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Benito’s Contribution to Singapore Defense
By LEMUEL F. PARTON
(Consolidated Features—WNU Service.)
M'EW YORK.—Commentators and
war correspondents are now re
calling the famous “Memorial to the
Emperor,” supposedly written by
W £> Bar0n Gi *
Jap Mem Kampr Ich i Tanaka
Recalled;Revealed in 1927, in
Aggreetion Steps ^ hich » ^
° r document
was not a forgery, Japanese plans
for world conquest were formulated
much in the manner of Adolf Hit
ler’s blue print for homicide in
“Mein Kampf.”
Baron Tanaka died September 29,
1929, a few weeks after the fall of
his cabinet, his premiership having
lasted about two years.
This department is supposed to
deal only with the living, but breaks
pace today to note the possibly his
toric significance of the baron and
his document—and the life story of
the suave little man who died of
high blood* pressure, at 66, after
many years of deep absorption in
“sword romance,” the Japanese
equivalent of the blood and thunder
pulp thrillers of our country.
History may give him a nod
in view of the fact that his docu
ment ticked off the later steps
of Japanese aggression as neat
ly as a pool-player calling his
shots. The Japanese repeatedly
have denounced it as a forgery.
Whatever it was, it jumped the
dock and told “the shape of
tilings to come.”
The first reference to the docu
ment in this country, so far as this
reporter could discover, was in pub
lished quotations from the Russian
newspaper, Pravda, of November 5,
1931. Pravda did not reveal how it
had obtained its copy of the “Me
morial,” but it flared it out as “a
startling revelation of the Japanese
carefully prepared plan for world
conquest.” «
“Japan’s aggressive tendencies
will not end in China,” said the
Pravda article. “She has designs
on the Philippines, the Malayan ar
chipelago, Guam, Tahiti, Samoa and
Australia. It presages a fight for a
new division of the world, for it
is inseparably linked with conflict
among imperialist nations for con
trol of the Pacific.”
The newspaper then quoted from
the document:
“If we intend to gain control
over China, we must first crush
the United States. To ‘capture
China, we must also crush Man
churia and Mongolia. In order
to eonquer the world, we must
first conquer China. If we suc
ceed In conquering China, the
rest of the Asiatic countries and
the South Sea -countries will
fear us and surrender to us.”
For understandable reasons, the
Pravda story got scant attention in
' _ , the Ameri-
Press Discredited can press,
Tanaka Memorial; in view of
Japs March On!
r ous propa
ganda stories issuing from this
source and was, for the most part
editorially dismissed as an effort to
“cause dissension among friendly
capitalistic nations.”
But, American correspondents,
digging into the story in the Far j
East, discovered that, in 1929, the
“Memorial” had been examined by
members of the American Council
of the Institute of Pacific Relations, !
in Mukden. It was submitted to (
them by members of the entourage
of the Chinese Marshal Chang
Hsueh-liang. One of this delegation
was reported to have said:
“We pledge the full authen
ticity of this document and we
plead with you to understand
that Japan has begun a pro
gram of world* aggression which
inevitably must involve the
United States.”
So far as we can learn, news of
this incident was not published in
this country until after the Pravda
story. This, however, is not cer
tain. It may have appeared in some
American newspapers. This writer
remembers a long article in a Brit-
•iah newspaper of five or six years
ago, the Manchester guardian, if
memory serves, in which was cited
documentary evidence of the validity
of the document and pleaded for a re
shaping of British policy in the Far
East and the strengthening of the
naval base at Singapore.
On April 23, 1940, Rear Ad
miral J. K. Taussig, retired, ap
peared before the senate com
mittee on naval affairs and in
sisted on the validity of the Ta
naka Memorial. He begged for
a consideration of Japanese re
lations in this light, but the
navy, however, repudiated his
testimony. Pierre Van Paassen,
in his recently published book,
“This Day Alone,” reviews the
history of the document, defends
its authenticity and launches in
dignation against the civilized
world for failing to heed it.
These Breda guns, captured from the Italians in Libya, are being
reconditioned in Malaya for use against Jap invaders. During Wavell’s
desert blitz a tremendous amount of Italian equipment was taken by
the British. It has since been useful on other fronts, and will serve the
allied cause again in Malaya.
U. S. Battleship Arizona Goes Down
wsasgagg^ss
The U. S. S. Arizona on fire and sinking in Pearl Harbor after
sneak raid by Japanese bombers. ' The 25-year-old battleship was de
stroyed by the explosion of the first of its boilers and then its forward
magazine, due to a bomb which was said to have literally passed down
the smokestack.
