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Show Japan Fears Economic Crash; Prices Rise, Trade Dwindles EDITOR'S NOTE Following Is a plrturs f srAnAmle renditions hi Jspan written by fcdwsM w Bslli. Unllsd Prsts ttsrf rorrponrint. wim has )olnt th Shanghai atari Of tha Unltad Praaa attar spandlus savarsl waaka in tha Japan. m capital. By EDWARD W. BEATTIE SHANGHAI, Oct. 28 (UP) Fesr of the coming winter lies beneath be-neath Japan's patriotic speech-making and parades as the punitive expedition of midsummer against China becomes a full-fledged war. Prices ars rising and peassnts are missing ths sons who ones hslpsd thsm till ths fields. Horses to transport producs to ths markets ars at a premium. 8hopkeepers, even thoss In the south, where the harbors are clogged with military traffic, complain that business is Rearing a standstill. Tha mediants of Yokohama and Toklo look behind ths victory banners ban-ners In North China at ths sise of ths war budget, ths drain on resources, th Import and export restrictions and tha forsign boycott throats and wonder how long they can bear ths burden. They do not snare ths optimism of military leaders. lead-ers. They fear the war will not end for months Instead of being a matter mat-ter of weeks. Boycott reft Falling trad, mounting debt and I recent restrictions have nearly hamstrung ham-strung trade, which is already crippled crip-pled by ths wholesale conversion of merchantmen into transports and supply ships. On ths four-day trip between Kobe and Shanghai, with stops at Moil, Shimosks and Nagasaki. I ssw other buyers canceled trips to Japan. Air Raids Feared Another fear In the key cities Is tha possibility of sn air attack. Ths population speculates upon the possible pos-sible effects of Incendiary bombs on flimsy wood snd paper dwellings. Hardly a month ago most of To-klo's To-klo's population was mysteriously convinced that soviet planes from Vlsdivostok certainly would appear at night time and bomb th city. They did not appear, but the possibility possi-bility of such a raid still Is a subject of conversation. These fears are under the surfacs and ars revested only occasionally when a business man, making certain cer-tain no police spies are near by, talks to a foreigner. The government Is attempting to combat three fears by "national spirit mobilisation." Japan "Denials" hsr soldiers, reads nswspspsr accounts of smashing smash-ing victories and other triumphs yet to come, but under ths surface there is deep concern. more than 100 merchantmen, com- Ing from and going to ths wsr sone. I Their only Identification was large , whits numsrals on the bows. These i black-hulled, black-funneled vessels were Jammed with khaki-clad troops, trucks and munitions, instead in-stead of trad goods, i Ths fear of boycott agitation 1 abroad already Is justified slthough the effects are not great. An authoritative au-thoritative sourcs reports that several sev-eral American buyers In Toklo have cut orders by 60 per cent as -the result of ths boycott resolutions adopted by ths American Federation Federa-tion of Labor and ths Committee for Industrial Organisation. Three |