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From Our.Csen Correspondents)
HONGKONG MAIL GRIEVANCE.
CANE SUGAR CULTIVA- TION.
Singapore, Jan. 6. The Federated, Malay-States |Government announces" that it is prepared to consider application (far land for the cultivation of cane
sugar.
BETTER RUBBER NEWS.
Singapore, Jan. t. The rubber austina news from Lendon is better anl the market
Sheet is quoted at (musze neti.
thirty-three cents and crepe
at thirty-four.
FRIDAY, JANUARY 7, 1921.
THE BLACK MAN AS BOXER
THE ROOTS OF THE EVIL IN MODERN THOUGHT.
Dr. Kato on Present Day Tendencies and Dangers.
Why Negroes Excel at Pugilism.
No. perhaps not so much. Hej has fighting blood. that's what it is. His ancestors fought for thousands of years."
Under this heading. Dr. Kato Those interested in boxing will Singapore, Jan. 6.
G-nchi writes in the December note what Mr. Stephen Graham Mr Maasnald bas imposed a fine number of the Dai Nippon, that says about the fighting black man of flty dallars for failing to give since the Great European War in his new book, "Children of the reasonably notice to the Pastmaster various kinds of thoughts and Slaves" (published) by Mesars General of the time of departure ideas have been introduced into Macmillan & Co., London): of the Knight Templar for Japan. As result sabotage "A very interesting young
became Hongkong to allow of the overland and strikes
frequent coloured trainer took me over the inails being sent aboard,
ail over the country. They have shipbuilding yards (at Newport become so frequent that the News) the next day. He was an public has grown used to such enthusiastic boxer, and I siked occurrences there is practically him the cause of negro excellanca: a tendency to feel that they are in this sport. For there are at nothing but natural phenomena leas: thres negro boxers whom in present day society. All this | Do white boxers bave been able must be attributed to the fact to beat, and this excellence has that the people of Japan to-day caused the championship rules to have come to place individual be altered so as to disqualify rights on an unwholesome basis coloured champions, “He said In other words, it is the result of it was due to the quicker eya and a mistake caused by too literal a greater aggressiveness—-above all translation of the ideas imported to the greater aggressiveness. from abroad.
The negro is a born tighter. It Labour and social movements is true he has greater endurance have been rife in the Western and a much harder skull, but he States of Europe since the War, has also remarkaði» aptitude." Strikes are of frequent occurrence.
"Has the negro more science? I asked. It should be remembered in this connection that during the war nothing whatever was done for the people for their food supply They have been made to suffer in such conditions for fur and a I remarked that the Red half long years. The only hope Indians fought al, but they given them was the resturation were poor boxers. He put that of peace, but with the coming of down to slight physique. peace it has been shown that the "I got tired of watching box- At the N-sizes a Cantasie was restoration of normal conditioning matches in the Army," said sentenced to five years riguros in-cauld not be realized as had been 1. The bulkier and more brai- privatest for albest counterfeit expected. This has provokedal types always seemed to get 3 Uhinese similady them, and their mental attitude the better of those who were charged to ya watenced to four year has offered a vry fertile soil for merely skilful. I expect that is and three Chinese to eight gears the work of the propagandists, to why we don't like watching s be the theft of a tongkang baled make them give vent to their
cegro and a white man boxing disappointment in strikes and is too much a triumph of body sabotage.
"There's no finer sigh: than to The people of Western Europe stand for individual rights and watch two negroes well matched respect for personality. At the said the trainer, with a smile. same time."the sense of personal I thought good boxing showed responsibility is very marked with more the animal side of a man, them. They are also well prepar and I recalled A reported The Chinese Government pro-ed to meet their obligations evening of Jahnson-“ I'se ready figh: tras 'any man against persecution. With people ching, in order to facilitate of their rights or failure to pay down a great big black Russian) way from Harbin to Hellung of such mentality infringement that they is, an' if they can't find any man, why just send me communication. It is expected :bat foreign
loans will be proper respect to this idea of personality could simply mean necessary if the project is to
appeal of direc
It jarred the white folk terri- action to remove the menace to their ble bad that Jack Johnson was rights. A strike must be car.the real champion of the world," During the past South African sidered as a method of claimingaid the trainer. "When the orange season, over 100,000 cases what they feel to be their own news came through of Jack John- of citrous fruit bave been shipped rights.
son beating Jefines so far away to England, a quantity much in The correctness of this point of
aa Reno, Nevada, the white folk; advance of the best pre-war year's view granted, strikes and angstreet cars in Norfolk, Virginia, began pulling the negroes off the figeres. The great improvement other unpeaceful social movement and beating then, just to vent in the condition of the fruit onlin Western Europe, call for a
SINGAPORE ASSIZES.
