The Archive · 1934

TONKIN COAST STRUCK BY 'TIDAL WAVE

Saigon, Oct. 5.

Sixty persona have been killed in two. typhoons which swept Indo-China in successive days.

"The success of the Army in forcing acceptance of its programme represents a victory over the attempts Of large Japanese capitalists to. control and exploit the economic potentalities of Manchoukuo.

"The Army leaders in Manchuria are striving to build up an economic policy based on semi-state, socialism: jin other words, the world"s biggest trust, organized with military dis cipline and efficiency and working wholly for the profit of the inhabit ants of that huge territory, which is lage as France and Germany com-

The Government of Manchoukuo has announced that "in order to prevent the striking evils of capital Jam, the programme of national economy must be subject to national control." The Japanese Army is the originator and sponsor of this plan, Being filled with bitter resentment against the capitalist system which dominates Party politics and the Government in Japan Proper, so much go that the Minister of War, General Hayashi, recently declared:

"The "purpose of the Army is to establish in Manchoukuo an ideal State without the attending evils of capitalism."

The dream of the military is to organize a government which will fetain the controlling interest in al important industries in Manchoukuo. Private capital, they plan, shall be admitted only if it is under proper control. At present all the utilities in Manchoukuo are Government mono-polles under complete control through the Ministry of Communications. Telephones, telegraphs, railways, avia-

The second, which struck north-feast Tonkin, was accompanied by a tldat wave,' which caused the loss of numerous junks and sampans.

Much damage to property was done—Reuter.

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