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The Alipinos Who Rushed To Secure Their Independence Are Beginning to Wonder To-day, For

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at the main port, Davao, Japanese flag. There about 16,000 Tapanese in Mindanao.

was told by an American that experimental any

Over Them Is de The Miscared 4,000,000 people who earn a livell that arrives from Japan carries im- there i

farm on th Island on which hood in the coconut industry were migrants. The newcomers are gen- kinds tropical plants are to be among the first inhabitants of the orally sturdy people from the rural

found. Cotton, coffee, oranges, and ken districts, and obtain work on the islands to realise they had

'plantations owned by their country passionfruit are being grown, and too soon.

their For

soil in Philippine In addition, quotas were applied men. The Japanese are gradually to the principal exports, and they replacing the Chinese traders who carefully noted. Clearly the Japan-

ese are in Mindanao to stay. the have controlled the domestic trade

HEN the United States grant- independence to the Philippine Islands under certain conditions the people who were most astounded were the Filipinos them selves. Although they had been loudly clamouring for independence since the earliest days of American will operate until the end of rule they never expected that their liberty would be presented to them so soon, and in a manner that clear- ly showed the United States was glad to be relieved of her respon- sibilities in the islands.

Since the Filipinos have been wholly governing themselves the re ciprocal freetrade relations which existed between the United States and the Philippines have ceased to exist, and the new quotas placed on sugar, coconut oil, rope and twine have made the people of the islands

· feel that this new freedom has been purchased at a great price. In addi- tion, taxes are to be increased. The prophets of prosperity under inde- pendence have proved to be false indeed.

The authorities now seem to rea- lise the special position" of the Japanese in the islands and desire to co-operate with them in deve- lopment work. alleged that the Ja

THE SHADOWS

illegally

acquired.

10-year period, when products en- of the islands for many years. The Mindanao were tering the United States from the Chinese Consul-General in Manila Some officials demanded ejection, Philippines will be subject to the has estimated that in 10 years time but President Quezon, said he was full duties laid down in the Cus- the whole of the retail trade of the in favour of changing the law if Philippines will be in Japanese the Japanese thought they were toms tariff.

hands.

being unjustly treated. The leases, Japan's exports to the Philippine therefore, were not cancelled, and Islands are increasing every year. Japan further consolidated her posi-

Manila,

"We were safe and secure when we were part of the United States," said a Filipino to me in "but now, backed only by our poor army and navy, we are simply ask- ing the Japanese to come in and make use of the rich resources of the islands."

The Philippines form the largest Advance Of Japan

group of islands in the Malay Ar- chipelago. Altogether there are 7083 islands extending 1152 statute miles from north to south, and 682

miles from 'east to west. There are

21 first-class harbours in the group, whose strategic importante cannot be too strongly emphasised. The is lands lie just above the valuable British and Dutch possessions

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With the exception of the United tion in the island, States she sells more goods to the Those Filipinos who Filipinos than any other country. formed, and who are not carried This Filipino was not exaggerat- The islands possess the raw ma- away by patriotic fervour know ing the position. Since the Philip terials that Japan lacks, and Japan- that the Mindanao incident showed pines have had home rule the Japan- ese capital is flowing in to develop the powerful grip which Japan has ese have taken an increasing in- the plantations, the timber areas, on the Philippines.

ore and chromite terest in the islands, which figure and the iron largely in the new southward ex- deposits. pansion policy.

wards which Japan has for long THE

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looked with speculative eyes. the Philippines the Japanese regard New Guinea, Singapore, Borneo, Java, and Celebes as a unit. Manila, the capital of the Philippines, only two days' steam from Hong Kong and is within easy distance of the islands in the Mariana, Caroline, and Marshall groups, which assigned to Japan as a under the League of Nations.

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WORLD GOES BY By "ULYSSES"

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the woman decided that the

N case your house, flat or mat- When they come back

shed has begun to pall on you says they have and you are getting sick of the (an exchange of same old walls and the same old place is not quite big enough for windows every day, just notify an them. So they leave, with polite agent that he may bring people thanks, and you come back into the around to look the place over for dear little nest that you call Home, rental: You'll want to stay then, and that you are going to call Home just out of spite.

