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JAPANESE SHIPPING.
'DEPRESSED CONDITION,
A correspondent of The Times at Kobe states the depression in Japanese ship ping circles is most acute. After the earthquake of September 1st, 1921, there was a slight boom in tonnage for the car riage of reconstruction materials. The stimulus thus given was of short duration, sad the present situation is being closely studied by both the Government and the
ATTEMPTED MURDER OF FOREIGNER AT KOBE,
A GREEK, MERCHANT ATTACKED BY JAPANESE.
THE UNITED STATES
AND CHINA.
PROMOTING A SYMPATHETIC UNDERSTANDING.
[BY JULEAN ARNOLD, COMMERCIAL ATTACHE OF
On Thursday night, November 20th, at about 9 o'clock, Mr. G. P. Panas was attacked by a young Japanese near the
kuts crossing, at Kobe, and only by the bad marksmanship of his assailant escaped with his life. His assailant was a young man, believed to be a student, Shipowners Association in the hope of who, for the past couple of years, has $11,000,000 of its Boxer Indeninity to
devising a remedy.
mercantile marine were considerable.
ing of Chinese students to a better know vision for the despatch of about 100 students a year to the United States to complete their education, other nations proclaimed this broad-visioned statesman- ship in international affairs.
with Asia's 000 de 1,000 million, all of whom represent à nou-Spanish speaking world." The United States with a greater Pacific Coast line than any other nation the United States so close to the con tinent of Asia that, one can stand upon its shores in Alaska and view the main- land of Asia; the United Staten which may by a tangel across the Boring Straits be connected by rail. with. China the United States is physically more of a Pacile than an Atlantic power,
THE AMERICAN LEGATION, PERING},"
When the United States Government nearly twenty years ago decided to return
from time to time been up to Mr. Panas' China and the Chinese Government. Until 1981 the earnings of the Japanese house, and stayed there persistently decided to utilize these funds in the train-
though it could never be discovered what Prior to 1915 the bulk of Japanese ocean he wanted, as he did not seem to have ledge of things American, making pro-and talents to educating the Chinese and. going shipping was owned by what are
sufficient sense to answer questions coher commonly known as the subsidised com-ently. On Thursday he turned up again, panies, viz-The Nippon Yusen Kaisha,and Mr. Panas, who was about to go Osaka Shoten Kaisha, and the Toyo down to his office, told him he could not Kisen Kaisha The subsidies for 1921-9+ waste any time with him. That evening. mounted to about £80,000. divided as when Mr. Panas had just left his office. follows:-North American lines, £00,000 he felt a blow in the neck from some South American lines, £125,000: South body behind him. He turned, and was Seas, £40,000: China services, 400.000: surprised to recognize his occasional European lines, £143,000 The balance visitor with a dagger in his hand, just of the subsidies is divided amongst nev-lifting it for a second stroke. Mr. Panas TAKE A PEG eral local lines. The enormous profits of seized him by the wrist, and dragged him
the boom years attracted other capital iats, and year by year the number of operating companies rose until in 1990-91 the financing of shipping companies was JOHN BEGG quite frenzied. The problem of Japanese shipping must therefore be divided into
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towards a police box, which was only half-a-dozen yards away. The young man broke away, but did not run away. In
"AN UNBALANCED SITUATION, Up to the present, we have spent mil- tions upon millions, and thousands of our good citizens have devoted their energies other Orientals to an understanding of Western civilization. It is neither to the interests or the nations of Asis nor those of the West that the unbalanced situation. should longer continue. All talk of inter- The Rockefeller Foundation recently national peace and disarmament is futile," spent $7,000,000 in Peking on one of the and more, dangerous, so long as physical. most modem, most thoroughly equipped, as of communication continue to im and most beautiful institutions architec- prove and bring nations together while turally in the world. This medical cal-metal contact lags deplorably behind
Peace tables not supported with the solid. lege and hospital have been staffed with props of mutual understandings, based specialists selected for the peculiar needs upon real knowledge, are flimsy and un- of the Chins situation.
