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I anniversary of the outbreak of hostilities in Shanghai har a spiritual significance for China similar to that of the Double Teath, for the hinted awakening of China's untionhood on October 10, 1912, became an accomplished fact during the gallant defence of Shanghai two years ago. The Shanghai hostilities gave China a new inspiration; a new and firmer
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aggressiveness; and л realisation that something more ♦♦♦ | than mere clan and family loyalty existed in the country. National consciousness, once sneered away
as an impossible virtue, in now admitted on all sides as being a growing characteristle of Chinese life.
Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's anniversary message expresses the new feeling which is sweeping China-courage in the face of great suffering, and determination to bring about the complote reju- venation of the country. The fulfilment of these ideals is to be through a spiritual and economic bulwark against Japanese aggres- Hion-two powerful weapons if they can bo applied with full force. But it is a type of lighting which requires even greater courage
than the bayonet charge, and its success depends almost entirely on the degree of unity which China can develop in the applica- tion of such tactics. Japan's armies can probably go on fighting In China for an indefinite period, but Japan will be crushed if the Chinese
exhibit sufficient courage to fight her with moral and economic weapons. Chiang 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 more regrettable features of contem- porary International relations. 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 mero political whims can never be con- ceded. It is this principle, it would seem, that Hongkong's two tennis championa, Taul Wai-pui: and his brother Tauf Yun-pui, äre 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 alther to the action or the motive behind it. There is aj degree of discourtesy in their' behaviour which it is impossible to condone. Even if there is any! truth in the allegation of anti- Chinese influence in Thailand (and thin in open to considerable doubt) Chinese tennis champions would do-well to remember that our visitors are not political, representatives, but are here as an expression of goodwill and frichd- liness to all nationalities in the Colony. To offer them such an unmistakable insult is unpierdonable, and cannot be tolerated,"
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THE MISSING TROPHIES
How the Japanese salmon gets
into the tin
OR every tin of Canadian 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 tinned: salmon with
the Dominion, WO spend rather more than £2 with Japan.
Look at these focial) igures. In 1938 England bought 150,000cwt. of Canadian salmon; and 305,000cwt, of the Japanese. product.
In that same year we paid Canada £773,000 for her fish, and Japan no less than £1,500,000.
Why is it that the English house- wife 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 ponny of housekeeping money has got to work overtime.
AN oficial analysts of tinned salmon sales revealed the fact that the Canadian varleties, 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 competo in price with the Japanese producers? The answer is that she could do so only by bringing down the standard of living of her working people to the There is a widespread idea that low level now prevailing in Japan.
if we cared to do so we could buy all the canned salmon we need within the Empire. This is in- correct. The
output of Canada, for example, would yield only forty per cont. of England's needs.
total
The trouble is that we are not buying that forly per cent. And the reason is that given above: the widest Engilsh market is for the cheaper varieties. And these come to us from Japan.
The figures speak eloquently of the rapid riso of the Japanese sal- mon fishing and canning indus- trice. Look at them.
In 1929 Japan sent us 123,000cwt. of tinned salmon, with a value of £508,000. In nine years the figures are trebled!
Aa Japan's urgent need for for-
GRIN AND BEAR IT
By Lichty
"I'm simply bursting to tell the neighbours about your raiso, but I can't remember what I told them you were making last!"
eign currency becomes accentuated her drive for this and other British 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 inferior to the Canadian. This is a half truth. There are a number of varieties of salmon, ranging from the Sockeye. or Red-the best-to Pinks, which possess less food value,
It is this variety of salmon that the Japanese export heavily to England. It is the variety most favoured by the English housewife with a lean purse.
Bo much for the consumer end
of this controversy. There remains another-the methods of fishing, and here we come up against a tendency all too common with the Japanese, namely, contempt för ordinary standards of fair-dealing.
FOR many years the United States 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 sea is theirs.
The Japanese assent to this view. They have given 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, of Alaska has been a happy poaching ground for the Japanese fishing fleet for a long time.
Their method is to fish and can at sea and for this purpose their fleet operates with a parent ship accompanied by trawlers and gas boats. United States cutters have ' repeatedly caught the Japanese poaching and though their gear 1: 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 fishing units t tending 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 so much gear out that it is im possible for us to set our gear. Bebring Sea is Japanese boats."
covered with
Canadian 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 dic.
In short, the Japanese, having depleted the Chinese waters, is turning his attention to the rich fisheries of the American con-
tinental shelf.
That Japanese Bshing units are
and persistently
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. saimon were placed be- fore the writer 111 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 first tin was a genuine Canadian product; the other as.. genuinely Japanese.
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Why the 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 such 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 arlsen 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 add 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» othier name for it.
The remedy for the present un- desirable bias towards Japanese salmon export would seem to bo to take at least every hundred- weight possible of Empire pro- duced tin salmon and to acquire the balance from the 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),—A 19-
A wifo testifed 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. Regson: "I was going to the two years of married life, she said movies to see 'Gunga Din, and I her husband was in the egg business, corried it for projection," he said.