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THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, AUGUST 25, 1947.

WHAT

OF JAPAN TODAY?

By Denis Warner

Big Four of the Far East- the United States, Russia, China and the British Commonwealth

дя

strikes were all right

the occupation,

they

Puble displays of affection toward the Japanese are banned, and Japanese may not be enter. tained in British or American hotels or lodgnigs. The giving of presents of food and clothing to the Japanese, even the pre- sent of chocolates to children, is a serious offence in which the giver and the receiver are ad- judged equally gulity,

In turn the Japanese ions and eating and drinking houses are off limits to all Allied personnel.

and all their Little Tokyo. — Across the shining, force and navy

surface of the Allied equipment enurely diemombered. | under vencer Connell's conference table, the Great Experiment found. Big ones were againat)

It was then that Genera! the law. MacArthur began his Kreat experiment the democraties have heatedly debated

tion of a nation of 70 million H.K.$18.00

Issue that all powers at the people to whom the very word 1.K.$30.00

peace confererice will soon have democracy was incomprehensible, to consider: Has the occupa- Observers

here may it is un- tion, H.K.$72.00

General MacArthur fortgunte for General MucArthur claims, been unprecedently auc-and for the world too that ******* | cessful? Or has it been a dis- SCAP Public Relations did not

mal failure?

realine that democratisation can. STRIKE OFFER

The answer is probably neither not be reported. in a series of yes nor no. More has been war communique, nor in itu The fat from ungenerous offer accomplished in the military progress a matter capable of of the principal dockyards to these occupation than anyone over be day to day reporting. of their workmen who are in-floved possible. As a basis for tinder the able control of volved in the strike called by the democracy. It has achieved about Colonel LeGrande Diller and Chinese Engineers' Institute puts an much as could be expected later under Brigadier General the issue plainly to the test.

from a military occupation Frayne Baker, the public rela- milliary men Either it will be accepted as a

rarely tions organisation at general democrats. basis for discussion in negotiations

headquarters steadily pursued ment. The key to what many obser- the practice it had followed in therefore, has become a matter for a strike settlement, or the vers in Tokyo believe the occupa- the war and, as with the fall of remote control. It in In- tion has done and not done wits of Manila the capture of struction by edlet and proclama- contained in a sentence apokon which was announced when only tion, not cultivation by frater by the British Commonwealth'e 700 American troops were in the nisation and example, representative on the Allied city and three weeks before the Counell in July: "If I seem to bloudiest fighting in the Pacific criticise SCAP," he said, "it is War ended immediately ho- not that he has done so little, gan to announce spectacular but that he claims to have done democratle progress. Bo much."

that

will re-emerge suspicion other than purely economic and industrial factors lie at the back

per

are

Lots of fraternisation...and. cuting and drinking and giving of presents occure, of course, but all these things are punish- able by heavy fines, or Imprison. Gr both. Democracy.

After an absence from Japan of lightly more than a year ! could not fall to be impressed with a marked o my return

the hardening in

Japanese approach to the occupation and to occupation officials. A few months after the end of the war travelled alone and unarmed

Not Safe

Now, after two years of ex- With the entirely unexpected perimentation, democracy like co-operation of the Japanese, the demilitarisation, has been more physlent problems of occupation successful than anyone expected. were fewer than expected. Few claim that it is the spiritual, through the three main falanda Demilitarisation Was an

that easy regeneration

General of Honshu, Kyushu and Shikoko. Demobilisation carried out efficiently process.

wan MacArthur aces. Nor is it true I lived in Japanese Inna and was by the to say that not even the founda- welcomed in arens where the Japanese themselves although tons of democracy have been occupation had not penetrated, erilles see danger in this. laid. For military men without People were courteous, polite

So far as the purely military elvillan administrative experience, and obliging. phase of the occupation was General MacArthur'a men have}- concerned, nearly all necessary done wonderfully well. work had beeri-accomplished by the end of 1945. It was certain mocratically based. Trade unions then that Japan, denied itside have been stablished throughout ald, was incapable of waging the country, and are slowly, if modern war for at least ten incredulously, beginning Lo

sented and destroyed, munitions unionism, A

had been con- realize the true objects of trades start has bean blown up or dumped, the air made with liberal education, although it is much too soon to Agrurlan re- expret results. form, whereby the peasants be- come land owners, is being im- plemented.

years.

Arms

100 Years Ago

The new conslitution is de-

There are other signs that]. General MacArthur and he staff accept as guides to a new way of thought open air Western-style dancing, the par tial emancipation of women, the absence of widespread crime or violence. But a Japanese to (From the files of the "China whom I suggested that this was Mail.")

of Acceptance

democracy advised that I look further than Japan's bobbysexcrs!

an

r

Debit Side

comfortable.

