Evening star., 1939-06-25
Hitler and Japan
Boost American
Trade in Munitions
Other Motions Fearful,
Order Arms at Rate
Of $4,000, 900 q Month
~ the Associated Press.

~ the Associated Press.
Chancellor Hitler, helped by the
Japanese military machine, has
unwittingly become the greatest
salesman for American products
this country has seen in many years.
He is sending business to the
United States at the rate of nearly
$4,000 900 a month. The business,
Of course, is in up-to-date war
planes. machine guns, shells, ex-
plosives and bullets.
If sales continue as they have
during the first five months of this
year, the United States will have
sold around $130, ,000, 900 worth of war
equipment in 1899, a figure un-
equaled since World War days
and Hitler, aided by his japanese
friends, will be given credit for
nine -tenths of it.
The customers don't exactly come
with letters of introduction from
Hitler-but as they buy across the
American counter. they look fear
fully over their shoulders to see if
the deadly toys they are buying here
h are the same or better than those in
Hitler's back yard.
Scurry to Order Planes.
France and Great Britain have
been especially good customers this
year. Alarmed by Goerings progress
In the air, they scurried to order
war planes. In the first five months
OF 1899, France had obtained export
licenses for $20,997 ,O4O worth of war
goods and Great Britain S14,236132,
a total for the two of $35, ,233, ,172. In
May alone France got licenses for
$9.492, 400.
But it is not merely the larger
nations whose worries send them to
Uncle Sans general arms store.
Canada has bought ST ,251 STA worth
OF war materials here so far this
year.
Hitler combined with the Japa-
nese military to send Australia to
Americas munitions market. Aus
Craila Is anxious over Japan's pene-
tration on the Asiatic continent and
fears her turn may come next. In
former years she relied on the Brit
tsh Navy but now she is fearful lest
that navy may be tied up in Euro
pean waters by the German and
Italian fleets. She believes she must
rely more on herself. She has de-
clded to increase her small navy
ana develop a warplane industry.
Meantime she is turning to the
United States for assistance. In
May she placed an order for $4,-
270,870 worth of warplanes.
Netherlands Indies Fearful.
The Netherlands Indies, with
their wealth of rubber and tin, feel
themselves somewhat in the same
position. They have embarked on
huge program of aerial rearma-
ment, particularly in light bombers
and patrol planes, to supplement
their light naval feet. Thus far
this year they have obtained Ii
censes for SLOTS, ,524 worth of war
materials and, mostly on the basis
OF licenses issued previously, i'm
ported $5,376, ,846 worth of such goods
from the United States. 49,
The Indies motherland, the Meth
erlands, is herself alarmed over the
increasing might of her neighber,
the Reich. She placed orders this
year for $2,522,755 worth of war
supplies, which indicates that Hol-
land: is relying for her defense on
something more than opening the
dykes and flooding the countryside.
Rumania, in Germanys pathway
to the southeast, has sought to
bolster her defenses by purchases
here. She gave orders for 81 ,295 ,05O
worth Of grenades, bombs, torpe-
does, mines and depth charges.
China, now reduced to guerrilla
warfare, has greatly decreased her
war goods buying here. But last
year, thanks to Japan, she bought
$7,219.357 worth of such goods in
the United States. So far this year
her purchases are down to 1858, ,945.