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send out troops to this section for the enforcement of law and order." No mention whatever is made of Japanese marines having been fired on whilst proceeding to their assigned positions in the Settle- mont defence scheme, At mid- night, the occupation began, "ac- cording to plan," followed by an bitenan aerial bombardment. iu other words. Japan had evidently decided to occupy Chapel, no mnt- ter whether the reply to the four demands were satisfactory or otherwise. Certainly no tunity whatever was Chinese to discharge mises.
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There is another aspect of the Tokyo Government's, latest state- ment which calls for comment. it Is the statement that additional reinforcements were sent by Japan to rellove the inhabitants of all of nationalities from the strain fear and disquiet, and for the pro- tection of the common interests of the Powers, with whom Japon says she is co-operating in contributing For and well-being in the pese East. The claima would be more seriously taken were it not for the
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fart that the Powers have in no
disapproval of Japanese action in Shaugla. It surely cannot be seriously contended that Japan's policy reflects co-operation with the selfsame Powers when these Powers have felt impelled to utter strong protests against the men- sures she has seen fit to employ. That is asking too much fur the outside world to believe.
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The Ikitle of the Sexes.
recont magazine contains another of those dissertations (by a male writer) to the effect that men can do such-and-such much better than women. This time it Is housekeeping. The world is fold that women are unalterably conservative, that they will not |JAPAN AND THE CRISIS. accept mechanical improvements
TORSDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1992.
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or follow directions. Men would do up the day's housework in two hours, is the claim. Whether this includes answering the telephone market change during the past and doorbell, doing the mending two or three days, unless it be that and looking after the children is the conflicts in which
rival
not stated. It is easy to make such forces are engaged are daily taking | generalizations, which at best are on more and more of the charac- | theoretical, there being too few teristics of a real war. Continued available examples on which to bombardments and selual hand-to-base them. A worker fresh from band fighting reveal the fact that another field of endeavour can fre nothing effective has been done toquently see where certain methods prevent the situation developing
can be improved. Anyone who for along even more serions lines. In the
yours has carried on the circumstances, the position is one of continued gravity, and there are no indications that the Japanese intend letting up in their attacks
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You NEVER CAN CITE EXAMPLE OF A THONOUGHLY HAPPY MÄN, FOR NO ONE BUT THE MAN HIMSELF KNOWS ANYTHING ABOUT IT-Rousscan.
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The Empress of Britain, now on a world cruise, is due to leave Manila at 6p.m. to-day and will arrive here nt 7.m, on Thursday.
A cabaret dinner dance is to be given by the Society of Yorkshiremen In Hongkong at the roof garden of the Hongkong Hotel on Friday, the 10th inst, ut 7.46 p.m.
Amongst the passengers who arrived here by the Empress of Russia were Sir Victor Sassoon, Sir William Hornell, Mr. E. B. C. Hornt, Mrs. G. E. Costello, Mr. C. Benhowe
Rowe and Mr. L. Kadoorie.
We are informed by Messrs. Dod- well and Co., Ltd., that the xx. Gange left Shanghai on Monday morning and in due here to-morrow (Wednes day) morning. She will go alongside Kowloon Wharf and sail to-morrow at
6 p.m. for Europe.
The Earl and Countess of Stafford are aboard the new Canadian Pacific liner Empress of Britain, which is due in Hongkong on t world tour | Thursday. Whilst in Singapore, they hey spent the day at Government House, as the guests of Sir Cecil and Lady
Clementi,
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A PLAGUE OF SUPERMEN.
By “OLD STAGER.” wwww.
TT has been left to a woman politieni platforms or forensic tubs,
ez and the bees must scientist to announce,
be busybees cathédra, a great paychaingleal Their instinct is to be changing truth that many ignorant laymon everything, at once and wherever have long suspected. We are all they may be, and they always call of us conscious of a fact that his their changes "roforma." The Joy the charm of quiet tory corroborates. We recognise of inertin, that most of the troubles that meditation, the rapture of contem- nillet an otherwise not uncomfert-; plation are alike unknown and able humanity can be traced to a hostile to their mentality and make- relatively fow masterful spirits up. They are, in brief, Nature' who constitute themselves the dia- rogimental sergeant-majors, Lurbers of the pence.
Cull-blooded
It is the same in all perspectives of life. Nations and families would contrive to jog along to gether lappily enough, if it were not for the persistent Interference of individan! busy bodies and mis- chief-makers, · ·
domestic
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And just an one R.S.M, can wreck the happiness of a whole battalion, so one of these disturbera of the penco În civilian, affairs can upset the content of n whole community or the blessed. calm of a whole household. Their maladroit energies distil through- out the world. They are the au- there and patentees of the world's unrest.
