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JAPAN'S RECORD OF REFORMATION.

WHY IT DIFFERS FROM CHINA'S.

ISLAND EMPIRE'S REVOLUTION LED BY THE

ARISTOCRACY.

SPY MANIA IN RUSSIA.

SOVIET SECRET TERRORIST POLICE.

FAKED CHARGES OF CONSPIRACY.

Consider now how the differences Profes Toynbee of London!

about. University in an article in the came

Why has Japac well known American magazine handled the phase so brilliantly

Spy mania in Russia, is a new, Harper's Weekly for September and China made, on the whole, so has written an illuminating treatise dismal a failure of it! The obvious phenomenon, for "until 1921 the upon "The Far East's Reaction to explanation lies in the difference in Cheka, or the Ogpu, as the Soviet terrorist police is дож Western Cilization."

the nature of the Japanese and the secret-

When known, specialised only in "con Professor Toynbee points out Chinese governing class. that during the first, four centuries Japan met the impact of the spiracies" Faked charges of con- of intercourse with the Western modern West first she was under the spiracy against "the power of the Powers both the Chinese and the rule of an hereditary aristocrney Soviets were frequent, and were Japanese Governments remained with a tradition of fortitude and staged with just as much spectaen- masters of the situation. They loyalty, an experience of statecraft, lar display as the present trials for regarded the Western seafarers as and a habit of command, which espionage.. just another swarm of barbarians were more edthiring and more im from the, Southern. Sea, uncouth, portant than their cultural heritage ingenious, demoniacally energetic or their termical training. Hence and, therefore potentially forraid- they were able to exchange the Con- able, though actively rendered in fucian and Buddhist cultures for nocuous by their small numbers, Western culture and adopt new the extreme remoteness of their methods of warfare without ceasing homelands, and their inveterate to be the governing class. They lost habit of fighting among themselves by their adaptions no forfeiture of an account of trivial and incom- their authority over the Japanese prehensible differences of religion | people.

China's Democratic Civil Service and nationality."

When we consider the modern

Falls.

Three charges served two pur poses: firstly, they were intended to demonstrate the need for the Cheka to those who advocated its abolition; and, secondly, they were intended as replies to the allega. ticas constantly brought against the Soviet of conspiracy in other countries.

Chief Of The Cheka. ... The policy is attributed to the genius of Djerzhinsky, the origina-

died in mysterious circumstances for and chief of the Cheka, who last year (says Dr. Edouard Luboff in the Daily Mail).

relations between the West and which had to meet the impact of In China, the governing class Japan it is clear that up to the present Japan appears not only to the modern West was of an entirely have retained her mastery over the different character. It was a pro-

When the supply of victims gave situation created by contact with fessional civil service, recruited, in the West (a mastery lost by the the most democratic manner con Chinese nearly a century ago), but ceivable, by a system of competitive out new methods because essential, to have taken permanent rank examinations in a classical culture and from the middle of October, among the Great Powers of the accessible to any boy with the talent | 192%, the Cheka began to arrest. to excel in it, however, poor and

Western World,

Japan's Progressive. Governing Class:

As a rule, these charges were based on innocent letters between members of the British Mission in-

Among

humble his parents might be. people who had come into contact China China as the fountainhead with foreigners, chiefly British. of far eastern civilization might be The whole point is that the expected to have a more enlighten-The usual accusation was that they Japanese Governing Class founded system than the Japanese on the had been spying in Russia on be- it less difficult than the Confucian face of things.

half of Britain. Literati of the Celestini Empire to luck upon the South Sea Bar- barians with unprejudiced eyes, They realised that the policy of exclusion of the foreigner, which had worked well enough in the seventeenth century could not be maintained with impunity now. That is where the Chinese persisted in their error and the Japanes, after Shimonoseki, did not. Their quickness of perception was extra- ordinary, and the Japanese govern ing class realised that to retain her mastery, o. the situation Japan must alter her relations with the West completely, and also must make a thoroughgoing revolution in her own national life. So they by rejecting it. It was only human former officer of the Czar's army, "Westernized ". the life of the that they chose the second alter- who was shot, after a farcial trial Japanese people at once and native under which its doom was practically avoided the transition not immediate, though still in for espionage on behalf of Britain. stage of the Unequal Treaties." evitable. The Chinese Revolution In an official report by Rykoff, the altogether: True Japanese com of 1911 was the direct consequence

