Shanghai, Dec. 3. JFPOREIGN language newspapers which print "Chinese pro-were flayed by a contributor to the Japanese daily in an article signed "Yangtze Hermit "on December 1.
At this time when a natio: staking its fortunes in the China conflict the attitude of those foreign language papers which Publish fabricated stories solely in their own interests deserve stern treatment from the country against which the stories are directed," the "Hermit" wrote.
"Propaganda clearly perceived to be glaring falsehoods is useless for people do not believe it.
"To be effective propaganda should contain a certain amount of truth and if it can attract the attention of and other organizations were sending opium and cocaine to Nanking.
"It is natural that China should be resorting to such measures because if she did not, she would be unable to rag the people along the path of con-
Would general trading come under the category of "allied organizations"? Any activities in the occupied areas are being carried out for the ultimate military objective, the crushing of Gen. Chiang Kai-shek's regime. and the rehabilitation and reconstruction of China.
Does the Central China Development Company come under this claisifeation?—The Japanese have found it necessary to pacify (eliminate the guerillas) and rehabilitate the war areas and the reconstruction of China is important.
The Central China Development Company is ce-operating with the "Reformed Government" in rehabilitating China, which is considered a large Bart of our objectives.
"So we may expect the Yangtze to be re-opened to Third Power nationals when China has been reconstructed according to the wishes of the Japanese Army and Navy?" As long og the Chiang Kai-shek regime is in existence and until the reconstruction} of China has been completed, the present state of affairs will have to continue. eStats amer tet tne sere rae con gtr ete Che of a supplied to the Chinese free of atts Sa Pacey ime em lis tence The quantity of cargo distributed to]
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"At the same time even propaganda based on falsehoods from beginning to end sometimes will achieve the desired effect, if only temporarily.
"This is more particularly the case whom the people are so ignorant that they cannot differentiate - between truth and falsehood and when their country has such meager communica tion and traMe facilities that the dissemination of truth isa slow and unreliable process.
Chinese "Fabrications" tinued resistance, "The Chinese have broadcast wholly false reports that the Japanese would suffer an economic collapse at any moment and that the Chinese troops would in the immediate future Fecapture Tsinan, Canton and even Soochow.
"The Nationalist regime, by banning freedom of speech and by sup: Dressing all those reports which "are unfavourable to it, has warped the Judgment and discrimination of the Chinese people, It also happens that when the people have been reduced to such circumstances as to wish for anything to cling fo, even demagogic stories which are beyond belief sometimes, achieve their purpose.
"Chinese propaganda at this time is made up entirely of demagogic fabrications and concoctions.
"The psychological condition of the Chinese people, who are clutching at straws like a drowning man, as it were, after a series of consecutive defeats suffered by the Chinese troops, forces them to believe all manner of fabrications.
"One of the latest examples of these fobricalions is the story that the Japanese forces at Hankow brutally massacred Chinese stragglers. A pro-Chinese English language daily printed a brazen lie, embellished with fle-bilious Mgures, to the effect that the Japanese Army Special Service Sec~ Vion, Reformed Government" officials
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