Singapore, Jan. 6.
ng of guia.
with repr
COMMERCIAL NEWS.
NEW CHINESE BAILWAY.
poses the construction of a rail-
eventuate.
SOUTH AFRICAN OBANOES.
an
over mind
arrival and the high level of prices more lenient judgment th nother rage; they were so sore,” realized bave made the season wise. But in present-day Japan.) very remuterative to growers. strikes LIC indulged in in
MANILA REPORT.
t
Had there been sufficient cold imitation of the art without of commercial and working men. storage accommodation available. proper ground or preparation for A great deal of latitu le was all three times as many oranges could it, as they exis: abroad. It is the owed the latter. A falsehord bave been exported from South consequence alone that has been punishable with the loss Africa. The high prices led to a brought ipto. Japan, without of honour in the case of a samurai number of shipments being mad-other considerations that cause used to be nothing specially in open holde, but this method of abone in Europe to strike. The damaging or detrimental to per- transport proved rather ineffec-absurdity of confounding the State sonal standing in the case of a tive and caused waste, Further of affairs prevailing in the merchant or a working man. developments in this trade are countries now exhausted after The abolition of class distinc-h expected. The Continental the Great War and that of ations with the advent of the markets and North America have country like Japan, which has Meiji regima failed to elevate still to be tapped, and when the become rich on account of the the mercantile and working deficiency of cool 'storage space War, ispat at to everybody. In a classes to the same standard or has been remedied, the South country where the people's senas moral sentiment as the samurai. African crange industry, which of personal responsibility and of The elevation of their social can marke: its produce in the meeting social obligations is low. position to equality with the height of the northern summer such an act as a strike cannot be old men of the sword was only a should become an important as permitted. Japan's capitalists are mechanical process and the pre- that of California.
open to criticism, but for labour to sent failure of labour to come up put itself
against capital by to a gandard that might justify Mesara. Warner, Barnes & Co. appealing to a strike, a demand any unpeaceful attitude towards Ltd., under date Manila, Novem for an eight-hour day or some capital must find its explanation | ber 30:5. state-There are other evasion of actual work in history, not in national charac practically no hemp transactions whereby more remuneration for ter as such. What is most Jowing to absence of buyers. A less work is expected. must be urgently needed in Japan at
steady decline in the rate of ex-considered abhorrent.
present is the cultivation of the change
Hongkong bag The existence in Japan of Bense of personal responsibility weakened Chinese sugar ex strikes and other phenomena, as and of readiness to act up to porters, who were buying for that they ate been European one's duty and obligations. market. The copra Market has countries is nothing but a litersl Another unwholesome infin- been dull with only a smallranslation of the
Western ence from abroad is the pre- emount of business passing at thoughts without due cos. tominance given to materialism. considerably reduced prices.sideration of the
With the great changes in the There is no change in the coal and Occasions AS they economic conditions of the world, market. The general opinion is exist abroad. It is deplor-jon account of the Great War, that lower prices may be looked able that in present day Japan this tendency has grown every-a for next gear, but meantime the only one side of the attitude of here, and Japan is no exception. Australian Government restric-labour towards capital is copied Left as it is, there can be only one tions on the export of good quality without the other more important consequence, namely national coal remain in farce. side which should form the resi degeneracy. Present day Japan During the past fortaight rice basis and justification of its is already seriously poisoned prices have remained unchanged, action.
by the materialistic tendencies
in
causry
though with 8 downward There is no denying the fact from abroad. They are now tendency. There has been an that in Japan at present there seriously affecting the religious improvement in the demand for is RO unwholesome tendency and moral sentiment of the peo native rice. The Saigon market among labour to cry for ind vidael ple. Japan's social organization bas declined further during the rights without cultivating the is now in a state which makes a fortnight, the last quotation for moral grounds necessary therefor. thorough reconstruction impere- 2nd white Saigon being Piastres Bat it must not be thought that tive, without which the country 4.93, which is equal to a laid- the sense of personal respon-can never be expected to come down cost of P8.14 per 5734 kilos, sibility and of being ready to eut unscathed from the mental duty paid. The Flour Marke: meet the obligatians was always and moret cuffosion now meta- is quiet. It is believed in the lacking in Japan. On the cing the length and breadth of United States that the American contrary they were most carefully the whole Empire. wheat market has reached the cultivated and in some respects bottom. Chins coast freights are more, strongly so than in zay somewhat higher, due to the other country. But this was movements in exchange: Locally limited, to the ssmuurzí class, HER“ MARRIAGE CERTIFICATE,” there is nothing doing, and Mercantile and working people When asked to produce her owners are talking of tying up a were kept under by the armed momcriage certificate at the Bow number of steamers due to lack class, "The moral standard of County a woman produced her of cargo,
the semurai was never expected old sugar-card!
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