The Archive · 1939

Japan Releases Troops

Divide Allies — To Gather Harvest — Shortage of Men: Revealed

Gesture to France By New Move Britain Said to Be Tokyo, Nov. 27. Exploiting Her Ally Shortage of agricultural. manpower Berlin, Nov, 27, in Japan because of the Sino-Japan-The Reich made another gesture ese war forced the War Ministry to to France yesterday when the demobilize an additional large num-leaders of the Peoples Association ber of troops yesterday. for the Care of War Graves laid For the second time in a week the a wreath on the French Grave of War Office announced that army men the War of 1870 at the Garrison were being released from training to Cemetery in connection with na-aid in harvesting crops in the Hoktional Memorial Day, kido and Tohoku districts, Renewing the German campaign The War Office empowered divisional commanders in the Kwansai to split Britain and France, the Nazi press yesterday published an and Kyushu districts either to shorten official declaration alleging that the term of military training for France would be forced to support those to be released or to postpone Britain during the current war, the training period until after the The official comment was directed harvest—United Press. at the recent Anglo-French economic agreement for financing the Europ-can war and appeared under such headlines as "French Have Sunk Down to Top Position in British "empire," "England Exploits Ally to Exhaustion."

"France will have to use her still considerable gold reserves of nearly Frs, 100,000,000,000 to support the English pound and pay not only for French but British armament purchases in the United States," the Official statement said, "After it has been deserted by the whole world, the sinking pound has been attached to the franc which it will drag into the abyss in its collapse."

The article said the French will be forced not only to feed the British soldiers in France, but also fill the gaps in Britain's domestic food supplies, replace sunken British ships with French tonnage and protect Britain's convoys with French warships,—United Press,

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