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Show ll'flfi-nfEa Ivifli WALTER WINCHEIX , , (ou, of duty outside Continental U . S. During his absence, contributors will substitute. Some Items Which 1 WE SHOULD KNOW ABOUT THE JAPS By James R. Young ' Who Was 13 Years in Tokyo for INS. MAYLING SOONG FOUNDATION, honoring the First Lady of China, established by her many friends in this country, has been given further impetus by Wellesley College alumnae alum-nae on her arrival here 25 years after aft-er her graduation. TWO JAPS, former students in the United States, are reported handling the 12,000 man Jap invasion army units In Northern Japan. These men would specialize in a follow up, after combat troops, in commandeering radio stations, telephone switchboards, switch-boards, gasoline stations, highways, railways, bus lines and power houses. One is Lieut. Henry Shi-manouchi, Shi-manouchi, a former San Francisco resident, and as of Dec. 7, 1941, in charge of Japan's so-called cultural society of Rockefeller Center. The other, Capt. Frank Matsumoto, was athletic director of Waseda University Univer-sity in Tokyo who entertained visiting visit-ing American college and professional profes-sional athletic teams. A BICYCLE, the ehief means of transportation in Shanghai, now costs $10,000 in Chinese currency. The Japs, pre-Pearl Harbor, were the world's largest bike manufacturers, manufactur-ers, making them from processed American scrap at $3 apiece and selling them on a one year installment install-ment plan to the natives of Indo-China, Indo-China, Siam and Malaya. In the drive on Singapore, Bangkok and Rangoon, the Japs seized the -bi- cycles and literally peddled their way through the peninsula. Tokyo has an estimated 2,200,000 bicycles. Few have coaster brakes, which are the costliest part. The ingenious Jap manufacturers decided to leave off the expensive part if you want to stop, fall off. THIS WINTER Shanghai will witness wit-ness hundreds of deaths from freezing freez-ing and insufficient food. The European Euro-pean refugee colony, numbering several thousands, will suffer, too. The Japs, last Winter, seized all wheat and rice, and sealed Red Cross supplies not one ounce or a single bottle of medicine was permitted per-mitted in use. The Japs prefer to have thousands die in Shanghai's below be-low zero weather than survive and require to be fed. CHILEANS are being told by the Jap ambassador down there that if their country breaks with the Axis, Japan will bomb the long shore line. Japan for years was one of Chile's great nitrate buyers. In return the Chileans obtained Jap cotton piece goods, pottery, rayon, uniforms and military equipment. Boatloads of Chilean nitrate, sold by a British controlled company, went to Japan in return for munitions and agriculture. agricul-ture. Now we must use nitrate on the Japs in the Pacific. Just as our oil and gasoline have taken the Japs to the Solomons and the Aleutians. Or, as Dr. Lin Yutang explains the paradox, we sold the Japs the Ninth Avenue Elevated so they could make bullets. Now we have torn down the Second Avenue Elevated to make bullets to fire back at the Ninth Avenue Ave-nue train. HOUSE FOREIGN AFFAIRS committee should include besides Clare Boothe Luce, a famous medical med-ical missionary from China, Dr. Walter H. Judd, elected from Minneapolis. Min-neapolis. He was one of many warning warn-ing us years ahead of Japan's method meth-od of attacks. Possibly the Luce-Judd Luce-Judd combination might shake down some of the mentally stagnated members of the State Department. And here's a tip: These Chinese are indignant that we have not cleaned house in the Far Eastern division of Mr. Hull's department, a year after war started. We'd better clean those career barnacles from the ship of state, if we expect future cooperation co-operation from the Chinese. KAY KINNEY, the coast to coast Hawaiian bandman who recently played to a $22,000 house in Chicago, knows Hawaiian legislative work. He worked as a page boy in the Territorial Ter-ritorial halls. His brother is an outstanding out-standing authority on Japs in Hawaii Ha-waii and published a book 20 years ago which was suppressed because it revealed Jap plots and intrigue in illegal immigration work. SIR GEORGE SANSO.M, one of the few British officials really familiar famil-iar with Japan, has been appointed economic expert on Far Eastern affairs af-fairs to the British Embassy in Washington. His counterpart in the American Embassy in Tokyo was Frank Starr Williams. Both Sir George and Frank Williams were outstanding authorities on Japan's plans for war but few wanted to listen to them, especially the cotton people who were selling the Japs on credit and wanted Williams to help collect their bills! |