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A MIRROR OF JAPAN, OLD AND NEW TOKYO. DEFECTS OF PUBLIC SERVICES,

MONEY FOR ARMY, AND NAVY,

A recent issue of the Times gives the following "description of life in Tokyo to-day from the pea of its Special Correspondent in the Far East. The Correspondent calls attention to some remarkable municipal deficiencies, and sums up the whole matter by explaining that Japan is spending all the money she can on her Army and Navy. and has not enough to round off the econo- mic and scem achievements of reent

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COLONIAL DEVELOPMENT.

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THE CHINESE POST OFFICE EXPANSION OF THE SERVICE.

The report on the working of the Chi- nese Post Offer for 1820 reads, in part, as follows?—

THE ISHII-LANSING AGREEMENT.:

A REQUEST FOR ITS REPUDIA

•TION.

[ABIATIC NEWS AGENOT. }

calls every branch of postal enterprise.

The number of articles of mail matter Agreement for the following reasons:-..

posted during the year exceeds. by a This figure slight margin, 400 millions.

advance recorded in the annals of this represents an increase of 61 millions on the total for 1010, and is the greatest

An inerease of 30 year old service,

PARCEL TRAFFIC.

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MR. CHURCHILL'S HOPES. Mr. Winston Churchill, the Colonial Secretary, was the principal guest, at the Gold Coast Civil Service Dinner Club's Arst dinner, which was held on September 7th, at the Connaught Rooms, and pre-

While the past year has not been free

New York, September 22nd. sided over by Brigadier-General F. G. from "elements tending to embarrass

On the eve of the Disarmament Con- Guggisberg, the Governor of the Gold postal operaticus, the natural expansion ference, there is great agitation for the Coast. In proposing the toast of the

of the service due to the demands of the cancellation of the Lansing-Ishii Agree club, he said the Gold Coast was cop people in an ever-widening feld for safe, ment The following is from the New able of holding a position of almost pre-regular, aut quick means of commannica York American: eminence amongst many of our colonies. tion, auguiented by sustained develop-M. PRESIDENT. Before the Disarma. (Hear, hear.) He had been struck by meat and extension, has resulted in re-ment Conference, to which you have in- many things he had read about the Gold cord advances being achieved in practi-vited several Powers, convenes, you should Const. There was co income-tax there

repudiate the so-called "Lansing-Ishii (laughter)--there were no rates; there

1-It is no treaty and has no binding was no unemployment; and there was a (Laughter.) vast production of cocoa.

force, and yet the Japanese are making Tokyo is typical of new Japan. Hero This is the time," continued Mr. Chur

count of it, and it should therefore be times and little of the lovely scenery that British Empire which have definitely at

for the discussion of the Far Eastern are few of the architectura: gems of olden chill, when the Crown Colonies of the

extraordinary claims under and on ac repudiated in order to clear the situation is characteristic of the country Japan tained an adult status should be inclin has one great plain, 900 square miles ined to press forward in utilising their

-The Agreement was in effect extent, and of unsurpassed fertility. In

policy in the midst of it lies the capital city, a resources and in stimulating their econo- millions was registered in 1913, but questions at the approaching Conference hive of modern industry and activity mic and mechanical developments. Why (owing to the change in calendars) the waiver of the door

it we have let so many years previous period was one of 10 months augurated by President McKinley and

The two next highest increases Secretary of State John Hay, which open: It has its beauties, the Royal Palace and grounds surrounded by a moat, the canals pass by, decade after decade, leav-only.

only very tentative- were 42 millions in 1015 and 37 millions door policy has been consistently adhered crowded by picturesque boats and vessels, ing neglected or trees everywhere, low hills covered with developing these great possessions in 1918. It may also be noted that the to ever since except in the single instance exquisite gardens, the eternal quaintness which, with great foresight and wis-1020 advante is Di millious more than the of the Lansing Ishii Agreement. In view claration re-nrming the American policy of the homes of the people, the dignified dom, have been placed in the agis of grand total for 1907, and the "1020 grand of Secretary Hughes recent strong, de of the open door in China, this Lansing- residences of the one-time Daimios, and the British Crown After all these total is over double that of 1914,

Ishii Agreement should be denounced and in the far distance, when the light serves,years I am shocked to see how in a small

repudiated because of its being in con the delicate towering core of Fuji away the British Parliament has played

The expansion in the parcel traffic can ict with the re-declaration of your the game in developing its great tropical jewel among mountains.

