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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPHI, MONDAY, AUGUST 14, 1989.
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Anniversary THE
MISSING TROPHIES
How the Japanese
salmon gets
into the tin
1OR every tin of Canadian
IE anniversary of the outbreak of hostilities in Shanghai has a spiritual significance for China similar to that of the Double Tenth, for the hinted awakening of China's nationhood on October 10, 1912, became an accomplished fact during the gallant defence of Shanghal two years ago. The Shanghai hostilities gave China a new inspiration; a new and firmer
and harsh aggressiveness; realisation that something more than mere clan and family loyalty
tinned? National existed in the country. consciousness, once sneered away as an impossible virtue, is now admitted on all sides as being a growing characteristic of Chinese life.
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Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's anniversary message expresses the new feeling which is sweeping of China-courage in the face great suffering, and determination to bring about the complete reju- venation of the country. The fullment of these ideals is to be through a spiritual and economic bulwark against Japanese aggres- sion-two powerful weapons if they can be applied with full force. But it is a type of fighting which greater courage requires even
than the bayonet charge, and its success depends almost entirely on the degree of unity which China can develop in the applica- Japan's tion of such tactics, armies can probably go on fighting in China for an indefinite period, but Japan will be c.ushed if the Chinese
exhibit sufficient courage to fight her with moral Chiang and economic weapons. Kai-shek's call for a united front based on these ideals, therefore, is as important and significant as was his appeal, two years ago, for a determined stand by his fighting forces in Shanghai.
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Politics And Sport
THE invasion of politics into
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sports is one of the regrettable features of contem- relations. porary International There are occasions when political conditions rightly demand cessation of normal fraternisation in the field of international sport, but as a principle, the subordina tion of these relationships to mere political whims can never bo con- ceded. it is this prinetple it would seem, that Hongkong's two tennis champlons, Tsui. Wal-pul and his brother Taul Yun-pui, are applying in their decision not to play against the Thailand tennis players who are in Hongkong on a visit of goodwill. It is difficult to subscribe either to the action or the motive behind it. There is a degree of discourtesy in their behaviour which it is Impossible to condone. Even If there is any truth in the allegation of anti- Chineso influence in Thailand (and this is open to considerable doubt) our Chinese tennis champions would do well to remember that our visitors are not political representatives, but are here as an expression of goodwill and friend- liness to all nationalities in the Colony. To offer them such an unmistakable inault is unpardonable, and cannot be tolerated.
salmon that crosses the counter to the British - housewife, two and a half
tins of the Japanese product are sold to her.
For every 1 we spend on salmon with the Dominion, We spend rather more than £2 with Japan.
Look at these (official) figures. In 1938 England bought 156,000cwt. of Canadian salmon;
and 395.000cwt. of the Japanese product.
In that same year We paid Canada £772,000 for her fish, and Japan no less than £1,500,000.
Why is it that the Engilsh house- wite buys two and a half tins of Japanese salmon for every tin of the Empire product?
There is a number of reasons. First, more Japanese salmon is sold in England because it is cheaper. Tinned salmon, which is a very valuable food, is favoured In households where every penny of housekeeping money has got to work overtime.
AN official analysis of tinned salmon sales revealed the fact that the Canadian varieties, which cost more, are more freely bought in
by GEORGE GODWIN
the-North of England and Scot- land. The South of England and the West are the chief buyers of the Japanese product.
Why, the reader may ask, can- not Canada compete in price with The the Japanese producers? answer is that she could do so only by bringing down the standard of living or her working people to the low level now prevailing in Japan.
There is a widespread idea that If we cared to do so we could buy all the canned salmon wo need within the Empire. This is in- correct. The total output of Canada, for example, would yield only forty per cent. of England's needs.
The trouble is that we are not buying that forty per cent, And the reason is that given above: the widest English market is for the cheaper varieties. And thesa come to us from Japan.
The figures speak eloquently of the rapid rise of the Japanese sal- mon fishing and canning indus- tries. Look at them.
In 1920 Japan sent us 123,000cwt. of tinned salmon, with a value of £508,000. In nine years the gures are trebled!
