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...residents of China released in Shanghai a survey of conditions in the nine Japanese-occupied Chinese cities of Nanking, Kaifeng, Suchow, Chinkiang, Canton, Soochow, Hangchow, Hankow and Tsinan. The cities' pre-war combined population of 5,800,000 had shrunk, they said, to 2,400,000. The Chinese puppet administrations were "weak, inefficient and corrupt," business was depressed, there was widespread unemployment, prostitution was rampant and narcotics were sold openly under Japanese auspices. Their conclusion: "The whole former trend of constructive development has been shattered, and devastation, chaos and oppression brought in a regime which has yet to manifest...
James Monroe Smith was dean of the College of Education at Southwestern Louisiana Institute at Lafayette when Huey snatched him to Baton Rouge. Tall, bald, Dr. Smith shaped into an ideal academic puppet. Huey began to spend $13,500,000 on L. S. U. for sumptuous buildings, a monster swimming pool, "professional" footballers, a huge Medical Center in New Orleans. Contractors, politicians and public jobsters fattened, and the student body jumped from 2,100 to 8,550. Midway in this adventure into education, Huey announced: "If there's any title I'm proud of, it's Chief...
Traveling mysteriously about Japanese-conquered China last week was a suave, subtle Oriental named Wang Ching-wei. Seven months ago this Chinese statesman was one of the powers at Chungking, China's temporary capital; last week he was reported about to become Japan's No. 1 puppet at Peking, seat of the North China Government. From Chungking to Peking these days is a longer distance ideologically than geographically, and the fact that Mr. Wang, elder revolutionary, onetime collaborator with Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, one of the old "Big Three" in Chinese affairs,* has made the ideological as well as geographical trip...
From Hong Kong he went on to Shanghai, later to Japanese-conquered Hankow. The Japanese recognized him as a good catch for their puppet regime. With Wang Ching-wei signed up, Japan's military diplomats hoped that a new Chinese central government could be established this week, second anniversary of the war's outbreak...
...Chinese, however, are by turns unbelievably bold and unbelievably ingenious in the ways of sabotaging the would be conqueror. They assassinate puppet officials. Throughout 150,000 square miles of territory in the rear of the Japanese Army they have organized "self-defense" governments. Some 75,000,000 people, almost as many as lived in pre-Munich Germany, help the Cooperative Committees and the Mobilization Committee of these governments. Boys between 14 and 16 years of age act as a special messenger service; farmers cooperate by cutting ditches and felling trees across roads to impede Japanese troop movements...