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JAPAN'S FOOD SUPPLY.

NOT NEARLY NOURISHING

ENOUGH.

CHILDREN'S HEALTH

UNDERMINED.

A SERIOUS PROBLEM.

Dr. Nitobe not long ago, in the courte of lecture, described his countrymen 19

CHINESE STUDENTS

ABROAD.

WARNED TO BEHAVE THEMSELVES.

THREE EXPELLED FROM GERMANY.

(Asiatic News Service)

AN AMAZING COMPANY.

CHARGES AT PUBLIC INQUIRY.

DIRECTOR'S DOUBLE SALARY,

Startling-evidenco was given at a public inquiry opened by Mr. John Fox, an Faspector appointed by the Registrar of Friendly Societies, into the nairs of the House Coal Association, Limited. which had offices in High Holborn. The inquiry Friendly Societies Central Offee, North Audley street, W.

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Paxso, Sept. 13th. According to the report of Mr. very poorly Wei Chen Chu, tinister to Ger. dourished. As the Japanese Gov-many, three Chinese students, who ernment is now inquiring into the recently participated in the coufer food problem, as it is called, the

ence at German Communists at a

The Association was registered investigations of Dr. E. C. Grey, Berlin beer house, have been sent

under the Industrial and Provi- who has been commissioned by the to Hamburg under police escort for dent Societies' Act to supply mem League of Nations to see what the deportation to China as alien un-bers with house coal at cost price. Japanese eat and the quantity of. the food supplies, ace of peculiar interest.

From an abstract of the report appearing in the Japan Advertiser, we learn that Dr. Grey considera that the quantity of foodatuffs is sufficient for the present popula tion, but owing to only ten per cent of the food being used in its natural state the quality is serious ly deteriorated, leading to a high incidence of disease. That the "de ficiency is in quality and not quantity Dr. Grey considera pror- ed by the fact that the death rate does not increase at a time of poor harvest but, on the other hand, rather diminishes, although he is willing to acknowledge that it is very difficult to establish facts as to the quality of foodstuffs. Many point out that in cleaning their rice the Japanese destroy the most nutritious part of the grain. Pre- sumably it is possible to get unhull. ed or uncleaned rice, but the con- sumption in Japan must be even

smaller than that of brown bread in the West. Dr. Grey is discern- ing enough to see that there is fittle chance of the Japanese sub

desirables.

and the application for the in- Prior to their departure for Ham-quiry, said Mr. Fox, was signed, burg. afr. Wei tried to come to an by one-tenth of the 236 members agreement with the German Foreign and hall-members. Office about the retention of these students in Germany until the termination" of their school terms; but as their" conduct was regarded by the Berlin police as dangerous to the peace and order of the Ger man Republic, they were finally seat to Hamburg for deportation to the Far East.

The Berlin police are in posses. sion of reports that these young Chinese students are members of the Russian Communist Party and consequently, their further sojourn in Germany will be detrimental to German interests.

On account" of

this, the Government has issued a circular telegram to all Chinese

The inquiry will not be con- fined to matters such as are set out specifically in the application,”- said the Inspector.. certain matters which, as a result of my investigation of the minute bock, I think need inquiry."

"There are

£5 a Week Directors.

Mr. Mark Parker, of Wost- Bourne-terrace, W., said he signed the application to register the Association, which was promoted by a syndicate.

He was appointed chairman of the Association.

In November 1921, said Mr. Parker, he and Mr. S. J. B. Pellatt were appointed managing directors. in foreign countries, students especially those in Great Britain of the Association at a remunera- week. His (Mr. and Japan, warning them to behave tion of £34

atituting uncleaned rice for clean themselves and not to join any Parker's) ion was paid secretary

and it has none

fcreign.or Chinese "party or interest themselves in affairs outside their studies, otherwise, they must accept

of the Association.

The Inspector: I cannot for the life of me see what there was to without com- employ two managing directors. that time. I want to know how you justify appointing yourselves and paying yourselves these direc tors' fees.

the consequences plaint. But the three students and a secretary in that office at

mentioned above emphatically deny connection with the having any Russian

or Chinese Reds though they are members of the Kuomin

ed, although, he claims bat it would be better for the Japanese if they ate it uncleaned. But the natural rice grain is rough to the tongue and unpleasing to the palate, it is not so easily digested, the pleasing ap- pearance of the pure white grains of polished rice.' Dr. Grey con- siders that it would be better to encourage the use of other cereals in the form of bread than to make tang. a useless effort to induce the Jap- anese to eat uncleaned rice. He advocates more use of barley, which is a third of the price of rice and contains twice the protein. But if uncleaned rice is distasteful to the palate, barley is not likely to prove any greater competitor to cleaned rice. The farmers are compelled through poverty to mix it with their rice, or even to eat it alone, but the superior palatability of cleaned rice leads to the use of bar-

ley being regarded as inore or less a hardship.

the

and develop chronic complaints. Every illness leaves its mark on the human frame, and the mal nutrition of the children leaves its mark on them as adults Dr. Grey finds that 70 per cent. of the children and adults in Tokyo habitually breathe through the mouth, due to the glands taking up the work of defence against bacteria becoming inflamed and enlarged, especially those at the back of the nasal passages.

Mr. Parker: I cannot answer that.

The Inspector: According to the

bank pass-book the fees of both managing directors-£10 a week- were paid to you. Why was that i

cannet tell you. Did Mr. Pellatt receive his share --Oh, yea

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"No Authority."

