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Dop.7.14

141

.Dap. 7.30

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Fanling.

Bheangshui .Dop. 7.35

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7.41 8.41

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441

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5.19 6.12 8.11 5.20 0.22 8,27 5.34 0.27 8,37

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JULY 27, 1932. 叁拜禮 日柒廿月年弍卅佰玖仟登英 Price)

SPIRIT OF OLD JAPAN

TREND OF MODERN THOUGHT IN ISLAND EMPIRE.

SALVATION OR RUIN!

now as a turning paint, and radical TOKYO, July 18.

Marx was,

until recently, a renovation of national life is im "best seller" in Japan. The reminent. Victory in Manchuria will cint swing from the Left to the be the signal for this renovation:

DIARY OF LOCAL EVENTS.

TO-DAY.

(July 27.)

Orchestral Concert at Repulse Bay Hotel, 9 p.m.

Lawn Bowls-Spoy Royal Cup: Kowloon C.C. r. Police R.C., 4.30

p.m.

Blliards-Final of Soldiers'

0.11 10.20 11,15 12.08 2.10 3.20 4,40 0,40 0,838,88 | Right, however, has brought about but; should the people err, the club Billiard Tournament, u p.m.

8.40

DOWN TRAINS

7,28

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.... 4.38.

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No. No. No. 10 21 ja 28 P.M. P.M. P.X, F.M.

Canton...... Shumchun... Shonagaluf ...... Fanling

Talpo Market. Taipo que Shatiu...... Yauati

Tep

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a very definite slump in his popu- larity, and books attacking him and his teachings are now the order of the dny. Amongst these is one which is said to be exercising con- siderable influence on the youth of¦ the nation in general and on the younger Army officers in parti 70 | eular. "Nihon Aynushi" ("Japan,

in Danger" is its title, and the danger against which its author, Kyo Suzuki, warms his countrymen is the twin peril of Communism and Capitalism..

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Manchurian incident will bring ruin."

Ald from Working Classes.

Queen's Theatre: Madelon Claudet."

"The Sin of

Central Theatre: "Fifty Fathoms Deep."

King's Theatre: "Two Kinds of

Women,"

Star Theatres

cola.".

In effecting this renovation, he looks to the farmers end the middle class, petty merchants, and workers

The increasing dis for support. tinction between the capitalists and the proletariat, ́he declares, has split the whole social system, but agriculture remains at the Wild.” centre of Japanese economy and the middle class workers are the main- Asserting that signs of ruinstay of industry, commeren and are visible," this prophet of evil agriculture.

deolares: "Japan is on a rolcano, i "This situation," he remarks It must quickly remove itself from more hopefully, "gives assurance this dangerous position. Corrupthat the split is neither serious nor tion, lax discipline, deadlock, con- permanent. Marxist policies can fusion, degeneration, egoism, poli- never be applied to social recon- tical vice, industrial upheavals,struction and economic reshaping.” financial stagnation, a growing intensity in class feeling, increasing uncimployment, birth control, and sundry other evils have cropped, up, ond after another, and are spread ing to the furthest corner of the Empire,"

"Abraham Lin-

World Theatre: "King of the

Garden Theatre: “Dr. Jekyll and

Mr. Hyde."

Majestic Timatre: "Good Sport."

Tea Dance at King's Restaurant; Dinner Dances at Repulse Bay Hotel and King's Restaurant.

Tides:High at 3.50 and 14.53; Low at 11.20 and 10.52.

Like many other of his country- Home Mails: Inward from men at the present time, the writer Europe rin Suez by Ranpara; Out- attacks the politics parties forward for America and Europs vía, their corruption and premation of San Francisco by Chichibu Maru, nelf interest. In their actions, he 8.30 .I. declares, is found nothing akin to Deploring that fact that, whereas

the nation's ideals and aspirations, the people of Japan are always

and he warns them that, if they rendy enough to unite against an enemy monacing the country from do not change, "Japan is doomed without, they are strangely into retrogress and sink in pursuance different to even greater dangers

from within, the author makes the of selfish interests and pleasure." rather significant assertion that "fortunately the Manchurian in- cident has served to rouse them from their lethargy."

Oure for Degeneration.

In saying this, he is but echoing the sentiments expressed on more than one occasion by General Araki, the War Minister, who has fre- quently recorded his relief that the troubles in Manchurin has served to re-awaken "the spirit of Old Japan. "

This spirit, it is felt, was rapidly degenerating as a re- sult of what the author of this book calls "a change of emphasis from honour to wealth, from spiritual ideals to materialism, and from feudal loyalty to destructive egoism."

Mr. Suzuki's main theme, in fact, is that "the popular mind was being poisoned by wealth, and was sinking into an abyss of corrup-

Although anti-capitalist to a cer- tain extent, he is no advocate, of complete abolition of private ownership. Japan, be observes, has established a form of state socialism based on private ownership.

"Abolition of all privato owner- ship would destroy traditional, cul- ture, but some interests control more than they can use to national advantage-The great gulf between wealth and poverty that exists in Japan is a result of abuse and misuse of the private ownership

systern."

Redistribution of Land.

While, however, ka advocates more aven' distribution of wealth than abolition of private ownership,

THURSDAY,

(July 28.)

Weekly Meeting of the Hong Kong Theosophical Society, 6 p.m. Whist Drive at Police Recreation Club, Happy Valley, 6.30 p.m.

Orchestral Concert at Repulse Bay

Hotel, 8.p.m.

Lawn Bowls:-Spey Royal Cup Competition: Kowloon Docks 1. Hong Kong Electric (Police Recrea tion Club green), 4.30 p.m.

Central Theatro: "Fifty Fathoms. Deep,"

King's Holiday."

Qucer's Theatre: To Death."

Husband's

Theatre:

"Condemned

Star Theatre: "On Approval." World Theatre: "Dance Fools,

Dance."

Garden Theatre: "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde."

Majestic Theatre: "Good Sport," Tea Dance at King's Restaurant;

he considers that the country Dinner Dances, at Peninsula Hotel, should copy the famous Talkwa Be- Hong Kong Hotel and King's Res- forms of the 7th Century, reformstaurant. which "marked the transfer of

Tides: High at 4.49; Low at

tion, while "discipline had become land from the clan system to the 12.35. lax and thought was thoroughly family system" although theoretic- shaken." The roar of cannon ally private ownership of land was from this same culture, he says,

of September 10 last year, he re- marks, "found the nation in this condition. Fortunately it served to arouses the dying spirit of Yamato Damasbil, and to save it from the abyss into which it was rapidly drifting."

in Mukden early on the morning thereby prohibited, as all fand was have come corruption in party thenceforth, until the rise of feu-politics, socialistic thought, and dalism, regarded as belonging to moral degeneration, leading Japan the Emperor.

to a cliff from which it may fall at Japan stands at a crucial turn-any moment. Japan must there- ing point, be concludes. The in-fore turn back. The alternatives dividualistic and liberal culture of are robirth or ruin. State control the Moiji Era (1888-1912) ushered of life and injection of morality While, however, he considers it in constitutional government, capit into capitalism, or state control of fortunate that this drift, bia. boenalism, the industrial revolution, and capitalism, are vitally important. checked, he is by no mean satisded Imperialiam, placing Japan among The nation can survive, but it must that the country has been saved, the Big Three of the World. But first know what to do and then do for he remarks that "the nation is. (Dontinued at foot of next column:) it-Teuter.

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