1941-09-03 — Page 5

Wednesday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

September 3, 1941.

Ubrary, Supreme

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WHAT JAPAN STANDS TO LOSE

Effects of Economic War

The economic measures taken by Britain and America impose a virtual commercial blockade on Japan, says a "Daily Telegraph" reporter.

They will result in a complete cessation of trade between Japan and the Empire and the United States. She will be cut off from a large part of her supplies of war materials and oil, and must rapidly cat into her existing stocks.

I was told authoritatively in London that the Japanese Government has taken great pains to conceal the extent of its stocks, but it is known that it has been building them up as quickly as possible.

It is believed in London, however, that Japan's stock position is not impregnable and over any period of time her economic position must be seriously affected.

Frenchmen's Plunge For

Liberty

hundred and twenty members of the CAIRO, Sept 2 (Reuter), — One crew of the "Providence," which is one of three French vessels in Beirut Before the war 55 per cent, of Japan's export trude and 33 per cent porters, threw themselves into Beirut

for the repatriation of Vichy sup of her import trade was with the harbour and swam ashore where they British Empire and the United States.ined Since then the volume of trade hus French forces.

General de Gaulle's Free been considerably reduced by both The entire crew of the Providence the Americans and ourselves. A

had been pleked from a special camp large number of commodities were denied Japan altogether by Britain near Toulon for staunch Peluinist sailors and had repentedly sworn and Empire countries.

alleglance to Normal quartities of wheat from

Vichy. Not single Australia, cotton from India, tanning man-whch has resulted in a Vichy man of the 120 was netuntly a sca- extracts from South Africa, zin decree providing 20 years' imprison- concentrates from Australia and Burma, lear from Australia, and ironment for non-seamen who pose as

nailors,' ore, manganese and bauxite from Japanese-owned mines in Malaya continued to reach Japan, All these she will now lose.

Oil Imports ·

More recently the United States

has limited exports to Japan by a

30 per cent, of Japan's oil has been

PASSING OF A STREET SLEEPER

UFS!

GOOD NEIGHBOUR WARSHIP-Brazil launches her. 12th new warship, Greenhalgh, at the Isle of Snakes arsenal, harbour of Rio de Janeiro. President Getulio Vargas presided. Ship carries five 5-Inch guns, four anti-aircraft guns and displaces 1,500 tons. The United States co-operated in its building.

Turkey Determined To Remain At Peace: Has Strong Defences

How Turkey, ringed by war, has managed to remain a non-belligerent Wyndham Street as its regular in the European conflagration was explained recently in Manila by an the streets of Hongkong despite the American educator en route from Istanbul to the United States by clip-

system of export licensing. About street sleeping communities like all Imported from Americu. For this ilcences were freely given and since are few overhanging verandalis to per.

fact that it is very sleep and there the outbreak of war

Increasing offer shelter to the rugged and dis- amounts have been taken both from

cased familles that perch Indies.

the United States for other com

Since the Lease and Lend Act every-

bite

MAL"

wards in

there.

ASSISTANT TO DUFF COOPER Speaks

His Mind

with

the

America and from the Dutch East This morning as they rose from their stances plus a strong national will to remain peaceful The answer is a fortuitous combination of circum. Few licences have been issued by net of raw and dirty cleth they and some of the best diplomatic fence-riding on record, modities which Japan has wanted.nces of the "Hongkong Telegraph." according to Walter Livingston Wright Jr., director of

Better dressed than most he Jay thing which could be of use to Greaten a cleaner and more capacious bed Robert College in Istanbul. Britain has been diverted here,

than

his face turned sky- anost, his In an expression of calm, bis

Dr Wright flew all the way the place. The British simply did As for as exports are concerned limbs reposed in the attitude of ceme to Manila and is continuing by not gure the Germans were willing Jonon is now

cut off from her twatertable slumber. Japan biggest markets. Almost all her

As the gathering clipper to recruit a dozen or so to spend the money and material It cost them to complete exports at

SINGAPORE, Sept. 2 (Central silk,

about clamour of the day failed to awake instructors worth

Hnd men to replace a de- the campaign. Thus they lost, and News)-"It is not so much a palen- £50,000,000, a year at par, have been him curious persons, went to

gazecimated faculty. He plans to the Germans have gained a valuable tial threat to Thailand that the to America, and her exports of cotton. more closely. A policeman was in fly back, by way of Manila alr and sea

concerned base in mid-Mcdlter- | Chinese are worth £40,000,000 a year, have been formed. The man was found to be to the British Empics.

dend.

runean, invaluable to them again, in a couple of months.

of In an possibility

Japanese move The world hus been given many She is also cut off from her supplies

through Yunnan to cut off China' African campaign."

vital of raw cotton which have come from

supplies along the Burma erroneous impressions about Tur- Dr Wright_left Istanbul on July Road," declared Mr William Denis India an

and America.

