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Tokyo Radio Warns o! Long War
PEOPLE ARE PROMISED WORLD DOMINION
FOR THEIR SACRIFICES
by Selden Menefee
WASHINGTON —The Japanese Cabinet. Board of
Information or Propaganda Ministry is telling the pco
pie of Japan to tighten their belts and prepare for a
long war, at the end of which Japan will rule the world.
This is the picture of Japanese propaganda in war
time that has gradually emerged from scattered re
leases put out by the Office of Facts and Figures and
the Office of War Information, from reports relayed by
United Nations listening posts in Asia, from Japanese
newspapers quoted in broadcasts to North America and
from accounts of Japan sent from Portuguese East
Arica by American reporters on the way home from
the Orient.
Tokyo is constantly exhorting Japanese farmers to
raise more rice and the people at large to use less: not
a grain or a scrap of cloth is to be wasted. Lack of
oil shipments from the ruined Netherlands Indies fields
was suggested by a recent Japanese report that a way
had been found to make gasoline out of rubber. And
the Japanese hear no promises or prediction that the
war will soon be over. Their leaders tell them frequent
ly that hostilities may go on for ten to fifty or 100 years.
Signs as to Morale
A few hints of disorganization or unrest are to be
found in the radio and press reports from Japan.
(1) Support for candidates put forward by the to
talitarian Imperial Rule Assistance Association in the
election last Spring was far from unanimous. A fifth
of them were actually defeated at the polls.
(2) The government is now trying to enhance its
popularity by sending Premier Hidshi Tojo around
Japan talking to the people and making speeches, such
as one he delivered in Osaka recently.
These signs cannot be interpreted as showing low
morale, since the people of Japan receive a continuous
series of glowing tales of Japanese victories. The Ma
layan. Philippine. Netherlands Indies and Burma cam
paigns were taken as proof that the soldiers of the
Rising Sun were a race of supermen. Defeats are never
admitted.
The Coral Sea and Midway battles were transformed
by the Japanese press and radio into great victories,
in which the “remnants of the United States fleet” were
•said to have been destroyed.
Aleutians Played Up
The Aleutian landings provided an even greater
field day for Japan's domestic propagandists. The peo
ple have been substantially regaled with great quan
tities of eye-witness accounts, very similar to the
“front reports” featured by the Nazi Propaganda
Ministry.
The United States is presented to the Japanese as a
weak, effeminate country without enough spirit to win
a war. The Tokyo radio, for example, quotes a Japan
ese officer in the Aleutians as saying, “Too bad the
enemy did not show enough fight.” And two American
soldiers, asked whether American troops would ever
be able to retake the islands, are said to have answer
ed. “Hell, no!”
Americans are described as a pampered, jazz-mac
people. The Japanese, on the other hand, are stern fol
lowers of Bushido, which features frugality, loyalty
self-abnegation and filial piety.
According to one Tokyo domestic broadcast, “the
recent edict against cuffs on trousers in wartime show;
the decay of American liberty, because it took awaj
from the male the symbol of domination and the righl
of freedom.” The Hsinking radio in Manchuria add;
that “the war has dealt a crushing blow to Hollywood.’
The Japanese are told that the real causes of the wai
are (1) Anglo-American imperialism in the Far East
(2) the Allied policy of interefering with Japan’s ef
forts to bring “peace” to China, and (3) the 1941 em
bargo on United States shipments of military goods t(
Japan.
But Japan leaves no doubt of her ambitions foi
world conquest. The most recent authoritative state
ment of Japan’s geopolitical aims came early this yea:
from Professor S. Komaki of Kyoto Imperial Univer
sity, one ol' the leading geographers of Japan. Speak
ing over the government radio to his fellow Japanese
he said: “The Pacific Ocean is a sea for Asia * * :!:.Th<
Indian Ocean must also be a sea for Asia. The Atlanta
Ocean is also a part of Asia There are no Seven Seas
but only, one sea and it is connected to Japan, when
the Sun is PAsing. AH oceans are to be regarded as ;
great Japanese sea.”
\\ est Coast States
Warned Japs May
Attack from Kiska
By Sam Jackson
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. —Ev
ents in Bering Sea indicate that
America must be on guard ag
ainst a Japanese landing on the
mainland of North America.
The stepping-stone strategy of
invasion which the enemy em
ployed so successfully in the
bright sunlight of the tropics
! might be much easier when hid
don by the dense fogs of Alaskan
waters.
Japanese are in possession of
the tip of the bleak Aleutian is
land chain with a force estimat
ed all the way from “twenty or
thirty tents’’ to 25.000 men. Con
>: bring the size and terrain of
the occupied islands this latter
figure is incredible unless the
Japanese are assembling a real
nvasion force and quartering the
men on troopships.”
Enemy Ship Sunk
Our navy has bombarded,
sunk, and battered enemy vessels
at Kiska island, but has not dis
lodged the invaders.
The most disquieting report re
cently from fishermen that the
Mikado’s forces have taken over
the Pribijofs, long famed as the
snufee of the finest sealskins in
the world. This report proved to
be untrue.
This might indicate that in
stead of heading for the popul
ous southeastern part of Alaska,
he Japanese plan to seize the
mouths of the Yukon and Kusko
kwLm rivers or to take over the
immense Seward Peninsula and
its tiny “metropolis” of Nome.
U. S. Bases In Southeast
To an Alaskan such a move
would be described as an attack
on the “second and fourth judic
ial districts.” The other two mak
ing up the mighty territory are
in the southeast and account for
83 percent of Alaska population
and most of its commerce.
