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NOTES OF THE DAY JAPAN FACES THE FUTURE The Very Idea!

WATER SUPPLY

The water roturas just publien- ed would seem to show that the Colony te in a generally more favourable position to-day than a your ago. Both on the island and in Kowloon, the quantity of water. in storage la greater than at the

end of October, 1952, while the consumption figures in Hongkong have been heavily reduced. A cut

NEED OF UNDERSTANDING WITH

GREAT BRITAIN -

By Sir WILLIAM GARTHWAITE, Bt.

has become the fashion in some but an agricultural country, and

WHO'S STALIN THIS STORY?

By Edward "Troteaboutski” Kelly

SENSATIONAL--to use

technical term-develop.

quarters for those who write she still is largely interested in ments are expected to take about Japan to present a caricature agriculture, but is rapidly becoming of 110,000,000 gallons in the month of a country in the form of a an industrial nation. Her position place between Japan and Century. Soviet Russia, and we are of October was effected, thanks hungry, devouring, blood-thirsty is elmliar to that of England in the to the restriction supply to ogre, an oppressor of weaker Eighteenth-Nineteenth eight hours dally, compared with nations (the Koreans and poor in-On account of the absence of wars, getting in with our story a full supply in the same month of nocent Chinese). Their commer-improvements in hygiene, and the 1982. It seems pertinent to ca-cial competition, too, is said to be abandonment of a certain element before they beat us to it. quire why, with the relative unfair. The writer, who has re-ary practice of birth control, her Besides, the Editor is out, positions us regards storage in cently spent overal months in population has increased by leaps favour of 1933, auch drastic rea-Japan in close association with and bounds from 34 millions in and- trictions should be considered Japanese business men, and who has 1874 to 64,450,000 in 1933, and the necessary now when none had been had the advantage of several con-excess of births over deaths la at imposed twelve months ago. Par-versations with Ministers, politic-the rate of over 800,000 per annum. tial explanation is, perhaps, to be ians and public men, feels it is his With 17 per cent, arable land avail- found in the fact that smaller duty to endeavour to give a sketchy able for cultivation, she is unable population. By force of circum- supplies are being taken from the picture, representing the real posi-to raise sumclent food to feed her mainland; but this again may be tion of Japan as he saw it. a matter of choice. On the face sources are of things, present ample to maintain the present standard of supply, even if no further rain fails, to the end of August next; which, seems to be looking unnecessarily far ahead. It looks to be a matter which might come up for review at the end of November,

DOOM TO BOMBERS

Editor's note: You shoot off

your mouth too much

Eddie's note: The Editor :will have hic little joke-

-Editor's note: Shouldn't that be "bis?".

Eddie's note: Yes, yours.

Our story is all about Russia. It is a horrible tall about a man who was attacked in the rear. A tale about fools Russian where ankles fear to tread.

When the Japanese, adopted stances and by the dead-weight of Western civilisation, some 60 years her population she is compelled to ago, they took from it all that they trado.in order to live and to feed They hava chukue and Korea the individual thought useful to them, but they her people, but apart from Man- remained Japanese. their aky-scrapers and subways, Japanese is debarred from emigra their golf, baseball, tennis, and tion. Korea is not a suitable land other games. They have their for Japanese immigraton, as it has cinemas and dancing halls and their a dense population of its own, with motor-cars, etc. Their business a lower standard of living than the mon have adopted European clothes Japanese. Actually, indeed, Kor. for office and public occasions (thoeans emigrate to Japan and under

The night was dark and women have mainly remained faith-cut the Japanese in agricultural

stormy. Ha! Stormy weather. ful to the Japanese costume), but and manual work.

In every other country the Japan- A remarkable new invention de-In their hearts they remain Japan- signed to end aerial bombing is eae, faithful to the traditions of ese emigrant is friendless and un- For this free advertisement wo will The smoky lamp cast a pale light claimed for a British aviation ex-their race, and it is quite usual to welcome, but still they claim the accept ono gramophone record.

on the dirty table at which they pert. It consists of a chater meet a high-class Japanese in his right to live. Is it astonishing aeroplane or a flying bomb which office, dressed in impeccable city with their ready intelligence and cannot help hitting its target as attire, and meet him again in the industry that they have learned the eat. Uitchi Iscratchi, called the Its every movement is directed by evening.in his home, or more pro- lesson of competition and that, by Terrible, was fingering the stam of the target. Once the "plane" has bably in a Geisha Restaurant, sit adopting the most up-to-date been catapulted into the air, itting on the tatami (mat) in correct methods and most modern machin his empty vodka glam, while his- flies towards the invader and Japanese costume as worn during ery, they are able to compete succomrade. Nix Onderwiskd, was strikes. Instead of a pilot, the the Shogunato period-and looking cessfully in certain lines of manu- drawing deeply and crutentedly #i

world?

