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THE PESSIMISTIC VIEWS OF A

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Mr. Tooue Junnosuke, the former Governor of the Bank of Japan and the

Finance Minister under the Yamamoto

CHINESE MARRIAGES.

NECESSITY FOR PROPERLY REGULATED CODE.

1924

THE RUSSO-JAPANESE NEGOTIATIONS.

SOVIET VERSION OF THE SAGHA-

-LIEN, OIL, QUESTION,

(ROSTA NEWS AGENCY.)

The District Judge at Singapore had an interesting case to decide last week

Woon Seng sued her husband. Mr. And in which a Chinese lady, named Soon

PERUSU. October 8th. (or "Earthquake") Adininistration, who Klang Hee, for maintenance Mr. J. Lay- cock appearing for the wife and Mr. M. has recently returned from

The Russo-Japanrse negotiations have months' tour in Europe and America, Pillai for the husband. Mr. Pillai's entered upon their final and dreisive contributes an interesting article on the contention was that the marriage crostage, according to a statement made to the Soviet situation to the Taiyo ("Sun") for themony was under the republican reform-Press representatives at current month, which is translated by the-Japma Chronicle.

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My recent travels abroad, he says, have furnished me with much material for thought and reflection. There is nothing like 4 detached point of view for seeing ́one's position just as it is. In the midst of the terrible confusion ensuing, on the terrible catastrophe, when busied in de vising remedial measures, one was daly filled with vague fears and ideas about the future of the country and like mat

On observing the situation here from a separate environment abroad, however, those fears and ideas have be- come defined. In fact, those fears have ben so intensified as to produce a sense of irritation and exasperation In this way my journey has by no means been

ters.

in vain.

After giving his impressivas of Eng land, France, Germany and the United States, he writes:

THE TIDE OF NATIONALLYM.

A tide of Nationaliam has swept over the world since the war. The League of Nations has been formed in order to counteract the tendency, but I was "dis- appointed to find in the many opportuni- ties which I had to come in contact with Europeans of different nationalities in the course, of my trip, that the minds of the nations are turning from the concep- tions underlying the League of Nations to Nationalism, and that they are eager to push the cause of their respective countries all the while that they are

Loudly proclaiming apparently fair and disinterested opinions.

Nor is there perhaps anything unreasonable in this. Sational solidarity is perhaps the best means to restore the shattered culture and economy of each country-the only means to protect them from the results of others. Anyhow, whether it is to be regretted or greeted, with joy, it is deniable that the centre of the world's thought is moving from Inter-Nationalism to Nationalism,

JAPAN'S DISASTER.

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style, and really was no marriage at Embassy. While the principal questions all The laily in her evidence stated. in at issue before the opening of the parley reply to Mr. Pillai that there were no were those of the old debts and treaties Joss sticks in the library, where the cere and the Nikolaievsk affair, to-day Japan mony took place in February of last year. has suddenly linked the fate of friend- She also never saw any red candleship with the Soviet Government with the burrt. Her husband gave her no present question of Saghatin oil.. of any kind for the marriage and she, did not give him one. His grandmother was not present at the ceremony; her has already been co-ordinated by the two mother was there. She (as bride) did Parties, and there remaius but to make not kontow either to her own mother slight corrections in the wording. As for or to that of the defendant.

the Nikolaievak Affair, inasmuch as-it

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The question of debts and old treaties

The magistrate, in the course of tho was a question of material losses, it has proceedings, commented strongly on the been dropped out of the present negotia necessity of a proporly regulated code, tions," both Factiès agreeing upon an for Chinese marriage and observed that article providing for all mutual State a late Chief Jutice of the Straits Settle and private claims being considered at ments. Sir John Buckmill, had spoken a fature conference. As regards the strongly in this connection. He thoughtvacuation of Saghalin. it is an undis it was a matter for the attention of the puted question, the only danger, being | Secretary for Chinese "Affairs.

that Japan has drawn out the parley to

Mr. Pillai said that the only thing such a length that hostile elements have they relied on as a guide was the Six now, an excuse for breaking up an agree Widows Case.The marriage, however,

ment under the pretext that evacuation was under the Chinese reformed maris actually a practical impossibility. riage style.

3r » Pillai's preliminary, objection was

Then, there is bf the question of con- that the Court had no jurisdiction to try ressions in Saghalin. It must be stated' the case. It was a sort of action, he that in this question the Soviet Govern- thought, that should be tried by the ment has made very large concessions during these last days. It has agreed to Supreme Court.

Mr. Laycock contended that if that 40 per cent of the Saghilin oil-fields objection, prevailed then any defendant being lessed to Japan as a concession. of the Chinese or Hindu races had only However, Japan insists on having the got to come to Court, and say there was eight districts which she has selected her." no marriage and then the jurisdiction of self and which. previous to the Japanese the Court would be used, and the ecm-occupation, were almost the only districts plainant would have no remedy. There

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were two questions, firstly, whether the where it was certain that oil was to he reformed style of marriage would be found. In other words, Japan's demand BOLLAND.OOST AZIE valid marriage according to the law of amounts to a claim over all the oil known' China and, secondly, even if valid to exist in Saghalin. True, the Japanezo.

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be in the Straits Settlements. The side denies it, but in view of the Japanese requisites of a valid custom in the Straits occupation we are deprived of the poss- Settlements were the same as the re- quite of a valid custom in England.bility to ascertain the correctness of nagely certainly, reasonableness and im- their statement, and therefore, w baring arrived from the above ports, Consignees memortality. In the present case, of course, it could not be said that this pose a fair and honest way of dealing custom was immemorial as the new form with the situation, a method which is of marriage had only come into practise quite a nital one. What we propose is during the last few years.

the case.

