Indianapolis Times, Volume 47, Number 225, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 November 1935 — Page 26

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JAPANESE RULE IN CHINA HARMS COTTON IN U. S. Territory Can Fill Nearly All Fiber Demand of. Tokyo. H•/\ F 4 r r Japan''--'' control over the noUhfrn provinces of China mav turn out to hr another staecrring blow at the already croggy rotton-growing Industry in the Uni tod States. No two parsons would seem farther ai/nrt than tha Southern sharecropper and the Japanese soldier stationed at tha Manchukuan border. No two are, in distance. But there is a close connection, nevertheless. Whatever decree of political control Japan gets over North China, there is no question at all that she soon will dominate .he region economically. And th£‘ means access to development of a region that can produce within a few years all the raw cotton Japan needs except for the very highest grades. The provinces of Shansi, Hopei fChuhli), and Shantung are all cot-ton-growing regions. MaJ. Gen. Kenji Doihara, “the Lawrence of Manchuria,” who smoothed the Japanese path into Manrhukuo before the troops occupied it, and who has been active in fomenting the separatist move In North China, has been urging for sometime that Japanese rot ton experts be brought in. It is more than likely that they are already there. Double Blow at X’. R. Remember that Japanese rot.ton concessions In Ethiopia wpre brought to light when the Italian adventure there was begun. That is how eager Japan is to develop its own sources of raw cotton. If the North China fields could he made to yield a large part of the cotton Japan now imports from the United States, it could be taken cheaply to Japan and made there into piece goods. These could be sold in China and the East even more cheaply than the present Japanese cotton cloth, which is regarded as a trade menace by both the United States and Great Britain. Thus the United Stales would suffer not only loss of a great market for raw cotton, but further loss of markets for exported cotton cloth. Great Iron Industry But there is more in the coveted five provinces than potential cotton fields. In Shansi is the oldest iron industry in the world, which has been producing iron for 2000 years. That is because (he province contains that combination of coal and iron ore that, has produced all the iron and steel centers of the world. Shansi has more than half the total rnal deposits 1n China, and while they are not. among the great coal fields of the world, they are more than sufficient to support, local needs for years. Iron orp reserves are estimated at 300 million tons, on Item calculated to make Japanese mouths water in a country which has been buying up old ships for scrap iron. Japan already controls 90 per cent of the usuable iron resources in China, anyway, through investments. Hopei Largely Agricultural TTopel is largely an agricultural region, whose rtce and soy beans might,' well come in handy for crowded Japan. and a center for the raising of horses, mules, and other livestock. Chahar is agricultural, but also has iron ore reserves. In all this region, during the last few years. Japan has been wangling trade advantages in the wav of tariffs ana concessions. These northern provinces, in which Japan is now trying to foment a secession movement, are relatively progressive for China. Tn Shansi, for Instance, the only concerted effort, at, reforestation has been made to rombat, the barrenness China has brought on herself by destroying her forest cover. Japanese ratlw r ay lines, with one eye on opening the interior up to trade with the coast, and with Manrhukuo. and the other on possible war with Russia, probably would be welcomed. German Traces Retained Shantung especially retains traces of the German occupation of before the World War in its modern buildings and railroads. And of course opening wider a market for exports among the nearly 100 000.000 people living in the five provinces is an incentive. From the political point of view, the Japanese object is clear. These provinces complete u territorial wedge between China and Russia, and include strategic centers, such ns Kalgan, which cut off the land route between China proper and Russia. Mongolia Hemmed In They tend to hem in outer Mongolia, in which Russia is playing the same game of •peaceful penetration” that always precedes the Japanese military moves, and to separate It, from the Chinese Soviets in Kiangsi and Hunan. But the chances are that markets, coal, iron and cotton weight heavier on Japanese minds than political and military advantages. Last, year, for instance. Japan Bent, four times as much goods to Manchuria as to China proper, and for the first time exported more goods to Manchuria than to the United States. Similar development in the five northern provinces is the Japanese aim.

CENTENNIAL RECALLS FOUNDING OF CHURCH First Catholic Building Started In Wisconsin in 1835. fly I'nitrti rrrs la POINTE. Wis., Nov. 28— Establishment of the first Catholic church in Wisconsin here in 1835, when thus place was inhabited by Chippewa Indians, Frenchmen, half-breeds, Canadians and Americans were recalled at a recent centennial celebration. Tne founder was Bishop Frederick Baraga, then a young Austrian padre, succeeding to the Indian missions of Fathers Menard. Allouez and Marquette. The church bell was reputed to have been made from gold rings, watches and silverware Baraga solicited in Europe. La Pointe, on Madeline Island, in tarly days was known as the metropolis of northern Wisconsin, tie

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