Organised prostitution

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Wildest Explosive Ever Adopted

An extremely violent explo-, piece of steel,

which is

tile

sive which until recently was penetrating clement of the nuti- highly secret han been disclosed tank rille grennde, at nearly 6 an the power with which 1/4 miles, a second. scientists expect to hurl the If carried 100 miles above Arat objects off the earth to be the earth before being fired, the come artifical meteors.

spced of a projectile from a- peno ite hollow elarge should lesser resistance of the thin be much greater because of the atmosphere.

Like the moon, these tiny it were permitted by SCAP the globe constantly, 200 to 600 Today, such a journey — if satellites are destined to circle conceivably would be safe, but miles out. They are intended it would be neither pleasant nor to show the way toward natu If fired from the nose of a V- Japanese today blishment of still larger sutel-2 rocket leaving the carth at. push you off the pavements, lites which may help solve the its normal speed of one milo edge you out of lifts. American mysteries of matter beyond the a second, the speed of the peno and British women in lonely atmospheric curtain, and per- lite projectile wou'd he" added parts of Tokyo have been stonedhaps hasten the age of inter- to that of the rocket, making Allied express travels at night pianetary rockets

a total exceeding the seven with drawn blinds in respect for To shoot objects into the sky | miles per second needed to con- mere stone throwers.

with such force that they never tinue on out of this world.

This velocity of escape, as the was would return to earth`requires, declared illegal by General a form of energy that will give scientists en' it, when, used in MacArthur, but the Yoshiwara projectile a speed of about the proper direction could put in rebuilding and outside every seven miles a second, or 25,000, the projectile beyond the palling house is a "Girls Wanted" sign miles an hour. The German induence of gravitatiari. vy Ins And fully, there is the purge. V-2, greatest of the rockets, instead of falling to earth, tho Hundreds of war criminala hava rated at 3,000 miles an hour, projectile then would ceaselessly It would been arrested, tried, executed or which is only one mile a second. circle this planet.

ta imprisonment. American scientists and mili- travel at something less than its sentenced Thousands of others whose tary men have said repentedly Initial speed in an orbit some

worked they had the means by which where between 200 and 600 offence was that they

tiny hard on the home front in the this could be done, at lanat miles out. becoming a war have been dismissed from theoretically. They have tried moon or an "invisible meteor, office on banned from holding; some experiments, which wore depending upon its size and any responsible peslilon in the Inconclusive, but lost no optim: light-reflecting ability. land. In their place has come fem at all,

First Test

of the walk-out. Increases in basic pay are contemplated on a graduated scale, with a minimum lift of twenty cent. and operating so as to ensure that highly skilled workmen with a long record of service may expect to receive $ daily in basic pay. The usual H.C.L. and rehabilita tion allowances have to he added to permit accurate assessment of the monthly income. Admitted |ly, a top level of $4 differs cou- siderably from the Institute de mand of a blanket increase for all skilled workmen raising them to a minimum of $5 daily, but not only was this outside the re motest possibility of entertain ment by employers, but, there is und reason to believe, was never seriously supported by the work. ing members of the unions. One af their grievaners, in fact, has been that classification of killed hands has not been sufficiently discriminating, that she mar git of pay between the semi- skilled employee and the highly- skilled technician with many rears of loyal service behind him has been so small as to cause dis. content. The employers have! given the assurance that, among other things, they will seek as re- medy for this disparity in reward for productive labour, and that | re-grading of employees according to-agreed scales will be under- taken. is perhaps too much to

The directors of the Austrian hope that the strikers will agree Lloyd's Steam Navigation Co. to these terms immediately, as a have informed us that a steamer final settlement, but what might will ply regularly on the 10th of he recommended is a return to each month on the direct line On the debit side, critics say

MacArthur duty on the basis set out, with between Trieste and Alexandria, General

has 100 IL succession of misfits, and Inquiries about the kind of: On the night of December 17 the understanding that special so as to correspond with the Hon. often confused the Japanese second string men, who have motive power used brought the 1946, at White Sands, Dr conciliation boards will be

E.I. Company's Bombay steamers; people. Most of them still are neither the Capacity nor the response that information was Zwicky and associates give thế

Becret and that up. in accordance with the Labour and on the 25th each month on not quite certain what democracy latent ability to take over from

national plan a preliminary test. the direct line between Trieste implies. Officer's formula, and that what and Alexandria, so as to corres trades unfons, having learnt that is a depressing medicority among

Six penollte hollow charges, The newly formed their predecessors. The result security was involved.

The Answer

primed with one-shaped pieces points of difference still remain pond with the P. & O. Company's the right to strike was a prin. the Japanese who should be will be left to these Beards to steamers from Galle.

