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“There is no European War.
Saturday, APRIL 6, 1940.
There is no Asiatic War.
There Is A World War," Says China's Ambassador to London
'JAPAN HAS 'A MEIN KAMPE"
THERE is no European
war. There is no Asiatic war. There, is a world war.
And whether in Europe, where you have hardly started fighting, or in Asia, where we have al ready drained our blood. and our resources, it is the same war waged by the same opposing forces.
So my first desire is to enter a caveat against the thinking that, In effect, would say, "Get things settled in Europe and everything else shall be. added unto it.”
A European settlement, however achieved, settles nothing, by Itzelf, even for Europeans,
We Chinese were nearer the truth when we seld eight years ago, "Get this Manchurian affair settled right and the whole world will be secure for at least a generation."
The China' coast means as mach to you as the Ballle or the Balkans in every vital interest you have.,
In the same way, you would be surprised, perhaps, to know how deeply the Chinese people engrossed in Europe's struggle and how closely intertwined they be-
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by Dr. QUO TAI-CHL
Heve their own fale to be with that of the democracles in Europe and America,
I think it is right to say that China made her trat contribution toward clearing up on evil inter- national situation, of which war in
THE COST OF LIVING
MANY of the
of
errors omission or commission
in the last war are being sys-
The
tematically prevented from Hongkong Telegraph.
repeating themselves in Hong- kong this time. This is par. ticularly important in the case of selling prices. Everything that Departmental regulation can do to keep the cost of living from soaring must be done.
Saturday, April 6, 1940.
Every housewife who pays the bills at the end of the month knows what offcfaldom does not know, that there is nbundant evidence that the cost of living creeps up every time an account is rendered. this despite the fact that the majority of housewives now exercise much stricter control over their kitchen than they did in happier pre- war days.
Wyndham St., Hongkong Telephone: 20015.
The vicious circle of rising prices and periodic demands for higher salaries, with con- sequent discontent, must have as small a radius as possible.
Fortunately, the penalties for selling price regulated goods at more than the permitted. figure are so severe that those who might be
inclined to exploit the situation in this Colony
have decided that the game is not worth the candle.
At the same time, it is due to the trading community to record that in general they have shown a distinct desire to help, as far as is in their power, to prevent the sky-rocketing of prices that are not controlled.
Unhappily, there still exists in Hongkong an avaricious minority who should be subject to restriction.
There are dealers in coal and wood, the price of which is uncontrolled, who are taking advantage of the situation brought about by hostilities half-way across the world. Since we editorialised on this same subject two months ago, the price of these two necessities has again increased substantially, imposing a burden upon the humbler classes that is well- nigh intolerable.
There are landlords who, despite the pro- visions of the Eviction of Tenants Ordinance and the clearly-defined statement issued in connection with the War Revenue Bill, are in- creasing rents, knowing well that tenants, for various reasons, cannot or will not take the matter to court for relief.
There are compradores who are profiteering on the many necessities not yet subject to official price-fixing control,
Almost every person in a guest house has experienced the rising cost of living in the shape of increased charges for board or lodging.
Every person in Hongkong who desires a fortnight's holiday outside the Colony, or ob- tains long-service leave, knows, that it costs him anything from twenty to thirty-three per cent. more for the fares of his children-not generally paid for by the employer, even in cases where he travels further away from the European war zone.
Every person of moderate means knows that he faces the additional cost of taxation which will absorb his already-jeopardised mar- gin between salary and cost of living.
Every person has been warned that he or she faces-the-possibility-of-increased charges. for certain public utilities.
Substantial decrease in the living standard of salaried people is synonymous with war, and this fact became so painfully obvious to British people in the last war that few if any people in Hongkong expect their dollars to go as for as they did before last September.
But British subjects resident in Hongkong in this war are much more unfortunate in this respect than those who lived here in 1914-18. The Hongkong dollar then had a purchasing power that at one stage set it at a premium over the American dollar. The Hongkong dol- lar in 1940, pegged to Sterling, is being kept at a level which, on the surface, is so unneces sarlly low that it invites poverty In view of the conditions now reigning in the Colony.
What Happens 15,000 feet Up
TP in an aeroplane 15,000 takes 12
U feet high, it
minutes to boil a two-minute cgg.
A fountain pen will not hold ink, nor will soda water remain in the bottle very long.
The pulse beats away at a rapid pace and the entire body will expand from 6 to 10 per cent.
