The Archive · 1939

Blockade Dangers

Gen. Thomas expressed the view that the latter question would be one of the most difficult in any future war because of the intimate reflex of effects between the front and those home.

He demanded that the significance of the relations between accumulated stocks, home production and imports in war should not be underestimated. For countries with small mineral wealth, economy of the raw material reserves of war is urgently necessary. Increase of production in every form and the study of the question of an economic war was demanded.

"Foreign trade must be so transformed," he stated, "that an economic warfare would be weakened to the Vatican City, Jan. 11.

Japanese bombers completely destroyed a Catholic seminary at Ichang during violent bombing last November in which 501 persons were killed and 55 others seriously wounded, a belated report in the "Observatore Romano" said today. The report said another Catholic mission was totally destroyed at Kingmen during the same month. The casualties in this bombing have not been reported.—United Press.

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