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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27г¤, 1905.
THE DEVELOPMENT OF
JAPANESE FISHERIES.
dust dying blinds them and they cannot open their eyes. Some of them lie sick and other are working all the time. In the course of ons A Times correspondent writes:--Probably year many are blind, others are mutilated with fes Englishmen have any clear notion of the either a leg of an arm brokou off. All are extent and value of the Japanese fisheries, under defective in some way or another, During the the Load wither of raw or of manufactured 7th Moon a steamer arrived in Tientrin with Everyone products. Their development and incresse 1,200 labourers on board and not a single one during the hust 12 years have been very marked. of them in sound condition. That the Japanese Gorerament is aoutsly cou-sympathised with their sad condition though acious of the possibilities of vastly increased tho so so glad they are still alive and back wore in their fatherland that they cultivation of euca rational wealth from the
proper the fisheries is proved by its souding Mr. Kato, are not sad. They till of how many are specially commissioned by the Fisheries Board drowned in the pit and others die of
sickness.
It is pitiable! When they be they at Tokyo, to investigate the conditions of the
bodies are arpased to rain and sun, and the big fishing industry in Norikoru Europe in the are only tried in shallow earth and their most thorough going fashion,
Mr. Kao began his inquiries at Billingsgate, South African dags feed on their remains, and has made no secret of the fact that is the Last Spring our Conent. La demanded that course of a cloes inspection there he gathered the corpses should be sent back to Chico, but to ideas-for-many
spful innovations in the was got successful. blusawhile fiir relatives management and arrangement of the control shresting them, stretching out their necks in vain hope aul hope of sewing them return market af Tokyo. He is now engaged in a
rich. Alos, what a pity: My tours flew on the round of visits to the principal fishing ports of
I can only implore my countrymen to be moval England and Seatland, which will oceny him paper even us 1 write, and I am fereed to stop fully till the bginning of next year. During this article and ench work to save life. Don't 190 he will pursus is investigation on the for shores of the English Channel and North miss the chancə! Seu aint along the consts of the Baltic. Sab sequently to will taily the fisheries on tho North Atlantic erat f Amarien.
Bofere giving statistics which emphasize the growth of Japanie ralth from marine products, R bo is well to point out that, owing to its
my FOographical position. to the direction of the marius currents in its vicinity, and also to tho abundance of suitable indentations along its well-wooded coast, Japan is an ident country for fishermen. And the Japanes are more than any people of the West a nation of slut, fast of great importance where a State is ambi. tions to create a great xary. It is estimated that there are as many as 900,000 fieler-familie in Japan, and thoseland for afshing population of the millions. That fishing boats reach the Moricons total of 1,000 shows that the indus seuso thas wall agriculturo of France. This is a point of contrast between fishing as carried on hues and in Japan which Mr. Kuto wae no!
They have no companies i slow to notice.
THE FUTURE OF RUSSIA.
OBRAAN INTEREST IN IT,
Attention may be drawn to the publicat en Russin and Japan, Shall Germany pay, tho who TAS t-slay of a book entitled "The Fature of Bill by Herr Rudolf Martin, formerly in the Ministry of the Interior and who is now an offeiul in the Government Statistical Department, after katung served on the committes for the negotiation of the new
comunrcial treaties.
His attitude towards
Japan is basal upon a liberal interpretation of Javanese policy, although he would seem to li
peril. ander the spell of the yeilow
It is. However, the author's first-hand views with regard to the future development of Russia, as well as politically which are of interest. The
try is one of small ventures, resembling in a socially and fancialltul eastward trod !
Japan as in Cheat Britain, except for the pur
pus of seal and whale fishing.
This mentas
The Japanese as well as the Chinese are great consumers of "marino products." und favourable conditions an inden.tely exparding market. With the steady incras of the Japanese population and the perfecting iu recent years of the meaux of transport, the demand for marine products has shown as itam se advance, au advance further accurate by an increasing demand from abroad, which in this case means the Asiatic maintand. To meet this demend the Japanese fishermen are com pelled to go further afield. They can no longer BINGON & CO.,
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variety to its marine products scarcely give enjoyed by any other country. In the ma PHOTOGRAPHER
beteren the southernmost archipelago of Japan proper and Formoss there exists t strong warm current. The result is that in this neigh bourhood mary Linds of migratory Ash are found, especially buite. This is together with tanny enters the Sea of Japan along the southern wart current, but in the northern part of the 90s, where the influence of a colder current predominats, the principal fish aro horting, cod, and fish of the suro oharacter. Taking again the Pacific coast, to the north- est of Honshiu is the famous barige de- pression of Tuscarora.