It has now, been discovered that these upsetting entities, the BR tional autocrats and tyrants alike, are all suffering
A Waste of Effort. | from overeating. In the earllest
months of infancy it is the baby more or less tolerant of existing The majority of mankind ik who makes most noise that gets conditions, and well-disposed, to- most sustenance. Even Infantile wards things in general. But al mentality soon grows to appro ways it happens, sooner or later, cinte this fact, now attested by carnest science, and il proceeds that some superman, which we shamelessly to trade upon it. Thus know means someone who has we have the repulsive spectacle of acquired more than his or her fair blackmail in the cradle, and its
share of vitamina, starts stirring. astute practitioners, during their turmoil. most impressionable physically Period, imbibe more than their normal share of sustenance. In- evitably they grow up into heavily
over-vitimined adults, On charges of offering a bribe of $50 to Inspector G. A. Stimmon, two
The habit contracted in the nur- members of the crew of a fishing bastery persists until the grave. The were committed for trint-by Mr. Intelligent lady sciential to whom Schofield at the Central Police Court we owe this definite analysis of this morning. The first defendant, baby psychology goes su far as to who is the master of the craft, was fined $200 for possession of dynamite, detonators and fase on board the boat accused, Mr. Hin-shing Ln represented both
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quote the regimental sergeant- major. Millions of men who have encountered that military gentle man will be profoundly grateful for the insurance that he is suf- fering from over-nutrition. That, and that alone, explains hia hriat ling ginger moustache and parade-ground bark.
All Over-Fed.
Whole autions. under the in-
Auence of these dynamic bullies, ge of revolution through the threes the over-leaping ambitions that enn and civil war maybe, just to gratify be traced to gourmandising in the eradie. After all the dust has rettled, and the casualties have been disposed of, most people are neither better nor worse off than they wore before the disastrous up- heaval, All the ferment and agony have been, for them, so much wast-
effort and needless discomfort. But it is meat and drink to the supermen. History a full of ox- amples of hustlers who have mar- histyried nations for a faded laurel
wronth.
does
No doubt we shall be told that
THE LATEST CABLED
these netive spirits, whom I call bullies, are the world's great re- QUOTATIONS.
But the respected R.S.M. not stand alone. The same is ob-formers, that they are in fact the salt of the curth. I think n more The following cable at the close ously and equally true of al of the sugar market yesterday has Nearly all the unpleasantness in pepper of the world.
would description fitting
be the kinds of supermen and bullios. been received by Messrs. Pen-this world, which might be auch a
Regard the records of authentic treath and Co.
history, and dispassionately size up achievements of the the mass world's most famous revolution- arias, conquerors, and prophets. Does the
sum total of their best
for accomplishments
humanity Inter life, whose restless energy come rear compensating for all the masterful ambition keeps the rest misery and suffering they enused? It få probable that the world's in- that Tuns purpose,
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።በማሰሮ work-as have many of those women who are dubbed unniter- ably "conservative” because nel willing to adopt new devices wilk- out some thought-needs to consistently alert to keep from especially in guiding children; and slipping
Few where the back-fence boasting is would
are thoroughly and honestly eliminat
ed from the scene, many a femi- nine housekeeper doubtless wel- comes her husband's auggestions
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deny
ruts.
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tranquil temporary resthouse for poor transient mortale, is due to a similar order of grossly over- nourlahed kill-joys.
It is the three-bottle baby, In his or her adult manifestation of
of its in a constant turmoil af un-chout the ages, would work
rest. This adequately explains the Trade Union boss, the political out its own salvation just as well, tub-thumper, the earnest revolu- tionary, the
and almost as quickly, without out- office slave-driver, side assistance from the supermen. the autocrat of the breakfast Behind the blistering pageant of table, and even the club bore. We the world's dictators, I fancy, lies find these super-charged agitatura
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in every walk of life and every tios and greedy machination.
Bordid record of personal ambi- gerade of human activity.
That pinin, blunt man, Mark An- When other people are well cantony, was only partly right. Both tent to be quiescent, and let things Brutus and Cæsar were ambitious. ( be, these masterful spirits with the My admiration goes out more gluttonouts infancy must be up and to of the doing. They belong to an order world's silent pioneere, to the prac of men and women who seer to tical engineer, the earnest scien- have been born with their sleeves
concerning short-cut methods. tucked up. Not for them the tist, the inspired poet, or the clois- Furthermore, there IN certainly soothing atmosphere of Lotusland.tered literary worker, even to the great actor. or stage comedian, many a man who owes much of A place that was always slumbrous then to those frenzied agitators his success to the discernment and afternoon would drive them crazy who are for ever busying them- business efficiency of some woman. in no time.
selves with their neighbours' af- elmy and the haunts of murmur- they live and spend their days, and They had no joy in immemorial fairs trying to change the way be after bellowing for a millennium whose to make promised golden dawn keeps re-
treating a mankind "advances.”
n the Chinese defendere, who are offering a far more stubborn reais.
unce than was expected.
