Even education is being promoted. No middle schools have yet been organized, but some primary schools are. being organized, and these are being well attended, the traveller: ods.
Main roads leading into the middle area of Hopei have been cut 10} prevent entry of Japanese troops, but Yoads Inside the area are in a bad slate and cars are able to do more than about ten miles an hour.
Peiping merchants manage to enter the lertitory and, the British Jer reports, are able to; travel in the area with large sums of money Washington, May 22.
The Foreign Policy Association said today that political "and economic collapse at home rather than Chinese resistance threatens to impart defeat to Japan:
Me, David Popper, research worker for the political science organization, termed the conflict in. China a "fateful war for the Fast East" which possibly may cost Japan her place among the world Powers. He minim-Jzed the importance of the Japanese victory at Hsuchow and said that even if the Chinese are driven from Hankow they may conceivably "sue-ceed in the organization of an almost self-sume lent semi-military state in the unconquered interior which would bbe an important source of resistance."
"The Association reviewed the economic burden heaped on Japan and said "prolongation of hostilities may force Japan to make new in roads on her foreign investments and gold reserves which already have been greatly reduced during the course of the past year."—United Press.
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