The city proper covers an area of a1 States In all these years they could have be gauged more accurately by comparing | Administration of adherence to the open

in increasing the gross weight rather than the total door policy which has been a fundament square miles and within it dwell well over been garning large sums 2.000.000 souls. But Greater Tokyo, of revenues and general augmentation of the number of parcels posted, as, at the be-principle of the Republican Party, since 200 square miles, has a population of 3 assets which the nation-pussesses. But ginning of the year, the weight limit it was enunciated.

3.-The Lansing Ishii Agreement should millions, and the day is last seming when years have passed and you see the same of parcels to and from non-steam-served the hole shall be under the municipal things now being considered, and now it places was raised from & kilos to 10 kilos. be repudiated and denounced because The total weight of the 44 million parcels Japan has falsely translated it and made a costing donble and treble as much. government.

Now we see a new situation has been posted during the past year was 20 mil unfair use of it. The Japanese Imperial created. Many of our old customers have lion kilos. This figure exceeds the 1919 Government has caused the Agreement to We have killed a lot of total by 6 millions-another record ad be translated into Japanese, Chinese and disappeared. them, and others we have put in the vance and is double the 1917 total. So Korean, translating the word." special Bankruptcy Court, and owing to thisgrent are the prospects of further expan. as being "paramons and supreme inconvenience they are unable to renew sun in the parcel traffic that. given fav- and has attempted to make the Chines their monthly or yearly orders with re-purable conditions throughout the coun- Government and the Chinese people, the gularity and abundance which we had a try for a full twelve months, it would be Korean people, and their own native right to expect. Why don't we look in difficult to forecast what proportions the Japanese population, believe that by this Agreement the Government of Laited the great circle of the British Empire volume of parcel business would assume.

Statas had accepted and confirmed th Here are assets in which you could sink

Japanese claims of a paramount" posi- two hundred million pounds in the next

tion in China and on the Asiatic Con- ten years, with the certainty of getting

The increase in the amount of money tinent. That the Imperial Japanese" back every penny you invested. When orders issued is particularly striking, Government well knew and knows that sue plans being distressed by local autback seeing that the unrest in certain parts of the Government of the United States ities for building roads about which the country necessitated the restriction aver agreed to regard Japan's position her have some doubt, and for develop or antire suspension of the issue of inter- in China and on the Asiatic Mainland as ng this or that, public work which they provincial money orders during a great being paramount, and that it has falsely Governments and do not feel any enthusiasm for, I wonder part of the year. The total value of represented to whether something might not be done, to money orders issued during the period peoples of the Far East the linguage relieve the present lack of enterprise, was 30 million dollars. This figure is an content and purpose of the agreement. lack of initiative in the business and in advance-ngain a record one-of 15 m with the "purpose not only of enhancing dustrial world be putting out orders for lions upon the 1919 total, 234 millon its own prestige but particularly of destroying the position. influence and One thing about the city that immedi. locomotives and rails and all the appar upon the 1915 total, and 7 millions upon prestige of the Govenient of the United

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By their works ye shall know them. Looking upon Tokyo as a mirror of Japan you may see reflected in it much of the character and temperament of the people. The city has grown on modern lines. Railways. tramways, electricity, and noter traction are employed here as freely as in any other national centre. Monster buildings of reinforced concrete tower skyward, not to the height they do in America, but as high as any in London or Paris. Broad streets that shame the city of London, planned and arranged with mathematical exactness. Public parks unke open spaces, and scholastia. establishments by their numbers prove the thirst for lentuing, Temples and shrines periodically visited by crowds of pilgrims. testify the existence of devoutcess, but it is a deficiency in the city from the for eign point of view that the spires and pinacles of oid churches and cathedrals are lacking.

CONTRASTS' AND LAPSES.

MONEY ORDERS,

EXTENSION OF POSTAL FACILITIES,

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States in China and other parts of the Far East. The effects of these false re- presentatious of the meaning and pur; The number of additional places propose of the agreement cannot be cured

atus which is needed to get these great the 1917 total, fertile countries with active populations and immense natural resources on scientific basis. At any rate, it seems, to me that the development of our Crown colonies is one of the factors whichded with postal facilities in the course by attempting to circuinte a true state

of the year was 8,918. No such extensionment of the meaning, language and

ought to be used in solving the tempo rare collapse and breakdown of the

(Cheers.) markets and purchasers."

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THE NATIVE LEITER HONGS.

