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EAST AND WEST. THE PERIL OF BOLSHEVISM.
Brigadier-General C. D. Bruce writes. in The Times:
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 13TH, 1921.
PEKING'S PENURY.
THE HIGH COST OF MILITARISM,
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"As the daya roll along the Govern If the Yellow Peril" means anything ment's financial plight continues to grow. definite and in these days of loose more confused. Besides the proceeds of thinking it is advisable to be sure of specific taxes which have been openly what we do menn-it calls to mind seized and detained by Provincial officials picture of vast Asiatic armies lewd for local uses the receipts of the Govern Japanese once more rolling westward mens are limited to: (1) The customs lika tidal wave, bent on overwhelming and salt surplus which have been appro- Europe. But few persons having
mature experience of the Chinese would printed as a reserve fund for the domestic allow that this could happen, at any rate, Dan Bonds; (2) The stamp tax revenue, the proceeds of which have been mort during the coming century.
On the other hand, a Yellow Peri»gaged for a loan repayable in 1923; (3) is already looming dangerously close. This Receipts of the Hatamen Octroi, which have been given as security for a loan peril takes the form of Bolshevist pro that matures in June, 1922; (4) The paganda, which, as is well-known, is being systematically and widely develop petrol of Kalgan, Safukow, Shepeh and Doloner. The receipts from this source ed throughout the whole East. In the have shown a marked deerense lately and party portion of last year during an will barely average $100,000 a month; (5) audience at Peking with His Excellency The income tax, which is opposed by the President Hsu Shih-cheng, he discussed
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the question of the possibility of, Bolshe-merchants and from which there have been no collections, to date. Moreover,
MON. vism taking root in China. At the time this revenue has been allotted for edu of the conversation the Northern Mention, and industry; (6) The wine and golia frontier was in process of being tabacch monopoly from which there are TUES. crossed by all sorts and conditions of men, the remains of the forces of the available funds, Iate Admiral Koltchak and others. Upou Glancing over these items it appears my suggesting to the President the "that the Government, although having THURS. 217 danger of such action from the point of many direct sources of income, has no
22ND" FRI view of inoculating the masses in China chance of realizing on any of them, for with Bolshevism. hig Excellency dis the present. Remittances from the pro- agreed. Put briefly, the contention of vinces, under the existing state of affairs, SAT. 93RD the President was that the original driv-are not only hopeless but the provincial ing power of Bolshevism in Russia was officials are clamouring to Peking for the land-hunger of the Monjika. His money with which to meet the high cost Excellency then went on to say that as of militarism: The Government needs
rently mast of the agricultural land in about 28,000,000 a month at this time! China was in the hands of the people," to meet administrative and military ex- why should Bolshevism take root therependitures. How it is going to get it This we know to be true.
is the problem that is adding gray hairs But Bolshevism now has taken on to the Minister of Finance.-Peking and quite another aspect, and its extreme Ticutain Times. danger to-day lies in the clever and un- scrupulous dilution of the original drug to suit the taste of any and every patient who may desire to give it a trial. Bolshevism in Russia is one thing, In Persia another thing. In India, Afghanis tan, China and Japan quite different things. But if the seeds that are being
The worst fra in a decede imperilled so widely sown develop-in each case. differently at first, be it understood may the entire city of Tokyo on the night they not before long become cognate and, of March 28th. It destroyed thousands All-embracing, and so create a new of houses in the north-west district of "Yellow Peril far more disastrous than the city, injured,133 persons and render- the one against which Mr. McClure warns ed many thousands homeless.
It is estimated that the loss was Ten
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GREAT FIRE AT TOKYO. TOTAL LOSS IS ESTIMATED AT
YEN 12,500,000.
That this peril will take a militant 12,500,000. The buildings destroyed in form those who know China will be very cluded threo hospitals, a bank, and slow to believe. But it is not impossible: several business houses,
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to imagine a new "Yellow Peril, in A violent wind drove the Rames to other words Bolshevism, becoming a ward the heart of the city causing a great a catastrophe, And" not only in China, but throughout India and the panic. Four thousand troops aided the Firemen, and only a cessation of the wind whole East. The British Empire s founded
trade. Deprived of its permitted the checking of the fames.
There were scenes of terror many Oriental trade, for how long would it Yellow Peril inspired by Bolshevism might take the form of combined bor, cott by the East of all European trade An even greater than Mr. Gandhi may
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many half frozen fugitives, including LAST TOURNAMENT OF THE SEASON. mothers with infants in their arms.
The mounted police with difficulty restrained incipient panies in various sections. The Imperial Gardens were thrown open, to the sufferers and the Diet adjourned when the threatening nature of the fire was reported...
THE POSITION OF SILVER.
A PAPER BY MR. PONSONBY-FANE: "Under the auspices of the Japan Society a paper entitled. "Misasaji: The
It is just a year ago that silver attained Imperial Mausoles of Japan," written by Mr. R. A. B. Ponsonby-Faney was read its, record price of wid. per oz, and to the members of the Society and their China exchanges were soaring to heights Now friends at the Hall, Hanover Square, on that had not been dreamed of Wednesday evening, February 9th, by that the Continent has ceased buying, and Mr. A. J. Koop. Baron Hayashi, Japan China operates only spasmodically, whe- ese Ambassador, who presided, said they ther as buyer or seller, India alone re were living in these days in very troublemains the quarter to which we can look some times, both politically and socially, with any degree of reliance as a possible but they would that night be able to absorber. Messrs. Samuel Montagu & enjoy some time in a quiet atmosphere Co. point out, however, this source bas listening to what he was sure would prove now failed to afford substantial support, owing to the action of American banks a very interesting lecture.
The paper dealt with the burial places (who had attached apparently undue im- of the Emperors of Japan during the portance to the influence of the Pittman last 2,300 years, and the varying customs Act) having inundated the bazaars with attendant on the burials of the Emperors supplies to such a degree as to under- and Empresses during the eight periods mine their confidence. So heavy a 're into which the history of the Misasaji daction in the price from 89d. to 32d. was divided. The card and upkeep of (or 64 per cent, in a year) would, in the mausolea, said the lecturer, were normal circumstances, suggest that the under a special administration, whose quotation to-day should be considered headquarters were in Tokyo. Elaborate cheap. It might be so regarded if silver arrangements were maile for guarding the were wanted, but just now it is not un sanctity of the shrines, the enclosures of like a baby abandoned upon a doorstep. which were mered, no one being per Still, we must not lose sight of the an mitted to enter. Each, however, was cient affection possessed by India for provided with a place of worship outside, this metal. A return toward its pre-war and on festival days was visited by an value ought to stimulate exports of gold Imperial messenger. The architecture of (of which "that country possesses very the mausolea, as well as the burini Jarge accumulations) in exchange for customs, varied in different periode, and silver. So far as China is concerned, it was interesting to note how the invisible and invisible stocks are mor fluence of Buddhism affected the cere than ample for actual needs.-L. & C monial. The records showed that in 1235 Express. one of the Misasaji was broken to and despoiled, which would seem to indicate that about that time the spirit of venë- ration for the shrines "had lessened, but
The results of the recent census in this was only a temporary phase, and in Jata show that from 1965 till 1930 the recent years a movement arose for the
from native population increased restoration of the mausoles which had 30,100,050 inhabitants to 35,018,204, while been allowed to get into deeny. In the the number of Europeans during the days of the early Emperors one of the same period increased from 64,860 to burial customs was the self-immolation of retainers, but this was discontinued 135,216 and the orientals from 102,029 to
419,237. many centuries ago.
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