The Japanese have brought about 100,000 men down to southwest Shansi. daily. shelling is taking place at Tungkuan (pass into Shens:) and daily bombing of communications to impede Chinese reinforcements. There has been a tightening up of precautions in Shensi. It is to be hoped that the venal small officials and smaller military officers will pull "n their horns and work together for the good of China instead of the family. China still needs education and justice for the ordinary man and equality of class when conscripting men.
American Capital Involved Anti-Comintern Committee Trench subsidiaries of American companies are in the same boat with other French industries: They must collaborate or shut down. These include the Matford company (French Ford) and the Goodrich Tire Ca. The Goodrich Company had piled up enormous stocks of rubber before the war started. Most of it fell into German hands. There is no legal recourse to Washington because these subsidiaries were organized as French firms.
Industrialists in France are divided today on the question of collaboration. Those who feel Germany will win the war feel there is no choice but to go along under the new order. But these who think Germany is not going fo win—and there are an increasing number of these—are considerably distressed at having to work for Germany now.
There is continual sabotage but not on an important scale. Workers caught committing acts of sabotage are shot. Those of sabotage. are bundled off fo concentration camps. Best estimates place the number of in concentration camps at between 15.000 and 20,000. A good Percentage of these are workmen considered not "safe."
On the other side. the Japanese have. as I ventured to predict some weeks ago. started to clamp down on the.anti-Communist campaign. A so-called North China Anti-Comintern Commission. with headquarters here under the direct control of the North China Political Council and with branches in all the larger cities of north Chin: was scheduled to be set up in Marc! of this year. Later. the opening postponed to April Later still. M. Gen. Shiozawa. the acting head of the China Affairs Board. announced that the commission would start in the beginning of May. But up to date nothing more has been. heard about the Anti-Comintern Commission, and the delay is not unnaturally ascribed to the Stalin-Matsuoka kiss on the Moscow station platform. After that. the strdhgest things are Lessible. even negotiations between Chinese Communists and Japanese militarists-
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