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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, MARCH SIND, 1911.
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JAPAN'S POSITION.
In an article in The Times Mr. S. 8. McClure, founder, and for years proprie tor of McClure's Magazine, writes with much frukness of the interests and needs of West and East. He sees the millions of the Far East involved in desperate struggle to live in overcrowd ed laads; while separated from them by the Pacific-the vast stretches of America and Australia invite population, yet for, bid Asiatio inmigration, in this he be lieves to be involved the certainty of
VIEWS AND COMMENTE. In a leading article The Times, after ä running commentary of gentle irony on Mr. McClure's Vision of a Yellow Peril, remarks—
MOVEMENTS IN THE CHINESE CUSTOMS. MEN BACK FROM LEAVE OR TRANSFERRED:
EARTHQUAKE SHOOKS. RECORDED AT THE ROYAL OBSERVATORY.
Two earthquakes shocks were recorded · at the Royal Observatory on Saturday, the th inst. Mr. T. F. Claxton, the Direo- tor, informs us that the first commenced
"
It is not without elements of truth, A long list of appointments to ports but to most British readers it will seem of Maritime Customs men back from strangely exaggerated, and quite need-leave and of transfers of other men has lessly alarmist. Japan wants room cer- come from Peking, as follows:
at. th. 20.4m. p.m. with tremors of't'inchi tuinly, but she denies vehemently, and Mr. J. H. Mučeoun, Commissioner, remplitude. These tremors lasted unti we believe truly, that she has any desire turning from leave, goes to Socchow. to seek it across the Pacific. There are other thinly settled regions much "closer to her shores-a Inet which seems to have escaped. Mr. McClure's observation. The ferment in the" Oriental world is serious, but we may reasonably hope
im.0 when the needle made large exons. Mr. E. Alabaster, Commissioner, returnsions backwards and forwards on the
ing from leave, goes to Wenchow.
Mr. E. B. Howell, Deputy Commissioner, sheet, finally going out of range to west.
returning from leave, ques to Tien-ward at 91.3m. (A westerly movement of tsin.
the needle indicates an easterly, move- Mr. C. F. Johnston, Deputy Commissionment of the instrument pillar.) By the-
er, returning from leave, goes to time the needle had been adjusted to Nanning.
44m. p.m. with small tremors which con- returning from leave, goes to Ków- distúrbance bad finished.`·· loon.
The second shock commenced at 7
tinued until soma.
futuro racial, conflict on a Continental that s frm anil wise policy will control | Mr. A. G. Bethell, Deputy Commissioner, the centre of the sheet (at 23.0m.) the
scale. That certainty involves, too, in
his belief, a close identity of interests and assuage it. Mr. Roosevelt's history been the United States and Great of the rise and predominance of the
Mr. A. J. Commis, Assistant, returning Britain, and makes any thought of serious naval rivalry between them Mongols and Turks does not alarm us
from leave, goes to Shanghai. ~: ridiculous. In the course of his remarks, in the least. Except in Russia just Mr. H. D. O'Kelly, Assistant, returning he says:-
emerging into civilisation, sad in the; from leave, goes to Foochów. The policies of Japan are determined, decrepit. Greek Empire, they made no Mr. J E Hartshorn, returning from however, by the most fundamental force permanent conquests in Europe, while leave, goes to Santuao. in Nature-that is, a struggle to make a their victories were mostly due to the Mr. R. A. May, Assistant, returning from living. Jupan is the poorest in natural diversions of the Christian princes. Our leave, goes to Chinking. resources of any of the Great Powers. flesh refuses to creep at the possibility Mr. C. B. F. Moore, Assistant, return No nation in the world peeds einïgration | of “a new Chenghis Khan or a
ing from leave, goes to Kowloon. new as much as Jagan does, and for the Tamerlane. It is not from the outside, Mr. G. Bocher, Assistant, returning from Japanese there is no part of the world but from the inside, that historie civi Mr. S. Ishida, Assistant, returning from
leave, goes to Mengtsz. so desirable as North America.
lisation is threatened. We are glad to If we pass into China we and the con- think that against this danger we can leave, goes to Shanghai. ditions in regard to the land almost iden- believe the interests of America and the Mr. E A. Macdonald, Assistant, return tical with those in Japan, a people unable British Empire to be not less the same Mr. H. W. Bradley, Assistant, returning
ing from leave, goes to Harbin. to utilise their coal and iron, The total than Mr. McClare concludes them to be; production of coal and iron in China in us against the Yellow Peril." They
from leave, goes to Peking. one year would not meet the needs of aro, he says, in this latter caseiden Mr. H. C. Morgan, Assistant, returning the United States for coal and iron for tical," and he states, quita bluntly, that
from leave, goes to Shanghai, one week. Across the Pacifio from these the idea of possible enraits-between the two countries exist the most desirable two peoples over Japan is absurd. Mr. lands in the world, composed of North McClure attempt to bring the compli and South America and Australia, with oated affairs of the globe under a an area of 20 million square miles sparse simple formula is typical of the gene. ly settled. Under these conditions what ralisation, common among those who would an American or an Englishaan apply theories to facts of which they have do if he were Japanese? He would prob not full experience. We are obliged to
a horizontal
At this time oscil. lations of 0,0 inch amplitude cooimenced, dying away at 1.6m.