As Japan's urgent need for for
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eign currency becomes accentuated her drive for this and othër BrLISIT markets will be intensified. She captures that market because she offers her goods at prices with which the British producer can- not compete.
It is often said that the Japanese product is very much inferlor to the Canadian. This is a half truth: There are a number of varieties of salmon, ranging from the Bockeye, or Red-the best-to Pinks, which possess less food value.
It is this variety of salmon that the Japanese export heavily tow England. It is the variety most favoured by the English housewife with a lean purse.
So much for the pansumer end of this controversy. There remains another the Thethods of fishing. and here we come up. against a tendency all too common with the Japanese, namely, contempt for ordinary standards of fair-dealing.
FOR many years the United Btates and Canadian Governments have spent money to increase the salmon supplies of the waters of the Pacific Slope. They have built hatcheries and run laboratories for the study of fish life.
They have cultivated these ter- ritorial waters just as a farmer cultivates his fields, and they take the view that this harvest of the sen is theirs.
this
The Japanese assent to view. They have Kiven many assurances that they will keep their fishing fleet of the Pacific Coast of the North American Con- tinent.
But United States and Canadian fishermen report constantly the presence of Japanese fishing boats in territorial waters, Bristol Bay, off Alaska. has been a happy poaching ground for the Japanese fishing fleet for a long time.
Their method is to fish and can at seu and for this purpose their fleet operates with a parent ship accompanied by trawlers and gas boats. United States cutters nuvė repeatedly caught the Japanese poaching and though their gear is out over miles, the excuse ten- dered is always the same. They are. merely fishing for crab-which is 'permitted.
The
extensive
poaching
Eggs And Bologna Too Much
Mount Clemes, Mich.
(U. P.)
Japanese salmon Asting units ts Lending to. deplete these waters, waters which have been stocked: and tended by American and Canadian enterprise for many years.
Here is a typical protest from an American skipper. The Japs have 50 much gear out that it is in- possible for us to set our gear. Behring Sea 15 covered with Japanese boats."
Canadiari fishermen operating on the Fraser and Columbia rivers are faced with poaching which de- pletes the salmon schools on their way to the rivers where they make for the headwaters to spawn and dio.
In short, the Japanese, having depicted the Chinese waters, is turning his attention to the rich Asharies of the American con- tinental shelf.
That Japanese fishing units are persistently and consistently poaching in our waters is proved by a body of evidence that ranges. from aerial photographs to eye- witness evidence from scores of skippers and men.
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TWO tins of canned salmon were placed be- in G fore the writer London office this week. One was .stamped on the end with the word CANADA. The other was stamped in the same position with the word CAN.
The Drst tin was A genutur Canadian product; the other as genuinely Japanese.
the Why
word CAN on the Japanese goods instead of JAP?
Does such marking constitute a deliberate attempt to trick the British housewife, inviting her to bellove that CAN is merely an abbreviation of Canada?
Any fuch hasty conclusion would involve a gross injustice to the enterprising people of Japan. For Can, it so happens, is the name of a Japanese company which manu- factures cans for salmon.
Similar misunderstandings have Arisen in the past, For example, Sweden is the name of a Japanese village where matches are made for export. They are duly marked with the place of origin. They bear the legend: Made in Sweden.
So, too, there is the Japanese trading centre which rejoices in the odd name U.S.A. Its goods are similarly marked for export.
IN all such cases the claim may be arguably true. But there is an- other name for it.
The remedy for the present un- desirable bias towards Japancre salmion export would seem to be to
overy take at least
hundred- weight possible of Empire pro duced un salmon and to acquire the
the balance from
United States and Russia.
Maybe with a radical readjust- ment of buying it would be possible to eliminate the Japanese product. That it is now highly desirable to aim at that end is fairly obvious.
Boy In Fear Of Movie
CLEVELAND, O. (UP)—Á 13—
A wife testifled in her divorce suit year-old boy was found with a 32- that her husband provided only "eggs calibre revolver behind a drug store and bologna" for food during their here. Reason: "I was going to the Sho sold movies to see 'Gunga Din, and I two years of married life.
her husband was, in the egg business, carried it for protection," he said.