JAPANESE ASSETS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LXI, Issue 97, 24 March 1941, Page 7

JAPANESE ASSETS.

CLOSE WATCH PROPOSED

TRAINING OF DIPLOMATS. LONDON, March 23. Japan prepared yesterday to cope with any action that may be taken in Washington to freassc Japanese assets in the United States, states a Tokio message. The Ministry of Finance announced that, beginning on Monday, Japanese firms and individuals will be required-to file monthly reports on their assets in the United States as well as in all other foreign countries. The reports will include assets which it would be impossible or difficult to repatriate, such as proceeds from goods sold abroad, securities, dividend revenues, real estate, bank deposits and loans.

The Tokio newspaper Asahi Shimbun says the Foreign Office is opening in April a special six-month training course in order to "produce diplomats with guts." The training will be twofold : First, moral and technical; and, second, national consciousness will he inculcated into diplomats who are apt to neglect this aspect. The course includes fencing and meditation along with diplomatic etiquette and counterespionage. A Shanghai message states that the Japanese Army's organ. Sin Shun Pao, for the second time in three days, editorially excoriated the Jews, blam ing the Far Eastern Jews for rigging the Shanghai rice market, boosting up prices' and starving the poor thrni'" control of the Foreign Concessions. "Repatriation of the Foreign Concessions," it says, "is the only way to convert a dark ahvss into paradise." WAR BETWEEN BANKS. An unimpeachable authority said that, though it is denied by iiank ol China officials, Japanese gendarmes iuvaded the bank's dormitory outside the settlement' ' boundary and arrested between 20 and 30 employees as the "warfare" between Nanking and Chungking-controlled banks increased. Mr Wang Ching-wci's Central China Daily News confirmed the arrest of bank employees and published photo graphs of 12S employees of the Bank of China. The paper said they would be held as hostages in the event of further assassinations. "This is the last warning to Chungking," it stated. "Those arrested will be released when and if order is restored in Shanghai's Foreign Concession." The Hanoi correspondent of the Tokio Nichi Nichi Shimbun states that Indo-China has secretly summoned Annameso leaders in an effort to win them "with the bait of independence." thereby aiming to obstruct the new order. The French passenger ship Dosiradc, a converted transport, lias arrived at Saigo.n, bringing 3UO native troops, 100 French army officers and much equipment from France. It is understood that more troops are scheduled to arrive from France soon. ./