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HONG KONG POLICE RESERVE.

HER ALLEGED EFFICIENCY: IS IT MERELY A MYTH? ORDERS ON THE HON. MR. v,

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WOLFE, CAPTAIN SUPERINTEN- BENT OF POLICE]

Deputy.

D. C.

The Deputy Superintendent of Police (Reserve) and Adjutant is

YOKOHAMA, Sept. 8th. "An article recently contributed cent failures of Banks-over fifty granted six weeks leave of absence are said to be still closed-was due from the Colony from September by Mr. Roderick O. Matheson, cor-

for the í not so.. much to irresponsible. Japan responden: in

During the absence on lave of Chicago Tribune, to the World's management of financial establish Commander G., B. Hartford, D.S.P. Irk, the

Ameri- ments as to irresponsible manage(R.), the senior Assistant Superin

monthly,

The Mythment of commercial and industrial tendent of Police (Reserva), Mr. F. C. Mow Bung, will carry out the and their consequent of Japanese Efficiency," aroused' in plants

duties of Adjutant, Japan, as may have been expected. failure. Thas, it follows that the considerable interest. In the course readjustment of business is the of his lengthy article, Mr. Mathe fundamental question that faces son insists that "Japan, as a great Japan, the relief of banks being Power, is a hollow bubble," that, but a secondary one. "although dipped in luxury, her

revenues

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Felice Training Schol. The advane members of the Chinese and Indian Companies will attended at the Police Training School at 3.30 p.m.. sharp on Thurs day, September 22nd, and Tuesday, September 27th, for instruction in Police duties and regulations by

aspector H. J. Paterson,

Recruits.

A recruits of the Chinese and Indian Companies will parada in multi at the Central Police Station for squad drill and rifle exercis

F.m. sharp as follows:-

Chinese Company on Thursday. September 22nd, and Tuesday, September 27th.

Indian Company on Friday. Sep-

tember 23rd, and Monday, September 28th.

Motor Cyclist Section (Flying Squad).

The weekly Instructional Patrol will leave Central Police Station on Thursday, September 22nd, at 3.15 p.m. sharp.

Aquatic Sports.

Spoon-Fed and Nose-Led. are constantly decreas Then there is the lack of original ing" that "her labour, though thinking amongst the Japanese, paid comparatively high wages, is which is one of the first things to sho in absolute- strike a careful observer living inefficient:" that

The Japanese still are y dependent on foreign lands for here, her very existence that, "finan-spoon-fed and nose-led. They ad cially, she is incapacitated to fight mit that the indictment of the for-under" Sergt. R. J. Hunt ne 3.0 a war with any major Power:" that eigner that the Japanese is inclin 'victory will bring her in nothing, ed to be over-submissive, is well- while defeat will spell her end as founded. One writer, who, for the a great Power and will also precisake of his country, thinks it is pitate a revelation, bealde which better that the Japanese be told of the horters of the Bolshevik revolu- their faults. than be entertained to tion will pale and that, for the silly postprandial flattery, writes: good of the entire world, it is as-Do not forges that we bunt, the well that these facts be known.” cat only when the authorities buy While there are sufficient persons the rodent, that we do not go on bere who understand the value of the left side of the road when no

The Police Reserve has been criticism,

if unfavourable, policeman is looking, although it there are also a great many who is more convenient for us to do so, kindly asked to participate in the PRICE: 50 Cts. per bottle have evinced anger at some of Mr. and that, although we bathe every annual Aquatic Sports organized by to be held at the Victoria Recrea Matheson's generalisations, taking day, we clean our houses only twice the Pulice and Prison Departments particular ambrage at the depic-a year. Such things show that we tion Club on Saturday, September tion of Japan's army as being all are incorapetent for autonomy and 24th, commencing at 3 p.m. There bers of the Police Reserve, a Two right for the first one hundred or lack the civic spirit even in minor will be one event open only to mem Lengths (50 yards) Race, and two hundred thousand, but that the things."

entries should be handed in to the half-a-million or so reserves were: Pleased With Flattery.

