Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 September 1942 — Page 9

:Nazis Take ‘Possession of

© 40 Per Cent of Areas In Production.

~¥ LONDON, Sept. 11: (U. P).~An

: authoritative survey shows that ‘faces her second winter of war wi ; " total food producing areas

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th at least 40 per cent|

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Scrvative becasue it concedes that

acres of grain land in Siberia. . - On the basis of the last statistics the Russians published, in 1935,

they have lost more than 50 per cent|

of their domestic grain supply, which was 75 per cent of the ‘nation’s total food. inn Russia - reported ‘more than -250,000,000 acres of land in grain, including Siberia and other areas in East Russia, but they lost roughly 125,000,000 acres when the Germans overran much of European Russia. That loss includes an estimated 75,000,000 acres of general food producing land in the north Caucasus, Azov, Kursk, Voronezh and Stalingrad areas. Eighty per cent of that total was in grain. Grain Crop Was Large .

The total crop area in European f Russia was more than 180,000,000

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Industrialist Says America’ Is Independent of

Some Imports. PITTSBURGH, Sept. 11 (U. PJ.

Have Few Radios.

The Japs ate s difficult people te sway by propaganda, Richard C. Wilson, expert on Far Rastern affairs, writes. In

a series of dispatches. Mr. Wisen will

analyse the Japanese, pointing out their weaknesses and strength. He was. interned by the Japanese st Hongkong when the war broke out and returned to. this country on the repatriation ship Gripsholm. 3 : ; By RICHARD C. WILSON United Press Staff Correspondent i) NEW YORK, Sept. 11.—~The most effective propaganda effort against

Japan that Americans could make|{ umes

today would be to convey to Japanese soldiers the information that as American prisoners of war they would receive the pay of an AmeriEnemy soldiers captured in war are paid the same as their captors. An American soldier held captive by Japan draws about three cents daily. On the salary paid American soldiers, a Japanese = soldier could retire in comparative wealth after the war, 0 However, selling: this piece of

propaganda to the Japanese army would be virtually impossible, in the

opinion. of Americans long resident in Japan. Psychologically, the Jap=

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acres, and the additional crop area|__America is now independent of ine Ukrain than 62,- : anese people are nearly immune to In ne S Nas name foreign imports for elements used |, zonds from the outside world.

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000,000, of which almost four-fifths : in making hard tool steel and has Centuries of emperor worship and One

was in grain.

Another hint to the meat situa-|first time in history, according to]

Statistics on fodder crops furnish surpassed Germany in producing the best available clue to Russia's/thege vital war metals, it was remeat prospects. In 1935, Russia had "un a total of 12,600,000 acres in fodder|VeAled today by 2s Serala pw crops. Considering only the areas|president of Firth-Sterling of Seratov, Stalingrad, Voronesh,|Co. of . McKeesport, Pa. the Azov and the north Caucasus,| New iesigns in cutting tools, plus more than 3,200,000 acres—35 per substitution of relatively cheap ticent—have been lost or are so heav-{tanium for scarce, costly tantalum,

fly menaced that they are probably|are responsible for releasing this country from import needs for the

tion is seen in statistics revealingiFirth. Such designs conserve scarce that in 1038, a total of 3,300,000) tungsten, metric tons of meat were produced,

of which about half was pork, most Use Substitutes ; of it from the Ukraine. “The newer type tool, requiring

_ Statistics show that considerably (perhaps only a tenth as :much

more than half of Russia's sugar|tungsten and less quantities cf oth-

beet producing areas also have been|er elements such as cobalt, will. cut lost in the Ukraine, which, before|at higher speeds and will turn out the war, raised an average of 13,-|50 per cent more production on the 600,000 tons a year, more than all|same machine with the same skilled the rest of Russia combined, One|operator,” the steel executive asof the most difficult factors in de-|serted. °° veloping sugar beet.production, par-| Both tungsten and tantalum were ticularly in war time, is the buildingdimported in large quantities prior of refineries. : to the war and this nation’s supply

of needed raw materials was imGERMANS CALL FOR mediately “threatened by the con= 5 Eg IN L : flict, he said. Guns, shells, ks and planes could not be made wi ‘B BIKE! in ZHOLLAND cut tools made of these elements. , Sept. . P.). rman : = > occupation authorities in the Neth-|. Can't Touch Us erlands -have ‘ordered all Hollanders| On the basis of personal inspecto turn their bicycles over to the tion of German plants and reports army of occupation unless they ur-isince ‘the war, Firth said he was gently require them for professionfil [Sonvinced "Germany “can't touch purposes, a Neétherlands newspaper|our work today”—either in quality, arriving here today announced. performance or output, 3 i The new interest displayed by the| ' An authority on hard steels, Firth Nazis in bicycles, according to well-|said his company has boosted its. informed observers here, is sympto-|production a & hundredfold since matic of the accute transport crisis|{1938, and that all of its production prevailing in Germany. is going to the war effort. ;

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respect for the heads of families have produced a racial loyalty that amounts to fanaticism. In the end they must be beaten to their knees by military force. :

Propaganda Is Difficult

Propaganda warfare against Japan encounters: stupendous difficulties. Short.wave radio receivers are scarce in Japan and the Japaneseoccupied areas. . Leaflets dropped over Japan describing the ideals of the united nations or warning of the thousands

. of" warplanes being turned out by

‘American factories to bomb Japan undoubtedly would be received in ‘Tokyo: with derision at this time, . Japanese and the millions of con‘quered Filipinos, Chinese, Anna‘mites, British Malayans and Javanese have not yet seen American warplanes bombing Japanese bases Economic warfare through blockade and other means would not affect the average Japanese. He has lived for the last several years of Japan's-all-out war preparation on a diet and with clothing that Amerfcans have never been reduced to. Seaweed, rice and ‘fish are available within® Japan in sufficient amounts to feed the populace the same diet it has always known. Cot~ ton goods, wool, silks and leather goods were virtually unknown to the average Japgnese for two years before Pearl Harbor, Japanese learned about ersatz clothes and shoes as early as the Germans did. - Jepan’s -armies entered the ‘field in this war amply equipped for many “moriths' of hard fighting. Whatever qualms Japanese may have * felt about their ability ‘to tackle two leading world powers—the United States and Great Brit‘agin—were put at rest by the smashing victories Japanese forces quickly won, . > Hongkong and Singapore long had been touted as impregnable and capable of‘ withstanding long siege. The same was true of Corregidor. They fell into Japanese hands without requiring Japan to bite deeply into reserves of planes, artillery, tanks and other weapons. Ge

They Won't. Listen

Propaganda aimed at convincing}

‘the Japanese of America’s great striking power, the tremendous output of war equipment now pouring ‘from American factories as well as the huge American army abuilding to destroy the axis armies of conquest undoubtedly would fall on deaf ears. The millions of Japanese as well as most of the millions of Asiatics now ruled by Japanese militarists have not yet seen visible evidence of these things. As a prisoner of war in Hongkong for seven months. I have seen my Japanese guards display skepticism over Japanese.newspaper reports of Japanese victories in the Coral sea and at Midway. This did not indicate a wavering. of confidence in their armed forces, howThey only felt their newspapers were chalking up Japanese victories in too rapid succession. .- This is the present mental state

astating ‘bombing attacks - front

outputs of war materials and fighting men.. = :

feriority complex of the Japanese

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