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THE CHINA MAIL MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1947.
Christianity In Japan
Wishful Thinking
Askou
and I hope you will contribute. al efforts to the revival of pri- vate education in Japan."
Very Confusing
It would be well to accepting. It has not up a prosolety-with deep bows, on to the Em- with
reserve the plous and ng committee which la or- poror as the curious little mani growing convletion outside Ja-ganising a two-year drive for was stumbling towards his car, pan that Japan is turning to three million converts,
To the horror of the guarda, j Christianity.
Most Universities and schools cameras were produced on a Two widespread reports have arc voluntarily including stairway well above the straw recently coloured and streng-courses In Christianity in their hat of the nervously bllaking thened this devout wishful curriculum. One Buddhist uni- monarch, thinking. One wan that the versity in Kyoto has even odd. number of Christians in Japaned the doctrine of Christianity
his. "Impressions, the had increased from 200,000 tu na ita subjecta of research. Emperor replied with charac 000,000 aluce the Occupation (Whether this last manifesta-teristic wit and stammer: and that an ultimate total ofįtion la a sign of the growing | have greatly enjoyed my visit two million converts is con- fidently expected. The other was that all available, auppiles of Bibles in Japan, tolling, 350,000 had been distributed at cost prise, and that further or ders totalling, 3:200,000 copies had been places. These are Intereating facts but they can not be blindly accepted. Un doubtedly many Japanese are conținuing confidence of Budd- CASSIDY TODD. On 29th accepting Christianity as one hiam la perhaps a moot point.)
August at the Church of St. of the any mysterious 'mani- John the Evangelist, Edin festations of Western Demo- to la. a nation of 70 million What all this activity adds up burgh, by the Rev. A. G. Mccracy which they believe Intyre, Richard Ross Forbes who'd adopt na a matter of ing blindly to the old Emperor they people, who are still subscrib Cassidy of Hongkong. 20expedience y compromise. We myth and are even closer to Allison, daughter of the late can lose nothing by becoming his Shinto person than W. J. Walker Todd, A.R.S.A.. Christians, they say, maybe we liefore, no Westerner can pre- F.R.LB.A., of Edinburgh, and can even gain something. sume to determine, dogmatle- of Mrs. Todd of Milusthort,
ally, Kinross-shire.
Tes
MARRIAGE
velder son of Mr. & Mrs. P. S.
THE TRUMAN DOCTRINE
Cynical Joke
On the other hand it is a fact that when a Japanege be сотен 11 kingere convert to Christianity, he tends to be far more devout and earnest than most Western Christians.
By Richard Hughes
influence of Christianity or the
One Aim
ever
Hia car then moved off and the Emperor with characteris- tic clumsinesa fumbled with his "Banzai hat as the students bowled
The Emperor's scandalised the offending cameras, and all guards had méontime nelzed
excessively the students Involved In the democratic scene were summoned to the Imperial and and a blant demand for Household for a sharp ropri an abject apology.
"We were astonished how unchanged is the mind of the ordinary Japanese, declared the indignant spokesmun for the students.
It is well to be cautious. All Japanese polley in directed at the ragment to one end-to get rld of the Occupation forces.
"Thin official of the Imperial if that end can be hastened by Household Hul the effrontery The cynien joke in Tokyo B
superficial adoption of to declare that he flatly dis- when Prime Minister Kata Christianity, then obviously agreed with the Emperor's yama, the Socialist Christian, that fa a profoundly simple, youngest brother, Prince was trying to form a Coalition easy. and Brudent policy to Mikasa, who has stated that he Government with MacArthur's adopt.
wished the Japanese Imperial blessing, was that Dr. Hitoshi
if Westernera are in Family to net like the British Ashida and Baron Shidehorn, clined to accept this gratify- Royal Family.
two rival conservative!
Democrat for Fing record of conversion and lenders were interest ever-trustingly,
the
to
And
let
"It Is all very confusing for us young students."