The maximum traverse of the recording needle is 4 inches which, with the present adjustments, represents earth movement of 0.043 inch. It is by no means certain. however, how much of the movement is a horizontal thrust, and can we be certain how much of the how much a tilting of the ground. Nor movement of the needle is due to the-- vibration of the pendulum itself, when once set in motion.
It has been known for many years that the duration of the preliminary tremors --- on a seismogram is a measure of the dis tance of the origin and the exact re- According to Omori's formula, the Mr. A. Forager, Assistant, is transferred or gin of Saturday's earthquake should
from Amoy to Shanghai.
be about 300 kilometres from Hongkong. Mr. L. N. Mackinnon, Assistant, is transIts bearing cannot be determined from Mr. Stephenson, Deputy Commissioner,
ferred from Peking to Shanghai. the records of one pendulum. Shanghai, is transferred to Peking.
Mr. M. Cupelli. Assistant, returning from lationship is still being investigated.
leave, goes to Lungehow.
SHOCK FELT BY VESSELS,
The Captain of the as. Nankin reporta
ably secure an army, and navy, so power dissent from most of the views; but we Mr. M. F Hubert, Assistant. Shanaha that he felt this earthquake when of the.
accept and welcome his conclusion that is transferred to Soochow. permanent friendship between the British Mr. G. Boezi, Assistant, Shanghai, is Empire and America should be a matter. N. Holwill, Assistant, Tientsin,
transferred to Harbin. past question and past doubt.
is transferred to Shanghai, as -Acting Deputy Commissioner in charge of the General Office
ful that he would be able to impose his will on the adjoining continent and secure the fundamental resources in cos! and iron that he lacks, and that is just what Japan is doing, quite naturally and quite justly The Japanese are funda mentally justified in their demands for mbre of the earth's territory.
BACE 120LATION.
the
Bir Harry Johnston, in the course of a letter to The Timer, says
Do not many publicists and statesmen in the United States and Britain act nareasonably in not only warning off Opposed to the Japanese views are Japan from the New World and Austra equally strong forces in North and South lia, but likewise from the eastern half. America and Australia, more especially of Siberia, Manchuria, China, Mongolia, the United States, Canada, and Aus and the Philippines (even from Karen!) tralia. Here we had the most uncom- which regions she could colonise to her promising refusal to permit Japanese lasting peace and eventually to the bene immigration. In a letter from
At of their rather unprogressive present. Governor of California to the Secretary the Japanese would scarcely be alien in inhabitants. In all parts of Eastern Asia of State in Washington, Governor race, for in the sixty millions of Japan Stephans said on June 19th, 1620-This ese all the discernible race elements of determination is based fundamentally Eastern Asia are represented; the ancient upon the ethnological impossibility of Whiteman stock of the Ainu (discernible assimilating the Japaneso people, and also in Korea), the preponderating the confequential alternative of increas Mongol of Manchurias, Chinese, and ing a population whose very race isola Kulmuk type; the Malay and the Negrito tion must be fraught with the gravest elements of Formosa and the Philippines. consequences. California stands as an Eastern Asia can supply Japan with all outpost on the western edge of Occidental the minerals she requires, and more of civilisation." This may be said to ex the other raw materials for her indus press the general opinion of the United trics. But it seems to me we Anglo- Saxons and our European Allies desire Japan's position, on the other hand, is not only to keep the Japanese out of clearly stated in an interview that I had Australasia and America, but to prevent with Mr. Tokutami, in June, 1917, in their very natural exploitation of East which he put the whole Japanese deern Asia, their return-expansion over the mands in on nutshell as follows: very lands from which their ancestors Japan has nothing to demand from the originally proceeded. Hence, some day, world, except that she be given an equal may come the explosion; konce, at any treatment among European and American rate, arises this unfortunate competition Countries, that the Japanese should be naval armaments. admitted into the circle of mutual friend- | ship, and not be treated as an inferior race on account of religions and racial difference."
States.
