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·1934.

NOTES OF THE DAY THE STORY OF JAPANESE

BRITAIN AND IRELAND

to

Every few months or so a now. effort is made to bring reason Angio-Irish relations. The latest,

COMPETITION.

By SIR HARRY MCGOWAN, K.B.E.

The Very Idea!

JURIES AND BLOOMERS By George.

widely held view on both sides of THERE has probably never been. There is one more factor which THE. selection of a local a trade phenomenon where makes for Japan's success, and jury is always a matter the Irish Channel, but he might has developed so rapidly as Japan- that is bor realisation that the of considerable anxiety to have saved himself the time and ess competition. Four years ago nerds of the present agar the court they never know trouble. The discussion aroused it was hardly showing above the goods where price is more import merely served to show that neither Eastern horizon, a little cloud no ant than Luality. In a time of when they are getting a

budge an than

but now world depression, price is the do- band of brains or a neck of party le prepared to taken up two biker tava za practically all the clsive factor in purchasing, dapan years ago and while that spirit markets of the world.

has realised this more than any pains. dictates

there can bo no It

We remember once on a his- be interesting to consider other nation. Her manufacturers mny Promise has, in

in for a moment what iles behind this and merchants have also realised toric occasion when we wore on fact, diminished if past few weeks. Great Britain's

hope of redt thing in the development, and what has on-the necessity of studying the nocuja' jury in a murder trial and l'default on her war debt Instalmontablad Japan to develop a tradol of Individual markota and have wore elected foreman."

BRITAIN'S "LAPSE"

Auch

amazing been at considerable pains to

the

the defence on his birth and

.

*

had

wife of R A. de Castro Basto declared: will A and the

yon now stands at a gold turnover from rice to wheat. Myl To-day's beautiful thought....

the Canons on the 31st July 1934

M.D., D.O.M.S.-— son.

The

Hongkong Telegraph.

WEDNESDAY, Aug. 1, 1934.

PROBING THE ARMS TRAFFIC

for us in future, in our

as a crediter power, to maintain lower. the old stiff attitude, at all events in regard to political debts. Gor- many's case for defaulting on the Dawes and Young loans is actual- ly stronger than ours, and Mr. Do Valera, if he deigned to use an argument no pedestrian, would have a triumphant answer to Mr

Thomas."

ON THE DEFENSIVE

government

dustrica

in

I wish I was a lily, A-blushing in Wanchal, I'd smell my very sweetest And I'd never never cry!

I'd open up my little heart And peep into the sky.

And put my scent upon the

feet

Of all the passers-by.

And if they should o'er-

power me

I'd just lay down and die.

*

ADULT BLOOMERS What they told boys at school speech days at Home:

to the United States has been offensive with

speed and to undercut older give each customer what he wants Showing a thorough grasp of readily seized upon by the irrecon- ostablished trade rivals Boat the time and place that it the case from the first we severo- ellables among de Valera's Up- porters as a now, and cogent arga- drastically. The driving force is wanted, and patterned, designed ly cross-examined the counsel for ment in support of continued re-supplied by Japan's need to sell and packed in a manner to

sopus shroud in order to maintain and please qualifications, summed the fuant to pay the land annuities.

some equilibrium in her trade ese deserve credit as pioneers. evidence in a brilliant and scintil balance. Her rapidly-growing They study the customer's demandating style, found the court. population, and her growing ex-for prompt and even immediate Interpreter guilty of the crime and. penditure on armaments, make it delivery; they quote in his own consured, the judge for complicity imperative for her to sell more language and not Japanese, and after the fact.

The fate of great things really It is argued that Great Britain, goods abroad. The second factor express units of quantity and price

to a is the depreciation of the yen. in the measurements of his coun-hang on very small issues, Had having committed herself

on hor political Originally forced policy of default on a

by try and not their own.

we drawn a queen instead of n debt, is no longer entitled to take necessity, a depreciated currency The strength of Japanese com- Knave in the little game we had a high moral line with her own has advantages which Japan has petition lies in the inter-depend during the waiting period which

As once of these factors. It is im the beat juries imposa before pass- debtors. The land annuities, on not been slow to recognise. which the Irish Free State has we know in Great Britain, the possible to say which of them ing sentence, we doubt very much been in default are regarded as depreciation of the sterling, counts most, since they are all co- whother we would have been so hard. coming in this category. Although following the abandonment of the ordinated to produce the desired on the judge, but the guilt of established this parallel, which is regarded by gold standard, enabled us to re-

ceeded we already know.

from the moment he began repeat- government circles in Great Bri-cover a substantial part of the result. How fur they have suc-the interproter was