Taft Booed By Labour Pickets
Sunta Cruz. Sept. 13. Senator Robert. Taft, Repub-
CARNIVAL
By Dick Turner
COME 1947 BY MEA SERVIÓK,
"Yes, son, India has wanted self-government for a long time, and so has your father!"
Life In Peiping Is Good Today
By SPENCER MOOSA
and
Prices Pelping, whic ap. Chip, and a transfer elsewhere preciably lower than those in is considered bad news, Nanking and Shanghai, lave There is an abundance risen sharply in the past few variety of food here. There weeks.
no rationing and none is con Street-cap and bus fares havo templated. Bealdes this, the been almost doubled, power Chala monastery on the pul rates boosted by about 25 per- skirts of the city provides cent, and the cost of coal mark-wide range of wines and liquors ed up 50 percent. The city's at a low cost and ranging from leading hotel hna hiked ita
a surprisingly palatable cham- charges by 33 percent from payne to a reasonably good-gin. September lat, a blow to sidents who for the past couple
re
Д
Pelping saw its heyday when. it was the seat of the Chinese
•
Earlier this month nineteen of the twenty-two States in the Wes tern Hemisphere signed at Rio de Janeiro a treaty of mutual de tee. Only Canada, as a Bri
Commonwealth
country Nicaragua, whose new Govern ment is not yet fully recognised, and Ecuador, whose representa bidding for Occupation support them remember that Dr. Toyo- Tel. 26651 (three Unes).
tive was disqualified by a revolu by rushing from one denomina- hiko Kagawa, earnest Japanese tion, did not sign, and yet, fuition to another in an attempt Christian, supported the Em- various reasons, their non-parti to discover which could arrange peror and the Army after cipation hardly impairs its signi conversion Christianity- Pearl Harbour. Today that ficance. This Pan-American treaty any form of Christianity-in same Dr. Kagawa is just as of mutual defence is a logical out the shortest possible time. vigorously promoting Christian- come of the "Monroe Doctrine" there that subtle pressure has of the
There are persistent rumours ity as the senior vice-president New Federation of proclaimed by President Monroe
been appiled over a century ago as a warning Hirohito to convert film--or at pan.
to Emperor Christian Organisations of Ja-
of months have been paying Government, and the foreign To European powers that the least his son to Christianity.
and must continue to pay-a Ambassadors and Ministera Uved United States would regard as No one knows for certain whe- late Yosuke Matsuoka, who as And as an after-thought, the
surcharge aimply but pointedly in that unique town within dangerous to its own peace and ther there is any basis. In fact Foreign Minister brought Ja-
labelled, "Educational Tax town, the Legation safety any attempt on their part for these rumours, bug they pan into military alliance with lican of Ohio, skirted the pic-volume of trade in
Quarter. 12%"
which was under their own ad- to extend their political systems are given plausibility by the Germany and Italy and made
Traders here say that the ministriftion, to any portion of the Western appointment of Mira. Vining, a Japan's Intervention in the war ket line amid a chorus of boos
Peiping, Hemisphere. The Monroe Duc devout American, as personal inevitable, was a most devout at night to enter the Santa centre for furs and other goods which
once a thriving trans-nklpieni, Today some of the Powers trine spraug partly from sugges uter to the young, gawky and] Christian and Catholic.
Cruz Municipal Auditorium
used to keep an Am- rions to the United States by slow-witted Crown Princ.
where he defended the Taft exported through Tientsin, has hassador Pelping do not Hartley Labour Reform Law. dwindled to A Britain, and partly from fear of
faint hearted station even a Consul here. The Growing Interest
Some 200 pickets, represent-
| Legation aggressive designs attributed ta
Quarter has passed Finally, consider the inci- ing the AFL and CIO Unione crally accepts higher prices as of the former Embassy com- Although the populace gen- to Chinese administration. Some Tsarist Russia and the dominating That there in strong and dents which occurred in con- in this area, were marching an unavoidable adjunct to element in Europe of a "Holy growing interest in Christianity hection with Hirohito's recent along in front and besides the civil war, it is concerned by the partly occupied, while several, the pounds are either, vacant or only Alliance." Russia, France and in Japan--whether it be visit to Keio.