Mr. A. C. E. Braud, Acting Deputy Com- missioner.Shanghai, replaces Mr. Holland in charge of the Appraising Department.
Mr. G: C. F. Holland, Deputy Commis
sioner in charge of the Apprais'ng Department, Shanghai, proceeds-on long leave in April.
JAPAN'S NAVAL PLANS.
CLAIM HUGE. PART OF THE
NATION'S INCOME.
Lammocks in latitude 23deg. 9 N. and longitude 117deg. 13 E, at 4.20 p.m.
The ship was shaken rather badly fo 5 seconds.
....
Another vessel in latitude deg. 31 N.. and longitude 117deg. 30 E. felt a shock. at 4.21 p.m. and also at 7.5 p.m.
COMPANY REPORT. HONGKONG FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY, LTD.
The report of the General Managers (Messra. Jardine. Matheson & Co., Ltd.), and Consulting Caminittee states-
Working Account. 1919-This account shows a surplus of $332,099.00.
Reinsurance Fund-It is proposed to appropriate £16,000, at exchange, 3/14- 8102.400, out of the profits of the year 1919 to the credit of this fand. The fund will then stand at £138.268.3.10.
Dividend. The General Managers and Consulting Committed have pleasure in recommending dividend of $27 per share absorbing £210,000.
When national resources are taken into account Japan's eight and eight naval programme (which means eight battleships and eight battle cruisers sixteen post-Jutland capital ships- within the next seven years) in the most Account-Depreciation in the market Investment and Exchange Fluctuation ambitious scheme of naval expansion ever prices of gold securities and fluctuations undertaken in time of peace by any in the world's exchanges have, reduced" modern nation, says the Japan Advertiser the sum standing at credit of this it imposes on the Japanese people au account to 807,788.78. effort greater than that of Germany in 1914 when her war preparations reached from the profits of the year 1919 to the It is proposed to transfer $13,602.06 their maximum. In fighting power it credit of this account, whielt will then aims at placing Japan nearer the United stand at $91,480.78. States than Germany was to England in 1914.
It will make Japan the close second, almost the equal, of America, and will relegate the British Navy, as Mr. J. O. P. Bland writes: » it stands to-day at the height of its war article East v. West," published in
The chief interest of Mr. CeClure's power, definitely to the third place.
Working Account, 1920.-The balance- The naval programme is the dominat at credit of this recount is $530,724.87.
Consulting Committee-Messrs. G. W. The Times of yesterday, lies in the acting feature of the Japanese budget for Thus we have a struggle in which each that the views which it presents have be- 1991-92 the most militaristic of peace Barfon und C. S. Gubbay resigned their side is absolutely right. Hegel said that come very prevalent in the United States, time budgets of modern times. The ap seats on account of their departure from the real tragedy of life is not the strug and that their underlying fallacies ori propriations now before the Diet, in the Colony and Messrs. H. P. White and gle between right and wrong, but the ginate not in popular prejudice, but included in the main budget and the sup-H. W. Sassoon were invited to fill the struggle between right and might. Nat the political opinions of professors, plementary budget passed by the House vacancies.. urally, this situation causes great irrita closet-philosophers, and sentimental the of Representatives on March 8th, The Hon. Sir Paul Chater. C.M.G., Sir tion in Japan, and likewise causes orists. Mr. McClure's vision of the total 1,020,358,328. Of this total Robert Ho Tang. Messrs. Compton, anxiety in the United States, and the Yellow Peril is the same as that display Y.811,184,100, or 50.1 per cent, is claimed Maitland, Pearce. Sassoon and White re- antagonism is based upon, the most ed in Mr. Lothrop Stoddard's widely by the army and the navy, while the navy tira, but being eligible, offer themselves Fundamental forces of human nature the rend work, "The Rising Tide of Colour. also is to receive Y.535,885,780, which is for re-election. struggle to live on the one hand and the In that book the Yellow peril Jooms 311 per cent. of the total.
The army Auditors The accounts have been struggle to preserve racial purity on the other hand.
`.' LAND HUNGER.
NSST.
MARY'S SCHOOL,
KOWLOON.
PLAGUE IN NORTH CHINA,
The plaque mortality figures up to the end of February are given as follows:
Hailar
very large and close at hand, based on and navy together will receive a fraction audited by Mesars. H. Percy Smith, the assumption that the whole Eust is of one per cent more than half of the F.C.A., and A. R. Lowe, F.O.A., who, being welded into a common solidarity entiro national income of the Japanese being eligible, offer themselves for re The struggle for land has caused in. of feeling against the dominant White Empire for 1921-22 and the navy alone election. numerable wars in Europe for hundreds (of a Pan-Asian, or even a Pan-Coloured, the world.
