The Archive · 1939

S.M.R. Operations The South Manchuria Railway

Company's plan to establish en investigation office in North China wit! be put into effect early in April, the agency reports. The scope of operations of this new office will be quite wide, covering almost all fields of industrial and economic activities.

It will not concern itself, however, with the railway affairs of the North China Communications Ca, of which Mr, Vami is to be president. The latter is to have {ts own investigation office, covering its railway business in North China. The S.M.R. now has investigation organs in Tokyo, Changchun and Shanghai, so that with the new office in north China While the great mass of the people flee to the country when an air-raid alarm sounds, I do not see indications of any weakening of the morale of the people as a result of the raid earlier this Whether month such would be manifest if repeated raids took place J do not know. Certainly the coming of the Chinese planes will tend to restore confidence if they remain as a permanent guard to the city. One would think that with Kweiyang well protected, Chungking and Kunming will be more secure.

What makes one feel sore is the really brutal way in which the çoun-try people and poorer people generally are conscripted while of sons those better off seem to shirk all re-avy Cub Tivo, medium

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