Pur

ately strikes the visitor is that while the Japanese in their public buildings, busi Bess offices, and manufactories have en- tirely adopted western architecture, in their homes they have retained their own ancient manner of building. Tokyo, therefore, presents this curious contrast that innumerable great buildings are of

5 this has been attempted in any pre-port of the Agreement, and in view of vious period. The number of major estub the false representation made in connec foreign style,.

while the houses of the peo

lishments (offices and agencies) opened. tion therewith by the Imperial Govern- ple crouch round and about, little wooden

07. nas teen esdheard on two or three ment of Japan and the unfair and dis bungalows..of one or two storeys, with

occasions the increase is nevertheless honourable use made of it thereby to papër windows and projecting caves,

greater by over 40 than any increases lower the prestige and to destroy the in veritable cottages in size, charmingly

recorded in the lust five years. Of the thuence and position of the Government of quaint, inexpressibly old-inshioned. This

8.1 new minor establishments added to the United States, the agreement should contrast affords a glimpse into the wind

the list, 7.893 are rural stations, or travel-be, denounced and repudiated without of Japan. For expediency's sake many

ling post offices. The total number of delay foreign things have been imported into The Chang Mei News Agency says: places in Chius now provided with postal

4-The agreement itself was secured their system, but at heart the people re The Chinese Government has petitioned facilities is 31,975, of which 10,468, are from former President Woodrow Wilson".. main Japanese, living as their forefathers the Diplomatic Body in Peking to conmajer establishments. As at illustration by false representations made to him and Eave lived, clinging to their own exquisite sider the advisibility of turning over the of the progress of the service in this the State Department of "the United on Customs direction it is interesting to note that Baron Ishii, after the Japanese Ambas States by the Japanese representative ideas of the fitness of things and to the Barplus from the surtax old ways of simple living. It would be duties to a new fund for famine and flood Shantung alone, the number of placessador Baron Sato had been recalled be wrong to suppose that the Japanese are relief. The surtax instituted for the postally provided at the close of 1920 was not changing But, whereas in business faminn relief loan continues until March, greater than the number in the whole of cause of his refusal to make the repres and public matters they have unreservedly and as this money is no longer nettled furthina, at the end of 1910...

sentations made by Baron Ishii

5-Although called the Lansing-Ishii adopted the west, in their private life the loan the Chinese officials hope that

Agreement Mr. Lansing has declared. they infinitely prefer their own manners the surplus the made available may still and customs. and will assuredly retain be used for relief work.

Judged by the increased amount of mail that he was opposed to the exchange of them with all their strength.

No action has been taken on the matter matter handed in by them to the Post letters which constitute the so-called agree Tokyo is evidence of the determination as yet, but the foreign diplomats are in One for transmission, the inch, or ment and that he was forced to write of the people to become great and to conreutire sympathy with the proposal and commercial-letter-companies, have also then by President Wilson because the pare with the nations of the west. One are considering ways and means to put tourished during the past Fear. This is assenting to the demands of Japan for cannot spend a day in the cupital of the project in practice. There is still hitherto attributed to their freedom from such an agreement was part of Wilson's Japan without becoming convinced that tremendous need for relief work in the censorship of local officials. These native of the Nations scheme to secure it is the centre of something large and stricken provinces and reports are being letter-hongs continue to transact illegiti the influence and support of Japan in.. powerful. Behind the activity, lie charge constantly received of the seriousness of mate business over large areas in the the future. It is unfair to ex-Secretary ter, industry, persistence, all the qualities, the situation and the need for further country carrying macacy-letters duly in Lansing to permit an agreement bearing h's name under these circumstances longer that make for greatness. «Yet there are assistance. There is consequently every sured and quantities of parcels for which

to ex'at. anomalies inconsistencies. There are reason to believe that the diplomatic body payment of likin is evaded. Many old- -Since President Wilson and his signs of arrested development. This great will soon take action and make the funds fashioned firms coutra with them tu aigarh its defciencies, those faults which arising from this surtax available for handle all their mails for a lump sum Policies in Foreign Affairs have been

he expected in a new place, but work.

per annum. The min-ch, however, radiated by the American people, this which one would suppose

According to the best Chinese sources believed to make little more than a ba aining un-American declaration should were being feverishly corrected, But no such thing the first step has been taken by the living out of their basiness and cannot repudiated and that without The Japanese are accepting the state of Diplomatic Corps in sending to the for many years longer compete with the

delny:Sincerely yours, their eapital with philosophy; almost with Ministry of Foreign Affairs a note mere modern methods of ton Post Office.

(Signed) Guy M. WALKER, fatalism. The streets and ronds have questing a statement as to the expendi- At one time they attempted to imitat President Warren G. Harding.