1)
As early as 1897, an American company in Canton made provision for bringing to
stable. They must be built of something, more substantial than timbers, out only from the trees of sentiment if they would. stand the test of time. How much more to the interests of both. Americans and
China the first Protestant missionaries to Chinese would have been an arrangement this country. To-day half of the 12,000 whereby a portion of the returned Boxer Americans resident in China constitute some of the deplorable ignorance on the Indemnity were utilized to eradicata. the American missionary population part of Americans of the history, cur- are annually splending probably toms, traditions, and economics of the part due to a lack of understanding, on
who
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stead, he came to the police-box, where the policeman seeing him with a bloody dagger in his hand, seized him by the NEW TONNAGE REQUIRED.. wrist Mr. Panas, seeing that his assail Of recent years the fleets of these count was caught, and finding that he wis panies have fallen out of date si con bleeding very profusely, went off for pared with those of the British and medical assistance. He was found to $10,000,000 at American money in their! Chinese, Were not the Boxer troubles în American shipping companies. On the Suez route and on the China service new / have a long wound, which narrowly miss efforts to give the Chinese the ideals and the part of foreigners of the essentiala boats have been added; but on the Paci- probably have been fatal
ed an artery, penetration of which would fic, where the large profits are to be made, especially in the carriage Japanese vessels cannot compete in size of silk, the and speed. The average speed of the Canadian liners is 18 knots and that of the "American ships 17, whereas the best the Japanese vessels can do is about 14 This low average gives foreign-owned shipping an advantage of about four days in the passage between Yokohama and Puget Sound ports. The result is that most of the paying business is going to the Canadian and American companies.
As a remedy for this state of affairs the Japanese companies desire to build new and speedy liners of 20,000 tons, but with their present hurdens they are quite un- able to find the necessary money. The Shipowners' Association has proposed to the Clovernment that either money should be advanced to the companies at low interest and that the new ships should be built abroad, where they can be ob- tained more cheaply, or that the Govern- ment should build the ships in Japan by passing some Act similar to the British Trade Facilities Act, and then leasing them to the companies. Either of these methods, it is argued, would enable the Japanese shipping lines to recover some of their lost trade. The project is now receiving the attention of the Govern- ment, and it is expected that a Bill will be presented to the next Diet,
SPECULATORS IN CHEAP
TONNAGE
The problem of the unsubsidised com- panics is entirely different from that of the three companies described above. Almost all were formed during the war boom. Their fleets were purchased at the top of the market. For a time they made large profita,, but their management bas been very inexperienced, and since 1921 few have heen able to cover their ex A recent feature in the last two years has been the purchase of old. British and European tonnage. Most of this tonnage
penses.
teachings of the West. Thus one of the It appears that the young man inform youngest of civilizations opens its heart der Mr. Panas because he was a Balshein service and money in efforts to carry ed the police that he had tried to mur and its purse in generous contributions vik. Anybody less Bolshevically inclined than a Greek merchant it would be hard
to the oldest nation extant, ideals and to imagine, but a large number of police ideas bred in a Western atmosphere, en visited Mr. Panas' house to discover traces of Bolshevism.-Japan Chronicle.
UNKNOWN
JAPAN'S "
PATRIOT."
REMAINS TO BE WITH JAPAN'S 'GREAT DEAD.
ACHIEVEMENTS OF OLD.
of the Chinese civilization. It is certain. that future troubles will be more easily averted through a. more sympathetic-
Chinese in the United States better to understanding of the East by the West.
Thus while training a small army of understand and appreciate the institu- tious and ideas of the West, it is incum- bent upon us to train at the same time, a small army of Americans in China, bet- Unfortunately there is little of theter to understand and appreciate the in- spirit of reciprocity in this magnanimity. stitutions and ideas of the East. Wo The remarkably rich civilizations of Asia bave a nucleus of; such, an army in the have not been invited to share their trea-į children of American. parents resident in sures with the nations of the West. Fow the Fur East,, who are now in special indeed are the men and women of the American schools in China and Japan. Occident who are devoting their lives to There are 1,200 American children in unearthing the treasures of the cultures these schools, but they are supported of the peoples of the Orient. China has entirely, but inadequately, by contribu Further national honours, a Tokyo produced scholars, artists, artisans, and tions from parents and other. American paper anys, are to be shown to the memstatesmen whose contributions to the in- friends. They have no public tax budgeta ory of the "Unknown Patriot," whotellectual, spiritual, and material ad upon which to draw. They receive no aid sacrificed his life in ceremonial harakiri vances of the human race are atupendous, from returned Boxer Indemnity funde close to the grounds of the American Em- but unfortunately little known or appre These boys and girls, when given a good bassy, some months ago as a protest ciated by the peoples of the West How American education here in China” or against the enactment of the American many boys are girl in American high Japan, as supplemented by courses in the law excluding Japanese as immigrants. schools and colleges to-day know the history, geography, customs, institutions, The War Office has just given its Chinese invented porcelain and chica and language of China or Japan, will sanction to the re-burial of the remains ware, gave silk and tea to the world, prove assets of incalculable value to the of the Unknown Patriot in the Military invented gun powder, the mariner's com future of America's, relations with the Cemetery, Aoyama, wherein rest many pasa, printing," printer's ink, and pro- nations of Asia. It is from this army duced more scholars than алу other that America of the next generation may of the bodies of Japan's great dead. At present the remains of the Unknown rest nation - How many men and women in draw its leaders in diplomacy, in legis in the general cemetery at Aoyama, American colleges know that China hadi lation, in trade, in education, in engineer- where they were interred with great perpetusted for more than thousanding, in missionary activities, and in other honcur and with the mourning aftendance years a system, of literary examinations useful fields of endeavour in its varied of many thousands, including the Pre for civil service, which persisted almost and growing relations with the new world mier and other high officials.