When, then, it, came to the ques- tion of "What is the best type of governing class for meeting the im- pact of a formidable alien civiliza tion" then the Chinese civil ser- vice was at a considerable disadvan- tercepted by the Cheka tage compared with the Japanese these letters is the now famous aris oerney. The corporal identity communication from Mr. Preston, of the Chinese service was founded not on descent, and factly tradition of the Petrograd Mission, to. Mr. but on cultural heritage, and it Jerran, of the Moscow Mission. could renounce its Confucian back The Cheka put a special interpreta ground without committing suicider The Chinese governing class, while tion on the humorous expressions the. Japnurse were taking, the road used by Mr. Preston. of salvation, had therefore the hard

The first victim of the Cheka sp choice of perighing by accepting mania was Colonel Peshkoff, "i western civilization or perishing

were convicted and shot.

menced to laboriously reform their of the loss of mastery which had Soviet Premier, the British Govern- Administration their law and existed sizes the war of 1839. The ment is stated to have minde efforts their judicial procedure and pro- Revolution not only overthrew the to save the lives of eleven people. duced men with a new standard of Government but also the whole Con education and probity,

fucian way of life, in which the all of whom had been accused of eivil service had lived and moved. espionage, but it is claimed that While Japan has adjusted herself"an unlimited number of persons to the modern West by a revolution from shove downwards, China has been compelled to attempt the same adjustment by the far more difficult process of a revolution from below upwards, for the governing class was incovable, from its nature, of taking the initiative, so had to be swept away. That is why the Chi- nese revolution has started half a century later than in Japan

The foreign powers had to admit that the Japanese, through their own exertions, had rendered foreign treaty privileges no longer neces sary. Hence, in Japan, the difficult transition from hostile isolation to free and friendly, intercourse on equal terms was successfully nucoin- plished, in less than half a century. In China the matter has been in progress for the best part of a century and the end is not yet in eight."

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rapidly. In fact, it may he said to-day that agents of the Cheka have now been let loose or Russin like savage witch-hanters,

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Unfortunate people with rela- tions or friends in England have become the special prey of the Cheka, Their names have been WARNING AGAINST UNDUE tabulated, and the slightest pretext

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Under the auspices of Cardinal The reported-release of large Vinecaz Vannutelli, inter-flow of petroliferous gas in the nusonal committee has been formis in Reme comprising the most out standing personalitira of various countries. The object is to found a home of refuge for persons be longing to the aristocratic and in tellectual classes, without any dis tinetion of nationality, who owing

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tered at Roma. Heavy waxy all the British coleny in Helsingfors

Strips of specially woven cotton This friendship may fabric are impregnated, with resin, Hitherto numerous committers has been flowing from Longreach | (Finland). bad been formed to help war for two years past, and small show-cost the lives of the Olshevsky cut to size, and laid one on top wounded, orphans, and widows, but ings of, oil have been reported at the idea of coming to the aid of Ruthven Cleeve and other bores in couple, and, according to the re of the other to the shape of the. the so-called "hidden poor", had Central Queensland.

ports, it has already meant death never occurred to anyone, although "Rona gas contains a small pres they are perhaps the worst sufferers portion of highly volatile liquid to Mitingin, who is reported to from the revolutionary movements and also oil, consisting, almost ex-haye committed, "suicide" which have taken place in many clusively of non-volatile substances. making a confession. The Grudzeff parts of the world.

Only drilling in carefully With the aid of an international selected places has been possible, couple are also suffering for their subscription the committee proposes with the object of ascertaining the friendship with one of the accused I found the first Refoge Home at essential Ostin, near the Temple of Our Lady existence of set regarding the who corresponded with English of Peace, which is developing into mercial quantities.

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