage.

discussed the breed of their dog, and laughed heartily when shown a car- toon of the Fuehrer in the morning

The

The Germun-controlled Brussels radio, announcing this, said cables been cut.

months since the treaty was abrogated belonging to the German Army had paper wreakfast routine was over, the

may be higher than

during the similar period a year ago. Statistics If the guilty parties were not dis- Whitmores got out their 7 hp, car, for this entire period are not yet covered shortly, more reprisals would requested the captive to enter and

drove him to the police station. available but there are several factors take place.

hich may bear out this bellef:

which

be

The announcer, appealed to the

(1) Japan is believed to In-Walloon population not to "Impede creasing her puchases of some the good work" the Germans were i

materials. An embargo on scrap iron doing by acts the consequences of Explosion Wrecks Large and steel was placed on this item to which would fall on the civil popula-Glasgow Starch Works take affect October 16, and Japonèse tion, ships were reported to be loading large quanes of this vital war pro-

duct In

SURPRISE FOR NAZI PILOTS

Ten persons are feared to have lost their lives in an explosion, followed by fire, which wrecked a large starch worits in Glasgow.

to bent the "deadline." Predictions Difficult Authorities said that several fac-

Three bodies, including that of a An eighteen-year-old Nazi pilot, woman, hnve bern recovered. tors, including future steps which the United States take in her politico- wounded after a parachute descent Twenty-eight other workers are in economie relations with Japan, make in northwest Englund, was taken to hospital suffering from burns and dimeult any predictions. as to the hospital and, while his wound was other injuries, the condition of some being dressed, asked the nurse, "How of them being serious, Two Bremen future course of trade.

it is understood However,

that ar away are the nearest German were injured.

Fire spread rapidly after the ex- Japan during several years has been troops?"

The nurse found it impossible to plosion, ao that the whole block was building up relatively large reserves of some of the products which have convince him that no German soldiers blazing mass before, firemen could been, the future might be, were in England. He had been as-rench It.

Improvements were being carried emburgood. As a result, Japan's sured, he said, that battalions; of purchases of scrap iron and steel, cet- German soldiers were scattered over out, and about 40 employees, as well ton and petroleum products were England and that they had instruc- as a number of contractors" men. lower during the first seven months tions to keep-out and take care of were in the premises when the ex- shot down during plosion occurred, apparently in the of this year yet the total trade was German airmen

raida..

boller-house. higher.

Surrounding tenements were hur-

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As a result, the embargo en serap

iron and steel, and Any possible Nazis Fake Photos R.A.F-"Raid”- On Prague

Ofriedly evacuated, and shop and house

futuro embargo on-certain-other-pro-- ducts, may not be as decisive a factor In the total trade between the two countries as might have been bc- PHOTOS in the German Press pur- lieved.

porting to show, damage caused by

For example, Japan voluntarily the R.A.F. in Prague have been ex- drastically reduced its imports of posed as faken by the New Yorke United States raw cotton in August | Times.

und September of this year, as com- The photos showed wrecked streets pared with the same months of 1939. and ruined houses. The Imports in the two months of 1040 were 10,108 bales valued at

$583,000, compared with 77,138 bales valued at nearly $4,000,000.

New Situation When announcement was first made that the Japanese-United

States treaty would be denounced, il sulted in widespread speculation as to the possible economic and political consequences.

some

The Times looked up its files and found that the photos were old ones. One photo showed what was in reality tramway collision, and an- other showed a university building which was demolished many years ago.

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windows over wide ared were smashed by the explosion.

Coloured Margarine For Eastern Market The prohibition on the colouring of margarine for export to the East has been lifted at the request of pur- chasers, says a Canberra message.

Colouring matter used must be ap- proved by the Department of Com- merce.

Merchants' in the East want mar- garine coloured to make it easier to soll.

Mussolini Has

Secret

Weapon in the Desert

However, new and more specta cular developments, principally the Japanese-German-Italian mutual ag sistance pact, recently have eclipsed the treaty abrogation.

Prior to Tokyo's agreement with Had been Rome and Berlin, there

discussion regarding tho possible negotiation of a le com- and Japan. There appears to be little now possiblity of such a development or because of the growing tension be- tween the two countries, and some quarters are now urging further cur- relations of commercial tailment through embargoes on imports and

exports.

accord between this country!

MUSSOLINI is using his own secret weapon in the Egyptian campaign, but it has been a flop, says a "Sunday Dispatch" cor- respondent with the British Army in the Desert.

Every morning the British troops wake to find the desert littered with what appear to be vacuum flasks. But if anybody should touch the flasks they explode.

Tho flasks are a combination | taken in by them, even on the first of 'hand-grenade and a minia-day they were tried out. ture magnetic mine,

They are dropped from aero-

become live.

Quezon Decorates planes and when they land they WHAT STOMACH

U.S. Officer

SUFFERERS

CAN EAT

I was in the Western Desert when! Something had already been nation" as quickly as possible.

For services of extraordinary value the. Arst of these secret weapons done to make the more populare without the hardship and waste ippines, Major Hugh J. Casey, corps dent. I spent the morning watching

Londoners had quite enough to en-to, the Commonwealth of the Phil-

were dropped, says the correspon shelters habitable for long

You can't lay up a alck stomach. periods. but much must be done of time, involved in queueing up for of engineers, V. S. Army, was award- our engineers deal with them. Step-

shelter, he said.

ed the distinguished Service Star of ping carefully among the loose sond Your body must be nourished over before the winter if disease is to Miss Ellen Wilkinson (Parliamen- the Philippines recently, and camel scrub of the desert the though solid, food and most fiquid

to the Ministry of Major be prevented from spreading like tary Secretary

Casey, as assistant to the a plague,

Pensions) invited 20 women who use military adviser, helped in the devel-sappers were locating and marking foods cause pain and vomiting.

The problem has always been to tag. They urged that all damp shelters, various types of London shelters to opment of the corps of engineers of each "flash" with a petrol Un or red de

www.73 End a food that soothes the -lisflamed,'' meet her at the Home Office and dis- the Philippine Army and made an i and especially trench-shelters, should

Cowboy Stuff original survey of the hydro-electric

#tomach" walls and provides all the be condemnedyocated

cuss shelter problems,

of the archipelago, and

nourishment : needed “for recovery. d própor dis- They also

Then they were detonated by rifle Doctors and nurses agree that Hor- planned "and" executed harbour, and

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with a rope. DAANEMERS

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all the Body-building elements" that medical cafe and supervision already

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against separating men from women.

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