The Mikado's Commandments

Who is going to profit from Japan's new "Co-Prosperity Sphere" was plain last week to the natives in Japanese-occupied areas of New Guinea. The following Army & Navy proclamations were picked up in Australia: > No commodities may be bought, sold or moved without written permission.

> Natives must obey labor orders, pocket no business profits without permission of the garrison commander, leave unchanged all prices prevailing Jan. 2.

> Japanese legal currency must be accepted, all state properties registered and all private property frozen.

> All inhabitants must learn to speak Japanese, discontinue all past religious teaching, listen to no foreign broadcasts, print no secret matter, write no letters or ("without necessity") meet with their fellow countrymen.

> A blackout must be maintained at night and a Japanese flag hoisted each day on every house as "a token of obedience to the Japanese Empire."

> "All and everyone shall bow their heads whenever they see Japanese soldiers."

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