Millard County Chronicle | 1945-06-28 | Page 4 | Japan Can Wage a Long War

Japan Can Wage A Long War Although Japan has suffered severe se-vere military reverses and damaging damag-ing air attacks in recent months, her productive capacity is such that she is still able to wage a long war, says Leo T. Crowdey, Foreign For-eign Economic Administrator. .A large portion of the war industry she had at Pearl Harbor is intact. At that time, Japanese war industry indust-ry was organized to operate effici-netly effici-netly in the so-called innner zone of Japan proper, Korea, Manchuria, and some parts of north China. In the months following Pearl Harbor the area of Japanese military mili-tary aggression extended to the East Indies and to Burma. The Allies, Al-lies, so far, have liberated less than seven percent of the total of nearly 3,000,000 square miles of conquered territory controlled by the enemy. But we have scored major successes success-es in almost completely cutting Japan Ja-pan off from raw material resources resourc-es as rubber, oil, tin and fibers that formerly were available to her from the East Indies, Malaya, and the Philippines. Nevertheless, in Japan's inner zone, industries exist capable of producing for many months finished war products and, in addition, key raw materials are available for expanded production.