Ferry Plane Crash: key's position in news reports 20, Rying to Singapore and thence to Allen, formerly Second Secretary of emanating from Istanbul and An- Manila, lle is from Pennsylvania the British Embassy in Chunghting kara," said Dr Wright. "Many of and is a graduate of Princeton U-upon his arrival here to these reports are tainted by pro-versity, He 1rst went to Turkey as assistant to Mr Duff Cooper, the LONDON, Sept. 2 (UP) The Air paganda. The Germans are trying an educator in 1021 and has been British Cabinet Minister for the Far Ministry announced that a Ferry their best to make it appear that a resident of the country off and on East, who is expected to arrive in Command transport plane is missing Turkey is leaning toward the Axis. since then. His recent residence in Singapore shortly. since it left North America on Sep-It has been made to appear that Istanbul has been for six years. tember 2. It was due in Britain to Turkey 19 nervous, agitated, full of day carrying six passengers und war scares, four members of the crew.

By her necupation of Indo-Chins Japan has merely gained full control .of products she has been able to buy

Zor the

year. These include Pant rubber,

zice, tin, tungsten, zinc and anthracite.

For the present Japan will con- tinue to get all from the Dutch East Indies, but this supply is only a small percentage of her needs.

Loan Interest to Cease Japanese assets frozen In the United

No Survivors

Officials Aboard

·MONTREAL, Sept. 2 (UP).—The

normal and the flually fe is quite

go on as usual,

just us

us they do In Manila. They Wove For

Nelson

"Turkey owes a

States have been officially estimated Ferry Command today announced British, and she breat deal ta thel

Act

Mr Allen added that it was there- fore most important that China should keep open the vital Burma Road and. that she and Britain should work in close collaboration to achieve that abject.

are

close, Mr

knows it. Both gov at £323,750,000. No authentic @gure that a United States naval Captain, ernment and people lean heavily.

Relations between is yet available for Japan's assets in un imperial Army Colonel and three toward the British side. But they

China and Britain.

British and Belgian Government om- [ have to be extremely cautious to:

Burma had grown since the dis- One effect of the drastle financial clals were among the passengers avoid creating any incident that To fight the Nazis' rain of covery of the Burma Road as China's and economic conctions now Imposed who were aboard the plane which optountries. Russasion.incendiaries on Britain, 1,000 regular interchange of offcials bc-

would

vital lifeline and there has been a on Japan will be the suspension of the Ale Ministry announced as miss-s all free countries, en- Interest payments on Japanese loansing

gagement of

Germany In war and miles-of-fire-bose-have-been tween the two countries. Relations outstanding in Great Britain and the

her unexpected success in

turned out since the war began between them now severely United States. In Britam the totul MONTREAL, Sept. 2 (Reuter) have provided a welcome breathing land village,

damaging the Nazi wor machine by the weavers in a North Eng-Allen remarket. amounts to nearly £83,000,000.

The RAF. Ferry Commund an~

"China is prepared to prosecute Fears of default in interest pay-nounced to-day that the missing

spell for the Turks."" ments are reficeted in the

the war with Japan indefinitely and Stock plane had crashed on a hillside in the

there is no possibility of a negotiated Exchange quotations of Japanese United Kingdom and that there were bonds, which give them a market no survivors.

that the morale of the Chungking peace," declared Me Allen, adding value of less than £20,000,000.

populace is wonderful.

Bomber Flown Home

Despite Mishap

No Survivors

Vichy Pesters Jews

great

•

of

Discussing the possibility Malaya being involved in the war. Mr Allen said that Japan, If she does think of attacking Malays, will have her hands full for she must realise "We are much stronger in the For East than ever before."

Good Defences

Here crofismen were weaving on Turkey is a nation of fighting men the manufacture of up-to-date canvas their hand looms 200 years before and has a well-trained but relative hose. They made by hand the sail- ly small army of about three quar-cloth, the tradition runs, for Nelson's ters of a million men. She has some famous flagship "Victory". good medium defence artillery and a small hut good

Turkey ravy.

would The mill in which their descen- but up a good night if driven to i, dants work has produced more than just as the Greeks did. None but The pilot of a Blenken, who; VICHY, Sept. 2 (Reuter).- Two

8,000 miles of fire-hose by modern and fanatically scored direct hits recently on

determined machine methods. new regulations come Into

force military force could invade her and German supply ship off Le Touquet, 10-day, states the Vichy news agency, win. Her determination to remain attacked at such close range that, as Jews will no longer be allowed io

It was in this same village that nit of the war is the greatest thing two brothers, working in a celler, he turned away, his plane touched own wireless receiving sets.

The people In Chungking hoped Turkey to-day, Dr Wright wove the first circular tube which that America would enter the war about the sea. The machine at the seal Cafes and restaurants will not be

aid, He summed

up her position eventually led to the making of flax and they feel that America must act with a heavy bump, and showers of allowed to serve alcoholic drinks to .bis

DES way:

hose-piping. They hit on the idea drasticnfly if Japan is insistent on water went un all over. The bottom young people under 20.

"Regardless of the outcome of the when trying to discover a simpler Southward Expansion, Mr Allen 'ob- of the port engine went into the sea!

