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NOTES OF THE DAY

DANGEROUS PLAN

There is only one merit in the suggestion of the American diplo mat, Mr. Nicholas Roosevelt, that Great Britain and the United States should come to an agree ment In unval matters and jointly defend the pence of the Pacific. Such a union might go far towards allowing a general reduction of naval tonnage throughout tho world and ninke the possibility of a dangerous naval race that much Sir Malcolm Campbell's opinion more remote. However, NA We of the 1935 MIRACLE RIDE have seen before, it is not until STUDEBAKER given in his articlo | American interents or American which appeared recently in "The security is touched that the public men of the country encourage Field" concludes with-

affiliations abrund. Mr. Roosevelt "Altogether, I consider the New said, in part, that Japan had ex Studebaker a very good car in-pansionist aims in the Pacific; that decd. Quiet at all speeds, very before another generation

the Philippines would be Japanese had smooth and easy to handle, quito grown up; that the Dutch East fast on the level-70 m.p.h. is Indies would be taken by Japan well within its compass-good because of the ofl there. No doubt on hills and with excellent acce- he sees a threat to the peace of leration on all gears. It im-

the Pacific, and entanglements in presses me as being excellent which America, with all her pre- value in the £300-£350 class.

cautions to safeguard her neutral- ity, It is a car that I think will appeal participating.

cannot very well, Avoid In view of thai to a very wide section of British danger Mr. Roosevelt thinks that motorists.

an understanding with Great Brit- ain would be of the greatest value in preserving the peace of the Pacific. We doubt ft.

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THURSDAY, OCT. 24, 1936.

BRITAIN'S POLICY

ANTACONISING JAPAN

WHEAT versus RICE

Rice Planting in New Territorira, Hongkong.

-From a waterralmır.

With the West Demanding "Bread for All!" and the East Calling for "More Rice!" There Is Revealed a Difference in the Way of Life Which Has Basic Significance.

THE Great War was won on

wheat,

by

In the first place, if Mr. Ronse- velt is right and Japan does con- template seizing other nations' possessions in the Far East, an Anglo-American naval accord in the Pacific would only precipitate trouble. Faced with the possi- bility of a naval alliance, what Hittle disposition for compromise there is in Japan at present would be immediately killed. A naval conference would be abortive. Japan would build to resist a two- fold menace where now she is con- cerned merely with protecting her. self against a single unit of national strength. If, on the other hand, the naval understand- ing between Great Britain and America were to follow a decision on the parts of both those coun- tries to reduce their flecta materi- ally and to join in protecting the peace of the sens not only in the Pacific but in other parts of the world as well, we might expect some reciprocal move from Japan. alliance was aimed primarily at the million persons, for, against the It would not then appear that the nothing to more than a thousand Japanese, a thing which Britain 4,502,000,000 bushels of wheat threat of dearth the next. The progress, steeped in antiquity, very much wishes to avoid, but consumed annually, there are entire western world, from Rus- sunk in despair, go from famine that it was purely defensive and 6,033,000,000 bushels of rice sia to Canada, Australia to the to famine, from flood to drought, related to any portion of the globe consumed. More than half of United States, dependent on plodding, invincible. But Japan, where aggression occurred. Here the 2,000,000,000 human beings wheat, suffers at one moment like the whent caters, with in- Japanese naval scheme that navies main source of food. It is the whole basis of the on earth depend on rice for their from too much, at another from tensive drive, has doubled her.

famine..

population and her rice. No Perhaps no modern industry dust storms in Japan. No na-

Wheat has ruled mankind for 4,600 years. It is mentioned eight times in the Bible; rice not even once. The encyclo- padin gives a column and a quarter to rice; 12 full pages to

wheat.

Yet the "staff of lifo" is as

In his outline of the British Government's policy in the pre- I sent crisis, Sir Samuel Hoare rightly claimed that the people of Great Britain, irrespective of party, stand united in support of the League Covenant. There is no conflict of viewpoint on this issue. But it has been made apparent that there is a large volume of opinion which. holds that the Government has should be built for the defence of

This is not a mere "Believe unduly temporised in making

the nations, and that they should It or Not" item. It is a great

tion campaign. Sir Samuel Hoare is at pains to point out that the Government had made incessant representations to Italy, beginning as far back as

is a chance for real collaboration.

