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UTLEY
(in the Neton-Chronicle)
and desperately afraid that nt any moment Britain and the USA. may wake up to the menace she constitutes to their Interests and put an end to her aggression by economic pressure, The horror could be stopped Japan is striving to "beat China if we wished to stop it. Are we Stubbs Rd. to her knees" by the mass mas- going to wait until the Pax sacre of the civilian population. Japonica is established over n
Having failed at first for all desert?
CAUTHERLEY-CAMPBELL. The tween George Hunter, only son of Mrs. G. Cautherley and the ale Mr. G. Cautherley of Roy- ston, Herts, England and Dorothy Alice, youngest daughter of Mr. K. W. Campbell and the 1ate Airs. Campbell of Shanghai, China.
engagement is unnounced be-
The
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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1937.
HEALTH AND SANITATION
her superior armaments, · to The Japanese move forward break the Chinese lines at in North Chinn carried in Shanghai, Japan sought to break American motor trucks. The Chinn's spirit by murdering as bombers which daily spread
any women and children as her death and destruction fly bombers can reach.
American and Dutch oil.
on
The repented-air raids on Nanking, Canton, Hankow and the sixty other towns she has
The bullets which rain from bombed had no military ob- Japanese machine-guns are jectives. Their aim is simply made of Australan lead. The to kill and devastate so far and ships which convey the Inter- wide that China will surrender national Settlement at Shanghai' although her armies are un- and in the foreign concessions defented.
at Tientsin, could not without imported oil.
move
The Shanghai correspondent of the New York Times re- The steel of which the Japan- porls that the Japanese take no ese weapons of death are manu- prisoners, wounded or other factured is made of imported wise. This is how the much iron bought from India, Malaya admired Samurai of modern and Australia. Japan behave on the fald of battle.
The
equipment of her heavy indus- try. She imports heavy artil aluminium of which lery as well as motor-cars and Japanese aeroplanes are made aeroplane parts. is bought from the West, and
so also are most of the engines, The British Empire and the United States tako half her exports and supply two-thirds of
He could be
stopped if
we wished
ments which have brought pro- fits only to the foreigner.
Hongkong's Government must face the fact that the time has arrived for improvements which are long overdue and whose
The Japanese calculate that, in them. absence may well become a men-
however brutal, cowardly and contrary to all international The raw silk and the textiles her imports. An embargo on ex- ace to the general health unless law their actions may be, the which Japan exports, and which ports, even only a boycott of her, indemnities imposed upon it is quickly remedied. One of "civilised" world will do noth- are her only means of payment Japanese goods by ourselves and her every time she resisted ag- the first considerations is the ing but watch and shuckler, for the war supplies she imports, the Americans, would stop the gression, and burdensome loans and that she will now realise are bought mainly by the British horrors which Japan is perpe- pressed upon her for develop- housing problem, particularly her long-cherishes hopes of Empire, the U.S.A. and the trating in China. as it applies to lower class work- acquiring the hegemony of Dutch East Indies.
A boycott. has already been ing people. The conditions in China, if only her methods are
Yet we do not lift a finger to proposed by the Indian Congress which many of them live are a rapid-victory-
sufficiently frightful to win her stop the imports essential to lendors. Such economie pres-
When the first barbarians deplorable. Here is a situa
"Japan's aggression; nor do we sure could not involve us in war. broke their way into the Roman tion, in fact, which Hong- calculates?
Is it possible that Japan mis- refuse to buy the goods as she
la the world really exports, although every penny Even the Japanese are not so Empire no one foresaw that the | kong cannot afford to tolerate, so inured to horrors that it will paid to her helps to kill the mad as to take on the United ancient civilisation of the Medit-
either from
stand supinely by until the humane ก
Japanese air force hns razed sanitary point of view.
every Chinese city to the ground, Crowded tenements, and their and the mounds of dead and dy almost complete lack of ing surpass anything Jenghiz
Khan ever dreamed of? sanitary arrangements, are al- ways breeding places for dis-
01
ease. It is surprising to many brige collection.
Chinese people.
the
States and ourselves together. erranean would be destroyed by the Goths, the Vandals, the Our dichards, influenced no Japan has little coal, leas doubt by old friendship for the Huns, the Lombards and iron, no metals except copper, no cot- Japanesc, say she
oll, no non-ferrous "gentlemanly, and chivalrous" Franks. So to-day the states. could take men of the Western democracies ton; she cannot even supply Hongkong and Singapore.
say: "Well, what is China to herself with the industrial
us, it is too far away to matter."
Presumably caught.
