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meant? It is recorded that when asked by a disciple what he would consider the first thing to be done, if entrusted with the gov- Kong.ernment of a State, Confucius re- plied: "The rectification of names." Would the sage, who placed such emphasis on calling a spade a spade, have approved of the Japanese habit of calling a war an incident? But it was his "golden rule" which best ex- pressed his teaching. you do not like when done yourself," said Confucius, not do to others." Or in modern terms: "If you don't want Tokyo bombed, keep off Canton.” The doctrine of the sage (“which is still respected in Japan") seems to cut both ways. No doubt it is NEW ZEALAND

only ignorance of the Confucian classics which prevents one from The social welfare plans an-appreciating this Japanese the nounced by New Zealand's La-ory, but one must confess that it bour Government may seem Uto- does not greatly help us to under-

and only pian to any who have not follow-stand Japan ed the recent course of politics Confucius worse confounded. in that Dominion. They include! raising "superannuation benefit" from its present figure of 22s. 6d.

Hong Kong, Tuesday, May 31, 1938.

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a week at 65 to 30s. at sixty, the Alliance provision of free medical services and of maintenance payment for the unemployed, and increases in is shunned by the Dictators. The various other allowances, among heads of the Berlin-Rome alliance them family allowances. Yet Mr. are both, in fact, non-smokers. Savage and his Treasurer, Mr. Hitler, indeed, detests tobacco so Nash, have clearly proved in the much that he cannot bear any- Government's two years of office body near him smoking. In this, that they are not parties to the too, he follows the Napoleonic Although a snuff-taker, type of finance which in Austra-path. lia would be called "Langism." Napoleon loathed tobacco and was Their first Budget showed a sur-revolted by the tobacco smoke of has his pipe-puffing marshals. Rang- plus although large sums been spent on public works, on aled against the non-smoking dic- housing programme, and on the tators are the heavily smoking The democratic statesmen. Mr. Cham- restoration of wage cuts. report of the British Trade Com-berlain, like the rest of his Cab- missioner congratulated them on inet, is fond of a smoke. M. Blum, "increasing the amount of money the French Premier, is the cigar- in circulation and raising the ette-smoking chief of a Cabinet of spending power of the people," cigarette smokers. Far away in though it contained some phrases the White House, Mr. Roosevelt of caution about the advisability puffs at his cigarette, and in the of creating a reserve, The trade Kremlin Stalin smokes his curly expansion during which Mr. Sav-pipe and hopes for peace. Pacific age was so fortunate as to take policies and tobacco apparently that happier, office continues, and it is clear go together. In that he intends to spread the more hopeful age both. M. Briand benefits of it in social reform. At and Herr Stressmann were heavy Baldwin the same time his Government is smokers, as was Mr. opening up. New Zealand's an- with his pipe and Mr. Eden with touched resources, notably in the his cigarette. But now that non- south and west of the South smoking dictators are in the sad- O Island, a region almost abandon-dle it seems the pipe of peace is

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The Truth At Last

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Last year the department an- The Japanese mind, as has fre-nounced that the Blackburn fac- quently been remarked, is not tory would produce thirty million easily understood by those whose gas masks by March 31 of this actually minds have been trained in West- year. The figure was ern schools of thought. It would, reached by March 29. Now it not for instance, have occurred remains to produce another ten to those who read the grim de- to fifteen millions to provide

in the tails of the bombing of Canton mask for every person that the anti-Japanese movement United Kingdom, and Blackburn arose in China because the Chin-is now turning them out at the ese forgot the doctrine of the rate of 500,000 a week. Chinese sage Confucius, which is The masks cannot be distribut- still respected in Japan. Yet ed in advance of an emergency. such, it is now urged, is the They must be kept, to maintain truth which has led the Japanese their full efficiency, in a "con-

authorities in North China to ditioned" atmosphere, but this is revive the ancient festival of not difficult to provide, and the Confucius in Peiping, and even to A.R.P. Department is preparing spend a large sum of money in to hand them over to local auth- repairing the ruined temple."orities to place in depots capable What doctrine in particular is of storing 80,000 each.