I It is in this latter section which
| is protected by the big naval
bases at Sitka and Kodiak, the
main army base at Anchorage
and various air bases and small
■ er installations which are a mat
ter of military information.
This area is sharply • divided
from the northern coastline by
ithe 500-mile long Alaska penin
sula. which tapers off into the
broken isfland chain of the Aleu
tians. North of the peninsula,
and front ng out of Bering Sea,
! is a desolate broken coast-line
stretching hundreds of miles up
l into the Arctic regions.
Dutch Harbor Is Blocked
The only town of any size is
Nome, population 1,500, of which
i two-thirds are white.
• The principal deterrent to ma
jor enemy incursions is the base
which Uncle Sam established for
just that purpose — the Navy’s
Dutch Harbor on the island of
Unalaska. From there, ships and
planes can range northward to
ward the Pribilofs and Nome or
south and east toward Alaska's
major towns.
If the Japanese strike north
1 ward it will have to be soon.
With a few months, the Yukon
and the ocean waters freeze.
Bering Sea is as large as the
Gulf of Mexico. And in fogs so
! thick that a mariner often can
not see 50 yards ahead the odd?
1 • against a naval patrol encounter
ing an enemy invasion force are
terrific. A thousand to one.
CHAS. CAVEY
Carrying an Assortment
of Fine Liquors, Win
es, and Beers.
> FRONT STREET. NOME
If these passages sounded in
sane it should be rememberer
, that similar statements have ap
i peared in imperial rescripts, ir
t Japanese Army manuals anc
i thoughout'the literature of Jap
, anese nationalism. The Japanese
! 1 militarists have no intention o
. j standing or falling with Naz
Germany they are apparently
out to rule the entire world, no
just the "Greater East Asia Co
! Prosperity Sphere.”
—New York Time
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Enlistments with
Navy Open
To Women
SEATTLE. Sept. -— Qualified
women of Juneau and vicinity ;
now are being offered important
posts in te Women’s Reserve of
the United States Navy as yeo
men, storekeepers and radio op
erators.
Under the program made pub- ;
lie by Capt. W. J. Giles, director
of Naval Officer Procurement for
the Thirteenth Naval District, ap ;
plications for enlistment in the !
Women’s Reserve will be receiv
ed at the Seattle headquarters, i
Applicants should write to the j
Office of Naval Officer Procure
ment, 117 Marion Street, Seattle,
. and request that application
blanks be mailed to them. A brief
history and qualifications of the
applicant must be included in the
request.
Under the enlistment plan, all
successful applicants will be en
rolled as apprentice seamen for
train ng as yeomen, storekeep
ers and radio operators, Capt. |
Giles said. Schools for the first!
quota of enrollees will open Oc- :
tober 9. The radio trainees will i
go to the University of Indiana, i
Bloomington: and yeoman at Ok- j
lahoma Agricultural and Mech
anical, Stillwater.
After training and instruction,
advancement io as high as Chief
Petty Officer will be open to the
women depending entirely on
their own ability.
Blitz On Buzz
Bugs; Aerial Sabot
eurs In Attack
On Production
By John Grover .
(For Jack Stinnett on Vacation)
WASHINGTON, Sept. —Chanc
e.s are you haven’t heard that
aerial saboteurs have already at
tacked U. S. war production. It’s
true, though. Disease-carrying
mosquitos are a grave threat to
full poduction efficiency in many
i key centers.
1 Uncle S3m is keenly aware of
the potential loss of man-days in
war factories. Employing an ap
: propriation psecifically alloted to
control of mosquitos in war pro
, duction areas, the U. S. Public
: Health Service has field crews
quietly conducting eradication
campaigns. i
Texas newspapers have al
ready voiced concern over the
possibility of a mosquito-borne
epidemic of dengue fever, corn
arable to the 1922 outbreak
which made temporary invalids
of half the population in some
communities. What a now out
break would do to the bustling
ship, chemical and metals produc
tion in vital Gulf Coast war
plants is giving many an official
gray airs right now.
Dengue fever is also kno-wn as
“bonebreak fever.” Its victims
feel as though theyd been run
over by a truck and then tossed
in a cement mixer to convalesce.
It usually incapacitates sufferers
*bx weeks or so. The culprit re
sponsible is a mosquito named
Aedes aegyptis, wich also carries
yellow fever.
What makes dengue fever so
hard to control, if it gets a good
start, is that Aedes is a “domes
ticated” mosquito, ust as con temp
tuous of man as mice and rats,
and just as neighborly. It breeds
successfully in city areas, in con
trast to some species.
So far, dengue fever hasn’t
reached serious proportions. On
ly one recent weekly report show
ed cases above the number nor
mally expectable.
Malaria, however, is another
story. Exact figures aren’t avail
able, but Public Health officials
say the number of cases is “well
above the median line" for the
past seven years.
An excessively wet spring set
the stage for increased mosquito
prdouction. The southern half of
the United States is especially
vulnerable, but a continuance of
good mosquito weather in north
ern areas adjacent to the “mal
aria reservoir” in he South could
result in extension of the disease
which is carried by the Ano
pheles quadrimacultus mosquito.
Mosquitos are extremely vul
nerable to modern control meth
ods. Elimination of breeding
places and knocking off the in
sects in the larval stage when
they’re helpless in the water us
ually ends epidemic threats.
Householders are being taught to
air the fight on these insect sab
oteurs by cleaning up all tin cans
and discard receptacles which
might catch rainwater around
their homes.
There’s every reason to believe
that the insect fighters of the
Public Health services will blitz
the “luftwaffe” sent out by the
Aedes-Anopheles axis before a
! major outbreak occurs.
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