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The countries which haven't colonies are demanding some, anying that they can't possibly exist without them. The countries which have colo- nies are busy proving that such possessions would not in any way benefit the applicants for them, though this seems to be a curious reason for hanging on so firmly to their own.
Few people realise, either, that Portugal and Belgium hold vast territories scores of times larger than themselves.
Then there is the opposite idea-that Germany, Italy and Japan are "Have-not" Powers. The only part of this legend that
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The Japanese labourer cannot subsist alongsido of the Chinese.
Japan looks south to the warm waters of the South China Seas, to the Philippines (another 114- 000 square miles with only 13,- 000,000 people), to the Dutch East Indies (750,000 square miles and 61,000,000 peoplo), to all the other Pacific islands, per- haps another 100,000 square miles.
And, of course, to Australia, with only 6,000,000 people in Innd of 3,000,000 aquare miles.
Don't think that Japan has given up the idea of adding to her empire other vast tracts of "China, and perhaps of Slam and even-India.
But the Japanese believe that their main destiny lies in the Pacific Ocean, rich in food, with all the abundance that nature- can confer upon a garden.
So far the Japanese have pushed against door that yielded easily.
They are coming now to the period when they must wedge themselves with all their
4. Liao-tung Peninsula, leased that would never be planted at strength against a door that is
from China for ninety-nine all in any other land.
held by the infinitely stronger Those are the little farms forces of the Western Powers. years, 1905; 1,438 square miles, 1,500,000 population. terraced high on the mountains, Japan is advancing to that task- The Marshall and Caroline little pockets of earth made because Japan dare not turn Islands, taken from Germany fertile by the peasant toil of back. and put under Japanese man- centuries. date from the League of Na- tions (since
5.
repudiated)
Well, we raised this monster for ourselves. For twenty-five
crowded masses still
HALF of Japan's over centuries Japan slumbered. 1910; 1,000 square miles,
Suddenly, in 1853, "the black population not estimated. live on the soil. How they live ships of the barbarians," Ame- G. Manchuria and Jehol, taken is a matter for wonderment and rica and Britain, broke in upon her ancient peace. The guns from China and incorporated admiration. in the "independent" empire Wonderment at the simplicity thundered, the landing parties of Manchukuo 1931-2. Total of this great and proud and civi- forced their way on shore. arca 500,000 square miles. lised nation: admiration for the They encountered imperial magnificent conception of family guards armed with bows and NONE of these acquisi- life and, loyalty which is the arrows. It was an earlier Abys-
tions amounting to backbone of the Japanese State.
sinia.
The
THE greatest colonial Powers of the world are Britain, France and Holland. Everybody forgets about Hol- land, but you can travel for 3,- the head-000 miles across the South Paci- Hongkong,
fic and never be. outside Dutch quarters of the China Command,
waters. is deeply interested in the and service conditions of the men of the Army Long overdue reforms are now to be put into force, as they affect the Service both at Home and overseas. These were recently is true is that the Germans have more than six times the size of Japan indeed, with her. little Japan met the advance of announced in the House of Com- no colony, though some think Great Britain, has solved or even farms, has done the very best Western civilisation with the mons by the Minister, of War that Spain is now well on the eased the real problem of Japan. that a people could do with its methods and weapons of Western
way to becoming one.
island-empire bas a land. She has no heath,, no civilisation. In eighty years she There was an expectation in The Italians have an empire of simple, stark and desperate moor, no "scrub," but Japan has caught up with the white em- some quarters that pay would be a million and a half square miles choice, the same kind as that gone to the limit of soil fertility. pires.
Japan, really and truly, unlike She built a navy like the Bri- substantially increased, but the in Africa, and though much of it which faces every hard-driven matter is a somewhat complicatis desert, Abyssinia (350,000 debtor who must have cash or go Italy and Germany, must expand tish Navy, an army on the pat- tern of the Prussians, and a fac- ed one from the fact that the quare miles) is sufficiently at bust. Japan must have markets, or die.
tractive.
or land, or perish. She must The Japanese don't emigrate. tory system based on America's. soldier is both housed and fed. Mussolini's raid on that coun- have more of either or both For a start, they love their own
a great stir in our than she has got.
country with a passionate pagan TO-DAY she is the first
wor- Japan herself has a popula- devotion. Literally, they by the reductions made by way times, being accompanied by
Power in the Pacific. And she is beginning to bo- of stoppages. There does not a terrific, prolonged and utterly tion of 64,000,000 people. They ship it.
