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July 10, 1942

Local Chinese donated two million pesos to the army "in support of Co-Prosperity," said La Vanguardia yesterday. It's part of a campaign to raise twenty million pesos [or else]. And just in case the boys feel poorer for it, the story today is about a multi-millionaire Batavian Chinese who coughed up one billion yen in the same vein.