1933-10-10 — Page 7

JAPANESE IMPERIALISM

ANALYSED

A Contrast With The American Attitude

ISLAND EMPIRES GRIP ON PACIFIC

BY UPTON CLOSE

Honolulu, T. E., Sept. 16." If the United States government had the same psychology and were carrying our the same policy to ward its interests in the Pacific as the Imperial Japanes Government at the present time, we would take the Mandated Islands, South China coast and Formosa in order to assure the military and naval. safety of the Philippines, and we would have to insist upon the re- duction of Japan's haval fortress Ir the Bonin Islands in order to assure the Territory of Hawaii of safety from attack,

We would

be convinced that every ship built by another country was intended to attack'us; but that every ship launched by our- selves was in fulllment of sacred obligation to maintenance of our nation as its sacred traditions. The Japanese mentality is produced by 3 combination of economic in- security and conviction of Japan's divine mission in the world.

"This Httle contrast in the men- tality and actions of the two peo- ples shows what we are up against in dealing with Japan to-day. Is shows what our army and navy. are up against.

100 PER CENT? WAH-MINDED Japan has a population 100% war-minded. whether favourable to war or not. That is to say. the civilian population of Japan is al- ways sympathetic with and behind its army and navy in its purely military and strategic problems, Every taxi-driver film developer and servant in Japán is on the lookout lest aliens procure intelli- gence detrimental to the defence"; services. Is this true on our side?

-If the Japanese navy can take any advantage under the present treaties without causing a show- down the population of Japan is elatedly for it. But in. America a lobbying pacifist organization watches our service more hostilely than even the intelligence agents of the Japanese,

SUPER-VIRTUE!

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1933.

WORDING OF A. CHARGE SHEET

Dates Must Be Given

An interesting point regarding the wording of a charge-sheet was brought up by Mr. Balfour at Gen-

HOW TO READ THE

GOSPELS VI

About Sin And Failure

tral Magistracy yesterday in the 1. INADEQUATE TEACHING IN PAST

course of a case in which' Sin Choi In was charged with stealing 138 plates from a store in Kaj On Street, and Ng Sze Tim was charg- ed with "receiving them. 41

After hearing the police state- ment and defendant's evidence His Worship discharged the sum- mons against Ng for receiving.

Regarding the charge against the first defendant. S. L Fender said that the accused had been Take the situation in the Philip arrested following suspicion, being pines. Sald one. American naval cast on him. He had been break officer to me: "We don't get our ing into the shop and stealing the orders from Washington. We get plates almost every night for a them from Tokyo!." He told me month. He admitted stealing the the following incident. I have stuff and he took the police to the been unable to verify it. A pump second defendant's shop when, the wore out somewhere in our Phillp-property was recovered. pines naval establishment. That

His Worship: I must get some size and style pump was no longer evidence against him. I am not manufactured. A pump to do the bound to take his plea of guilty. same work but with larger capa-I think there should be a date installed. Forthwith given and some evidence, apart came a protest that America, was

from his own admission." breaking the non-further-fortifiea- tion treaty. That pump had to be tion provision of the naval limita-

pulled out and the old model ra cast to order, at several times the cost to the American tax-payer. Yet nobody asks the Japanese why they are building harbour works in the Mandated Islands which could not be justified on a commercial basis if those islands contained ten times their meager resources. The reason: Our State Department. scrupulous regarding treaty.obser- vance, passes upon every contested replacement made by our naval and military authorities in this

city

was

8. I. Fender: "Well, there 15 this date-from Sept. 1 to Oct. 3.

The charge. was then re-read to defendant with these additions..

His Worship: "In a proper charge the store-keeper will have to put down every date he stole them. It will remand the charge three days and then perhaps you can give some dates.**

STEALING DAIRY FARM BOTTLES

arez, But Japan's General Staff Thief and Receiver Punished

controls its Foreign Office-now more than ever since Mr. Uchida's resignation.

Again: six (if I got it. right). American combat planes of the new type to "clean up " trenches were sent to the Philippines. The old air-plane carrier Langley. really antiquated, was to follow out as their "home." Protest from Tokyo through the U.S. State De partment. Langley prohibited from Joining Asiatic fleet. After a time combat planes had to be taken away.

Yet Japan could put as many of these planes as she pleases in Bouth Formosa within a half hour's flight of Luzon: our forces would not even know it. And if our navy buys cement from a Japanese firm to replace cracked gün emplacements every news- paper in Japan accuses the United States in big beadlines of breaking the limitation treaty!

our anxious service.

