Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 February 1942 — Page 4
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uss SACRIFICE
SETS WAR PACE
: | Hardships Asker Asked in U. S.
Are Very Mild in Comparison!
ol RL ARR Tes g MOSCOW, Feb. 18.—Soviet Russia is giving ‘a demonstration of totality in war on a scale probably
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bigger than any in history.
By comparison ‘the sacrifices
{which Americans have been called |upon to make are moderate.
Picture an American girded for war on a basis as all-inclusive as Union. The American mobilized to an extent even greater
than the maximum envisaged by ‘President Roosevelt.
Women would be replacing men
‘on a wholesale scale in industry and|. ion farms; even in . mines, you would
steel mills and find them.
Rations Small
Every _ able-bodied city-dweller, male and female, up to the ages of
65 and 55, respectively, would be subject to labor conscription.
. Every American industry and workshop down to ‘the smallest, except those required to supply the barest needs of the population,
‘would be converted into war pro-
duction. The average American would be subsisting on & basic daily ration of one pound of bread, one pound of cereals, a half-pound of potatoes, ree ounces of meat and fish, an unce of butter, an ounce of ugar r sweets. |
- | That’s what total war means in
the Russian sense.
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Chapter XV—Heroic China
IN STRIKING contrast
to Japan's policies, and to
Japan’s motives as they are interpreted in the world’s democracies, are China’s policies and the motives that prompt the Chinese people in the unoccupied areas to uphold
staunchly the decision of their against the invader. ’ . China is not,
Hallett Abend
leaders to continue the struggle
fighting for more territory, is not
seeking or hoping to direct the destinies of other peoples in the Far East, is not attempting by force to create economic monopolies. been for four and a half years defending "her own soil and fighting not only for survival but for the right to work out her own destiny in her own way. Despite the fact that she has lost her entire coastline and all: of her great cities that were centers of commerce, industry, wealth and learning, China has persisted in the struggle. She has lacked factories to manufacture many war essentials. After the Japanese entered French Indo-China, she had first to depend only upon two long highways
She is and has
for connection with the outside world, and now has only one. One of these highways, the famous Burma Road, traverses precipitous mountains and fropical jungles for hundreds of miles.
The other, the road to Russia by way of the Gobi Desert, crosses waterless deserts and a territory that in winter is one |of the coldest in the world short (of the polar regions. Since Hitler attacked Russia last June, the Soviet has had no surplus of war supplies to send to China. For more than a year and a half Japan. avoided according direct recognition to the Wang Ching-wei puppet regime at Nanking, hoping that General Chiang Kai-shek and the Chungking Government = would give some sign of being willing to reach a compromise settlement. But Chungking would not compromise, even when tentative feelers. were put out byg the
Japanese
. mo ig that were ‘behind this de-
"militarily and economically.
| to continue fighting with the de-
Chiang Holds Firm
JuSTRAD, in November of 1940, Gen. Chiang Kai-Shek and his Government at Chungking reached and announced the momentous decision never to make any kind of a peace with Japan until the war in Europe comes to an end. It was decided that even apan, hard pressed by the trend of international affairs, were to offer China an honorable peace, including unqualified and ediate withdrawal of all Japanese armies from China's soil, Chungking’s reply would be an. emphatic “No.” “Partly enlightened self-inter-est,| and partly an ethical attitude,” was the way in which a spokesman for General Chiang revealed to me in Singapore the
made even an honorable with Japan while the war urope still continues, they
itments, would then pro- , they believed, to seize all the | islands and territories she could get in East Asia and in the South Seas, and in the end China would find herself a virtual prisoner behind a chain of Japanesedominated islands. |She would be at Japan’s mercy once again, So much for the enlightened self-in-terest” mative,
Moral Tie Binding
IN ADDITION to these very practical considerations, the Chungking, leaders decided that their country was morally bound
moeracies as a group against the aggressor nations as a group. “General! Chiang Kai-shek is convinced,” my authorized informant said to me, “that if China were to make peace with Japan, the task of the democracies would become vastly more difficult. |The Japanese navy and
the Japanese army would be released for attacks upon outlying portions. of the British Empire, and Japan would then attack the Philippine Islands and provoke a war with the United States, and thus greatly aid Germany and Italy by reducing the percentage of the output of American factories that is reaching England.” China chose to fight on, and hopes to be given a seat at the peace table where the future of the world will ‘be arranged—a seat as a full and honored partner, with equal voice in all deliberations and decisions. When Japa treacherously attacked Pearl Harbor, China did not hesitate, but at’ once declared war formally against Japan, Germany and Italy, and sent an army to try to relieve Japanese pressure upon Hongkong, The fortitude of London under the raids of German bombers ‘is now the wonder and admiration of the world. But Chungking has
shown fortitude, too, and has en-
dured raids for three years. The heroism of China’s continued resistance must not be forgotten just because it is now an old and familiarly continuing story, or because -more spectacular events have attracted attention elsewhere.
