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OCR: Chinese To Participate In Biggest Food Self-Sufficiency Scheme Of Its Kind At Endau Ample Provisions To Be Inspection Party Convinced Made For Pioneer Settlers OfPreconditions ForSuccess AMENITIES INCLUDE SCHOOLS, PUBLIC HALLS, HOSPITAL, Etc. SOIL FERTILE, CLIMATE GOOD, AND PROSPECTS ARE BRIGHT BY OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT A FREE allotment of four acres of extremely BY OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT ON SATURDAY last, a party of 72 men and fertile soil, free transport for personnel and essential women, headed by Mr. Mamoru Shinozaki, Kosei-ka requirements, supplies of rice, sugar and salt, and small Cho, Syonan Tokubetu-si, and Mr. Ching Kee Sun, head monthly cash payments for the purchase of subsidiary of the General Affairs Bureau of the Oversea-Chinese foods for the first six months, and, above all, the oppor- Association, left Syonan for an inspection of the "New tunity to be a pioneer in one of the biggest colonization MR .. M. SHINOZAKI Kosel-ka Cho who is closely asso- Syonan Model Agricultural Farm" off the Endau- schemes attempted in the history of this country- clated with the Endau scheme. Mersing Road four miles from Endau. these are but some of the benefits that the first 1,000 Three days later, this party Supreme Court and the Post Offlo settlers and their families to New Syonan in Erdau Guilders May returned to Syonan nessing the simple yet . signific- after wit- buildings, but much taller, shoot out. will enjoy Be Purchased A doctor, who -accompanied the party in order to select a site for New antly impressive ceremony of the ! Syonan's hospital, stated that though In addition, cach family will be | or just sit and watch his crops grow naming of this gargantuan en- |there is not much evidence of malaria allotted a bungalow built in beau- without any effort. In Malai At Par terprise and the hoisting cf the anti-malarial measures would have to tiful and healthy surroundings, while the whole settlement will best, in Yet there is every Incentive for the fact the cream of the Hinomaru over the site selected for the construction office from be taken in view of the number of streams in the low-lying area be self-governing without youth of Syonan's Chinese community, cutside interference. any proceeding to New Syonan for they will be actively participating in the ANYONE requiring guilders for where all building Even the with The doctor, however, opined that the travelling or for business pur- connected with the operations site selected for the settlement was policing and the preservation of building up of something that is new poses will be able to purchase will be directed. settlement very good. particularly as the place of peace and order will be carried and that will remain long after thelr Every member of the inspection party which the bungalows and offices wil out by the settlers themselves cn time. them at per on application to the -from bankers, whose names are by- be erected is much higher than the There are many young men and Nanpo Kalhatsu Kinko or other words in financial circles throughout portion reserved for padi cultivation. much the same lines as the Auxiliary Police System in Syo- not-so-old men in Syonan, who have Nampo. lawyers and business tycoons All along the eastern section of New nan. been thrilled by books of films on the Nippon banks, according to an adventures of plongers of almiler official notification. to would-be settlers, agricultural cx- Syonan that will be reserved for pad Recently, it came to the notice of perti and eren women, all have re- cultivation is an irrigation canal with But In spite of all this and the schemes. The first 1.000 settlers at New Utopia that "perusal of the foregoing Byonan will be actually living through the authorities that guilders are being turned to Syonan convinced that the broad banks on either side, The water bought and sold in the open market. preconditions for the success of the in this canal is for the most part paragraphs would . naturally " suggest, such adventures and will long be re- there lies a vast amount of arduous membered for the bold step they are Such transactions are Illegal and an scheme have been carefully, considered crystal clear and deliciously CO work ahead .for would-be settlers of taking and the far-reaching benefits offence against the Exchange Control by those responsible for the selection of the site of New Syonan. throughout the day. The water requirements of New New Syonan. Though the jungle will this will have on the rest of the com- Regulations. The area of the Initial settlement is Syonan will be supplied by a schem be cleared for them by the Associa- munity. Any person contravening any such regulations regarding the purchase or triangle of 2.000 acres situated four miles from Encau, off the Endau- that will utilize the Labong Dawn ( tion, no farmer can expect to be 'ile