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Show U 1 ' frrri, : While W alter ff'inchell it on tempo-rury tempo-rury active duty with the V. S. navy hit column it being conducted by guest columnist!. This weeh't column it writ-tin writ-tin By JAMES It. YOUNG . AV. S. Correspondent 13 Yean in Japan and Author, "behind the Rising Sun." UNFINISHED STORIES What has become of the Emperor's Em-peror's brother, "Prince Chichibu His failure to appear at the Empire's Em-pire's 2G00th mythological anniversary anniver-sary of the founding of the Sun Goddess' God-dess' country aroused queries. What will become of Japan's puppet Emperor Em-peror of Manchuria, Henry Pu Yi, who rides a bicycle and plays tennis ten-nis under "protection"? Not having hav-ing nn heir, the Japanese somehow some-how will put the skids under him to favor his Manchu brother, whom militarists married off to a Japanese girl. How will the Japanese handle their puppet Wang Ching Wei at Nanking? Japanese guards surround sur-round him for two purposes: Keep enemy hand grenades from being tossed at him and keep him from running away. His wife, notorious In Chinese politics, stays in Shanghai Shang-hai selling government Jobs and opium opi-um licenses. The President's freezing order of Japanese business means: NO MORE. lily bulbs for Easter, goldfish gold-fish by the tankfuls for five and dime stores, oyster bed seedlings, camphor for methol products or pyretheum seeds for bug powder. Japan facea economic ruin. Her Manchurian market depended on soy bean cake exports to Europe. That business is finished. No more silk market means Japan's second great agriculture upset and farm problem rice and its shortage is No. 1. Next problem is shortage of fish which is Japan's staple. Mining Min-ing the island kingdom's waters to keep out Russian submarines from Vladivostok will restrict tens of thousands of tiny fishing junks. The Japanese are always kidding themselves and their people. One inventor claims sardines will produce pro-duce an oil convertible to gasoline. But first they need the sardines. In quantities prohibitive. Another Japanese Jap-anese announced Tokyo is protected from air attacks by the use of fishing fish-ing nets strung over the city, suspended sus-pended by balloons the net catches the blitz bombs. Actually, Tokyo has but one bomb proof .shelter, for the emperor and his family. The Nipponese think they can overcome the acute shortage of scrap and iron ore which months ago stopped their entire heavy industry in-dustry output. By salvaging old ships. Salvage available from four ships, including the President Hoover, would be sufficient for a locomotive and a string of cars. I m m m I Bob Ilueun, Richmond, Ind., helped build China's railways with Japanese ties years ago he logged nearly a million ties a year. Now the Japanese army runs its trains over those ties. E. W. Frazar, the oldest American Japan had, now resides in New York. He introduced to Japan the first automobile, the first phonograph, phono-graph, the first locomotive. He'd been in Japan nearly 70 years just a few short of the days when Commodore Com-modore Perry opened Japan to foreign for-eign trade. Air-conditioning which became popular, has closed down. Insufficient Insuffi-cient water, milk rations, which were cut 50 per cent a year ago, have been reduced another 50 per cent no more cows or dairy fodder. fod-der. Ditto on eggs and potatoes. QUESTION: Lieut. Commander Waiter Win-chell, Win-chell, you are in the navy now on reserve service. If you have time, check with fellow officers why the State Department forced the navy's hand and permitted two Japanese spies to be released and why others remain here with diplomatic immunity. immu-nity. Including one who is in hiding in Washington? How many American Amer-ican missionaries remain in Japanese Japa-nese prisons in Korea? Why not trade them for Japanese spies in this country? mm IT'S A LAUGH - The State Department permits the Japanese Government news agency, Domei. to operate here without registering. reg-istering. Why? The Japanese reply re-ply is that it is not a propaganda organ! The agency is financed by the Foreign Office, the army, the navy and the Communications Ministry Min-istry for an annual propaganda deficit def-icit of near 2,000,000 Japanese yen. - Japan lacks precision tool machine ma-chine oil. Only a few companies in the world make this special oil. If we had stopped shipments two years ago it would have wrecked her great armaments production. The week Acting Secretary of State Welles condemned Japan for her seizure of Indo-China, which the Japanese planned several years ' back Lut which the silk hats refused , to believe, you read of 55 transports, i ?0 warships, three aircraft carrier! speeding south. |