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Epic of Resistance
THE WAR EFFORT of the Chinese people, in addition to raising and equipping ‘enormous armies, has been something in the nature of an epic. And that it has continued well into the fifth year of hostilities without any consideration of compromise or surrender is something of a miracle, particularly in view of the factionalism and sectionalism which, before the outbreak of the struggle with Japan, kept the country constantly on the verge of civil war. This unity, this tenacity, this longenduring courage must be credited in large measure to one person— Gen. Chiang Kai-shek. I do not know of any great battles in which he has participated; I have no knowledge as to the extent to which he, individually, decides important points of geperal strategy. But his political sagacity and administrative ability have been of incalculable value to China’s cause, and today he is the living personification of leadership, courage and unity to the Chinese people. For China he is the personification of resistance. - While the pressure of an attempted conquest and subjugation continues, China is accomplishing marvelous things. The spread of
co-operatives is enormously help-°
ful to the continuation of the war. Tens of thousands of coolies labor uncomplainingly, building new strategic highways—highways that will also be of incalculable economic value in the future days of peace. New railways are being graded and tunneled.
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WHILE GREAT projects of this
kind continue to be developed in spite of the drain and strain of war, tens of thousands of coolies labor day and night as human transport, carrying war supplies into China in order to supplement the insufficient trickle of imports that come in over the Burma Road and over the long northwest route through Turkestan and on into Siberia. The war has brought exploration and discovery to China's far west, and new coal and mineral deposits of great prospective value are constantly being found. Even more important. for the long future of the nation, the forced migration westward of the colleges and universities formerly located mostly in the, coastal
cities is bringing enlightenment *
and general educational facilities to China’s hinterland and forcing history almost half a century ahead of its time. The Chungking Government fis also making determined and largely effective efforts to limit profiteering and to prevent the hoarding of rice and other foods
and essential commodities. Exceedingly strict laws have been enacted to curb such abuses, and not infrequently some general or some promifient politician is publicly executed by shooting after being found guilty of profiteering at the expense of the national emergency or of the peoples needs. : Although Japanese sources have repeatedly manufactured rumors and so-called “reliable reports” about the supposed growing willingness of Chungking to agree on peace terms, there has never been any real chance of peace since the fall of Nanking in December, 1937.
ht, 1841, by Hallett Abend; distribood. By United Feature Syndicate, Inc, : Japan's
TRAIN KILLS 2 HOOSIERS
SCOTTSBURG, Ind, Feb. 18 (U, P.) —Wilbur Weddle, 33, and Raymond Chandler, 23, Austin, were killed yesterday when a Pennsylvania train struck the taxi in which they were riding. Witnesses stated that Mr. Chandler drove the cab
THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY
directly into the path of the train.
INDIES A PRIEE WORTH WINNING
Japs After One of Richest
Raw Material Sources in Whole World.
BATAVIA, Feb. 18 (U. P.).—The Netherlands East. Indies constitute one of the world’s richest sources of raw materials. On the islands that stretch for more than 3000 miles along the equator are the madterials the Japanese need to feed the enlarging demands of their war machine— oil, rubber, iron ore, cozl, tin, gold, silver, kapok, tea, cordage fibre, palm oil. 67,000,000 People Java, with its population of 821 to the square mile—the densest
population in the world—is the chief prize, although the oil wells
‘lof Sumatra, second : largest island
of the archipelago, can produce thousands of tons of petroleum if the Japanese repair the destruction wrought by the Dutch “scorched earth” policy. Java, 621 miles long and 121 miles wide, holds 46,000,000 of the 67,000,000 who occupy the archipelago. The majority are Moham-
medans, with the white population about 250,000 Batavia, the largest city, houses more than half a million. Samarang, 250 miles east along the north coast, has 217,000 and Soerabaja, now the principal naval base of the united nations and the principal port, has nearly 400,000 inhabjtants. Dutch industry brought many modern improvements to the islands, espécially along the coast lines, and even in the jungle wilds
'|of Sumatra the practice of ritual-
istic cannibalism and slavery has disappeared. The islanders "and their forefathers have seen nations contest for their wealth before. Marco Polo wrote of Java in the
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A century later the Mohame« medans moved in and in 1511 Portuguese sailors arrived and termed the Javanese the “most civilized people in these parts.” Thirteenth Century, but the Hindus apparently brought their culture
there in the First: Century after Christ.
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