Auditorium when Taft arrived sharp increase in the price of such as the Japanese and Ger- Spain at that time appeared poised genuine.or hypocritical-no Students of Keio, the famous to speak to intervene against the South Western observer can deny,
on the labour law coal, as the winter in Pelping man have been taken over, by Tokyo University, have since which he co-sponsored. American countries "that were as-
been carpeted by the Imperial Senator Taft
is long and bitterly cold.
the Chinese authorities. spoke before. serting their independence and it
Household Ministry and com- the California Bar Association
The small foreign population these European
pulled to apologise for "daring in the Far Went to test his
of the elty has declined One reason for the mounting stantially with the departure of sub- to approach the sacred person chances for Republican presl-coat, which threatens to of the Emperor."
dential nomination,
many Soviet eltizens for their still further when the winter homeland With the approval of the The Senator was laughing as
and will seta In, is the flooding of part | further when more fallow.
dwindle University President, repre- he walked into the side door of the Mentoukou mines. lese sentatives of the University of the Auditorium shortly be than 20 miles west of Peiping, be moribund and prices continue But although business might paper had applied to the House- fore 8 p.m.
as a result of heavy rain. hold for permafaston to Inter- The pickets loogd and
upward, fe in Pelping is good Transportation difficultles view the emperor when he shouted Wallace for 1948." have affected another normal particularly to travellers from even to people of modest means, visited the University.
Among the signs they bore was source This request was angrily re- one saying "Organised labour Kailan
of supply, the great countrica where food is Acarce, fused. A sentor official at the protests the
mines northenat Robert Taft un- Tientsin, and there is little sign out of the question.-Associated housing limited Altd servants Household sold: "The Em- Ion-busting, slave labour bill," at present that the fuel situation Press. poror is a god."
and another which sald the law will improve, Nothing daunted, n dozen of was "Heil on unfans, purgatory the bokler spirits among the for business and paradiso for students
respectfully, lawyers."-United Press.
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|in the League of Nations- Coven- ant after World War I. Now, by the Rio de Janeiro Treaty of Mutual Defence, it is accepted and upheld as a doctrine of the Western Hemisphere.
There has been established a New Federation of Christian Organisations of Japan, under Japanese Christian control but with Western Christian back
100 Years
Ago
Kelo Incident
mover
BARCLAY ON BRIDGE
By Shepard Barclay
"The Authority on Authorities?
DON'T BLAME
THE LUCK
WAS
trickle.
Ruar
of
ton plan, blackouts are effect |
As part of a power-conserva-
ed nightly in Pelping, but vary according to the locality from about
several
hours..
MOSCOW SLAMS
20 minutes to BLOC IDEA
Some landlords, wishing to
Avold punishable dealings
London, Sept. 13, Moscow Radio tonight attacked
like
President Truman, in Mis speeches at Rio de Janeiro, said that his country, after having fought a war to free the world forever, found that a number of (From the files of the "China
Mail"). nations are still subjected to the
The Inflexible" reached Tas- type of foreign domination which que town (on the Lema islands) 300.-
the Allies had fought to overcome at a few minutes before 3 pm. 250.-
and that many of the peoples of When within about musket abol 400,- Europe and Asia live under the of the shore three Junks opened
in the idea of a blog of Mediter fre, and three beats inanned and
foreign currency, base their ranoan powers proposed recently 200.- shadow of armed aggression. The armed under the command of political crisis, or what President Lleut. Gordon, the Senior Lieut-
rents according to the market by Numen Menemencioglu, Tur 350-Trump called the "shadow of enant, were despatched to carry
value of a stipulated quantity klsh Ambassador to Paris. of flour. Thus one can rent
Moscow Radio naid that a
thu 120,- armed aggression," is brought them by boarding. The Junks
house for, say, twelve bags of proposed bloc was being organised about by the
out the heart A, then made either flour a month. One thing good United States, but under
Tot only with the blessing of the resistance of free up a fire for about 20 minutes 300.-
at the Steamer and also at th countries
the two or three extra tricks, depend about Peiping is that to the expansionist boats, several of the shot passing
ent on whether East, scored his
nobody direct mediation of the State De. policy of Soviet Russia. The over the Steamer and the boats. It is easy enough to blame your spade Q immediately or led low some landlords, taking a lesson
aska for key-money, though partment," mutil defence, treaty concluded
(hard luck when some move by the to the J.
