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Most of the news of the mo- ment in the Far East is so ex- ceedingly grim and ominous that hit seems almost a touch of light relief to read of "A Domestic Crisis in Tokyo,” which is com cerned with a growing scarcity of reliable maidservants. The details of the trouble sound re- The short space of 24 hours markably European there is so since the announcement of

much new employment for young ex- women in factories and offices tension of the Japanese blockade that it is difficult to persuade to include Canton and points them to undertake domestic dut- farther south has sufficed to de

Servants are hard to find monstrate the gravity of the they do not stay; as in Saki's

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can be no prohibition of Chinese perplexity of the Western world Squire Octet. shipping movements within a the domestic servant problem." fifty mile radius of the waters. The process of Westernisation is of the Colony which does not not all a matter of more firearms seriously prejudice the Colony sand factories, other obligations vital sources of food supply, of arise and clamour to be dealt our eggs, cattle and fresh veget-with. There will be a certain ables, for instance. If this were frony if Japan, so sure that she not perturbing enough, there is is master on the military side, plenty of evidence that a Japan- should yet have to admit that ese destroyer passed through she cannot make herself mis- Hong Kong territorial waters on tress of the rebellious maid. its way to the bombardment of

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Unwanted dogs used to be one Shipping in the Canton delta of the problems of the former must obviously be of vital con Constantinople; too many stray cern to British interests whether cats, which runt in packs ap it be Chinese or foreign, and parently, is the later Istanbul's Japanese action în bringing it nuisance. So they are now be virtually to a standstil, carriesing killed off by the hundred, the Sino-Japanese war unplea-most of them (says one report) santly close to our door. The being scientifically put to death

notes next step threatened, an attempt by the Society for the

The to cut the Canton Kowloon Raition of Cruelty to Animal way, if it should come about, slip is one of those which would constitute an act of isola liable to occur in the tion of this Colony to which the ed news-sheets, term unpermissible would, in it might have other times, have been a mild one some sort to apply.

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