Yet, on a clear day, our men fly in such high altitudes for as long as six hours at a time, shuttling back and forth over a 75-mile area, photographing Germany from the sky.
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THE air is so rare that it is
possible for two otherwise friendly co-workers, pilot and photographer, to become bit- engage in ter enemies and nonsensical arguments while active in air mapping.
But the moment they dron to a lower altitude of approximately 5,000 feet thair tempera cool, their abnormal body expansion returns to 'normal, and the silly arguments. higher up in the sky are soon. forgotten.
Working in high altitude has a tendency to cause grievances. The thin air forces one's mind into a state of sluggishness. It slows up the progrese of ordinary work, and the mind becomes so hazy that if a simple, ordinary, mathematical problem were given
the
air mappers to work out in a hurry they would find it diflcult to complete correctly, The mind operates this way at the height of three miles up in the air, especially If the 'men are up that high for any length of Ume.
Without the ald of oxygen such work could not be carried Therefore, pilot and photographer whiff it periodically, and consume about 150 gallons on a regular fight. It is easy for a foggy mind to be lifted out of its haze with a strong chet of oxygen, although too much may unnervo a pilot or photo- grapher and cause soine uneasiness.
FLIERS also develop alecpi-
noss while air mapping for any length of time.
Science has taken care of this by oxygenizing-adding a 5 per cent. solution of carbon dioxide to the regular oxygen which lifts the men out of a forced lethargy during the course of their work.
In areial mapping enemy fighters and anti-aircraft guns are not the
only dangers, for human reactions to the rarefted air can also be so.
For instance, gas in the abdomen can expand very fast and cause a tie-up of the intestines. This un- fortunate handicap can place the vletim in an uncomfortable position and force him down to the ground. The pain may seriously attack a plot who is not accustomed to it. However, this appears in rare cases and the men prepare for it,
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"I ALWAYS loosen up my
belt," said Col. Bill Brooks, veteran flyer and air mapper, "when I reach a certain alti- tude. In fact, I always loosen most of my clothes so that I won't be tied up as my body expands."
Aerial photography is of great value even in peace time and is being used extensively in America
now.
The first aerial photography was used in 1024, to locate transmission lines for power companies. It was expensive but recent improvements have cut the cost from £3 a squaro mile to seven shillings;
The success of power line tracings led to reservoir surveys. Maps are being made in America for city planning. Air maps have become important, tco. In traffic surveys and tax appraisals.
Europe in the latest phase, when she so early, in 1931 and even be- fore, set the example of political, realism by recognising rabid ng- gression for what it is, na threaten- ing other countries besides China and other continents ord oceans besides Asla and the Pacific.
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EUROPEANS were inclined to be incredulous when in 1981 we talked about the Tanaka Memorial, the Mein Kampf of Japan;
But the event has justified all that we then revealed of Japan's programme of hegemony in East Asio and mastery over the Western Pacific areas.
As her second contribution China showed the world how a pacie country can malce itself martial and be valorous in the Beld and behind the fronts when national existence and international decency are stake.
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By doing so China In the immediate purview of 1040 has pinned down the International strategic situation in the Far East so that the democratie countries Bghting In Europe are measurably relieved of what otherwise could have been inmense apprehensions.
For that future walch has to be
moulded after the war, China has pre-empted East Asia for demo- cracy. With all my country's faults and
miny behin, whatever they ling nevertheless created a stronghold and breed- Ing-ground for democracy in the new age that is shortly to begin, bred of our national Abre and secure in our fixed resolve. I think that fact, abstract as it may sound,
Is of great significance and assurance.
Of equal-Import-là. China's stund. for free and full interaction among the nations, in polities and econo- mies. Chima shares completely the
Clevermind political idealism and
purpose that the Prime Minister declared in his speech at Dor
the full development of international trade it must flow multilateral channels, and along
that we must put an end to vicious policy of economic na- tionalism and autarchy which did so much to
the last great peace settlement."
These words of Mr. Chamberlain accurately state the principle and practice of Chinese politics and economics also, even as they con- rast with the excluding and ex- clusive principle and practice of Japan.
The Secretary of State of the United States having made his long term of office illustrious by promot- the same principle and practice
ing
of economic policy, we thus have the domirant population in each continent, Europe, Asia, America, committed to a co-operative future In the world's economie life.
