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Show RULE OF BILLION PEOPLE, JAP AIM Chinese Find Map Showing Foe Planned to Enmesh Quarter of Globe. WASHINGTON. Japan's dream of a "Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere" according to a map recently reported to have fallen into the hands of the Chinese government govern-ment would enmesh more than a billion people and dominate more than a quarter of the earth's surface, sur-face, the National Geographic society so-ciety computes. As described in the Chungking dispatch, dis-patch, the map covered Russia's share of Sakhalin island, the Asia mainland to and including Iran in the south, and Siberia to the Urals in the north; the northern tip of Australia; Aus-tralia; and all the islands of the Southwest Pacific. Hawaii was stated stat-ed to have been specifically omitted from the proposed Japanese-controlled sphere. To bring such a chart to reality, the Japanese would have to establish estab-lish domination over practically all the kinds of terrain the world offers, as well as most of the races of the human family, the society points out. Greatly Varied Regions. The regions concerned vary from " the vast desert stretches of the "Dead Heart of Asia" to the humid jungles of British Malaya, from the Arctic wastes of the Siberian tundra and the lonely plateaus and peaks of Tibet's "Lost Horizon" land, to the busy oil-soaked flats of Iran. They contain some of the most fertile fer-tile and the most desolate areas on earth; the highest mountains and the deepest seas; the wettest spots in the world, and some of the cold- est and the hottest weather known to man. In size, the individual territorial units marked for "Co-Prosperity" range from tiny coral islets to the vast reaches of Siberia, some 5,000,-000 5,000,-000 square miles in extent. The names of countries concerned (some of them already under the flag of ' the Rising Sun) read like a section from a gazetteer. Already overrun in part or in whole are Manchukuo, Inner Mongolia, China, French Indo-China, Indo-China, Thailand, British Malaya, the Philippines, the Netherlands Indies, Burma, Borneo, New Guinea, and near-by smaller islands. Designed for conquest are Siberia (with northern Sakhalin island). Outer Out-er Mongolia, Tibet, India, Afghanistan, Afghani-stan, Iran, northern Australia, and the main bulk of the southwestern Pacific islands. Control 400,000,000 People. In estimated round numbers, the Japanese so far have succeeded in bringing under their control some 400,000.000 people and more than 2.500,000 square miles of territory. These figures represent the completion comple-tion of roughly a little less than two-fifths of the population involved and between one-sixth and one-seventh of the land area as reported mapped. The races of Asia and the Pacific islands are more varied in type than those of any other major region, re-gion, from the cameo-featured Hindu Hin-du to the broad-faced Mongol; from the cream-colored, slant-eyed Eurasian Eura-sian to the woolly-haired black, with crude ornaments in his nose and ears. There are Tatars, Malays, Polynesians and Negritos; the Maoris Ma-oris of New Zealand, Dravidians of India, Kurds of Iran, Kalmucks of western China and Siberia, Papuans of New Guinea, the Singhalese of Ceylon, Annamese of French Indo-China, Indo-China, the Pathans, Turcomans and Tadjiks of south-central Asia. There are the "fighting Igorots" of the Philippines and the famed warlike tribes of Gurkhas in the wild, independent inde-pendent kingdom of Nepal, between northern India and Tibet. These peoples speak hundreds of different languages and practice fantastically fan-tastically assorted religions and other oth-er customs of life and work. |