With the arrival of the first mail from Shanghat
that since serious trouble broke learn that some men who would make more foreign orion there was first inficient housekeepers than some clined to be somewhat lentent to-women; or that there wards the Japanese, on the ground women who have shown them that they had suffered a good deal selves better at business than of provocation, but that this at-
men. Some men drive titude has now undergone a marked motorcars better than some
WO- change, with the result that the men; and vice veran. All men are
ron not "natural" drivers or business All of which is only another way Japanese are being severely demned for pitching into the Chi-exporis. Nor are all women "na of saying that abilities are not
tural" nese without giving them a chance
housekeepers. There is merely a question of acx. of making good their promises in
of phase
mentality, how- respect of the four demands. Here ever. which liken to make jve touch on the vital point of the sweeping generalizations baacıl Japanese policy in Shanghai. The entirely upon sex. Choosing cases Japanese justification for taking of inefficiency in some field, it drastic action rests on an allega- finds profound “antisfaction in tion that whilst their marines were | blacklisting one entire sex, to the proceding to take up their as unqualified glory of the other. pigned positions for the defence of Something, peculiarly immature the Settlement, Chinese troops and superfical lurks in such ppened fire on them and precipitat- generalizations. There tre too ted a conflict of which the present many different kinds of men and ituation is the outcome. This of women, too many proved ex- allegation is repented in the Intest coplions in every kind of achieve- statement issued by the Tokyo ment or failure, to allow for broud Government. but neither in conclusions defined merely the very detailed reporta which we have received from This back-fence boasting, this our own correspondent and from boy-and-giri atleking out of ton- Reuter, nor in the versions. con- gues, would be tea trivial to merit tained in Shanghai newspapers to notice were it not for cortuin con- hand, is there any mention of such Requences. Apart from its preval- an incident. It was at 2 p.m. on
a species of self-indui-
TAX
by
linc between the SexCu.
ence a
January 28th that the Japanese gence, it rouses an unkind sort of Consul received the reply from the mass backbiting, a counter-boast- Mayor of Shanghai agreeing to alling, invidious comparisons and in- sidious antagonisms between men and women who in this age of -wider - horizona-are-learning-the need of expressing co-opera- ami not rivalry. Per- baps the day when
excel-
the four demands put forward, This reply was apcepted as being untinfactory. At 4 p.m.. the State of Emergency was declared. The next development was at 8.30 pm when Admirał Shiozawa announced
in
his decision to occupy Chapel. Tholent mate housekeeper may with reason given In the Admiral's pro- climation was clear and specific.)
out neighbourhood comment, change places with 10 cffelent
It was that "the Imperial Japan-1 ene Navy, feeling extreme anxiety business wife is yet far off. But
About the
there are few homes which could
situation in Chapel, | where Japanese nationals reside in not benefit from masculine atten. great numbers, have decided
tion to genuine home-making.
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in bees. They must howing down the elma
"This is a very popular hotò 1. Indy. But they allus make
room for anybody I puts me 0. K. on."
Meddling Politlelona,
My Utopia holds an atmosphere that agitators cannot breathe. We are told that, In the Kingdom of the Bind, the one-eyed man is. king. In the republic of the ex- treme democrat the loudest-voiced tub-thumper is dictator. Thary will always be evils to cure, in- justices to remedy, inequalities to soften, but meanwhitic all of us have but the one short life to live.
Mankind haa need, in this world, of something more than politics. It is good sometimes to get 'away from the rnucous arena, whore political quacks shout their pana- ceas, and to watch the sky through country treetops whilst lying with one's back on the primeval grass of Mother Earth. The more poll- ticlans meddle with the universe, the worso they are likely to make St.
The mania for making everybody happy by Act of Parliament is as futile as the notion that we can all be made rich by taxation. The wisdom of the ancients proclaimed the happiest country the one with the-fewest-low-A-modern-philo sopher might add-and the fewest politicians. The red-faced orator on the soap-box is a fit and proper subject for curative treatment. In the interest. of normal, contented folk, he ought to be medically de- vitamined.
The world has known but one inspired Prophet. He preached the Sermon on the Mount, and its significant slovan was, not Ave Im. perator, but Blessed are the meek,