Among several letters read by the Inspector was one from a member of the representatives' Committee of the Association, who said he had come to the conclusion that," the whole thing was a fraud."

What steps can Japan take to

The Inspector also read a minute improve the quality of her food

from the Association's books au- supplies Dr. Grey recommends therising the payment of £3,000 the use of bread and potatoes, and 10 per cent. commission to the though he thinks that the case of House Coal Promotion Syndicate, Japan in respect of nutrition Limited, for obtaining capital for so bad that substitution of one

the company. Was there any au- thority for this?" he asked.

farinascous food for another, even with a little vitamin, would not

Mr. Parker said he was afraid make up the deficiency adequately. there was none. The. £3,000 waS It is necessary to raise the propor-never paid, he added. tion of protein by the addition to

You did not in fact misapply

Ostensibly it would, not appear that palatability means nourishing power. Dr. Grey notes that the death rate from intestinal disease in Japan is greater even than from türberculosis, which in other coun- tries heads

list. This he ascribes to the pocrness of the food weakening the digestive system till it has not power to combat disease. In none of the Japanese prepara- tions does he find the necessary materials for maintaining health

Tofu is not the equivalent of beans, although it is made from beans. In the process of manufac- These, it may be noted are all tion bristled with difficulties.

was impossible to get money with ture the vitamins have gone, the things that Japan lays a more or salts have been largely washed out, Ics heavy tax on, as if to show out paying for it.

Cheese, the phosphorus is partly lost. To her hatred of proteins. make the beans palatable, in fact, which, however, the Japanese do half their virtues are thrown away, not like, has a duty of hundred just as to make rice palatable half per cent., while all the others are it virtues are cleaned away. Yet taxed more or less to assist the it is upon the soya bean and upon struggling agriculturista. fish that Japan has to rely for its proteins.

and pigs should certainly not be so, but the primitive nature of the Japanese methods of cooking are against such food, being used in a

palatable form.

the diet of foods rich in this money, but you would have done. material, as for example by ish, if you had had it -The whole posi meat, eggs, milk, cheese or beans.

It

Replying farther, Mr. Parker said the Association. decided to purchase a colliery through the syndicate for £750.

Mr. Fox: Why through the syn- dicate I cannot tell you

Assume

Well, I shall have to then. Was the syndicate to get a commissien cut of the deal 1-No, I should say not.

Extremely Dishonest."

A deposit of £50 was paid, Mr. Parker added, but a solicitor was late in forwarding the balance, and the option lapsed. The Association Tost the deposit.

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Butter, we suppose, should come in this list, but Dr. Grey only finds For fish diet Dr. Grey has rancid butter produced in the nothing but praise, yet he correctly country (in the Hokkaido), al- notes that it is not very easily though the imported butter is good transported and is not very readily enough Meat, eggs and milk are available for the agriculturel dis all taxed, and so are beans. Such tricts. The poverty of supplies in taxes on "foreign foodstuffs, and some, inland places is certainly there are many more, have reacted astonishing, the sole addition to on Japanese foodstuffs "a Japanese

Mr. Parker said Mr. Pellatt the rice being often small dried meal that before the war could be

Bouth trout, which presumably could not obtained at a reasonable price, is inspected a colliery in be procured all the year round. now for dearer than a foreign Staffordshire on behalf of the As- Yet the facilities for growing food meal, taking into account the sociated Chemical and General In dustrica, Limited, of which be (Mr. supplies are ample. If the rearing variety and quality. of livestock is expensive, chickens Within the last few years, in the Parker) and his wife, Mr. Pellatt, large cities at any rate, there has and Mr. Pellatt's two sons were

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It was proposed that this com Japanese dietary. In Kobe for instance, where before the war pany should purchase the colliery. there were only a few Japanese for the House Coal Association and dietary. In Kobe for instance, make a profit. ́ ́As Dr. Grey notes infants suffer where before the war there were

Mr. Fox: Do you think that very severely from lack of proper only a few Japanese restaurants honest Yea food. The Japanese have no know where badly cooked foreign food Well, I don't. I think it is ex- ledge of rearing a child berond was served, there are now in tremely dishonest, supplying it with the mother's numerable restaurants where it is Speaking of a mine in South milk, which it continues to receive possible to get foreign meals at a Wales bought by the Association for far too long a time.

price that compare favourably the inspector said he had received there is no mother and a wet nurse

with what would be charged in a verbal report from un expert that is not available, anything that Japanese restaurant of the same it was no mine at all looks like milk is considered good quality. Bread too, of a certain The Association agreed to give | THURSDAY, Sers. 2010. ar 9.15 r. enough.

quality, is to be obtained in any £4,500 for it. If it had been Thick rice-water, destroys many town of importance in Japan. bought direct £600 in commission infante in the slums every year,

Nevertheless the rise in prices would have been saved. Eventual- and higher up in the social scale, has probably had a bad effect on Is the price was reduced to £2,861 many more are slaughtered by ad the Japanese dietary of the poorer 101. Would not that sho ministering cow's milk without any classes, rendering it still less - Mr. Fox: dilution, which even with the poot | nutritious and still plainer than it that the original price was out- milk supplied in Japan meaus was before. It is hardly surpris rageous 1-Yes. disease for the child As Dr. Grey says a large number of the children ing that in order to attain a little temporary satisfaction sake should

When

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in Japan grow up undernourished still be consumed in large quanti- big price for the property 1

(Continued on next Column-) :-: ties-Japan Chronicle.

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