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For larceny of 20 milk bottles from a lane at the back of the Alexandra Cafe, on Sunday, & Chi nese named Chan Du was sent to prison for one week and bound over for one year in $50. On a charge of receiving them Li Hong was fined 850.

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Preaching on Sunday in St.", a King of Judge: The Church has John's Cathedral Bishop Hall at least been faithful to Jesus in Jald:-

this. It has taught that it is vital to conquer evil, not because the for/country is an unpleasant place to live in, but because we were made by the Father to share the life of His home.

Nature, abhors A Vacuum and knows no emptiness, Air will al- ways be drawn into an empty place. So it is with the 'thought- life' of men. The history of rell- glon in England" in the last cen- thought tury has seen this happening. The

The first thing then that we find in the Gospels is a picture of bu- man life as Sonship: Sonship to the Most High: and evil as the mighty because He deals with evil; enemy of that Sonship. God is al-

not as a King, with his subjects, but as a Father with His Sons, Evil is real: but God is more real His love makes Him master, of

and teaching of the Church left three emptyplaces. They have been filled up by so call- ed new religions. The most signi- ficant of these three is Christian Science. The Church failed to teach the truth as it is in Jesus, about the value of physical health | and the power of the spirit over Evil the body. This left a vacuum. Christian Science is filling that vacuum. It is a very healthy re- minder to the Church of her fallure to secure the full balance of our

Lord's teaching and practice in our life and thought,

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To the question. where does evil come from? There is no answer. To the question. "how can evil be dealt with?" There is the prac tical answer of God dealing with evil and overthrowing its power

"over men.

FAILURE

From that standpoint may 1 deal with three points:

(1) The first is "Failure." (2) The second is 'Sins." (3) The third is 'Sin.'

Similarly, Protestant Christianity has been timid in its thinking about our relationship with those who have passed on. Prayers for the dead have been regarded as form of idolatry. Many Chris lans who were bereaved so violently during the war years could not stand this vacuum left by the

1. FAILURE is a real thing: Church; in "cons^quence there has and the sense of failure is a crip- been a great increase in Spiritua-pling thing, making future failure- lism: Spiritualism like Christianmore and more inevitable. But Science is a valuable reminder to Jesus takes for granted that sin us. It emphasises the fundamen- is real: that there is tal facts of love and the eternal life of the spirit.

In the same way. Theosophy has arisen to fill the vacuum left by our Inadequate handling of the problem of sin and failure.

ed.

something

as different from failure as miss- ing a train is different from never going near the station. We know that we have not just lost our way in the dark, we have deliberately gone against the light;

These three religions all suffer 2. SINA-Jesus' interest is not from the same defect. They are in assessing sins, but in getting man-centered and not God-center- the purden of them off our should

Christian Science comes very ers. And here He treats both sin It was stated that on Sunday

near materialism in its emphasis and failure alike. because they are morning the first defendant was

on physical Health: sometimes ap- both past. Jesus freed Mary, Zac- seen in No. 12 Lascar Row by a

pearing to make, the spirit subserve i cheus, 'and Peter. and probably District Watchman selling the

the purposes of the boay. Spiritua- many more, from the power of the bottles to the second defendant.

lism, in the same way, centres on past. This He did because life to The bottles were taken from a lane our relationship with departed Him was God-centered. And what The name of the Hong Kong Spirits rather than on our relation-matters to God is not our past Dairy Farm was maked on the bot- ship with God in the communion of sins, but our present absence from at the back of the Alexandra Cafe, Saints. In the same way, Theo- | home, Unfortunately, in the tles in both English and Chinese,

sophy is directed towards the ac- Church this has not been our way. hievement through many Incarna- The adulterer is outcast: the bit- tlons of a perfect selfhood, inter, the proud, and the selfish can which man, the perfectly accom- grace our pulpits and kneel at our plished man, is the measure of all altar rails. The drunkard and the things.

foul-mouthed say, "I'm not your sort padre." The prejudiced, the selfish and the mean are called, "Good Christians," but not perfect you know.

A new and bigger ferry boat has been ordered by the head-office of the Shanghai-Hangchow Highway for the Minghong, ferry service. Built at a cost of approximately $80,000, the new ferry boat is cap and over 100 passengers at a time ahle of carrying ten motor cars Japan's General Staff knows pretty and will be placed on service next well where every American ship is Wednesday, according to the Chin sible to effectively "lose" a large every day. It would be as impos-ese papers.

