JAPANESE WAY

Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 23, 22 October 1942, Page 5

JAPANESE WAY

Mustering Labour In North China (British Official Wireless.) (Received October 21, 7 p.m.) RUGBY, October 20. The German pressgang methods in recruiting foreign labour are being followed with equal ruthlessness by the Japanese. 'ln North China the puppet Labour Association, according to information available here, has set 2,000,000 as the goal for this year’s labour conscription. Of these 1,500,000 are to be sent to Manchuria, 150,000 to Inner Mongolia, and 100.000 to Japan, and the rest will work in North China.

During the past five years the Japanese have in fact collected 5,000,000 Chinese labourers in North China and sent them to one of the provinces or to Japan. Early last February Japanese troops arrested more than 10,000 able-bodied men in south-east Shansi Province, and later carried the,m away in trucks to unknown places. The Japanese have several methods of getting labourers in North China. One is to arrest any person considered “suspicious.” Another is to burn down village after village and herd the people from such areas into work gangs. Tokio radio today stated that the Japanese are ready to publish newspapers in the occupied territories. The Tokio “Asahi Shimbun” is taking over the entire Press of Java, the “Yomiuri” and ‘Hochi” in Burma, the “Nichi Nichi” in. the Philippines in several languages, and the Domei news agency in Singapore, Malaya, Sumatra and Borneo.