Show Japanese Militarists Seek to Regain Grip on People by Soviet War Scare I Editors Editor's Note Japan lapan li iq cick war sick yet jet et James Janee It R. Young International News hen Ice Tokyo Toko correspondent e n that the weary Nipponese could readily be made to summon up enthusiasm I m for war on so let ao let Russia The following article is 18 the second of a series By JAMES R. R YOUNG LA JOLLA Cal Aug 9 INS Within recent months Japan has installed a rigid war time economic system gearing industry and labor finances and education propaganda and even athletics to toa toa toa a scale grand-scale war machine We Ve who watched developments in Japan during a year year year-of of warfare could not at first see the reason for such rigorous legislation affecting affecting af af- af- af the smallest details of the lives of 01 millions of people if it If it was intended only to continue the thet China war t Why had not this action been taken 10 months before or even earlier at the outset of the the China China campaign This This' regimentation of economy education and methods of living must have been planned by the military in full fuU cognizance e that a a war war with Russia is due For some months months' there has been considerable ill-feeling ill and dissension dissen sion slon among the Japanese people over the China war First they were told that the clash was vas a l local cal affair l In north China Then Shanghai needed prote protection tion Then would fall Then there would be the great victory of Suchow Preceding each of those major events the public was told that C Chi Chiang h i a an n g Kai shek's opposition would collapse just a as M soon as asS S the flag of the rising sun was hoisted over each succeeding city used in the propaganda barrage But as the war kept on and the capture of for a a. Japanese Japanese Japanese Japa Japa- nese Christmas present failed to bring about downfall the Japanese people became un un- un- un easy There were too many dead too many wounded They began to feel that fighting Chinese coolies was not the easy job they had been inspired to accept by militarists Compulsory control of their livIng living living liv liv- ing mounting restrictions and regimentation of their businesses and vocations have created a widespread feeling against war among the Japanese people But there will be no revolution or internal upheaval in Japan in spite of the enmity between the people and the military Too much loyalty to the the emperor emperor exists to permit an uprising of the lace Yet the only way the people can be rallied to the military banners banners banners ban ban- ners again now that they had hada a surfeit of war war in China is is-a is a war or war scare over the SiberIan Siberian Siberian Siber Siber- ian situation Last April a steady stream of soviet-Korean soviet border propaganda bulletins was WM let loose from Seoul the capital of Japanese- Japanese owned Korea Koree All AU the news came caine from there None originated in Tokyo It seemed then and now is clearly seen as the prelude to cannonades in the north Copyright 1938 for The Telegram |