Let the last slightly-internation- al minded cabinet minister

Thus do the odds pile up against be

The most dropped from the government in Japan let the General Staff decide significant thing of all that I have to double this year's naval program

heard is that the Japanese navy and then redouble, and the Japan-be completely lost for three weeks can steam out of sea en mass and se people, although groaning un- der the taxes. give the General Staff the benefit of every doubt. But an American organization will keep insisting that the Ameri-.

can navy get out of the Pacific

THE US. SERVICE-

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here.

American fleet as to lost.Mt. Tan- talus.

They want protection if US. AT A DISADVANTAGE, what "must not happen" does bay- Why are our services at such per And, of course, a cynic from a disadvantage? There are some outside might observe, & dourish sweeping reasons. First, we are ing Japanese menace plays a large operating in the potential enemy's part in the income, prosperity and world. We are entirely enveloped contract-letting of the islands. by Japanese population, Japanese Without it, the Federal Govern. fishing feels, Japanese islands.ment would keep 2000 here. Japan rectified her position in a

Mixed motives. Unclearly out- similar respect by taking by force lined hopes instead of clear defini Manchuria and annexing the Man-tion of the risks, instead of hold dated Islands General Araki im- decision to take them or frank pltes more must be taken for "na-decision not to take them. And a tional security."

navy and army waiting facing a Secondly, even more important.navy and army which instructs its every Japanese subject is war- government and is secure in popu- minded. He bears in mind thatlar devotion. Such is the situa his nation's destiny is likely to tion.

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The Church has been right in proclaiming the centrality of God. His Love, His Reality, His claires on the life of man. We need the Spiritualism, and Theosophy, to emphasis of Christian Science. call us back to the limitations of our teaching. "And they need in my judgment the central message of the Church with its emphasis on God, if they are to escape from the pettiness of a man-centered cults.

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It is of the gap in our teaching. which Theosophy exists to fill that I would speak to-night. Can we fill the gap in our Church by a new understanding of Jesus' ways, Jesus' views?

sins

gİN IS EMOTIONAL DISHONESTY

3. SIN-But if. fallure and are of the past, BIN is very much present. And this is the surprising and startling thing.

That is the heart of Jesus' chal- lenge to-day. He does not appeal first to our minds: or to our wills... He appeals direct to our power to appreciate light when we see

it, and to recognise it for what it is. and to walk in it. It demands from us an intense emotional

honesty.

Yet, if a blow-up should come as suddenly as it came between Rus- sia and Japan in 1904, when the Japanese navy leapt upon and sank the Russian ficet previous to de- claration of war

because Japan could no longer suffer Russian ob- struction of Japanese plans in

JESUS' CONFLICT WITH EVIL

I speak to you to-night as ย Korea and Manchuria, the Ameri-

Jesus.fe after His

friend and brother who under- baptisin can peoples would demand that

opens on two notes. The voice stands what it costs. I beg you to their army and navy give them

wash says to Hiut, "Thou art allow your emotions their freedom, protection, a good accounting in

the Son of God," and the other that you may be as honest in your the struggle and final victory. I

voice which He recognises as the emotion as in your thought. You have in my time inveighed plent-

Voice of Satan. Fo forty day.will not then be afraid to find both eously against the myopia of the

and forty nights He is tempted in: emotional and intellectual freedom professional military man. But in

the wilderness. This conflict con in the odd company of the Naza- all history there has never pre-

tinues throughout the Gospels. rene. viously been a nation that was

be determined by an appeal to There is no parallel in the world. Think what it means to Him to be willing to put its defensive services arms. Such a thought hardly oc- Did Japan let the original Ameri- | accused of casting out devils in such a difficult, position... eurs to Americans. Every Japanese can settlera control local govern through the Prince of the Devils. is potentially behind, co-operative ment in the Bonina? No, several now clear His answer rings out Can we blame American army with, the Imperial army and navy. Limes. Does Great Britain, with a and navy services called upon to

about a house" divided against it- Frond to be so. Most Americans fraction of the potentialities, let self. He goes on to describe Batan maintain Hawaii as, the American Gibraltar when they grow restive

are supercilious toward, and many local politicians control in Aden? as a strong man. armed upon whom under conditions which might under the Stars and Stripes. So

"are actually hostile to, the services|Or Gribraltar), No.