There is an impression that the ing himself, tain as far fetched in the extreme, international trade we had lost has not been drawn by Mr. Do during the preceding year when growing cultivation of athletics After that we were exonerated Valera himself, it has undoubtedly the was over-valued. Roughly and outdoor exercise among

from jury service permanently influenced considerable body of

of speaking, the £ was depreciated in Japanese will result in an im opinion in South Ireland and even those days by about 36 per cent.provement of physique and load of just when we thought we

the found a little way of killing time. found expression in Britain also. but Japan has outbid us in com- necessity to a change in The The Now Statcaman

recent petitive In o

exchango depreciation, national diet, and eventually to a article on the war debts

discount of 68 per cent, without own feeling is that the wish Is any guarantee that it will not go here father to the thought. So far ILA I am able to judge, there is no The next important factor is the likelihood of the Japanese stand-

those, ard of living being materially im efficient organisation of Japanese industries around which proved in the near future:

Then there is a disposition to competition principally centres," and the deliberate planning of her think that the intrusion of the export campaign: Japan is ro-Japanese into markets so far away latively to ourselves, and even to as our African colonies, the South the U.S.A., a new country, which American republics, and even the has sprung, almost fully armed, United Kingdom itself, is due to a into the industrial arena. She falling off in the demand of the has, therefore, been able to build Far Eastern and peculiarly in the factories on the latest plan, in- Chinese market; but this is only

most modern partially true. The Chinese mar corporating the It is noteworthy that despite the machinery, and in short, to pick ket, with its population of over defiant attitude still maintained by and choose among international four hundred million, is an enot- World attention is being Mr. De Valera's Fianna Fail party industrial practices, and adopt mous one, but it could only at-

The Head of Malm College, directed to the investigations be in the land annuities dispute the that which was best suited to her tract Japan's attention and absor

Frank Prestoh "Parents ing made in the United States prolonged economic war and by a specially-appointed com resultant destruction of the Irish needs. She has shown great win-her energion if it developed a de- Mr.

dom in buying only the finest and mand more rapidly than Japan) should not make life too comfor cattle trade with England have

tablo for their sons. They should mittee into the munitions in increased criticism in Ireland of most up-to-date types of macht was able to supply.

Another ill-founded belief to not let boys think that the luxur dustry. This body, known as the

trado government's the Nye Committee, has had its recent pronouncements Policy. Innery. She has organised her in-

large-scale units. that Japan's present competitive les of one generation are the duties clearly defined by the Sen-spokesmen have been very much on Further, she has evolved a system activity is merely an effort to get necessities of the next."

In these days of spoilt parents. ate, its chief task being to in-the defensive. Prosidont Da of industrial and Government co- rid of surplus production while

De vestigate the activities of in-Valera attempted to justify him- operation in the conduct of export she builds up her manufacturing boys should not make life too com- dividuals, firms,

self in a recent speech in which he campaigns, by which means the industries ready to meet the de-fortable for mumma and poppa. associations, declared that the payments de-advantages of exchange deprecia-mand from Manchuria. It is cer- They should not let parents think corporations, and all other agen-manded by Great Britain, were al- tion and emcient production are tain that Japan will dovolen Man that the luxuries of their first cies in the United States engaged together beyond Ireland's capacity translated into concerted efforts churie as energetically as sho la childhood are going to be repeated

able, but for many years Man in their second. in the manufacture, sale, dis- to pay, and that the £5,000,000 a overgena, tribution, import or export of year owed to Britain,

There has been much loose talk churia must be looked upon as represented, arms, munitions, or other imple-In proportion to the resources of long hours and low wages in source from which Japan will the two countries, an amount Japanese industry. It is true the draw certain raw materials, rather ments-of-war. One of its termiston times as heavy as the British Japanese work long hours. It is than a-market-which-will-absorb LA. E. Wallace: "Notions of mo- into the desirability of creating payments to the United States true that they live che le standard event it will be a market whiels she English pubile schools unrecognis a Government monopoly of arms 1923 and heavier than Germany's of living in lower, to our Western will take care to restrict to Thank God for the identification and munitions. It is easy to total reparation payments under eyes. But while I was in Japan own nationals as far as possible, see that whilst only concerns the Young plan. The answer, of laat winter, I'made a tour through especially since Japan already of our public school necont! Re- within the United States come course, is that the money was ad- Japanese factories and was able produces ao many of the commodi-formers can take the 'arr out of vanced to enable Irish farmers to to find no outward signs of tles for its development. Certain after dinner speeches but they within the purview of the in- buy their own land. Dublin's task malnutrition, lack of physical articles, however, she does not yet can't take the 'haw' out of sozzled. vetention, the activities of is to net as a collecting agent not energy or discontent among the produce as efficiently as Western *ycophante, other nations are likely to be to trent a land purchase scheme as workers, which might be expected rivals-motor-cars, for example. disclosed from the fact that im-a political loan.

