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Over in Manchukuo the same foreign oil firms are being squeezed, if possible, even harder. The Japanese Government owns half the stock of the South Manchuria Railway, which in turn owns 40% of something called the Manchuria Oil Co., 80% of whose stock is in Japanese hands. To this firm His Majesty the puppet Emperor of Manchukuo has been graciously pleased to grant a monopoly of petroleum sales within his realm. President of the Oil Monopoly is Mr. Keizaburo Hashimoto, brother-in-law of famed General Takashi ("Happy Sparrow") Hishikari, the Japanese Ambassador to Manchukuo and Commander-in-Chief...
...familiar cans of Standard Oil, Texas Co., Asiatic Petroleum Co. (Anglo-Dutch Shell group), every oil can in future to bear the stamp of the Japanese-controlled monopoly; 2) permit foreign firms to sell petroleum to the Monopoly only after it has purchased the entire produce of the South Manchuria Railway's shale oil plant and the new Dairen refinery...
...Realistically London's Financial News observed: "In all probability a settlement favorable to Britain can only be reached as part of a general agreement between Britain and Japan covering such political issues as the naval conference (see p. 16), mutual assistance and eco nomic matters like trade in Manchuria, in the British Empire and elsewhere, which are now being discussed by the Federation of British Industries Mission in Japan...
...conquest by Japanese armies of the Chinese provinces of Manchuria began on Sept. 18, 1931; the independence of "Manchukuo" was proclaimed March 1, 1932; and every official of the Manchukuo Government has attached to his office a "Japanese adviser" (i. e. boss). Japanese soldiers occupy all strategic points in Manchukuo...
...ambition. Her Siberian expedition, her reluctance to agree to the Washington treaty, her refusal to cooperate in Pacific financial and teriff policies, all give evidence of a political state of mind fatal to Pacific stability. Flouting all the nations of the earth by breaking all previous treaties, she seized Manchuria from a recumbent China. And now after her saber-rattling naval announcement, she attempts to monopolize Manchurian oil fields and to drive out American, British and Dutch interests represented by the Standard Oil, Royal Shell and other companies...