61. Broadway, New York City. deteriorated into a riot of potholes and ture of the money secured from the loan these methode and organised day-and-

White Hours. Washington, D.C. other irregularities, owing to the motor of last year. The receipts from the cus-night courier services ou postal lines, but traffe. No other attempt is being made toms surtax exeeded the estimate origin, the services failed owing to lack of proper to improve them except by the almost ally made and also the amdunt

EXCHANGE IN OCTOBER.

Mr. C. A da Roza's monthly state ment of the course of exchange during the month of October, gives the following

futile expedient of scattering gravel. Th: for the $1,000.000 loan of the conso t w/pervision and discipline...

trian service has become a anndal, and the endeavour to travel by it little better than a free light. The number of cars is totally inadequate to the immense teriffic which has arisen. Yet the scandal har uxisted for everal years and is still un remed.ed.

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KLENEL OF THE POSITION. The conduct of the State telephone ser- vice makes a story that would graće thei pages of the Arabian Nights. When you

DELIVERY OF TELEGRAMS.

The actal reciple will probably reach £8.000.000. It is in order to utilize the To is various activities the Postal Ser funds aceraing from the surtax which is vice has added the acceptance and de- still being collected that the Chinese livery of telegrams at places not provided Government is negotiating with the with telegraph silices, and telegrams can diplomatic body, and Chinese sources now be accepted at 1389 places, and de- emphasize the necessity of these excras livered at some 10.000 places which were Buns being used for further amelioration formerly outside the sphere of the Tele- of the results of famine and flood.

graph Service."

put your name down for an installation be extended to eight years, and is not, you pay 10 yer and are warned that you because the Government is starving this must wait your turn-seven years hence!

THE OPPAU "TRAGEDY,

A little later you learn that your turn department as it is every other, excopl

The Times special correspondent at can be anticipated and an instrument

And here we come to the kernel of the Oppau wired a harrowing account of the fixed in your house or office within six whole position. Japan is spending all of terrible scenes at Oppau. First ho des mouths at a cost of Yen 500! Anybody her money that she can on army and cribes & procession of carta crossing the who has had telephonic, connection for navy, and there is not enough to carry on Rhinebridge, full of corpses and wound three years may dispose of same to whom. that development and improvement which

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KRYPTOK LENSES

Boever be will, and it is the astonishing would round off the economic and social ed. Then suddening and startling are conceded to be one of the very best truth that people tumble over cach other achievements of rent years. Everybody account of atreets resembling an earth forms of bifocal lenses. The bifocal seg- to pay Yen 2,000 for the opportunity to kios it, very dy complains, everybody quake where weeping women and frightment is ground and fused into the distant except a certain few would have matters ouod tann heedless of the incessant rain lens making the product practically one buy Withal the actual service is abominable, for the reason that the staff otherwise, But nobody is powerful or watch the biore with the shattered re-

insufficient and shockingly underpaid, influential enough to dispute the central mains horne along the saddened pathway. piece of glass. The segments are totally. It is not as if there were any shortage fact that the ultimate government of the Amidst the ruins in bloated corpses, hor-invisible and the lens has a beautiful of material, for Japan is doing a splendid country is in the hands of a certain few ribly swollen, with poison gas. business in the export of every variety of who are bore Parliament and the people.

Small carts drive up to receive the appearance. Kryptok lenses of any pres telephone equipment. There is no under had that they low are convinced that the melancholy load of the pitifit remains cription in either regular or Toric lout...

military ground sewage system in Tokyo and the futurs of Japan depends upon

are manufactured by the Hongkong Cartage of night soil is an offence from power, and are determined to use all of those blown to pieces with limbs, arms which the city is never free. The postal available resources for the building up and heads in bits, a ghastly, shuddery servic is the despair of all who are com of such power. Just as the growth of sight. The whole place is seeking with Optical Co., successors to Clark & Co., and industrial poison gas. There are cracking, groun- Manufacturing and Refracting Opticians, pelled to use it, because the staff, like that this great commercial of the telephone terrien is inadequate centre may be said to be an expression of ing, and an occasional crash as timbers the most-competent optical manufactur and underpaid. Telegraphis are not much the genius of the Japanese people, so it tive way. Whole Ambulance columas of better. It is a public grievance, not con- may be said to be typical of them that rescuers are working throughout the establishment in South Chink— fined to Tokyo that the period-of-com they bow down before the military night and day French colonial troops located in 53, Queen's Hond Central. they are guarding all bridges and preventing Fitting glasser and testing the sight is pulsory education, now six years, should authority which, in another for

the access of crowds." (Continued al foot of next column.) obeyed for centuries,

their speciality.Lavi.