Shanghai continues to assume queer publicity value in the estimation of some of the world's greatest newspapers. Here is a gem from the London "Daily Herald" by its Shanghai correpondent describing an event which appears to ye slipped notice In dozens of Shanghai offices this morning there ws no response when impatient European managers shouted "Boy." The mystery of the mass disappearance of hundreds of Chinese office boys was explained tonight when it was disclosed that they had secretly slipped through the Japanese barriers to join the Chinese Army. Most of the boys, whose ages range between 15 and 29, were students at Shanghai night schools, For weeks an underground movement to join the Chinese army had been organized in the various classes. Last night the signal to join up was iven. in peasant clothes, walking in re than a dozen at a time, the boys did not attract the attention of the Japanese sentries, Once in Chinese territory thy w met by Chinese guerilla leaders who conducted them to their various units. Thg boys will serve reamly as scouts and message-runners with the Chinese forces in Shanghai's surrounding provinces of Anhwei, Kiangsi and Hupeh, ther wide and sweeping geographical y that the surrounding provinces hai are Anhwvei, Kiangsi and Hupeh nees of Chekiang and Kiangsu, whicn y surround Shanghai are not but, when you come to think of it, situated almost at the mouth of the Yangtze, it can really be stated that S ar rounded list of pre Burdens From Riches The enviable but nonetheless complex problems of rich men lie chiefly in what to do with the handsome revenues often derived and to be expected from well-invested wealth, It iz problem in terms of a great nation's ance that is vexing the able members c:
ent Roosevelt's Government. Officials el the United States Agriculture Department are reported to be determined to avoid any form: of dumping excess stores of cotton and wheat and this makes comforting news. Dump-short sight se e easiest way out been adopted by some regimes a:
able despite the dislocation and disrupt tion such action invariably brings in the open market. Also at first sight it would seem that less fortunate peoples abroad would be denied cheap and much-needed supplies if the Ameri-con market is closed or held too rigidly to its own high levels. Yet "gifts" bring repercussions unfavourable to American economy. Tersely put, the responsible attitude of the American Government is summed up by Mr. R. M, Evans, Agricultural Adjustment Administrator. Dumping, he acknowledges, leads to retaliation from ose who can, and trade wars. It results als~ in excessively high costs to American consumers and passes bargains to foreign customers. In self-interest, therefore, world market will be spared the serious threat latent in dumping on the scale possible from the American G ernment if they subscribed to that policy. Nontheless, to refuse to dump and yet seek to maintain American agriculture vital and on an economic basis, leaves the problem of adjusting farm costs and consumer and distribution price: still to be solved. Subsidies are rarely warran ed as a means and can never be sustained for Because chief markets for n must also be in position t ges with the United Slates, t may evolve ti A ment may have to revise "penalty tants" against Germany and such against Japan templated if not yet in effect, as well as w other nations willing to buy but unable to find wherewithal to pay in terms and at prices nitable to the Americans for American supplies.
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