Though New Syonan was officially sale of guilders is not only liable to lake) as a reservoir. There is a damn opened on Monday when the Hinoriaru was holsted over the site of the first imprisonment up to a- perlod of -not Mersing Road, and is bordered by the not quite completed, across the upper building- the construction office of the more than three years but is, in ad- road on one side, the Labong River at reaches of the Labong River which blood for the first time. scheme, the first settlers will not be dition, Ilable to a fine up to $10,000 the base and a series of streams that flow into the Endau River, of which the outlet of the Labong Dawn. Meanwhile, In the Pacific area, the leaving Byonan until the access road or three times the value of the trans -! action involved in cases" where the the Labong River Is a tributary, on the Water from this scheme will be used Anglo-Americans have invariably .bren linking the settlement with the Endau- other side. for both Irrigation purposes and fo human consumption. Water for human paying costly prices and undergoing Mersing Road Is complete, value of the transaction exceeds In the opinion of agricultural experts consumption will be first filtered all serious blood-shed in their counter- WORK BEGINS $10,000, who accompanied the inspection party, chlorinated. offensives on the Solomon Islands and The authorities strongly deprecalo New Guinea as well as in their assault This road has already been marked, the action of anyone buying or sell- these 2,000 acres of land are ideally suited to padi cultivation as over the Access to the settlement proper will on the Attu Island in the Aleutian and work on it started . on Monday ing gullders in the open market sub-soll of clay is a layer of rich loam. be by a road that will link the Endau Group and Akyab In Burma. afternoon. The road is expected to which" is detrimental to the smooth Mersing road with the village of New be completed within a month, and will progress of trade and Infringes Gov- These experts opine that the 5,000 acres of undulating land that lle be- Syonan. This road will be 215 miles As such a strategy is aimed at mak- Ing the Anglo-Americans shed as much allow for the passage of all types of ernment's financial polley. vchleles, including cars and lorries, Lo The buying and selling of guilders tweeh the Endau-Mersing Road and long and Is expected to be completed blood as possible. to their utmost the residential and public buildings in In the open market is considered by the settlement is suitable for mixed a month from today. This road, 1 the settlement, the authorities as an economical dis- cultivation, particularly for the culti- was stated. will be one of many that reluctance, it is called a "war of blood- vation of ground-nuts, ginger, fruits will link Now Byonan with the outside shed." Like wounded wild animals. This means that would-be tremely furious as they see their owla who will be provided with settlers that the regulations will be rigidly ob- and other foodstuffs. world. the Anglo-Americans now become ex- turbance, and It Is, therefore, hoped Arrangements have already been (one large lorry for two families), will Jorrics served by the general public. Enquiries by the agricultural experts blood shedding. But we are remaining board the loriies with their families at disclosed that two strains of padl are made for the erection of a hospital, a calm and every Inducement is being already being cultivated by Malal and temple, church and school, while the completion of hotels, restaurants, tim- given to make them shed still more Syonan and be deposited . at their bungalow fronts at the Gunsei Sets Chinese squatters around Endau, The Talwan strain matures and is harvest- ber mills, rice mills and communs blood. settlement without having to haul their luggage ed 100 days after sowing. The local stores will all help to make New Recently, the enemy has been shock- for any great distance, ed at the large quantity of blood he Though the authorities baya Up Important strain takes nine months to mature. Syonan the first independent and completely self-sufficient unit in Malal had to shed and has come to know all the In addition, most of the squatters the hardships of carrying on the war promised the Association materials they will require, the suc- practice mixed cultivation. "interspers- Administrations ing padl with ragi or sorghum. Opera Season At against Nippon. Thus, he has been secretly ceas of the scheme lies in the amount throwing up his hands in of effort and time expended by the ABUNDANCE OF FRUITS seltiers on their four-acre allotments. TWO IMPORTANT A trek around the settlement reveal- Malai Gekijo Extended despatr. Desperate as he is, the enemy But life In New Syonso will not be bureaux, counter-attacks at whatever sacrifices carry All work and no play, for those res- Tsuka Kokan Sho (Currency Ex- ed that there is an abundance of fruit THE SEASON for "Bedla Payons still