Changchun, June 7.
predicted here that (Mtanchoukuo will shortly announce her adherence to the anti-Comintern Pact.
This is expected following the prospective exchange of ministers plenipotentiary be~ tween Germany and Manchoukuo—Reuter. fare occupied by small Japanese garsons. The wheat crops are better than for many years in the past. The problem confronting the farmers is the gathering of the harvest, as many of the country women are not at home and the military think of the standing grain as a hiding place and would like to keep it uncut.
"As the grain ripens, however, and falls the value of the unreaped folds for military purposes will be nil Without reaping the wheat, the next crops cannot be planted. Undoubted-ways and means will be found by which this rich crop will be gathered in to enrich the farmer and provide food for Shanghai, Refugees are plentiful, but the countryside is not yet greatly suffer ing from lack of foodstuffs, Most of the refugees have been tairen in by other families or have moved to Shanghai and areas south of the river and with trade routes still open, goods can be sent back and forth,
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