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joicing at the drought, eluted with the rust in Argentina, und enthusiastic over the grasshop- pers in Australia. For there is no vacation for wheat; the calendar knows no rest; winter and summer, somewhere wheat ls growing.

How is it among the rice

caters? China and India liv ing on rice, apathetic toward

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use of the League machinery, th no respect be of a strength factor in world politics. These lends itself more to anarchy tion has been more efficient than S. MOUTRIE & CO., LTD. with the result that inaction at which raight make them a threat two busic clements of diet are and confusion and mutual nega- Japan in rice growing, cultivat Geneva-has-permitted-Italy-not-to-their-neighbours peace of mind behind two great-forces of civi- tion than this. Because no ing. it from time out of mind, only to pour troops into East Japan wants to abolish capitalisation. Dependence on wheat nation is secure without a though neither in climate nor Africa, but actually to start war ships, aircraft carriers and sub-alone might set East and West hinterland assuring her adequate in physiography is her land against Ethiopia. The charge is murines. The time may that the Government was not

when that will be possible; but it struggling for survival; but with supply, the drive to obtain it is particularly suited to its produc But every time any tion. Only through careful SENDERS standing threat of hostilities. in the Pacific.

firm enough in face of the long- talk of an Anglo-American alliance and half on rice, an equilibrium one nation extends its wheat selection, for centuries, of eced

will never be as long as there is half, the world living on wheat incessant.

field, its operations are doomed sulted to her climate and the may be maintained. The Labour Party, incidentally,

Fundamentally, the two grains-to frustration and international development of terraced moun- takes this view, and to that ex-

represent two distinctly different discord. The central European tain drainage with much toil has tent it is likely to figure in strong

types of civilisation. The whole powers haven't enough; Russia, Japan been able to keep up her criticism of the Baldwin Ad-

We now learn that Hongkong's

life processes involved in rais. Argentina, Australia, Canada rice supply. There is beauty ministration in the coming elec-hope of becoming the Western ing these two crops are vastly and the United States have too written into these terraced hills. war, Even in the most inaccessible terminus Airways trans-Pacifle service is tropics; wheat in the temperate quantities of wheat to herself born fields, like little shelves

of the Pan-American different. Rice grows in the much. Just before the

Germany was drawing vast valleys, one may see these stub. very remote indeed. It appears zone. Rice paddy fields are

through the neighbouring coun- bracketed to the walls, clinging that Macao Is favoured by the flooded; wheat grows on dry, operating company, and in view of rolling plains. Rice is planted tries. This was soon exhausted, to the slopes and holding in the end of last year, and there the fact that the Government there by hand, men and beast up and the war settled into a test their shallow cups thin layers is much to be said for his argu-

of endurance, with wheat the of water which slowly trickle has already decided to grant per to

in their groins mission for the use of the port by heat permits use of machines arbiter. ment that hasty action might

The wheat growers down, down, down, from field to have jeopardised the hopes of

the American company, it is allo- that spread their reproductive were her enemies, and when field, making acres where before America was drawn in, the were only perpendicular lean- peace which were entertained

forces over miles of acres. up to

as recently as August. alight. To say that we are dis Rice keeps a family secure on balance was against her. Even tos.. The fact that those hopes have appointed would be not quite the two to seven acres, wheat needs the Argentine was prevented. not been realised is admittedly | truth.

from shipping wheat to Gor- We cannot be disappointed, a minimum of some 30 acres. no fault of Britain's. But there because we did not really expect Rice is milled in village mills, many. is cause for complaint at the

that those responsible in London individualistic in all operations

BEGINNING with Japan, down Before 1900, Europe ate near- through Hongkong, Manila, dilatoriness of League action would move with sufficient alacrity from planting through to cat- ly 2,000,000,000 bushels of wheat Saigon, the rice roads are when we bear in mind that Italy American.

to keep pace with the plans of the ing; wheat is threshed by giant and only 34,000,000 bushels of parchment record of the

mail operators. We was belutedly declared the ag merely hoped that they might. Itand is stored in vast granaries. 000,000 of wheat to 5,879,000,- tepid rains, against volcanic hills, gressor nearly three weeks ago,

machines, with gangs of men, rice, while Asia consumed 1,265,- turies.