The broadcast added: "Turkish at Rio may not appear to bear Thu Junks were speedily taken defence keeps you from making Where the spade & was led, the from their Shanghal cousins, journalists talk about aggressĪVO
possession of, and 45 prisoners your contract. But a bit of re forced the A and, after directly upon this resistance, yet, captured; a great number, how riection may show you could have heart A won, West get two spade in advance.
the request five or six months rent military aid of the organisers of inasmuch as in much of its con- ever, escaped to the shore
the bloc. ception it lies within the frame-disappeared over the hills. Several the bacon home anyway.
and countered the move and brought tricks. The suit, however,
"It is quite apparent that the The blocked because the 10 was higher
real aims of the new bloc, work of the United Nations articles found on board the Junks adaptable player
All places of amusement here the real aims of other blocs, at- prepared to than any spade East retained. prove that these pirates had some handle a crucial suit in one way Charter, which President Tru-hand in the murder 'of
At one table West led the close at midnight, and the curances and unions, have nothing Licut. man pledged his country to up- Orense (the Spanish
if a particular card is led, but in spade 10, to begin unblocking the few is imposed an hour later, in common with peace and secur Hold throughout the world, it which took place some time ago is chosen by the opener."
Agent)
n different manner if another card suit. The Qwas won by the A. Only
No When the heart A won, East re- passes
persons withi specialty for all nationsReuter. cannot be regarded as possessing
Trump game contracts especially turned the spade &, South put in streets after that time,
aro allowed on the a solely hemispheric significance. crowded with people, mado off on
A great number of sampans, depend on such factors.
PETROL SAVING the J, which was won by the K. The 'curfow, however, is: True though it be that a clear the approach of the "Inflexible,"
West, then led his B to East's D,
London, Sept. 18... thread of historical continuity getting up various small creeks.
minor inconvenience, as most of whereupon East set the contract the city goes to bed long before 000 yearly by abolishing ste Britain hopes to save #0,000,- Funa from the Monroe Doctrine The place was evidently a nest of
with his apade remaindors. of 1823 to the Truman Doctrine pirates. There was 4. Joss House of 1947, the distinction between flexible shot, and a house on H1050
which was riddled with the "In the two "doctrines" is obvious. the point of a rock was knocked D074
led against him. He could have ferred President. Munroe's thought only to atoms by a single
made the game, however, if he shot.
CQ1062 of protecting the United States
had played low on the second The "Inficaille" returned to
spado. West could have won that and the Western Hemisphere Hong Kong at past 11 at night
with the but the K would have against European, aggression. Preto tow, Several of the pirates with the prisoners and six junks
blocked the suit. ∙D'A Q 10 5 2. sident Truman, on the contrary, must have been destroyed by the
auppbae"
aaked South, C.K. 8.1 declares that if the nations of the ship's fire, particularly one party (Dealer: South. North-South loading low when holding the H
"East, had pulled a fast one by Western Hemisphere, stand' with on a hill, among whom A
shower
vulnerablo);
} then I would have had to play the United States "for peace and of grape shot was pitched. Bouth West North East the J at once." He had something
peace of free men" they can filed with
Bome of the piratical Junks aro 1D
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