Would this really be so easy? Would their defences not hold out a few weeks? Can ships But the approach move without oil?
who have observed conditions in the Sanitary Department has should be from the direction of these packed living quarters evolved its system after care-friendly advice, perhaps, and
now
Yet if Japan conquer we in our generation shall see Australia and India pasa to her, even if the end of Western *
civilisation' does not come for and not Would Japan really dare? No a few decades more,
that epidemic is not more de-ful study. It may be that what take the form of instruction con- one really believes that she We, but our children, see Lon- Istructive there, and that it does fault there is to be found with cerning the evils that can result would. And if she would how don suffer the fate of Nanking:
not occur with more frequency.it is a result of non-co-operation from carelessness and thought- she has control of all China's
much more will she dare once to-day. For past escapes Hongkong
by the general public. In any lessness to the offenders them-potentially vast production of an ideal whose victory speeds The Japanese have fostered should be grateful; and for them
Her ambitions the end of all the values upon possibly thank Fortune and the event, there is a fault. There selves. In the tenements the coal and iron?
are places here and there where same system might be applied, do not stop short at China. How which our civilisation has been fact that the "slum areas" are garbage of all descriptions is and the lessons of personal her hands on the Dutch East armaments invented by Western long will it be before she lays built up. Although they use the populated by persons who know
left on the curb in containers or hygiene emphasised. Where it Indies, Malaya, Australia and science the outlook of their rul- the value, or at least the com-scattered indiscriminately in the is necessary to have rubbish India? fort, derived from bathing. But!
street. Into this unfortunate deposited in containers along the
Of
American course,
Co-
with the United States to slop
ing class is more barbaric than.
that of the kings who ruled Eu-
in the present over-crowded human beings prod and poke for street, these should be of a operation is essential. Yet In Tope in the Dark Ages. condition, unless it is ameliorat-something edible. It is a known variety which cannot readily be spite of our refusal to co-operate ed before next summer, there is fact that during
the cholera opened and their contents soat- Japan in 1981-32, the integrity not only because the latter fights Japan trics to destroy China, Increased danger of spreading epidemie a number of cases re- tered abroad by hungry de-of China and the Open Door against her for freedom, but be. infection. And, bearing in mind sulted from this disgusting prac-stitutes; or at least they should remains a goal of American cause the Chinese have establish- that expert authority holds Hongkong lell-equipped for the unfortunates for their piti-pering.
tice. Yet one does not blame display a warning against tam-diplomacy, and, if we showed a ed a republic in place of a "Hea
real desire to stop Japan this von born", ruler and because for fighting epidemics, it is tima forable attempt to find some morsel
time, and were willing to make them Western civilisation stands action. In the first place the
Whether these suggestions joint action in the Far East a not only for weapons of destruc- of food, poor creatures, but antiquated method of dealing rather the conditions which on-
are practicable or not, and they part of Anglo-American econo- tion but also for intellectual free- mic co-operation on a larger dom, an end to ancient super- with that unpleasant "night courage it. Basically, of course,
are not original but come in the scale it is almost certain that stitions, emancipation of women, soll' problem requires attention. this is not a problem of sanita- main from interested residents the Americans would stand in democracy and other things ab-
with us.
horrent to the rulers of Japan. In that respect it is for personation, but of economies.
of Hongkong, It is time the Gov- informed on such subjects to
ernment made a very aerlous!
Only the victory of China in war can save both the This brings one to the sugges-effort to deal with a problem of tions is the fact that the most this offer suggestions; and for those
their tion that education might play a the first magnitude, since it peaceful, and in many ways the Japanese and the Chinese people affected to put forward
most civilised, race on earth is from extreme poverty and op- complaints. For a start, Gov- useful part in the solution of the affects the health of the people threatened with becoming a pression. That victory can be of this Colony. It is not too colony of the most brutal and ensured by the minimum of ernment might consider the sanitary. problem. The first much too say that if funds are
effort on our part, The demand modernising of methods of col- thing that suggests itself is that lacking some form of levy should backward of all the Powers.
China has suffered for a hun- for economic pressure on Japan lection and of equipment. And the general publle be warned be devised to make possible im- the first place for action is in the against depoalting rubbish and mediate improvement of a situa-dred years at the hands of the is beginning to be heard even
tion which is not only degrading West. Opium has been forced from unexpected quarters.
Let us make it too strong for: crowded, tenement areas. Then, refuse in the streets, and that to the communily but a definite upon her, territory and conces
sions and privileges taken from the Government to disregard it.. too, there is the problem of gar-offenders be fined if they arol menace to its woll-being.
In addition to these calcula-