Educated Classes Know War is Lost

Manawatu Times, Volume 69, Issue 66, 21 March 1944, Page 5

Educated Classes Know War is Lost

(By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright.) Received Tuesday, 12.15 a.m. NEW YORK, March 20. Educated people in Tokio think Japan is losing the war, hut the uneducated assume that she will be victorious, said Cheu Chien Yuan, a Chinese medical student, in an interview with the New York Times’ Chungking correspondent. Cheu, who was one of 40 Manchurian students sent to Tokio to study medicine, recently returned to China on the pretext of visiting a sick father. He said after the Doolittle raid two prisoners reported to be Americans were paraded through tthe streets and crowds were encouraged to kick them and throw stones at their legs, bloody from being beaten and kicked. The Japanese hated the Americans more than the British because they believed American goods and loans prevented China’s defeat. Not many Japanese believed the myth of Japan’s divine mission to conquer the world, but there was no chance of a political revolution. The wealthy still lived a life of luxury and kept their sons out of military service by sending them to universities for a seven years’ course. Milk and meat were unavailable except in privileged classes. Motor-cars had disappeared from the streets and the scarcity of coal made it impossible to heat houses. No woollen clothes were for sale, cotton was scarce and all clothes were made from a staple weave of paper or wood with cotton.