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"We were not ready for indepen- dence," said a man in the sugar business. "Most people thought our liberty would not be given to us for many years. I believe our lead- ers do not know what line of ac- tion to take regarding the problem of Japanese penetration. The Japan- ese are so powerful and we, alas! are so weak.”

America may consider she gained more than the lost by giving the Filipinos their independence, but she never intended, when she hand- ed over the control of the Philip-

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pines to the people of the islands, that Japan should be the chief beneficiary.

Under the benign rule of America, the Filipinos should have been the

* For a generation American policy in the Far East has not deviated happiest people in the world. The People who are "looking at"

But you do take a little look into from a fixed and certain principle. American hand was a light one, and house are unpleasant people in the

office may in some respects the people had very nature of things. They are the kitchen to see what that "Ugh" Although the men in more freedom than the citizens of passing judgment on a place in was for.

change their attitude towards the Far East, it does not alter. Na- the United States. The American which you have been living for "some Government established sound time. There's an insult, right there. Just what we think we are thaniel Peffer in “Japan and the heart education department; founded an And while you may have thought this age I don't know, but we have Pacific," wrote: "This is the efficient health bureau; reformed you kept the place fairly tidy, the to get over this feeling that any of American policy; that no power and simplified 'legal procedure; and minute the "lookers” come in the thing that was done correctly be shall be permitted to pre-empt for eradicated the uncertainty with door it takes on, even in your eyes, fore we were born is a phenomenon. itself, the opportunity of economic reference to land titles by adopting the appearance of the lowest For instance, the following rather exploitation in the Far East, especi- the Torrens land registration sys- hovels.

condescending caption appeared un- ally in China.” You try to der the reproduction of a Then they begin.

tomb The United States will be adopt- Nothing but complete independence pay no attention and to give them painting in ancient Egypt the other ing a new attitude if the Philip- would satisfy the Filipinos, however, the run of the place by themselves, day: Remarkably accurate and ar- pines are allowed to come under from Japanese domination. Section II. the Tydings-McDuffle but you hear them whispering, or tistic painting of a godse Act, which was passed on May 1, see them exchange glances. It's Pharaoh Akhenaten's palace, drawn of the Tydings-McDuffie Act states: 1934, Philippine independence will those glances that get your back up. 3,300 years ago.” Why "remark-"The President is requested at the be recognised after a period of 10

Why should we earliest practicable date to enter into "I suppose this is the dining table."? years under a Government

which room,"

be surprised that a people who negotiations with foreign ** Powers the woman says. "It's not

built the pyramids could also draw with a view to the conclusion of a very light, is it? But it might be of the Philippine islands." Until a little more cheerful with other goose so that it looked like a treaty for the perpetual neutralisa- goose? They may not have known tion of the Philippine Islands, if about one-piece bathing costumes and when Philippine Independence and the Tango, but they managed shall have been achieved" to get along.

In the meantime, Japan is hav- e are also constantly remarking everything her 'own way, and destiny.

of Fong would never work here, ing on the fact that things are done is pushing her pro

ecompr A month after the Tydings-Mc-I know.' "Then you hear an “Ugh." well by people other than ourselves. mic penetration

energy and Duffie Act was passed Con-There certainly is nothing in that "The Japanese are a remarkable skill. She is rapidly filling the gaps gress placed an excise

kitchen to go "Ugh" about, unless little people," we say, as if we were left by America, and every month of three cents pound on she has got into the icebox and doing them a favour. Or, “He is sees her more firmly established. It Philippine coconut oil. Amessage doesn't like the remains of last an Arab, but you ought to hear is clear that if America wishes to asking for a repeal of the tax was night's dinner. She'd better get out him play, the zither. Why "but renew her connection with the Philip- sent to Congress by the Filipinos, of that icebox or you'll have the I say that we have got to get over pines by peaceful means she

lit, but I don't know how- but it met with little sympathy. The police în.

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is designated the "Commonwealth

the withdrawal of American sover-curtains." eignty the United States is main- taining an interest in the islands, Then they pass into the kitchen, where they think they are out of but to all intents and purposes the Filipinos are now shaping their own earshot. "Ah 1

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