Adjuthat as soon as possible, All but little better than a mob for the Whenever the Japanese paps members of the Hong Kong Police purposes of modern warfare.'

publish foreign comment, from Reserve and their friends are cor- Now, Japan's army is a conscript newspapers and periodicals, abroad,dially invited to attend the sports:

no tickets of admission required: restrict such army and this, according to Mfr. they

publica.

(Sgd.) G. B. HARTFORD. Matheson, is an army bad in tion to praise," writes another

D.S.P. (R.), Adjutant. quality, since ita individuals are Japanese,

if the aritial

Hong Kong, Sept. 20th, 1947. incapable and lack initiative. The portion is not excluded altogether,.

"it is considerably toned down. The Japanese point of view-that is, reason is that Japanese readers

MANILA ASYLUM FULL. the military man's point of view have no sense of discrimination -is that, generally speaking, the and are pleased even with obvious

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On the contrary, the Japanese she is today, but, at prestre, teen found, according to Acting Mayor CHANEY'S

General Staff will maintain, if ask ed, that the primary duty of a soldier is obedience, and that mo successful battle can be fought, if the soldier, by the application of initiative, freely and at his discre tion advances or retreats.

consciousness seems to have heen Artiaga Admission of six new replaced by swelled-headedness."

patients was approved this morn. Thus it will be seen that there Ing by Sixto Teamatay, acting are Javanese who are fully aware secretary to the mayor. This makes that, while Japan may be regarded the total number of inmates at the as extremely progressive when act asylum 200, which is the maximum beside China or India, there are provided in the rules and regula also quite a number who think that tions issued by former Mayor placed beside the advanced coun Romualdez..

and North tries of Europe America, Japan proportionately is backward.

Not to be outdone by department chiefs at the city hall, Dr. Jose Syquia, director-physician of the asylum, also filed a letter with the acting city executive requesting ad- ditional appropriation for the asy. lum now that the city treasury is richer by P.1,400,000.

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Better living quarters for em pores is requested. It is said that with the meager appropriation for this item, the director cannot pro- ranking employes.-Manila vide good quarters to accommodate

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Times.

: Volunteers or Conscripts.

"If our troops are conscripted, then those of Mr. Matheson's coun- try are simply congregated by monetary inducement, says a mili

In conclusion, the article of Mr. tary writer in another paper. He Mathesca; as the writer has told cites a story to the effect that there your correspondent, was intended were considerable desertions from for American ecnsumption, especi the American Navy when the ally for those Americans on the United States entered the war Pacific slope who still visualize the against Germany.

bogey of a Japanese invasion. For The financial debacle which has the past five years, at least, Japan overtaken Japan and which, in it never has really dreamt of war self, according to Mr. Matheson, with anyone, because her leaders do forms "i

a cogent reason why this not want war with any one and, country never will allow its fre- least of all, with the United States, caters to stampede it into war is who is Japan's richest and best admitted by all writers who de customer and because to embark on plore the policy of industrial and any auch hare-brained adventure financial drift which was followed would be simply to commit econo- after the Great War, instead of mig suicide. Mady another cagent taking such steps, as Great Britain, paint can be adduced as to why for instance, did to write off losses, Japan does not desire to have any the oldest inhabitant of Tate's recognize changed, circumstances, enemies on the Pacific, but such Almshouses at Mitcham, who has reorganize industries and make a does not come within the purview never been abroad before, chose to fly on the occasion of her first trip thorough readjustment. Here it is of this article.

In company to the Continent. with her grandson, Mr. F. Priestly, Rn ex-member of the R.A.F., Mr

Sbe Reeves left Croydon in an Imperial Airways liner for Cologne, intends to make a 200-mile trip up.the, Rhine, and to visit Amster dam and Paris before returning to

DEFEAT.

JAPANESE VIEW ON SUN'S luck" or he relied upon the usual inability of the Northern militarista to grasp readily upon some given situation."

RUSHING HEADLONG TOWARDS AN OBJECTIVE,

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CRE00, Sept. 9th.

In the meantime, Japanese resi- denta in Shantung are criticizing the withdrawal of Japanese forces from this province, afirming that, in doing so, Tokyo is merely re- sponding to the wishes of a handful of misguided individuals and paid Propagandists.

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