The Archive · 1938

RACKETEERING

This week's issue of The Review contains a complete account of the racketeering situation which has developed at Shanghai and elsewhere in this section of China since the Japanese occupation. The report not only covers the "scrap-iron" situation but the "removal of goods" racket, the plan to seize all public utilities, the smuggling situation and some comment on "piracy" in the Far East, Those who are looking for "something to send to the folks back home," should obtain this week's issue of The Review as it contains a full account of the Nanking Slapping Incident, Sino-Japanese preparations for the Battle of the Lung-Hai, Japan's desperate struggle to raise funds to continue the war, and in addition there is a 26-page Supplement dealing with

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