fashionable in Ecthevik Saarla "plane" carries a photo-electric more dignified and more comfort-facture against the rest of the his pipe, long drawers being "Come," Uftchi ad ay sultonly. eye so delicate that it responds to ablo. In it. QUASI-FASCISM

any image that passes across it.

It is useless for the cotton spin-Work is ahead of us. Comande.” The eye is divided into quarters, It seems to the writer doubtful IN BRITAIN

Swiftly the pair made for the one at least of which must pick whether a European, or rather any ners of Lancashire, or for the British politics are beginning up the objective and act upon the an Englishman, will ever under-electric bulb manufacturers of

grow interesting. The electro-magnet that controls the stand the mental make-up of the Holland, to say that the Japanese bar, and Uitchi the Terrible let

rudder. The invading bombing Japanese. On the one hand he is manufacturer has an unfair ad-up among the exten ponderous mass of the National machine dives to evade the attack, for modernity, more according vantage, that their standard of rades," he whispered amrally, "the The writer why can't we have free beer? Government's majority is los- it is picked up by another section to the standards of New York or living is lower and that they em-time is ripe. We have free love. ing its original deadening effect; of the eye and relentlessly pur- Chicago than London, but on the ploy sweated labour

sued. Provided the flying-bomb other hand he believes in his own has seen the workpeople of Osaka Down withYow!"......and no longer is it quite certain is faster than the objective, a col-faiths, Shintoism and Buddhlen. and other industrial centres. They Uitchi collapsed in a heap, clutch- that it would hold together on lision cannot be avoided. The ap- He keeps his fete daya as devotedly appear to be happy in their working at his broast..

as few inventions of and regularly

any Roman They are well clothed for their a crucial test. Internal rumb-pearance of

this type will make it convenient Catholic (many of these fete days standards, they are certainly ex- lings have given warning

for would-be aggressors to pre- are similar in origin and object)ceedingly clean and appear to be and above all there is his unswery very well fed. Where does the singals. The tendency among. serve the peace.

In the doorway, a menacing mob ing devotion to the Emperor or lower standard of life come in? It ium. the preponderant Conservatives

we should say to the Imperial certainly is another standard of

lifo, but who is to say that the blocked the dreaded Ognu from to divide and sub-divide has

House. been unmistakable. If the im-

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"The Ogput The Ogpul he whimpered.

Instantly there was pandèmön-

A nation of 65 million people be- Lancashire, mil girl's dietary is reaching the wounded Ultchi and There is much value in such

"Nix, you must fly quekly, while port has been missed it has been undertakings as the Health ur lleves not only in the divine right better or that her standard of his comrade, Nix because the rebel groups have hibition held at the Ellis Kadoorie of kinge and emperors, but that its living is higher than that of her

"Never," said Nix, "I will stay cach concentrated on their own School. The exhibits ranged from Imperial family is a sacred one and Japanese competitor, or that the there is yet time. They'ra got me pet grievance, have found no simple charts and illustrations descends directly from the gods: it Dutch workman's standard of liv-this time, ole pal," Uitchi groaned. showing the dangers of Infection also believes that its Emperor, ita ing is higher than that of his

Uitchi groaned. common ground in their urge and disense, to objects the elemen-people, its civilisation and its Japanese confrere? Each country until the bitter ond

(Continued on page 16). towards revolt. Let them find. tary principles of hygiene and country are unequalled by any has its own standard of living, sanitation, Talks were given other nation in the world. It is a which is appropriate to its people nation which has been developed on and to its climate, and there can be оп by public-spirited helpers

STILL GOING STRONG general election in six months.health topics. Parties from other militaristic lines and whose army no common standard for ̈·com-

The story of the Chinese gentle- What is more Important, per-schools attended under the guid and navy are at all-tmas proud and parison.

