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Show SOUTH CACHE COURIER Review of Current Events 'Black Death' in Shanghai A S IF there were not horror enough in Shanghai, the city found itself face to face with a new peril bubonic plague. Checked by Chinese . . . Japan Aims to Subdue China The outbreak of the disease, first Lewis Rebukes President Roosevelt discovered in the French concesAll Once for sion, where most of the American population lives, was traced in large part to the sanitary difficulties in removing the bodies of Hongkew ciand , vilians killed by bombings, artillery for Pay his and machine-gu- n fire. shelling went in the officers concession Sanitary ,0Ver for a and the international settlement 111 a broad fought franctically to check the worniay spread of the dread cholera. They and were hampered by Japanese milic.home till tary forces which insisted upon Star. keeping closed areas where there still remained bodies to be buried. Admiral Harry Yarnell, commander of the United States Asiatic fleet, cancelled all shore leaves 10VS for sailors and ordered Chinese hands off American ships. With the port of Shanghai closed to American shipping other than warships, because of the danger of bombs and artillery fire, 500 Americans who had intended to Japan tries to force her will with machine guns in Shanghai. leave on the next liners out of port were stranded, making a total of 2,000 American inhabitants who remained exposed to the double dangers of warfare and cholera. SUMMARIZES THE WORLDS WEEK Evacuation of Americans from Western Newspaper Union. Shanghai was difficult with the ban on shipping. Warships appeared the Chinese Won't 'Cooperate'! Opposition Surprises Nippon logical means of rescue, but there game JAPANESE naval guns and bomb-- J JAPANS aim in the undeclared few in the Shanghai area capwar is to make China submit were ers carried the war 600 miles of taking aboard large loads able attonce and for all to her will, the of south of Shanghai when they passengers. Accordingly, a cruisacked the port oi Amoy, which Japanese government virtually ader squadron of six ships was being said the mitted through its foreign minister, houses a huge Chinese fort and arsto leave the United States, prepared ilth does Koki Hirota. enal, opposite the island of ForThe seriousness of steam to Shanghai and remove mosa. Their bombs carried little Japans intentions were obviated those stranded there. effect and the shore artillery chased nswered when Emperor Hirohito, departing The Japanese embassy warned the warships, completely disabling from precedent, referred to the conly want choose one. The battle was but thirty miles flict in detail in a public statement foreign nations that they had better advise the navy of moveis most ravished from Hong Kong, recently from the throne, and when it was ments of Japanese the vast blockinto ships by a typhoon. revealed that Nippon is aded area, lest these be mistaken g Elsewhere along the more appropriations for herpreparing for Chinese supply ships. The emalready front the Japanese were meeting heavy war chest. intimated that cargoes of ambassy with opposition the caliber of which Hirota blamed the Chinese central munition and military supplies LD they had not expected. Along the government for the present fighting might be denied admittance and adWoosung front, 200,000 Chinese, inbecause it to refuses vised foreign ships that it might be diviscluding crack German-traine- d with Japan in maintaining peace a good idea to permit Japanese auions, were successful in holding in eastern Asia. Japanese military thorities to inspect their cargoes back 60,000 Japanese; it was said action against China, he said, was before entering the blockade. to be the severest opposition the taken to make impossible the reJaps have met since they fought currence of the current hostilities. Russia in 1904. he said, has no other ob- YOU Figure It Out Japan, Japanese aerial bombardments T IS true that the first session of jective than to see a happy and continued in the Chapei, Kiangwan, the seventy-fift- h congress approNorth China and tranquil Taichong and Yanchong districts of relations so adjusted as to priated a vast amount of money, Shanghai. The continued peril of enable us to It depends put into practice our out just how much? the international settlement and the ' of view. . . point upon your policy French concession spurred the Rep. John Taber (Rep., N. Y.), Since China, ignoring our true conAmerican, British and French ranking minority member of the apsuls to demand of both the her vast armies Japanese motive, mobilized committee, in preparpropriations and Chinese that their forces be against us, .we can do no other than a compilation for the last issue ing withdrawn from that vicinity. to counter by force of arms. of the Congressional Record, estiScores of noncombatants were daily The emperor, in addressing the mated that congress had appropribeing killed and wounded there by houses of parliament, greatly im- ated $10,252,832,556, all for use in falling bombs and shells. pressed his subjects with a review the current fiscal year. He conBut Japans big of the war, arriving at much the tended this amount of spending in push had not yet materialized. It same conclusions as Hirota had one fiscal year would result in a was believed large reinforcements The session of parliament was deficit of between $3,000,000,000 and were being awaited. The Chinese called to consider the appropriation $4,000,000,000, and a national debt of man power was beginning to tell of $592,000,000 for the campaigns in more than $40,000,000,000. against the inferior numbers of the China, raising the total of the naPublication of Tabers statement Japanese. tions war chest to $737,000,000. drew a reply from Clarence Cannon Only in the northern province of (Dem., Mo.), chairman of the comChahar did the Japanese make real Dodd mittee. He presented