Economic Penetration Follows Jap Army
Received Thursday, 9.20 p.m. ' NEW YORK, Aug.
The American Associated Press' Saigon correspondent says Japan’s economic penetration of Indo-China >s keeping pace with the military occupation. Business-men are purchasing large tracts of agricultural land chiefly suitable for cotton, cereals and rice. The rubber possibilities are also being fully surveyed.
Meanwhile troops and equipment are still steadily arriving and moving rapidly to interior stations. As an indication that this new army means
business, a large company of blueuniformed nurses marched smartly down the main boulevard to-day. Kadi armv unit debarked in incredible time It
arries its own telephone equipmei tanks, trucks, artillery, petrol and otli materials.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 66, Issue 187, 8 August 1941, Page 5
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