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WITH all diffidence it does seem to me, and I trust it seems to you, that I can say of my countrymen: they have thought clearly and acted well, for the world's advan- tage as much as their own.
Chins is a tested friend, in atl those policies that redound to Britain's and civilisation's high- cat interests.
This has been her deliberato policy. She hng olten been offered temptations, and strong temptations, to do otherwise, ond han resisted such temptations. The. particular interests of the British Empire as well as the general
In terests of civilisation are surely better served by fostering these re- lations with China than by seck- Ing in any way to sacrifice China the principles of the Nine Power or Trealy by accommodation with Japan if and when such occam- modation involves any knuckling under to sinister demands with threats of retaliation If they are not promptly conceded.
Eullydom,
however feigning friendliness, fe never supposed to work with British people and 89-
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called friendship bought that way could never compensate for allona- tion of China.
The world at large has recognised no less than China Herzelf that our
country is indeed fortunate in bay- Ing General Chiang as ita national leader in this supreme crisis of its history.
General Chiang enjoys the con-- fidence, loyalty and united support of the Chinese people, because be symballes their hope and resoluto
to purpose
live and to be free. think he would be the Arst to acknowledge that the courage, determination, high spirit of sacri- fice and invincible fortitude of the Chinese soldiers and general popu lution have inspired and sustained him as much as he them
ara
However
your hearts wrung by the undeserved rafter ing in the conquered countries of Europe, the people of China have been in agony for well on to three years, and still wuffer persecutions and atrocities much greater in magnitude and much more horrible in detail. moro
China has sixty millions of re- fugees, and the indiscriminate bombings of civilian populations throughout the whole country is Inecssunt,
No other nation in the world has had to deal with a deliberate and widespread programme of debase- ment such as the Japanese com- paign for the enforced sale and use. of oplum, herain and morphine to deprave the general population, even including Children of school
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Nor does anything in Europe compare with the wholesale and organised incessant raping in every Chinese city and village that Japa- nese troops have entered
The systematic destruction of our cultural and educational Institu
Japanese attempt to tions is the disrupt our mental life and create a servile mentality, even as by the use of narcotics they seek to pro duce moral and physical degener- acy among the Chinese popula- tion.
Can anyone wonder that the Chinese people, whether national- Isin or communists, whether farm- ers or merchants, students or in- dustrialists, Bre all Armly united and grimly determined to resist the invader to the bitter. .end! And con anyone woader that
the Japanese armies have utterly failed
and consolidate
than to pacify areas they occupy and to make any profits, aport from the narcotic trade! Their attempts to achlove successes through setting up pap- pet regimes are equally doomed to failure
The invader, with an army of 1,000,000 men, is definitely bog- down in the vast Chinese moram, unable to advance or to retreat. and he has already suffered moro than 1,000,000 casualties to date, according to foreign experts' exfimate.
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THIS brings me face to face with an important question of Anglo-Chinese relations that often has proved to be a sensi- tive theme.
Let ne trench upon it a bit in conclusion. I mean the relation of China
Anglo-American lations,
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Relations between Great Britain and the United States are the un- derpinning of a great deal in the present conflict and must be the underpinning of the world's re- organisation after the
war. The problem of the Pacific and speel- Ocally the problem of China play
constantly Into Anglo-American oll the relations. Therefore it more satisfactory to have had Mr. Buller, Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, repeat in the House of Commons on the 31st of January last that "in their note of 14th January, 1939. His Majesty's Government made it clear that they intended to adhere to the Principica of the Nine Power Treaty, and this remains their at titude."
I have sald as much as I have any business to say at this junc-. ture. Perhaps I have even tres- passed a little in this intimation that Anglo-American relations have their best opportunity of full necord in other fields by agreeing and synchronising in East Asia. But I feel a student's privilege to pose a problem that is bound to be central in all our minds and to suggest that China can be the key to a happy solution of a possi- ble quandary, and to express the hope that first of all in European, American and Asiatte or shall
British, Amerleon kny
and Chinese? contributions to a new world order shall come the fullest understanding and collaboration. in spite of natural rivalries, to serve hot China's deating alone but the destiny of the English-speaking peoples.
China is tits cine through tha world's labyrinth to many exoclé lent things, and we Chinese seek to serve the development of our country's sovereign affairs in such a way that we can · be
and proud
confident Inter- national clüzens
Bat well national citizens in whatover form of combined independenco and federation the nations may evolve.