Tokyo, Nov. 17.
A network of motor highways throughout the Jgpanese-occupied regions of China would be the best assurance of restoring permanent peace and order, according to Major Gen. Tetsuzo Ide, director of the Army Automobile School, who recently returned from a one month tour of North and Central China.
He expressed confident hope that such an undertaking could be easily accomplished by the descendants of a people capable of building the Great Wall.
Major Gen. Ide pointed to the scarcity of salt-in the interior of China as evidence of a lack of means of transportation. He recalled that these Chinese subsisted without salt for many months. prior io the arrival of Japanese mechanized troops.
An example was shown in the fact that salt is exchanged for 30 times its weight in barley, according to Major Gen. Ide who said that the derivation of the word "salary" from the words "salt money" was still in actual practice in the remote regions of the interior where coolies were paid with a handful of salt for a half-day work and two hand-tuis upon completion of a full day's labour. A pinch of salt was sufcient to buy one hen, the Major General said.
Peace and order has been rapidly festered in regions where motor highways are constructed as demonstrated by the usefulness of Japan's mechanized units in the present hostilities. The Major General recalled that during the "Manchurian Incident the Jehol campaign was concluded within one week all because of these mechanized forces.
The construction of these highways would-fester-an. unprecedented development of the Japanese automo-bie.industry, the Major General Observed.—Domei.
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