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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPII, MONDAY, APRIL 19, 1937.

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reason for hanging on so firmly to their own.

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MONDAY, APRIL 10, 1937.

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Few people realise, either, that Portugal and Belgium hold vast territories scores of times larger than themselves.

THE greatest colonial Powers of the world are Britain, France and Holland. Everybody forgets about Hol- land, but you can travel for 3,- Hongkong,

head-1000 miles across the South Paci- 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 announced in the House of Com- mons by the Minister of War. There was an expectation in some quarters that pay would be substantially increased, but the matter is a somewhat complicat-

Then there is the opposite idea-that Germany, Italy and Japan are "Havo-not" Powers.

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The Japanese labourer cannot. subsist alongside 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 18,- 000,000 people), to the Dutch East Indies (750,000 square miles and 61,000,000 people), to all the other Pacific islands, per- haps another 100,000 square miles.

........... And, of course, to Austràlia, with only 6,000,000 people in w land of 3,000,000 square mlies.

Don't think that Japan has given up the idea of adding to her empire other vast tracts of China, and perhaps of Siam 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.

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They are coming now to the period when they must wedge themselves with all their

4. Liao-tung Peninsula, Icased that would never be planted at strength against a door that is

from China for ninety-nine all in any other land.

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held by the Infinitely stronger years, 1905; 1,438 square Those are the little farms forces of the Western Powers. 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 pensant toil of back; ... and put under Japanese man- centuries.

date from the League of Na- tions

(since repudiated) HALF of Japan's over

1919; 1,000 square miles,

crowded masses still

population not estimated. live on the soft. How they live Manchuria and Jehol, taken is a matter for wonderment and from China and incorporated admiration.

Well, we raised this monster for ourselves. For twenty-five- centuries Japan, slumbered.

Suddenly, in 1853, "the black ships of the barbarians," Ame- rica and Britain, broke in upon her ancient peace. The guns

in the "independent" empire Wonderment at the simplicity thundered, the landing parties

of Manchukuo 1931-2. Total area 600,000 square miles.

of this great and proud and civi- forced their way on shore, lised nation: admiration for the They encountered imperial magnificent conception of family guarde armed with bows and NONE of these acquisi- life and loyalty which is the arrows. It was an earlier Abуs-,

tions amounting to backbone of the Japanese State. sinia. is true is that the Germans have more than six times the size of Japan indeed, with her little Japan met, the advance of think Great Britain, has solved or even farins, has done the very best Western civilisation with the no colony, though some way to becoming one. that Spain is now well on the cased the real problem of Japan. that a people could do with its methods and weapons of Western The island-empire has a land. She has no heath, no civilisation. In eighty years she The Italiana have an empire of simple, stark and desperate moor, no "scrub," but Japan has caught up with the white em- 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- in Africa, and though much of it which faces every hard-driven ia desert, Abyssinin (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 square miles) is sufficiently at- bust. Japan must have markets, or die.

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 Japan herself has a popula- devotion. Literally, they wor

Power in the Pacific. times, being accompanied by

And she is beginning to be- a terrific, prolonged and utterly tion of 64,000,000 people. They ship it.

Anyway, they are not allowed stride it. She has fortified the 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_holdsunder

make Hitler or Mussolini envious Italians occupied the country

The white races that have mandate. after less than a year's fighting but only makes the Mikado seized the shores of the Pacific Since the Americans abandon- and are now immovably en-

won't have the yellow race. Few ed the Philippines the Island Even the earthquakes that er than 20,000 Japanese go screen of the Carolines and the trenched there.

shake and shatter the land of abroad each 'year to stay.

Marshalls brings her nearly half- NOW for Japan! The Nippon can't cope with the rush

way across the great ocean to of new babies, gentle Japanese are

CANADA, the United America. It brings her within also fast workers, and fairly most densely crowded in the rion, Australia, New Zealand, within striking range of the

The Japanese islands are the

States, South Ame- cruising range of Australia and silent into the bargain.

They have a country compris world. For each square mile of don't want the patient Japanese. Dutch and British East Indies. 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 with an area of 175,000 square tain and 229 in the

ple, compared with 2,170 in Bri-this planet?

ready for the biggest land grab United Into China? China is over- in history. She will make it if miles.

States.

crowded too. And China has and when the Western Powers trebled the area of the Japanese hundreds of thousands of acres Japan.