Apart from China there are many Ideals, no longer, however, fatalie- haps, is that the unrest is notance of their teachers, and it ap-happy to die in defending these confined to Parliament but has pears that everything was donetically, as helpless victims before a of what may be called neutral man who jumped into the sea the

that could be done to give

Aght to the death with equal arms est markets. We British can pro- men reminds us of one of our been-spreading slowly through maximum of value to the Exhibi- better armed aggressor, but to nations which will buy in the cheap- other day to get away from two and with an unconquerable spirit tect our own markets to a certain alcoholic friends whose nolay return. the country,. For those who de- tion.

bordering on fanaticism, convinced extent by preference between the home aroused the wife of his bosora clined to accept the verdict of

that the ultimate aim and glory of Dominions, the Colonies, and the and an enquiry as to what was the

"I'm-hic-being East Fulham, the speeches of

If only for the reason that the life and death are the sacritice of Mother Country, but what of the matter. Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, Mr. Stanley Baldwin and Sir John Exhibition seemed highly success themselves to the honour of their Dutch East Indies, Malaya, Siam, down by two-hic-men, m'daar

publics, and certain parts of ful, we should like to see its con- Emperor and the honour of Japan, South Seas, South American RohioHaig and Haig." Simon in London on Mondaytinuance as an annual feature in to

Let us now consider the economic Africa? What can be done to im- must, at least, prove convincing. fact, a query is prompted as The cynic, obviously, would whether activities cannot be en-position of the country as regards prove the situation from the British

(Continued on Next Column.) come to recognise the trend of larged into a Colony-wide Health Industrialism. Japan was at the point of view? The Japanese Campaign such as is being held time of her transformation nothing fecent political developments, elsewhore, Singapore notably. In- the movement must, indeed, beatcad of being confined to the serious. And it is. A very de-Education Department, the Gov- ernment Health Department could

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democracy is rising rapidly- al- the campaign to a point where the though how BOOD a challenge community as a whole would bo bonefitted by instruction afforded on the dangers of overcrowding and insanitation-two root evile which have rendered largely in- effective the work of the Depart- ment in the past.

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may come cannot be foreseen. At the moment, no one Fascist, quasi-Fascist, or neo-Socialist group has succeeded in captur ing the popular imagination. By itself, none has sufficient in- deserve it. None of the "New fluence to be regarded as of im- Englanders" has yet presented Oswald Mosley's a programme offering sufficient portance. Blackshirts, Sir Stafford Cripps's compensation for abandonment of long-held political principles. Socialist intelligentsia, Yeats-Brown "corporate state" Nevertheless, the vigour of the campaign carried on by all may faction and all others impatient prepare the public for a coup by of Parliamentary government, the one astute enough to delude would be incapable by them them into expecting what would selves of making any lasting be termed "ordered planning impression. By the mass effect of the State" without the loss of on the public mind of the in- individual freedom and liberty tensive propaganda conducted associated with every known by these organisations, the con form of dictatorship. After all, stant reiteration of the thesis, there is much that is valuable that Parliaments are a Victorian and desirable in some of the hang-over unsuited to the pre- reforms advocated. To present sent age, carried on without co- the rest in apparently more ordination of any kind, but los palatable form should not prove ing nothing by the fact that the especially difficult. The re- drumming seems to come from sponse of the National Govern- all quarters at the same time, ment is likely to be more so, is a factor to be reckoned with. It will not be found in counter- The attempte at mass Auggos-propaganda, that is certain. tion do not lack subtlety care Preservation of constitutionul is taken to give full credit to the democracy may ultimately de

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"She Is gaining awfully fast. I hope she's not going to take after your mother"

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DID YOU HEAR ABOUT

held

The flea that loved to walk under ladders because it was not super- stitches.

JOLONELESE

There once was an irata colonel Whose language was simply in-

folonel

But the words-and-T Are now things of the past Since he's found that his nout is

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BEDTIME STORY

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Government feel that Japan is Isolated, and would welcome fa understanding with Great Britain, Bronewal of the former alilance which it is believed was dropped in- order to please the United States of Amorios. It should not be im ́ possible for our manufacturers to arrange with their confreres In. Japan a re-division of world trade on certain lines and conditions which do away with undue compoti- tion, and allow such markets to be rationally developed. For instance, It might be possible for our manu-"" facturers to give up making some of our cheaper lines, for which their cont price la higher than that of the Japanose, and to concentrato on higher class goods. The writer secs no way of salvation unless some compromise is achieved.The pressure of the Japanese mint' bea come stronger and more irresisti blo, not only in cotton gooda, but in many other articles of commerce.