STARVING PEASANTRY
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LIVING ON GRASS, RQOTS AND FERTILISING MATERIAL TOO WEAK FOR CONQUEST
-By Telegraph — Copyright).
Rec, Dct. 1, 5,0 p,m. London, Sept, 30. The repprf of the League of Nations Commission which, under the presidency of Lord Lytton, investigated the supreme crisis in the Sino-Jap^nese cppfljct will probably hs 4ecjsive for the world's hope of disarmament and peace, says the Manchester Gwardjan, in commencing a series of articles dealing with Japap and Manchuria. The financial crisis in Japan is appalling and it is generally expected that Japan will be unable to meet her foreign obligations, The present indebtedness of the peasants is aboiR 6,500,000,000 yen (approxima-tely £65,000,000), with annual interest at from 10 to 40 per cent. equalling the value of the country's entire annual agricultural production. The Japanese peasants live on grass, roots, cattle feed and fish entrails, which normally are used for fertilising. Thousands of peasants are starving to death and there are constant riots among the tenants and landowners which result in conditions being a ggravated. Japan is not rich enough to conquer Manchuria. The Lytton report will bring matters to a head.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 343, 3 October 1932, Page 5
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