Under parching sun, was Hongkong's right to expect and that even at this stage, with that she would be the Far Eastern And yet, contradictorily, the 000 bushels of rice. Russia sent over withered jungle-girded Ethiopians being slaughtered terminus of this service, for this is rice enters are for the most part to England 4,128,000 bushels of veldt, it is an unending road of almost daily, the economic sanc- the obvious distributing point for docile, living under absolutisms wheat, and elsewhere 10,000,000 rice. At Saigon, tions agreed upon are not to be

one of the an enormous area. Mueno in dis-that have survived the indivi- tons yearly. The United States principal rice ports of the world, put into force until early next

tinctly less "in touch" with the sur-dualistic in the extreme.

sent England 2,000,000 bushels. rice comes in from the upper. month. In short, the League rounding country than is this The wheat caters have spread Canada sent none, By 1900, reaches of the Mekong River on has thus far failed to achieve its

(Continued on Page 5.) over the earth and conquered it. the scene shifted, Russia sending thousands of junks over 10,000 primary object of preventing

The rice eaters have stayed put. England only 1,031,000, the iniles of canals and waterways: war. Here, again, however, the

When West first met the United States 13,661,000, and this "Paris of the East" parades fault cannot be laid at the door lions, as a last resort. Even East, it was predicted that Canada 4,322,000 bushels. The its boulevards, loiters on the of Britain, which has striven under the best of conditions, Japan and China would war changed this. By 1922, verandah-shaded sidewalks with might and main to get the economic pressure is slow in be turn to brend, but the ex- Canada was producing 39 per European airs, while the popu League machinery brought into coming effective; as it is pro-pectation has not been realised. cent of the wheat exports of lace in the hinterland works its use, but has encountered, if not posed in the present crisis, the Japan had known nothing the world, the United States water buffales in the sludgy actual obstruction, at least an delay becomes even more proof bread; adopted the French 28 per cent, the Argentine 10 paddy fields. Back at Pnom- unwillingness on the part of nounced. The tragedy other nations to expedite mat-position at the moment is that language; tried to make it, and

of the word pain (bread) into her per cent, Australla 11 per cent. Penh, the Cambodian king In 1912-14, the world wheat watches his dancing girls on ters. Sir Samuel Hoare, in Italy still wages war against. a dropped it.

crop was 3,800,000,000 bushels, the silver floor of his pavilion answering the charge that eco- fellow-member of the League,

not counting China;' ten years while his subjects grind their nomic sanctions might lead to and it is difficult to see that the

later it Was 3,500,000,000 rice in the enormous mill fed -- the use of force, was obviously measures thus far agreed upon ET us consider for a moment bushels; in 1932, it was 4,600,- by the junks on the Mekong at anxious to show that Britain is are likely to stop her. It is this the essentials in the growing 000,000 bushels. The wheat, the door. reluctant to apply military sanc- circumstance which causes a be- of rice and the growing of wheat eaters had increased in popula- Where Hongkong's New Ter- tions; yet, at the same time, hellef in certain quarters that in the East and the West. tion only 12 per cent. The ritories skirt the Kwangtung did indicate that. Britain is pre- | Britain, so far from being too We of the West ran rough- World War had whipped up pro- frontier, tourists, see miles and pared to go to the full limit, if active, has not taken a sufficient-shod over our wheat arens, leav- duction, turning every available miles of waterlogged land, where, the necessity arises, and what ly strong stand. And it is clearing them exhausted and pro- dust patch capable of producing in spring, the planting season is of the most vital importance that the nation and the Empire strate, fields for the winds to wheat--the Canada and Ameri- for China's staple food begins. -if other nations are prepared would favour an oven more play with or carry. the dusty can prairies, the backblocks of The steaming hot rivers, the to take part in collective action. vigorous policy in order that the soil hither-and-lyon-And-up Australia, the Argentine pampas sour smell of jungle, the densely Actually, the League Covenant aggressor may be brought to and down go the prices of wheat, to such an extent that now crowded streets and rivers. does contemplate military sanc- I book,

with glut at one moment and the "wheat diplomats" are re- (Continued on Page 5.)

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