The answer appeared recently of steel for projectiles, were ciple of unionism, were suddenly leading the country toward in print, buried far down in a placed in the nose of a V-2 and ion out. Persistence in the de-

The Austrian Lloyd's. Company | deprived the right to striků, democracy,—Reuter.

report by Dr. Fritz Zwicky, a wore set to be fired progressive- mand for a blanket increase, can will have five Steamers available

Mount Wilson (California)ly in pairs in the rocket reach- only: stifle hope of successful for this line; each of them be-

astronomer, in the publications ed. the heights of 26, 34 and 42 | negotiations.

tween 100 and 700 tons burthen

of the Astronomical Society of miles. and of 200 Horsepower. They

the Pacifc.

The rocket went up 114 miles, are fitted up in a superior style

The secret In a so-called hof- but ground observers, expecting and English is spoken on board.

low charge of penolite. Peno- to see the flashes of the penolite The number of berths in cachi

Ife Is a toned-down form of explosions and the moteprlike one of the most powerful and streams of the steel cones possibly the wildest chemical traveling fast enough to make explosive over adopted for mill- them red hot, saw nothing of make an xtremely risky vulner-tury uso.

the kind. able overcall. If East had Non-secrot technical reports Doctor Zwick said the peno- pfuck in a bid on his first turn, show that penalita was develop-lite detonating mecharlema ap. Extension of aid to European The Voyage le expect:d not fo IT IS a mistake to let your he might have found himself ed around 1940 as a modifica parantly failed but, still con

which can use it to exceed 5 days to 5 days.

opponenta buy- contracts

and his colleagues crushed between a strong hand tion of an older high explosive fident, ho too build sound economics is one.

cheaply. If you can push them held by North and almost with a wide reputation for be now are preparing for other thing. Extension of aid to a gov-

handle and tests in which projectiles wit The American whaling ship, up beyond their depth or edge enough for an opening bid by ing dangerous to

out by bidding something which

South, ernment unable to free itself from "Tngonda" was lately wrecked on your own side can make, that is would have been vold of any Dentaerythritol tetranitrate, altitude ballona and anti-air- In that event, Weat extremely violent. It is called bo shot from airplanes, high- the debilitating hold of corrupt the coast of Japan. The crow

Mfcraft abclle as well as from reactionaries is another. However are kept in a sinté of imprison far better than letting them get real strength, and the vulner petn, for short.

These 'references also indicato rockete. anent litle partial score. For able carnage could have been sincere the intentions of Presidentment and not allowed to have any this

fearful.

that penolite although safer They expect these super-bul- Chiang and some of the moder communication with the natives; "deductive" double is a great

After the opponente

than petn is about one-third lists to go farther until they ates in his government, the pre- other respects they are well mechanism. Used only by the shown their willingness to pass chief high explosive of all mo the earth-Associated Press.

more powerful, than TNT, the finally, noor to freedom from sent prospects for effective govern

Thoy indiente further that moderate strength and the hope his partner had a bit of moderate penolite, has a detonation rate that his own alde may be able strength. So his double was or explosive speed of around turn for popular support of total.

to make a modest contract. But based on a combination of what mobilization, but such promises innde clear by General Marshall in so doing, the more possession he held himself and what he 33,000 feet more than six milès

per second. are wearing a little thin by now, when he left China to become of it saves the side from having could deduce Weat bad.

at low altitude, There are predictions of total Secretary of State. His recent to attempt rinky evercalls. that 'West's 2-Hearts had the Its projectile: pushing rato where al resistance is great, victory over the Coromunists experiences may have sharpened

effect of pushing the opponents would be somewhat slower than within a year, but they will con- his sense of the present kwo-

one level above their natural that. height to where they might be TNT is around 25,000 feet less The detonation rate of vince no one who knows the situn-world division. But this is not

aut a trick. But East struck than five miles per second. tion. The most powerful argulikely to have brought him any ment, Chinese Nationalists have further toward the Chinese ex-896 been able to use is that the Rus. tremists of the Right, who see HAQ 42 sian threat demands American uncompromising war as the only DK 9.7. support of the Nanking Govern-answer to Communism. General CJ 10 3 2 ment, no matter how great the Wedemeyer may recommend come

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Moscow, Aug. 23. The United States representa- tive on the Security Council- and "the bloe which he heads are Vzn. perued not with the removing of

made. Two spades, one dia. But the pormal force of peno. the threat to pesco" In Indonesia, W EHK J63mond and one club trick were lite or any other explosives is but with "taking advantage of a S D8 lost, leaving the contract fust enhanced considerably by divid-situation to further their won in-

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Most players know the two to form a funnel shape; The declared that it was this attitude,

Bf. Mikhailov, the commentator, - though in hot so immediate successful it must demand just

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which Pass

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the two plays. What third type both sides in World War 11. By santakiva has deigandid: the Coun. of play is there which utilleen an shaping their charges, blasters the affairs of Greece and her eil's annotion for Interference it. opponent's vised to give, you could get much greater penetra- neighbours, now togather with his

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