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of Resian policy has been largely the result of Rus-German antagonism, and this antagonism was also the canse of Russian unprepared ess whex the war with Japon broke out Russia's dreams of predominance over all. Asin ned, perhaps, even her aspirations to be 2 a mistress of Constantinople is buried at the button of the Sea of Japun. The domestic gatastrophe will be even more terrible. The fanal and commercial future of Russia is determined by the condition of Russian agriculture, and, apart from the permanant fact that the aera in Russia produces only one-think of what it produces in Germany. this year's harvest will be a failure. Bassian ogriculture requires capital of 100,00,000,000 marks Do its feet, and, 3,00 1,000,000) to set it abayaall, scientific training and human energy. TO Ort. For the present the peasants, who form Thorough reforms would require a century or 85 per cunt. of the population, will go from bad to worse. Asia Frage in the 18th century, so in Hunsis to-day, rarelution is, in the virum alancos, inevitable. Externally, whether Russia. makes peace and pays an indemnity or whather she prostates the war, the. bankruptcy of the or inter bo Russian Empire manat sooner - declared.
The annual deficit in the Russian seance- a set daring the next ten years will smot an an average to 60,000,000 marks (£30,000,000) This deficit will in itself uxbaust the kassin gold supply. It is estimated that the national debt, which now amouatsio nearly 17,000,000,000 marks (£850,000,000), will amount to 25 reil- liards in five years, to 30 milliards in ten years, and to 50 failliards in years' timo. The interest on taa dabt must be met by now loans, but it is quite out of the question that Russia. will be able to borrow about one single ponny more in 15 or even ten years' time. At this Juncture Russia would ball the better for a repudiation of bar obligations, and would thus bu able to strengthen uurself at the expense of On the her-radio18.
Thanks to a warm enrrant which passos to the south of this stretch of sen, theso waters are very rich both in fanda and flora. Sardine, bonito, pagrus, yellow tail, tamiy, outtlefish, and bal effe abound. North of this both the fish arul marino vegetation are of an eutiroly different character. coast of Hokkaido facing the Sea of Okhotsk the fisheries nro chiefly for herring and salou, the latter fish finding their way up most of the northera rivers of this island and also of Henshiu.
The value of the marine products of Japan. both raw and manufactured, shows an enormous increase during the period 1891-1903.
Japan a poriod of ten years has practically I the value of her mustias products, and doubled that, taking the yea as approximately worth 28. in English money, the total value was in the last year of the docade with which we are ecno-toed something like £7,000,000. It will be plain from the foregoing that the Japanese Byberius are a national asset wall worth cultivating and developing. Apart from their importanco from a natal point of view, they will tend to become economically more valuable under the fostering care of the Government. Hitherto its efforts in the direction
of
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The stagnation of agriculture and the growth of the national debt together in ke for evalu- tion. The parallel which is drawn by thennther between France und Louis XVI. and odorn Russia is productive of a variety of striking analogiss, while special interest attach set this jaacture to the part which has been played in history by the Parliament in seducing the army Fram its allegiance. Thus from all points of view resolution and bankruptcy s-om assured.
In these circumstances it beloves Germany to rid herself as 2000 as may be of the Russian sock which she now holds. No more 3.000.000,00 marks (2150,000,0)) worth of favourable moment than the prossut, what ia America is becoming financially interested Russia, coal to ingined. To increase this stake would be suicidal. Par-sightedne s and
prudence demand that the bankrupter of Itussis should not involve Germany in a cour rean disaster, but that it should overwhelm encouraging the construction of fishing at France in au economia rain which wild per- in the Westere style have not been veryman-ntly painly the Daal Allmues. To be cid though sines 1898 it has steadily of the Russian millstone would also
strangtion the position of Germany as Encouragement of Pelagia Fishery."
England. That France would become isolated in Europe and would be compelled to abandon MANAGER, MITSUBISHI Co., with name of Kate's mission is a sign that it is determinad to proceed energetically and intelligently on
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my advantages. Above all, the return of the German inillions invested in Russin would strengthen the national credit and enable the w developed at will. Then Germany navy could inherit what portions of the sarth she cared to choose without striking & blew, But, as the author himself admits, not only peace, but a policy of peace, is essential to the realiza tion of those dream
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A declaration of bankruptay on the part of for South Africa was commenced, when the Rassia would shift the centre of European gra- people were seized with the idea that this vity from Paris to St. Petersbarg, Germany's offered an easy chanel by which to get freedom from the Russian entanglement would rich. All went abend in a mid struggle incine the altimate balance in favour of Borlin, not to be left behind. I was thon at Tientsin Withou Gorman nid and German sanction managing the Peiyang Shang Pao and when I saw the poor ignorant pu ple rushing headlong into the fiery pit, I could not help riucing my pity by trying to stop them.
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