The idea of Asiatic solidarity one-third. And Japan n at peace with of years. The coming struggle for land Alliance) in no new thing, and it has will be on the scale continents and naturally been stimulated by the Japan hemispheres. The situation on the use immigration question; but the re- Pacific is sufficient, explanation for the markable thing about it is that it should great navies of the United States and emanate from the same intellectual cen Japan but there is another struggle betres as the ideal of a world-wide League tween the people of Asia, a struggle of Nations. It is, as you point out, looming in the future which will include typical of the generalisation common also the people of Africa against the among those who apply theories to facts The shorthand results for the above- dominance of the white race. In this of which they have not full experience. school have just arrived from England. struggle the British Empire will bear the The ferment in the Oriental world (much All the students who presented them- first brunt and the main onset, and the of it duo, to Western inspiration) is seri selves for the examination were success- nation nezt most interested and involved ous and undeniable; but it is equally in this question is the United States undeniable that, in China and Kores to- Nothing can prevent the struggle of the day the Anglo-Saxon is less feared than people of South-Ehstern Asia to get more the Japanese, and that only the Fax Bri. land, land which can be secured only tannica preserves India from fierce in.
ternecino strife across the Pacifio; and nothing, will pre-
EVENING CLASSES.
ful. The results are as follows:
Stanley H. Garrod and Miss Lily Eighty words per minute certificates. M. Collison.
Jalainor
67
€30
Manchuli
511
Pekuei
500
Harbin district
287
Tsitsihar St.
77
Fulardi
25
Bukuta
17
Ashine
30
Hulanho bestden isolated cases at different pointe on the live
Sixty words per minute ceftificates Mrs. Irene Maxwell, Misses ‘Angela. vent the peoples of Asia and Africa who Mr. F. Coleman, in the course of Remedios, Amy Garth, Leonora Gomes,
WHAT IS EYESTRAIN? are now ruled-by Europeans from endea vouring to overthrow that rule.
letter to The Times, says: —
Guilhermina d'Assumpeao, and Tracy
The eye has certain tiny muscles. If one considers the actual facts of countrymen seen to be generally of the
Japanese who apparently know their Brown. the present situation-namely, that the
Theory certificates. Misses Idalina dos When objects we look at do not come white race has secured an undue propos opinion that the overwhelming majority Remedios, Paulina Lopes, Linn M. Car up to a sharp focus in the eve, these tion of the choicest portions of the globe desire to leave the Far East, and that Maud Murah, Nora Leonard, and Aubreyenable us to see clearly in, spite of the of Japanese of this generation have no valho, Subina Souza, Enid M. Corner muscles exert themselves unduly and
THE RICE, THADE.
defect. These muscles tire and relax causing the objects looked at to become blurred and indistinct. Upon closing the
that the white race has, frequently with such statements as that of Mr. McClure Dobinson. cruelty and injustice, ruled over the ure really exaggerated. Facts do not coloured people that these people are support his theories. The Japan of to- bound to fight against this dominance of day dreatas little of world dominion. Its the whites; and that, just as Japan has characteristics are such that those who mastered all the machinery of war, so know it best doubt the possibility that may many other of the peoples of Asia Japan will ever monace the poses the An Aneta message in the Singaporeeves for a few seconds the muscles bo and Africa. To-day the security of the world to the extent, say, that Germany papers from Sourabaya states that it may come more or less rested and objecta governance of the world is based pri- did so. The Western world must learn be expected that the foreign rice trade are clear again for a brief period. marily upon the American Navy and one day that Japan contains honest will be made free at the end of April Properly fitted glasses correct eye-strnia,
resources: - It," therefore, thinkers among its nationala. From or the beginning of May. The necessary. follows-from-the-facts-et forth in this them much can be learned of Japan and measures-for-the-probable change have whether caused by astigmatism or age- statement that the greater and more the Japanese. I hold no brief for Tapan, already been taken. The considerable The Hongkong Optical Co., successors to powerful the Fleet of America, the but my work and investigation there led drop of rice prices in the previous month Clark & Co., Manufacturing and Refract better it is for England and the peoples me to think that world-conquest by the is ascribed to the fact that some Chinese ing Opticians, 63, Queen's Road, Central, af Europe. There is no reality in the Japanese is so remote a possibility and arme have smuggled 60,000 piculs of rice contention that America and England can so far away from to-day's issues that per steamer from Besoeki into the reaid have the equipment to fit you glasses be rivals at sea.
our time is wasted planning to thwart it. ence of Sourabaya,
properly,ADYT.
American
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