Laval And Deat

war against Russia, Germany prob- way of making purses. and a propeller had come off, but VICHY, Sept. 2 (Reuter),The bly will not make a direct attack

served, they managed to stagger mvay and rendition of both Laval and Dealupen the Turks. If she found her. fly back on the ether. The plane continues to show a considerable self in a position to continue a full- made a "belly" landing, and no one improvement, states the Vichy newsre

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Britain's R.A.F. Coastal Com- Helps British Effort of photographic materials, clicks carefully packed and sent by mand, the world's biggest users | A few weeks ago a parcel was the shutters of its cameras every ordinary post from Barkeley sixty seconds of the war. In Square, London, to Titusville, the month of April, the Com-U.S.A. In it was a single book, mand took photographs at the "The Grenter American Voy. rate of 506,400 a year, using ages" by Thee de Bry (1580- 104,000 squaro fect of film and 1684). In exchange, a postal 818,000 sheets of bromide paper. package containing $4,500 dol the works of the Coastal Command, Square.

Photography plays a vital part in lars will come back to Berkeley which safeguards Britain against in-

Turks chose war they would Ince LONDON, Sent. 2 (Reuter).Mr Brendan Bracken, Bri- baying everything

lose nothing to gain, for cut off from entering her third year of "this brutal war to-morrow" and and tain's dynamic Minister of Information, said that Britain is British ald Turkey wouldn't stand a chance of winning against Germany's after posing the question "How do we ɛland?" proceeded to greatly superior strength, and she make a brief comment answering the question himself, would only plunge the nation Into a zeneration of misery

shipyards and follow a disastrous war fought on said. are first Hitler and second, furms. This, latest German war. Is your her own territory.

Turkey has not backed out on her complacency, "and we are a long really a smash and grab, raid pact with the Allies." Dr. Wright way from the extinction of

Criticism Criticised pointed out. "While it is true that either foc," he declared. the pact ecommitted Turkey to join

Mr Bracken said that he had Mr Bracken Was a war in which certain of her 'neigh-journalists and their guests

speaking to noticed that some people in England nt # are besiming to scold America and bours were involved, her course of luncheon of the Foreign Press As added: "These superior, people would action was taken with the full knoscciation in London.

be much better becupled in ledge and approval

under of British,

the

He suid that the ferocious hatred. established during diplomatic con-nf. Journalists by the Dictators wetanding American difficulties." ferences when Germany was begin based on the fear of despots who, the subject of invasion, the Minister Turning to the war in the east and ning her drive into the Balkans, knowing that if their ill-gotten gains, aid that if Germany lost 3,000,000 The decision apparently was based on their lust for blood, their 'crazy men in Russia, she would continuevasion and fights the Battle of the doing to-day $850,000 worth of busi- The man who sold the book to the conclusion that at no time could dreams of world power had been to night.

their people in

a full

Bources, that is to tide of events against the Axis, while manner,

BDY Those who talk about the invasion up and down the coastline of Europu ness a year in rare books with the her position as a buffer state in the Europe would be very brief.

reign over scare being over might get some from Trondheim to Bordeaux.

United States alone; and the total nasty surprises, he said. Near East was casential to future

Watchful Sentry tactical operations."

We shall beat hal after a long Command attack

There, squadrons of the Coastal annual turnover to Britain from this

is estimated at $1,000,000. onemy A free press is the most watchful and grim

U-boat source In effort. Wo aro still in bases, harass supply ships creeping

American buyers are of two kinds: sentry of a state, he said, while stormy seas and port is far frem down the Norwegian fjords or along pulille libraries, and rich private "Superior air power and the sur- press is fatal to a good gov-sight."

the Channel consis, and, intercept the

collectors. Both categories of collec prise element of being able to land | ernment.

Concerning the position of recona Luftwaffe's raids on Britain's ship-fors will give very high prices for large numbers of troops and large- Britain is In

much П

healthier struction, Mr Bracken said:

Waping.

roro publications. For example, the caliber fold

condition than was two years ago, } should not' repair the ravages of wor

Titusville collector mentioned paid Not only does the Command record Dr Wright belleves.. The

British but much remains to be done. The copular during the last 20 years- were well prepared to repel sea in armed forces have been given and burning crops, cutting down produc- the Narrow Seas, but it keeps the paper. It was an early "broadside"

dated -1470.... vasion, and up to the last moment have solved tasks which

appeared tion and destroying shipyards. eagle eye of its cameras upon cust did so," he pointed out, "but the bat- impossible."

Science allled to industry could picious, looking surface craft. The to the naval authorities for identiä-- tle for the faland was

To the question, What shall we create a limitless wealth and that is pilots are themselves highly trained cation is enough to ensure that the when the Nazis captured their first do to win this, war?" the Minister why the world will grow richer, not in the observation of ship types, but is speedily brought in for examina objective, the biggest acrodromo oni said: “Look to your factories, your poorer,"

when in doubt a photograph rushed, tion by the Contraband Control,

Turkish assistance have turned the, laid begangeler

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Battle Of Crete

Atlantic at its

the battle of by airplane we dald, Britain has enade progress by the mad methods which were every niovement of the enemy actors no less than $7,500 for two leaves of

Crete for the Germans,

really lost

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