Anyway, they are not allowed stride it. She has fortified tho appear, in the War Minister's useless uproar of protest from are increasing at the rate of
the League of Nations. The 800,000-every year, which-may-to emigrate.--The-bar-is-up-Islands--that-she-holda under statement, any indication of a
make Hitler or Mussolini envious Italians occupied the country
The white races that have mandate. definite increase in actual pay, after less than a year's fighting but only makes the Mikado seized the shores of the Pacific Since the Americans abandon- but some advantage will be gain- and are now immovably en- anxious.
won't have the yellow race. Few ed the Philippines the island Even the earthquakes ed by certain decisions in other trenched there.
that or than 20,000 Japanese go screen of the Carolines and the shake and shatter the land of abroad each year to stay.
Marshalls brings her nearly half- directions. For example, cash
way across the great ocean to allowances for messing abroad NOW for Japan! The Nippon can't cope with the rush
gentle Japanese of new babies.
CANADA, the United America. It brings her within are to be increased, whilst stop-also fast workers, and fairly
The Japanese islands are the
States, South Ame- cruising range of Australia and pages are to be abolished. The silent into the bargain.
most densely crowded in the rica, Australia, New Zealand, within striking range of the State will henceforth undertake
world. They have a country compris-
For each square mile of, don't want the patient Japanese. Dutch and British East Indies. the obligation of providing the ing three or four big islands arable soil there are 2,774 peo- So where can he possibly go on I say that Japan is getting ready for the biggest land grab soldier with everything he re-with an area of 175,000 square Ple, compared with 2,170 in Bri- this planet?
tain and 229 in the United Into China? China is over- in history. She will make it if quires in the way of uniform (miles.
States. In about forty years they have
crowded too. And China has and when the Western Powers and equipment, both when he trebled the area of the Japanese And in Japan there are many even lower living standards than start tearing one another to joins as a recruit and when he Empire and brought it up to well
hundreds of thousands of acres Japan. proceeds overseas, In addition, over the half million. The Japan- the allowance during the first ese gains have been in the main year of service for maintenance fertile and well-populated areas. 1. The island of Formosa, an- of kit and sundry expenses will
nexed from China after the be increased. On the question
Sino-Japanese war, 1895; 13,- of the type of work which the
900 square miles, popula- soldier performs, there has long
tion 5,500,000, been a complaint of too much "house-maids' work"-in other words, that a large proportion of a man's time is being wasted on jobs which are purely domestic in character and which cannot
Cricket probably derives from the fourteenth-century game "club-ball.” The longest hit in the history of be described a real soldiering.
First called cricket in "The Booke cricket is 175 yards from bat to That there is reason in these
1574.
pich. Record has stood since 1850. Sportes,
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A watchmaker in Ontario spent The seven-year-old son of Consequently, an additional sum
two years drilling a hole through an Cyprus shoemaker was asked how of £20,000 is being devoted to
ordinary pin from its point to its many farthings there are in 20 138. head without splitting it. A human 744d. He gave the answer out of wages of civilians, who will be Army more attractive. There The word "Honeymoon" comes hair could be passed through the his head within 30 seconds. substituted for soldiers at regi- are possibly other matters of of newly married couples drinking
from the ancient Teutonie custom centre of the pin.
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Gene Tunney's four-year-old son Andrew Wilson, of Montclair, New is heir to £10,000,000-left, by his lishments, for the performance sens which need attention, such, days after the wedding word was Jersey, claims to have used the same great-great-uncle.
originally "Honeymonth."
collar stud for 51 years. of duties of a non-military char-for example, as the cutting down
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As funds become avail-of the period of service oversens
A second electric shock will some able, it is hoped to extend this to three years, with the further
times restore life to a man who has been killed by one. system until all such duties are suggestion that the last year of
*** performed by a civilian staff, a man's service with the colours Britala and Ireland is about 5,500, 00 hours when opening a case, in the varies between 4 and '16 feet below and, as far as possible, such em- should be spent at Home, an im- ployment will be reserved for ex-portant point from the point of servicemen. Theso only view of subsequent employment.or two to every human being.
Britain has about 00 million birds some of the points touched upon But a start has been made int
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2. The island of Sakhalin (the)
southern half), annexed from
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202 feet high, built by Sir Christo- beard and spoke with a bass volce. 13,323 square miles, popula- tion 293,000.
Express steam-engines, when Korea, annexed from China travelling at 60 m.p.h., 1910, though occupied by allons of water every minute. Japan for many years; 85,-
A Dutchman journeyed. 000 square miles, population Amsterdam to Paris turning somer- 21,000,000.
saults all the way. His speed was three miles a day. And so what?
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by the War Minister in his removing some of the soldier's Britain became insane during the
Over 0,500 men alive to-day in on into old age.
recent announcement, but they grievances. As time goes on, show that measures are being yot further reforms may be rea- 'taken to make service in the 'sonably looked for.
Great War.
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