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JUST A SLIGHT INCONSISTENCY
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such are the Chinese of Shang- hai! Their 4,000 years of tra- dition they have exchanged for scraps that fall from the table of the foreigners.
"O Shanghai, Shanghai! For- eign rights aind interests cannot defend you from shells and bombs! O Maggots bred in immorality lack even the subter- putrid wounds! Your crimes and
fuge of beauty!".
As against this sorry picture, Mr. Ching drew a pretty picture of China coming "back from the dead under the guidance of the new Governments." He tactfully refrains from mentioning the dozens of gambling, opium and vice dens which have also sprung up in "New China."
In "Shanghai: No. 2," Mr. Ching goes a step further. In the words of the "North-China Daily News" it is "an extraordin- ary journal bordering between pornography and a form of in- sanity."
It is more specifically anti- Shanghai Municipal Council and A slight inconsistency would anti-British but, as pointed out appear to be considered a virtue above, the Japanese see nothing in Japan, if the present truculent incongruous between pressing for Japanese attitude in connection with anti-Japanese comment
an immediate cessation of all Chinese newspapers is
anti-Japanese comment inside the a fair
Settlement while doing nothing criterion.
Only a bare couple of months circles go so far as to suggest to prevent some uncharitable ago, when the obviously inspired that everything is done to assist anti-British and anti-foreign the publication of a magazine "drive" was being pressed in all Chinese-language newspapers in Japanese control.
of this nature in areas under Nanking, Hankow, Hangchow The illustrations in and other areas nominally under Japanese control, the spokesman at a press conference in Broadway Mansions excused the former in the "light of the past history of the British in China."
both is-
sues alone would bring a ban on Japanese the magazine in any country of the world, save in magazines to those who study the minds of with circulations strictly limited
the sexually-unbalanced.
"blue-
He more or less admitted that
But in this regard, the Japan- the Japanese were fully aware of ese seem to be determined to ap- the anti-British
in the form of a pear feeling being stocking" with his tongue in his fostered by this press, although cheek, a somewhat amusing if he denied that there was any
anti-foreign and, despite evidence not very pleasant sight.
to the contrary, specificially anti-
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American agitation. He was "un-The Chief's Cigars able" to clear up the part play-
ed by the Special Service section How far should a private sec- of the Japanese Army in the retary venture to go in attempt- matter.
ing to regulate the personal
very
Asked if anything would be habits of his chief? Sir William done to curb such agitation, the Rees Davies, the former Chief spokesman replied in the nega-Justice of Hong-Kong, whose tive. "Providing" such agitation death occurred recently, was. did not cause any riots or other confronted with this problem disturbances of the peace, the when he was private secretary to Japanese authorities did not pro- Sir William Harcourt, Harcourt's. pose to interfere.
consumption of tobacco is des- The thought now occurs to cribed by his biographer as "Gar- many that if this is "justifica-gantuan." He smoked "vast tion" for the utter filth in such quantities" of cigars, and the reports-reports which from a fame of the reek he left behind pathological point of view might him was a subject of frequent interest sex perverts or a Sig-comment by his correspondents.. mund Freud but are hardly Sun-He was not a connoisseur and day morning reading on what smoked anything that looked like: logical grounds, in view of "re-a cigar, but he would not be fobb- cent Japanese history in China," ed off with a small one, when a do the Japanese now object to large one was available. anti-Japanese comment in Chin- When he was preparing one of ese newspapers?
his Budgets Sir William Har- Force is added to such argu-court received a gift of ments by the appearance of large and very costly cigars. His "Shanghai: No. 2," which claims private secretary and his son, to be published by a Mr. Ching "Lulu," were horrified at the Cong-kan, of 76, Jessfield Road. pace at which he was consuming Whether or not it is printed in them-lighting one and throw- Shanghai might be difficult to ing it in the fire when the divi- prove but it is interesting to sion bell summoned him into the note that the Special Service sec- House. So the two of them en- tion of the Japanese Army has tered into a conspiracy to check its headquarters only a short dis-this waste. They abstracted the tance away. DEN
box and substituted one contain “Shanghai: No. 2" has reach-ing a smaller and cheaper brand. ed a slightly higher level than That they were cheaper would not "Shanghai: No. 1"; it has also have aroused Sir William's sus- plumbed new depths. Although picion, but that they were smal- Shanghai does not claim to be a ler revealed the deceit that was Celestial City and admits the being practised upon him... Only presence of unsavoury persons of the return of the large, fat all nationalities, it was some, olgars appeased his wrath what shocked by the following in the words of his biographer, diatribe in Shanghai: No. 1": "enabled the wheels of Treasury
"Pigs that speak Chinese. life to revolve again.”
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