talking boastfully to on trees of all kinds. There are durians, Febelum Hujar." (Get An Umbrella till the unconditional surrender ponsible for making it a success have mangosteens, rambutans, jack fruit, Before It Rains), a Malal opera staged Nippon. He has been exerting himself given careful thought to the cultural change Bureau) and the General to the limit for preparation and hur- and social side of the New Syonan Administration of Railways, were champerdak and kwinnl, while around by the Amateur Troupe Pembangun established In November 2602 hy squatters' huts clusters of sugar cane Seni at the Malai Gekijo, has been ox- rledly manufacturing planes and war- farmer's life. ships at an astronomical rate "as he There will be schools, temples and the Gunsel (Military Administra- were invariably seen. There Is also an churches, public meeting ; or assembly tion) in Malal. This month aiso abundance of bananas, from the giant tended to Dec. 16. Capacity audiences greeted every 12-Inch variety to the small thin- show since its opening and large croads usually claims. halls, and, as Mr. Shinozaki pointed featured the conference of gov- skinned "Monkey Pisangs." NIPPON STRATEGY out, restaurants and hotels, though ernors of the various States Int Of as much importance as the for- have had to be turned away, It is learn- In the war of bloodshed we aim at these will come up gradually. Ready for the first 1,000 settlers will be a Malai and Sumatra. tility of the soil is the clean air one ed, Prom Dec. 17, the troupe will give breathes at the settlement. the general performances at Seletar, causing losses in personnel to" the November Syowa 17: It appeared cnemy. It might be possible that planes hospital with a staff of four nurses, that the war would be protracted with bracing climate and the excellent and warships can be produced in four dressers and probably two doctors, the Intensity of counter-offensives by the nature of the ground on which the Strauss Concert Tonight astronomical figures, but this is AD- one of whom will be a malarial spe- cialist. This is a precautionary move, Anglo-Americans, who met with dis- bungalows, offices and public buildings solutely impossible in the case of man: in view of the large number of streams astrous defeats at the outbreak of Dat! are being built. Topping all these ad- vantages Is the beautiful scenery sur- repeating THE Syonan Symphony Orchestra is power, The blow dealt to the enemy that drain the area reserved for padi Toa Senso. la, therefore, heavy both actually and At this juncture, a conference of rounding the settlement. undulating cultivation. highland covered with dense virgin tonight Strauss at the Kokaldo Concert from 7 to mentally. MILLIONS OF ACRES governors from the various States in Jungles from which trees, as straight cert, 9 p.m. (Tokyo time). The first con- acclaimed great Though the enemy has been con- Of the 2.000 acres earmarked for Malal and Sumatra was held on Nov. and as big as the colonnades in the cess. was held on Dec.1 cealing his losses and presenting a padi growing, 800 acres have been 25, lasting for three days, - Burning "false picture to his people, the time cleared and are ready for immediate enthusiasm was the keynote through- will come when the losses will be laid cultivation. Beyond the Labong River out the assembly. The three main .bare, thus shocking the people and and all along the Endau River is a objectives of Gunsei were being firmly badly influencing their morale. enemy is bound to face hardships avaliable . The further . 12.000 acres that will be upheld, and every measure taken aimed for c'caring And padi at marching into the second year of the Dal Toa Senso. arising from a dearth of trained sol- cultivation as the scheme progresses. diers and technicians. In the face of In addition, there is a "Tast The Important events of the month these conditions, the Anglo-Americans tract of land covering millions of were: acres, In Pahang, that has been set (1). Passing out of the second term have recently been unable to conceal! their unrest and worry. aside for development on similar students, 98 in number, of the Syonan As a rule, one has to take a rest for lines. Kon Kurensho on Nov. 29. recuperation after bleeding much, In All this Is being done with the idea (2). Horal strains were grown ex- of enhancing the country's food pos !- perimentally in Kedah and Malacca spite of this, the Anglo-Americans tion and achieving a degree of self- (3). The establishment of the rush about furiously. Their rash acts [sufficiency that should, with the pro- Tsuka Kokan Sho (Currency Exchange will only hasten their death, and they press of each month, finally liberate Bureau). In order to effect smooth can be said to enter the grave them- Mfr'al from dependence on Importa conversion . of currencies for- effect- selves. From outside. ing exchange And . transport of materials between Malal and Sumatra, It was decided on Nov. 1 that a Cur-