a stronger than he has come. He We are trying to do something says that He, Jesus, has taken bring disaster in crisis? America until the great crisis comes. Then different. We are trying, to make away from Batan the armour In the population in Hawaii, fall which he trusted. This conflict And so our army and navy have American citizens, as well as per- becomes more intense on Calvary. to do the best they can untasone technically posessing fut How terrible it must have been to great crisis brings them the true American rights Or are we?I face the evil passions of the backing of their people. Here is find a great lack of consistency crowd, with the callous cruelty of the crux of the situation in the even here. Next time, I'll point it the soldiers, the mean delight of Territory of Hawaii. Notary, or out

the religious leaders in defeating their enemy, and the cruel evil of physical suffering on the Cross it- self.

there will be a scramble.

LOITERING AND POSSESSION

A Tell-Tale Pair of Pincers-

Chan Po, an unemployed Chin- ese, appeared before Mr. Balfour at Central Magistracy yesterday morning on charges of lottering and possession of a pair of pin- cers, likely to be used for unlawful purposes. He denied the first and admitted the second charge.

Yu Man, employed at the Kwong Po Yuen shop ĝin Mercer BONSHIP FOR PERFECTION Street paid that he was sleeping in The life of men as Jesus lived it the third floor of No. 24 and beard and interpreted. It is then a struga noise on the fourth door, which looked out and saw the defendant he knew to be untenanted. He

who ran away. After a chase be

District Watchman Lau Yam Gam gave, evidence of the arrest. He because He is God, but because of said he asked defendant how hel the kind of God He 18. He for- had prised open the door by which Kives, He suffers, He dies, Jesus he had gained admittance and the Christ claimed that His way was latter said: "with a pair of pin-

is trying something in Hawail which no other great nation has attempted or would attempt, and all honour to her idealism and hope it succeeds. But suppose in stead of idealism it is merely blindness and indifference?

How are the services. compelled navy officer whose viewpoint is Meantime, the answer rests with to look at ft? Pearl Harbour is worth consideration wishes Ameri- Japan's Inner Cabinet. It is tak perhaps our greatest, and certainly can institutions impared in these ing all the initiative. If it stops our most important naval base. It islands. Yet every high-minded pushing out against the world in is a "closed harbour"" Yet fishers | officer knows that Givil "authority such bald fashion (every develop- men have the right to enter, and in the islands may at any time be ment is the other way) if it atan- fish Due to the labour situation subject to political manipulation dons force as a national weapon here and contract regulations en-which could vastly increase their I who know what is on in Japan gle between God and the evil in forced upon the navy it is impossi- difficulties. If their position should feel a bit absurd using this phrase the world. God's purpose is that ble to assure of any preservation become too secure there would even with an "if") then the pro men should live as. His sons. The of secrecy. It is equally impossible be nothing for them to do from the blem of racial pluralities in power of evil is always tempting to assure against the planting and intelligent military point of view Hawaii will be nothing more than them away into a far country. But activities of agents of the Japan- fut to withdraw their first line of i in Chicago or Alabama (had the mastery remains with God, not ese War Office among the popula-defense from the Territory,

enough) and it will be taken care tion of the islands. If the Japati-

of as part of the general evolution ese War Office did not take, ad-

of government in the North Ameri- vantage of this situation it would Japan is making every preparean Republic. merely, from the standpoint of all tion for every contingency The But if Japan forces, the show the finger of God; which is strong-cers." General Staffs, be negligent of its people of America and of the Ter-down, then rest assured, Hawaii'ser than all the armour of evil. In Chan Fo: "I only made that opportunities and its duty. This ritory of Hawaii are not making internal problems will be quite 30 doing Jesus has changed the admission on being assaulted.”. is no insinuation against the preparation for the great contin- over-whelmed by the prime cone world's views of God-likeness. But American citizenry of Japanese gncy Japan's Inner Cabinet has demation to America that, Hawaii ancestry in the islands. They can in mind; they are just hoping it is her Number One fortress and be 90% or 100%-loyal, and yet won't happen. I lift my glass with bulwark. The Navy and Army the military danger is inherent, beartfelt wishes to their hopes,will have the frit and all the con- Just the same.

Yet they want the army and navy sideration, at that time,

JAPAN'S PREPARATIONS

unfortunately, the Church has been

was arrested. `-⠀

so intuenced by pre-Christian touched him,

views of God's dealing with evil His Worshly fined defendant that she has in the main present- | 850 or one month on the - Arsh ed a God who deals with evit like count and the same on the sec

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