The magistrate said he would reserve to grant 10, per cent of oil, while the his judgment on the preliminary point basis, that is all the oil-containing area as to whether he had jurisdiction to hear that exist in the Island, from which this

percentage is to be taken, will be deter mined by both Parties at a future con- so, emigration is hardly an adequate ference. Besides that, the Soviet Govern solution for the problem, of over-popula

In what light is the earthquake dis aster that befell Japan viewed by Euro. peans and Americans? It would seem heavy that they do no tregard it as

blow to Japan as we ourselves believo, probably because they have had experience of big earthquakes, such as those in Italy and in San Francisco. What made them more uneasy about tien in this country. It is suggested by ment agrees to give Japan one thousand Japan than the earthquake was the rapid some people that manufacturing indus- square verats, it being provided that succession in which short-lived miniatrics should be devcolped in order to

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JAVA-CHINA-JAPAN LIJN, General Agents. Hongkong, 18th October: 1924, 88.

since the earthquake despite the serious difficulty is bow industries are to be this hago territory for a period, of Eve situation in which the country has been developed to the necessary extent. The years, also receiving at her disposal, 40 placed by the disaster. If is undeniable only remedy is to equalise the popula- that the ministerial changes have done a great deal to lower the credit of the country. I have often heard expressed sech doubts as "Is not some big change impending in Japanese suciety?" or Will Tokyo and Yokohama ever re- emerge in their former conditions ?"

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« THE FAILURE OF EMIGRATION.

of the country such as Korea, Hokkaido,

Saphalien, Formosa. A good example in question of concessions, and that is in this direction is afforded by Germany, the "matter of royalities. While Japan Germany is naturally more favoured wishes to hand over to the Soviet Union than this country, but much less so than

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other nations, but the Germans have from 5 to 15 per sent. of the net output, As I viewed the various countries I succeeded in making science a substitute we insist on a percentage of from 10 visited on my trip, while I was impress-more than a substitute for natural to 15. ed more than ever by the national and | advantages. In short, there is nothing family constitution in this country as for it but that the nation should solve Things are more simple with coal T 0, 269.- being most excellent of any, in the world, its problems by its own efforts.

Japan desired that we should grant bep

I saw that the natural and material re- sources in this land of our are mots

THE NEED OF BEAD/STMENT.

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regrettably scanty. The output" of coal- In conclusion, Mr. Inoun emphasisese declined to discuss this point, and and petroleum, the basis of modern in- the need of readjustment along al lines: most probably Japan will realise that SANITARY INSTALLATIONS. dustry, is not large, the production of oil Coming as it did on top of the after, war her wish is impossible. As for the being in a particularly deplorable state reaction and prevailing economic de- As for the output of tron, it is practically pression, he says, the earthquake has royalties for the coal mines. Japan nil. But what one cannot help observing dealt this country "heavier blow than agrees to hand over 5 per cent of the with oavy when abroad are those fertile the war has done the European nations output, while we insist on frem. 5. to 10 and extensive felds which spread far and It is no exaggeration to say (he declared)

per cent. green to the Thorizon-felds which are that economically we are now in a chao- found in abundance in America and tie period, whorens Europe has already At the present moment, the fate of tho China and so on. With all this deficicucy entered upon a tange of readjustment, Conference depends on the commercial in natural; advantages, ours in the most the readjustment of which the success is

densely peopled country in the world, new assured by the Dawes scheme. From calculations of Japan or those whom while the annual increase in population this point of view, it may be said that Japan wishes to charge with the exploits. amounts to 700,000. How is so largo o the earthquake has made this country lag tion of the Saghalia concessiona surplus to be disposed of Emigration far behind others on the path of economic is the remedy that suggests itself Arst to recovery,

These concessions we grant only because So long as it was depressed we want to co-operate economically with the common mind. But emigration is equally with the rest of the world, there Japan and wish to come to her assistance not so caay an affair as people suppose. was no occasion 'for'un to feel particularly (in" her need of oil and coal, However, While it is rational and just that there downcast. But when the economic wave Japan has no right to demand concessions should be no national frontiers to debar is up for the outer world and still down from us on any ground. Still less is it a fair and equal distribution of popula for this country, not only is it very difpossible to make the restoration of re tion all over the earth, one comes across ficult for us to come up with them but lations between the two countries-which the barriers of Nationalism everywhere there is great danger of our being crushed has an immense importanco for all the and the door of every country is shut and smothered by the upper wave The world-dependent upon commercial cal against foreign emigranta.. Moreover, danger is all the greater, I fear, when the culations. emigration, bas been talked about for, nation is so unconscious of it. Prices . From the very outset we were saying thirty years since a batch of emigrants are still high. As for the rate of interest, that the negotiations should not be allow were shipped to Hawaii for the frat-it is as bad as in barbarous countries ed to be complicated with minor points time in mid-Meiji days, but the Japanese Complete overhauling is evidently neces. But Japan wished to do so, and now we emigrants not only in America but also sary in regard to finance, economy, the have been drawn into endless details, in China, Sheria and all over the world industrial system, foreign trade, every-which are threatening the favourable out do not ramber more than 700,000. In thing And unless the work be pro-come of the Conference. other words, it has taken thirty years. secuted with greater resolution and effort Anyhow, the next few days are decisive. for 700,000 Japanese to emigrate while than those exhibited by the European it would indeed be a pity to postpone the same figure representa: the annual nations in their task of reconstruction, yet for another year the re-establishment increase in population here. This being it is to be tested that the country will of relations now that nearly all the ques

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