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CHINA MAIL, JULY 5, 1988.;
ADVERSARIA
3A Wyndham Street, Hong Kong. It is not long ago that we had "Maidens in Uniform". Much more recently, and a still newer advance in regimentation, we had a select corps of journalists in uniform aq- companying Herr Hitler to Rome. Now we learn that Japan is putting the whole nation into uniform. Cot ton exports must be kept up - and wool imports must be kept down. The alternative is staple fibre," for which Japan's home-made rayon pulp is good enough. From the outbreak of the "China incident" staple fibre: has been mixed with all cloths used for home consumption. Now it is to be the chief constituent of a cloth which is to be manufactured into clothes for the whole nation.
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Postage Abroad Extra
Hong Kong, Tuesday, July 5, 1938.
INSISTING ON RIGHTS
The recent note to Japan by "perts are designing a superior type Mr. Cordell Hull, the U.S. Secre- of suit; and, when it has been de- tary of State, in which he insisted cided upon, then there will be mass
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form may be used on all occasions. be allowed to return to areas where armed conflict has ceased whether for solemn ceremony or för
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ges in the Japanese Cabinet. This fact is worth noting.
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summer, autumn,
And there grades and win-
The Cabinet reshuffle has been such as to indicate that military influence in the Japanese Gov-
The Japanese new sumptuary. ernment has become predomin- laws are as yet incomplete. At pre- ant. Always în control of the ser- sent the policemen of Japan change vice departments, they have now from, black into white on June 1 added the strategic posts of the and from white into black on Octo Home, Foreign and Education ber 1, regardless of the weather, Ministeries. Discouraging as this which is is uncertain as in England. development may be to people Perhaps we shall see similar changes who would rather see the civil on specified dates in the case of the authorities in full command of national uniform, with green · and the Japanese military, it has an- khaki added for spring and autumn. other aspect also: As the civil It would be an impressive government of Japan comes more see a nation in green on "Märch and more under the dominance and the strayed reveller staggering of Japan's military leaders, it home in black would be painfully- should be less and less easy for out of the picture. Yet it is to de that Government to avoid res- hoped that the totalitarian suit, will ponsibility for the acts of the last longer than three months, Japanese military în China.
there will really be no econo
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The traditional division of res- but if it should happen that
..the ponsibility, under which the staple fibre does not stand up very Japanese Government has had well to its work, then shall we see no control over the military arm, four times a year a nation in raga has made understandings with suddenly change into a nation of that Government all but value, Thirty-Yen Tailors? And what less to other powers whose in- about, the female of the species? terests the Japanese Army threa That is a problem that even the ruthless administratora of Tokyo shrink from tackling.
Cordell Hull's recent note clear that the claims of Jap
ry authorities in China ng the re-
areas on
N ENEMY must admire rtain the unruffled spirit in which Han and order how has gone in for a new game has not yet been established known as the "Air Raid Sweep." A. must be considered the light number of people club together, each of the fact that many Japanese paying a certain sum into the pool merchants and their families and receiving in return a chit mark- are permitted to live in thosed with a period of the day. The areas. The note also properly cides with the time of the next Ja- one who draws the chit which coin- protested against the Japanese holding of university and other panese air raid wins all the money large buildings ostensibly as case the winner chances to have in the pool. Just what happens în quarters for troops in areas from been bombed to Kingdom Come is which the field of military opera- not stated tions has now moved
Representations through the American Embassy at Tokyo and through the Consul General at peal to the bloodthirsty is one' put
A SUGGESTION that might ap Shanghai have been ignored by through by a kind friend for for the Japanese Army, if not by warding to Hankow that If the the Government. But the Japan-Chinese army is wondering what to ese Government itself is becom- do with its Japanese captives, it ing a military government. Other ought to build internment camps powers henceforth have a right for them on some of the leading
expect that it will increasing- aérodromes, and then notify the Ja ly exert control over the actions panese of their locations. Such a itary authorit sweet thought!
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