in its original form down to the begin in Asia The plan to have the body removed toning of the nineteenth century? Would tTRAINED MINDS AS A SUBSTITUTE more honoured ground has been in pro- gress for some time, the leaders in the movement being Mr. Mitsuru. Toyama and Mr. Ryohei Uchida, leaders, in the Ronin Group, who have taken the matter up with the military authorities with
sucocas.
the ancient rites in the
FOR GUNS.'
not surprise a large part of the American public, who know only the China of laundry-men, vegetable vendors, and chop scey restaurant keepers, to be told that same time creating other effective agen- Scrapping battleships without at tha during the life time of George Washing cies to overcome the difficulties which the ten there reigned in China an Emperor battleships are constructed to meet is a who was responsible for an age of literary dangerous policy. If we neglect to re- rivalled that of Pericles in ancient our international neighbours, with an achievement and art, which probably out place our gaze with minds trained to meet Greece, and that nearly a thousand years intelligent appreciation of their view- ago, when Europe was plunged into the points, we cudanger our future, withou man in China put into practical use for Our greatest future is on the Pacifie Dark Ages, a socialist philosopher states having the means of protecting ourselves. a period of ten years, a system of govern There we shall enjoy our biggest opportu-
conducted under the auspices of the The re-entombing of the body will be National Funeral Service Society, and will be made a solemn occasion. The new grave will occupy a plot of 57 tambor
The Unknown Fatriot, whose identity has never been learned, killed himself in by specalators in the hope of a boom. The importation of this cheap tonnage himself to be within the epitipound of the Sument of commerce, industry and responsibilities. Preparedness now
grounds of has added to the difficulties of ship-
agriculture with a view of preventing, the Bists more in educating Americans to owners, who are now asking the Govern. American Embassy. He loft letters ex- exploitation of the poor by "the rich;know Asia than in expending further sums plaining his deed addressed to the tribunals were created to regulale wages in efforts to train Asiatic people to know taxed upon the basis of its fertility; the ing balance in our philanthropic attitude and prices of commodities; the soil was us. Let us strike a more practical work- rich were taxed and the poor were towards the Chinese, Japanese, and other exempt pensions were provided for the Asiatic uations, as a better safeguard for aged support for the unemployed; and the future of the Pacific, than under the every family was obliged to furnish & son. for the army or pay the equivalent.
present one-sided policy.
has been bought at breaking up prices accordance count Inouye, believingment whereby the State took entire maDnities and, be confronted with our gravest
inent to prohibit the entry of farther ton- nage. As a remedy a pool was formed to keep up charter rates, but this has fallen through, as many owners never lived up to the agreement but made secret rebates. The recent sudden fall in char- ter rates has deepened the depression, and shipowners experience a difficulty in finding ready cash with which to carry on. Some months ago several companies transferred their ocean going steamers to the coasting trade, but this has given rise to complaints from the regular coast ing lines. It is now proposed to appeal to the Government for subsidies for oceane going cargo steamers, and so relieve the ordinary coasting steamers of this com
ment to guarantee a certain dividend to shipping companies. These appeals to the Government are peculiar to the Japanese industrial system it seems. however, unlikely that the demands these unstable shipping companies will be met. A plan for their readjustment would be more serviceable.
American Ambassador and others. When
Ambassador Woods left for America he took with him, as a sacred thing," he explaired to The Japan Times, the letter of the Unknowa
CINEMA NOTES.
WORLD- "THEATRE..
