By October 1, French industries had contracted for the manufacture of Fr, 2/00000000 worth of war materials for Germany. These included Fr. 600,000,000 worth of aluminum by the Aluminum Company of France (near Marseilles): Fr. 240,000,000 for optical! instruments by the Lavollois Company, Fr. 983,000,000 for N ives, Fr. 75,000,000 for barges. Fr. 8,000,000 for Morane planes.
Those figures were just up to October 1, 1940. Since then they have been enormously surpassed. The list of industries letting contracts which made up the Fr. 2,700,- 000,000 figure did not include the big automobile, rubber and steel industries which are now working on German order:
The material for which these contracts entered was, of course, far exceeded in value by equipment and goods which were requisitioned and sequestered. For. example 450 boats were seized outright, thousands of automobiles-and trucks. rolling stock, "and vast supplies of grain, gas and oil Total value ran into milliards of francs.
Musi Collaborate or Close "Many of the industrialists who rushed in to work for Germany last summer, thinking a British defeat near, ate not so sure of German victory now and do not enjoy their position. However, they have little choice: but to go ahead. They are dependent on Germany for raw or close. materials and they must collaborate
T heard of only one instance in which a big industrialist refused to work for Germany. He was tough. lion-hearted Prince Poniatowski of the famed French-Polish family. managing director of Hispano-Suiza Ca. makers of luxury cars and aeroplane motors. He was arrested and taken to Germany when persuasion failed. His workers rallied to him and blew up the great underground motor works which he had built for wartime production of plane motors. The Germans stripped part of the factory of its machine tools. taking them to Germany, and forced what was left of the plant to go to work.
It is easy to see the extent to which Germany monopolizes the output of French industry at this time if yow try to buy a new automobile or a new tyre, It is almost impossible to buy a new car although the Renault. Matford and other factories are hard at work. It is about a four-day job to buy a tyre—if you can do it at all. You must go to the prefect of your department and prove your absolute need of a tyre and obtain a special requisition before you can make the purchase.
Recently the big Potez plane factory at Amiens, badly damaged during the battle of France, went into operation. its output going to the Luftwaffe. cluded the Japanese troops here. seeing that. under the conditions that have been ruling in North China sines July 1937. they "can scarcely be called an Embassy Guard, Support for Iraqi Rebels Reverberations of tte events in Iraq have spread to Peiping. This week the Chinese Mohammedan Association held a special meeting—entirely spontaneously, of course—in support of the rebel movement in Ireq. It is a pretty certain bet that the vast majority of those who gttended the meeting had not the fóg-glost notion what or where Iraq was If 1 per cent. of the Chinese here has ever heard of Iraq before. I should be vastly surprised àn ex ample of what the Peiping Mohammedans knew about the Iraqi affair is provided by the following sentence in the resolution adopted by the meeting: "As the Emperor of Iraq. with a view to protecting Mobammedenism. is waging war against the British Whereas, of course the "emperor" of Iraq has been driven into exile by the rebels and is very much on our side.
Among the more important persons present were members of the Japanese Embassy. and Italian and German representatives.
As long as Britain is allowed to oppress the Moslem countries, {he Mohammedan race will never be restored to power. Fortunately, your nation has awakened and, in trying to revive the spirit of Islam, is now fighting to drive out the wicked British. The Chinese Mohammedan Asrociation, representing £9,000,000 Mohammedans, has sworn to support your movement.
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