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Pacifists and liberals in Nippon do not have the courage of their own convictions, he said, citing one man as an example, who concluded a two hour harangue on the horrors of aggression by taking the train for Shanghai "to congratulate the Japanese armies...
...master of his province so that he could choose whether to sell out. The Nanking troops had not come fresh and forward into Shantung from Central China but were retreating into it last week from the North, badly disorganized by the Japanese punishment they have taken. At latest dispatches Nippon's advancing war machine had crossed the border into Shantung, and War Lord Han was racked by a dilemma in which he stood to lose one of China's richest plums, a flourishing province worth at least $20,000,000 yearly to even a Governor reputed "honest" like...
Malcolm R. Wilkey '40, author of the article on Japan, arrived in Nippon on August 26 and left for home on September 9. He had been on his way to Lignan University in China for a year of study. He is now back at Harvard, regularly enrolled...
...days later it was briefly announced from Los Angeles that fares on Dollar, American Mail, Canadian Pacific and Nippon Yusen Kaisha lines had been upped approximately 7%. Another 3% will be added later. Lowest Dollar Line round-the-world tours will now cost $915 instead of $888; first-class minimum San Francisco-to-Manila $460 instead of $430. With a record season since 1929 just completed, Atlantic fares are also due to move upward...
Shipping, Meanwhile the trade routes of the world were being altered. Canadian Pacific, Dollar and Nippon Yusen Kaisha Lines dropped Shanghai from their schedules. Passenger traffic to China had ceased almost entirely, although traffic to Japan suffered little. Marine underwriters discontinued (or raised to prohibitive heights) war risk insurance on all cargoes to be unloaded at Chinese ports. This promptly affected exports, for banks generally refused to advance credit on uninsured shipments. New York seamen contributed to the trouble by agitating for war risk pay when serving on ships in "endangered waters." The Dollar Line had one consolation: fat fees...