The Head of Rossalf, Mr. to be evident were they really and it may be possible for com-

Buch H. G. M. Clarke: "Five years' at a port as well as export of war

under-nourished.peting manufacturers In overworked or As the Japanese Ambassador said lines to do busincas. So far as publle school constitute the great- the other day, though the Japanese chemicals are concerned, Jepan isfest endowment that can be given. worker does not eat roast beef and almost in a position to supply the to youth. A public school helps but public hearings are to be Britain may have taken a long thom vore he able to afford them right away, nor is it likely that become a man."

potatoes, he would not choose needs of the Manchurian market to fashion a boy so that he may held in the autumn. Whilst it time to win the Davis Cup in post- The Japanese worker keeps fit the further development of Man-

Given this opportunity, the is conjectural where the in-war encounter, but it was wrested and happy on his-to our minds churian demand will overtax public school men learn the dis- vestigation may lead, there will from France in the grand manner, inadequate ration of fish, rice and Japancac capacity to supply. The cipline of obedience so that in the be widespread agreement that and in the grand manner,

(Continued on Page 11.) vegetables. the primary requisite is more last few days that it will pro- and Austin have Indicated in tho knowledge of the present organi-bably be a long time before the sation of munitions companies, trophy leaves England's shores. the extent of their trade, their Perry was, of course, the popular international alliations and hero, though curiously enough their profits. There is not in Austin won both his matches by existence any satisfactory com- more convincing margins. His pendium of such information, responsibility yesterday, however, and the League of Nations ready been decided by Perry's was lifted, the result having al- itself has been greatly victory over Shields. That came handicapped in dealing this

only after a tremendous struggle munitions question owing to which must have been worth go- this lack of intelligence. The ing a long way to see. All con- inquiry may well give a gratulations to Shields. No fluor new factual foundation to offort has been seen in similar the ethical movement against circumstances for many years. warfare which has Buffered Against anyong but Porry it must in recent years through the have succeeded. general lack of knowledge of cause and effect in the recurring

material is affected. At the mo-

of

ent It is true that their

the Baldwin settlement of

ment, the Committee is studying. DAVIS CUP the lasue behind closed doors,

Perry

international crises, Buch as is seriously calculated, is that that, for example, in the Gran tho inquiry may reveal the in- Chaco region, concerning which dustry to be so non-national in it has been deemed advisable to character as to require inter endeavour to apply an embargo national remedies. This would. jon countries exporting arms. It strengthen. the demand often, is also felt that the investiga- made in League of Nations tion may reveal that United circles that the privato manu Statos wealth and technical facture of war materials should skill are creating and exporting be deemed illegal. There can be quantities of war materials no doubt that private gain from which in a future emergency; the manufacture of munitions is might be used against the in direct inducement to the en- country of origin. If so, the couragement of war and rumours. national defonce question would of war. In the common in- naturally.come to the forefront, terests of humanity, the Issue and the possible nationalisation will have to be faced sooner or of munitions manufacture would later. The United States in- become a practical issue. Avestigation is a stop in the right third possibility, and one which direction.

The Head of Sherborne, Mr.

dorn reformers will soon make

her (able."

•

and a little child can lead them.

** Field-Marshal Lord Mine at. Shrewsbury School: "Character is. more Important than genius. Evory schoolboy should cultivato character, courtesy, and manners." Character in certainly to be preferred to genius when it comes to cashing a crossed cheque after the banks are closed in a Jow's. shop in a strango town. This would appear to be one of those

cases where gentus and character go hand in hand.

rare

Sir Ernest Wild, K.C.. nt Worth ing Girls' School: "Wemen haye a. keenor Reneo of duty than mon. That is why we have found women- a great help on juries.”

"Ho's a likely looking lad and the girl looks a bit of a hussy: but if - ho must hang, ha 'must' hang.. poor. Inmb!"

LOCAL RHYMES.

A pillar (box) on whom wo lean, Whose gulding hand may oft be

In reduced rates, or spoedler-

malia. More

Power to you, M****** B*

A man of war who knows the

rigging

And always for rberaita

digging

In likely anots. Ho picks up

And

doss

fèm 2: proud,

are going to stay here till mother's nervos quiet down.

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