a series of and Hull 'sagree progress. There they captured the tables which he claimed proved that Y THE time this is capital city of Kalgan. A commissprinted Wi- the last session appropriated only J) ion of 100 prominent lliam E. Dodd may no longer be $8,427,605,854, of which 2 Mongols only and Chinese of them known United States ambassador to Ger(many was for the 1938 fiscal year. to be associated with the Japanese many. In an interview he vigorously Then, just to sharpen the wits of army) was setting up a new popopposed any Ameri- laymen who sought the answer to ular autonomous can representation the puzzle, Carter Glass, Democrat government under Japanese control. at the Nazi party ic senator from Virginia, who has congress in Nurem- often differed from the administraPlague Upon a Plague berg. Secretary of tion on points of expenditures, ofState Cordell Hull fered his estimate that $9,389,488,893 JOHN L. LEWIS, g chairrefused to comment had been appropriated. man of the Committee for Industrial Organization, let fly a reupon Dodds attibuke at President Roosevelt for im- tude, but announced that the United War May Soon Be Luxury plied backwatering would States be repon campaign prom'"J NE good argument for peace is resented at the conthat the rising costs of raw maises and hinted at ference which will terials are making war more exthe possibility of a celebrate H i 1 1 e rs pensive than ever. This was demthird party in the rule by Prentiss Gil- onstrated when London financial cirelections of 1940. In a radio speech he bert, American charge daffaires in cles revealed that parliament will Berlin. declared: be asked to vote supplementary It ill behooves Secretary Hull explained that the funds to carry out Great Britains one who has supped action was being taken merely as a armament program for the present at labors table and friendly gesture to the Nazi govern- year. who has been shel- ment, with whom he said the United In February experts figured the tered in labors States is in complete diplomatic ac- cost of armaments at $7,500,000,000 house to curse with cord. Diplomatic reports have in- over a five-yeperiod. Now it is equal fervor and fine dicated that Dodd, now vacationing apparent that many more millions impartiality both labor and its adversaries when here, had made himself unpopular will be required. The cost of antithey become locked in deadly emin Berlin because of criticism of the mony has increased from $385 to brace. Hitler governments policies. Ru- $465 a ton, copper from $265 to $275, This was regarded as an answer mor hadj it that he might not re- heavy scrap steel from $18.75 to to the turn to his post. plague on both your houses $22.50, tin from $1,135 to $1,295, and which President Roosevelt called zinc from $105 to $115. Steel ship down on extremists of both sides in plates a year ago cost $46.75 a ton; he little steel strike. In his camWar now they, are $57. Stamp Postage paign for he had supped and Nicaragua were at labors table to the extent of HONDURAS of running up the verge a Pact contribution to curtain on their own little show in Japs Eye Sino-Ruthe Democratic national committee was TOKYO of of it the war honor all JN Mars, god widely believed by the C. I. O. that the over a postage stamp. Nicaragua pact Lpwis suggested that it would be issued a stamp bearing a map which signed by the Russian and Chinese a wise move for labor and showed an area along the Hondugovernments was accompanied by a ture to wage their battles agricultogether ras boundary as territory in dis- secret military agreement which Politically. Hondurans claimed it was would ally the two enemies of Japute. Labor has suffered just as our an affront to their sovereignty, pan to the extent that Soviet muni.71 population has suffered, he citing the Spanish award which both tions, military advisers and aviasaid, from a viciously unequal dis- sides accepted in 1906 and which tors would be dispatched to China. tribution of the national income. The charges were that by the was supposed to have settled the The exploitation of both classes territory question. Hondurans were terms of the secret agreement Chiof workers has been the source of further incensed when Nicaraguan na fully recognizes Soviet activities Panic and depression, and upon the radio speakers hinted the Honduran in Outer Mongolia and the province economic welfare of both rests the army couldnt lick a postage stamp, of Sinkiang in return for a joint debest assurance of a sound and and proposed sending troops into fense understanding against Japaper manent prosperity. nese advance in China, that country. JAPS CARRY WAR SOUTH ill-fat- ed . S ever-increasi- Mjiracdt M, "Quotations" I doubt whether anything in the world can beautify a soul more spontaneously, more naturally, than the knowledge that somewhere in its neighborhood there exists a pure and Aoble being whom it can unreservedly love. When the soul has veritably drawn near to such a being, beauty is no longer a lovely, lifeless thing, that one exhibits to a stranger, for it takes unto itself an imperious existence, and its activity becomes so natural as to be henceforth irresistible. Wherefore you will do well to think it over, for none are alone. ' m Sino-Japane- se higher learning should he under guidance. A. Laurence LotvelL I have heard it said that from 70 to 90 per cent of the thinking of people is ancestral. N. D. Baker. If there had heen a hoard of directors to whom the plans had to be submitted, the creation of the universe would still be under advisement. Bruce Barton. The strongest influence for preserving the home is the mother-in-laand if she should sit down on her responsibility the nation would deteriorate rapidly. Gene Howe. a variety of articles; illustrations of them and of all stitches used; photograph of a single square about actual size; material requirements. 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