In about forty years they have

And in Japan there are many even lower living standards than start tearing one another to Empire and brought it up to well

pieces.. over the half million. The Japan- ese gains have been in the main fertile and well-populated areas.

1. The island of Formosa, an- nexed from China after the Sino-Japanese war, 1896; 13,-! 900 square miles, popula- tion 5,500,000.

anxious.

Things You Know

Didn't Until

by the reductions made by way of stoppages. There does not appear, in the War Minister's statement, any indication of a definite increase in actual pay, but some advantage will be gain- ed by certain decisions in other directions. For example, cash allowances for messing abroad are to be increased, whilst stop pages are to be abolished. The State will henceforth undertake the obligation of providing the soldier with everything he re- quires in the way of uniform and equipment, both when he joins as a recruit and when he proceeds overseas. In addition, the allowance during the first year of service for maintenance of kit and sundry expenses will be increased. On the question of the type of work which the soldier performs, there has long 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 be described a real soldiering, That there is reason in these complaints is now recognised. Consequently, an additional sum of £20,000 is being devoted to wages of civilians, who will be Army more attractive. There substituted for soldiers at regi- are possibly other matters

of mental depots and other estab-special concern to soldiers over lishments, for the performance seas which need attention, auch, of duties of a non-military char-for example, as the cutting down acter. As funds become avail- of the period of service overseas 25 notes weigh only one ounce, able, it is hoped to extend this to three years, with the further *** system until all such duties are suggestion that the last year of The total number of Islands, greati

and small, around the cost of Great Iperformed by a civilian staff, a man's service with the colours Britain and Ireland is about 5,500, 00 hours when opening a case in the varies between 4 and 16 feet below

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and, as far as possible, such em- ployment will be reserved for ex. Horvicemen. These only some of the points touched upon by the War Minister in his recent announcement, but they show that measures are being taken to make service in the

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2. The island of Sakhalin (the) southern half), annexed from Russia after the Russo- Out of every pound of national] The loftiest isolated column in the¡ Japanese war of 1904-05; wars past and future.

expenditure over 125, is spent on world is the Monument of London, 202 feet high, built by Sir Christo- 13,328 square miles, popula-

pher Wren. tion 295,000.

** Cricket probably derives from the fourteenth-century game "club-ball." First called cricket in "The Booke of Sportes," 1574.

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Express steam-engines, when 3. Korea, annexed from China travelling at de m.p.h., use

1910, though occupied by gallons of water every minute.

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A Dutchman journeyed from 000 square miles, population Amsterdam to Paris turning, zomer- 21,000,000,

saults all the way. His speed w03 three miles a day. ...And so what?

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The word "Honeymoon" comes from the ancient Teutonie custom of newly married couples drinking wine made from honey for 30 day after the wedding-word was originally "Honeymonth,"

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A four-year-old Moscow boy had the strength of a man; he grew a board and spoke with a bass voice. His mind was that of a child..

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The longest hit in the history of cricket is 175 yards from bat to plich. Record has stood since 1850.

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A watchmaker is Ontario spent The seven-year-old two years drilling a hole through an Cyprus ahoemaker was asked how ordinary pin from its point to its many farthings there are in £9 138. head without splitting it. A humani 7%d. He gavo the answer out of hair could be passed through the his head within 30 seconds. centre of the

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Gene Tunney's four-year-old son Andrew Wilson, of Montclair, News, heir to £10,000,000 left by his Jersey, claims to have used the same great-great-uncle. collar stud for 61 years.

* A second electric shock will some-in Britain, 16,527,000 sheep, 3,320,000 There are 0,660,000 head of cattle times restore life to a man who has pigs and 886,000 horses. been killed by ōñe.

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Sir William Jowilt once spoke for should be spent at Home, an im- of which 5,000 are round Ireland. Court of Appeal. portant point from the point of

Britain has-about 90 million birds

Patriciai view of subsequent employment.or two to every he

Maguire, 31-year-old human being. Chiengo, beauty, has been asleep for But a start has been made in

four years. She will probably sleep removing some of the soldier's Britain became msane during the

Over 0.500 men nuv

men alive to-day in on into old age.

7. grievances. As time goes on, Great War, yet further reforms may be rea- sonably looked for,

The level of the Fen country

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sea level. It is the lowest land in England.

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* Fish are so fascinated by the osprey (long-winged eagle) that when they see it they "swoon," sur.... rondering before attacked."

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There are 113 dally newspapers published in Great Britain,

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heaviest cantisliles 3,030,005: dead..