"'*'' CHINA'S REJUVENATION.
cam-
China is now emerging from her Dark UNITED STATES TRADE WITH
CHINA
EXPANSION SINCE 1914.
The commerce of the United States with
The recent escape of a prisoner from Ages, her period of mental stagnation the Los Angeles fail made the police of which characterized the nineteenth cen- that city more watchful than ever. When tary, and refreshed by the winds of West- Gaston Glass and Kenneth Harlan lettern civilizations, she is experiencing a the Schulberg studio for lunch in the rejuvenation as are also her neighbours prison garb they wear, in "The Girl Who in the Far East Asia is alive to-day to Dame Back," the Al Lichtman attraction now spirations and ambitions, and is National City Baarle New Love, the nov playing at the World Theatre, they rupi
rapidly evolving a new were seized triumphantly by an officer, and had to do some explaining before he would be convinced they were only actors for Tom Forman, “
in world Bank of York, has affairs; conscious of the fact that the made remarkable strides within the past Mediterranean ers in world dominance decade. Latest official reports show that gave way to the period of European United States exports to China in the supremacy, followed by America's ascend- fiscal year ended with June, 1924, were.. ancy, and that the course of empire ever $194,436,000, against 824,028,000 in the westward is about to sweep over the fiscal year 1914 which immediately pro- Pacific, making these regions the centre ceded the war. of world activities for the future...
AMERICA'S OUTLOOK
QUAIN 2, THEATRES": One of the largest all-star casts over aisembled by Universal appears in The
Prior to the world war a large share of Law. Forbids,” Bernard McConville's
the merchandise imported by Ching was appealing story of a young couple's sup-
of European origin, but her takings from HOW CATERERS REDUCED
posed incompatibility, which has its fint While China, Japan, India and other the United States increased rapidly as BREAKAGES.
local showing at the Queen's Theatre Asiatic peoples appreciate the trend of the war progressed, and United States to-day. This cast includes Baby Peggy, world events which is soon to throw the exports to that country advanced from Professor Winifred C. Cullis, lecturing whose first big picture, The Darling of Pacific into the limelight, America con- $24,500,000 in the fecal year preceding the before the Ethological Society as & mem-
New York, wak✨ NO widely acclaimed tinues with her back to the West and her · opening of the world war to $43,500,000. ber of the Executive Committee of the throughout the country. Her parents in face to the Atlantic. It is true some are in 1918, the closing year of the war. The National Institute of Industrial Psycho- this picture are Finor Fair, remembered casting their eyes southward as evidenced imports froh Chinn in the past ten years logy insisted on the essential inving for her work in Driven," opposite Otis by the popularity of the study of the are $1,217,000,000, against 3318,857,000 in effected in industry by the psyphological Skinner in Kismet and also The Spanish language among the secondary the ten yeaza preceding the wars study of the behaviour of workers Miracle Man and Robert Ellia, who school and college students, tens of thou Thus United States trade with China Henry Ford by psychological methods played opposite to Gladys Walton in sands of whom ses the new world of the in the decade ance the beginning of the adapted to motion stady, had, she said, The Wild Farty." Hayden Stevenson future through Spanish glasses, although world war has exceeded $2,000,000,000 reduced the time for assembling a motor of Leather Pushers" fame; Winifred chassis from twelve and a half hours to Bryson the siren of Thundering Dawn Spain peased the zenith of her power against but $687,000,000 in the decade one and a half; while a big catering firm, and The Hunchback of Notre Dame and influence centuries ago and the preceding the war. The principal articles by eliminating the calling of orders down William Welsh, known for his character than rising in importance. Even in South tobacco, illuminating oil, copper, outlan
Spanish language is decreasing rather exported to Ching are wheat and flour, Lift in favour of n system of coloured roles in many big productions and America, we have an aggregato popula cotton goods, automobiles. The principal lights, had reduced breakages by 75 per Universal Weserns; and William E. Law- tion of only 50,000,000, and the largest imports from China are silk and silk cent. The essential cause of the latter rence James. Corrigan, Robert Bolder, unit among these people is Brazil, a manufactures, tos, wool, hides, bristles, saving was that, as a result of the expert Evs Thatcher and Joseph Dowling aro & Portuguese speaking country. Bat what human hair fun, eggs, egg albumen advice given, the girls were able to work few of the other well-known film players are Bouth America: 50,000,000 compared, Jaces and Chinese nut oil, undisturbed by the factor of irritation. in the cast