String of ‘Valentines’ for Axis
At a U. S. army airport, somewhere in the U. S., a ground crew is
making adjustments to a string of 600-pound bombs before the missiles
are loaded into a bombing plane for delivery at • • • ?
Where U. S. Troops Are Meeting Japs
Above Is a view of the rice fields of Appari,
tip of the island of Luzon, which is the principal
pines. The Japanese were reported as succeeding
this rough terrain, but met with stiff resistance from
on this island, was the first major Jap objective.
on the northernmost
island of the Philip-
in landing troops in
U. S. troops. Manila,
From Wake Island
J. B. Cooke, Wake island airpprt
manager, and his wife and two chil
dren, Bleecker and Philip (front),
shown upon their arrival at San
Francisco on the clipper plane. This
was the third clipper to arrive safe
ly from the war zone. All passen
gers commented on the high mo
rale of the civilians in Honolulu.
Wake island is one of our far Pacific
outposts that has held out so splen*
didly against the Japs.
Fortify Hong Kong
INFORMATION FOR THOSE
WHO ARE OVERWEIGHT
True obesity is a constitutional
disorder in which there is a com
pulsory tendency to gain weight un
less the intake of
food and expendi
ture of energy are
kept under control
all of the time. In
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greater tendency
than normal to de
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Fortunately
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adolescence and early adult life, a
high calorie, high vitamin, high pro
tein diet containing adequate min
erals is necessary for normal
growth. At this period of life people
are most active physically and need
more calories. Thus they become
accustomed to eating large amounts
of food, are not satisfied with small
er quantities. When they stop grow
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be less active physically and require
less food. But they continue their
usual high calorie diet and the
Dr. Nathan S.
Davis HI
Infant Deaths in the United States
Deaths per 1,000 Live Births
1919
86.6
1929
67.6
1939
482
A motor torpedo boat, the British
navy’s newest weapon for harbor
defense, makes a test run across
Hong Kong harbor. In the back
ground are two lumbering Chinese
junks. This “Gibraltar of the East”
has lent its might in repelling Jap
attacks.
War Jobs for Women
Lieut. James Hoey of New York
shows a group of members of the
American Women’s Voluntary Serv
ices how to slide down a pole in his
firehouse. The women have enrolled
for defense training courses. The
organization announced a shortage
of trained switchboard operator^
and auto drivers.
To Direct Chinese
portion no longer needed for the
production of heat and energy is
converted into fat. Sometimes such
a gain in weight does not come
until the individual changes from
hard manual labor to some less ardu
ous type of work.
Gains During Pregnancy.
During pregnancy and while nurs
ing their babies, women have to eat
enough to nourish two and so eat
much more than they did formerly.
Then when the baby is weaned
they continue on the high calorie
diet. As they no longer require the
extra nourishment, they gain weight
and lose their lovely girlish figures.
The change of life in some 20 or
30 per cent of women so affects the
balance between the various glands
that their diet causes them to gain
weight.
It is relatively easy for those who
are overweight because they eat
more calories than they require, to
reduce. Those who have the hered
itary abnormal tendency to accumu
late fat, water and salt find it much
more difficult. Many believe that
exercise, even violent exercise, is
necessary if weight is to be lost.
Those who have never engaged in
athletics or who are too old to en
gage in them, consider passive ex
ercise or massage indispensible.
While exercise is good if started
gradually and not carried to ex
tremes weight can often be lost more
easily and rapidly without it. Exer
cise increases hunger and thirst and
makes it more difficult to stick to a
restricted diet and so harder to lose
weight.
Low Calorie Diet.
A low calorie diet (1,000 to 1,200
calories) is absolutely necessary
for weight reduction. Such a diet
can often be best tolerated if a
cracker, a glass of fruit juice, or of
skim milk is taken between meals.
Thus low blood sugars that cause
ravenous hunger are avoided. Any
reducing diet must contain enough
vitamins, minerals and proteins to
satisfy the body requirements. It
should contain one pint of skim milk,
one egg, two ounces of fish, meat or
fowl, three servings of vegetables
(one of them raw) including pota
toes, two servings of fruit (one of
them raw) and one and one-half pat
ties of butter. It should contain a
minimum of fats, sugars, sweets
and starches and the fluid intake
should be decreased. To make it
quantitively more satisfying, eat
more meat, cheese and leafy vege
tables may be taken.
When you have thus lost enough,
add to your reducing diet just
enough to enable you to maintain
the desired weight. If you go back
to your old diet, you will again rap
idly put on the pounds.
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may grow.—Buddha.
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direct a Chinese aerial offensive
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