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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1937.

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HE very frightful- ness of Japan's war on China is a proof

of her weakness.

and the -

By

FREDA

UTLEY

Knowing that she has not got the resources for a long war, and desperately afraid that at any moment Britain U.S.A. may wake up to the menace she constitutes to their interests and put an end to her aggression by economic pressure, The horror could be stopped Are we Japan is striving to "beat China if we wished to stop it. Stubbs Rd. to her knees" by the mass mas going to wait until the Pax sacre of the civilian population. Japonica is established over a

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CAUTHERLEY-CAMPBELL. The engagement is announced bc- tween George Hunter, only son of Mrs. G. Cautherley and the late Mr. G. Caulherley of Roy- slon, Herts, England and Dorothy Aller, youngest daughter of Mr. K. W. Campbell and the late

Campbelt of

Shanghal,

Mirs. China.

The

(in the News-Chronicle)

forward carried in

Having failed at first for all desert? her

The Japanese move armaments, Lo superior break the Chinese lines at in North China Shanghai, Japan sought to break American motor trucks. The which daily spread China's spirit by murdering as bombers

fly on many women and children as her death and destruction

American and Dutch oil. bombers can reach,

011

are

The repeated air raids Nanking, Canton; Hankow and

The bullets which rain from. the sixty other towns she has

machine-guns bombed had no

military ob- Japanese jectives. Their aim is simply made of Australian lead. The to kill and devastate so far and ships which convey the Inter- wide that China will surrender national Settlement at Shanghai although her armies are un- and in the foreign concessions

at Tientsin, could not without imported oil.

Hongkong Telegraph.defeated.

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1937.

HEALTH AND SANITATION Hongkong's Government must face the fact, that the time has arrived for improvements which are long overdue, and whose absence may well become a men- ace to the general health unless

move

The Shanghai correspondent

The steel of which the Japan- of the New York Times re- ports that the Japanese take no ese weapons of death are manu- prisoners, wounded or other factured is made of imported wise. This is how the much iron bought from India, Malaya

equipment of her heavy indus- admired Samurai of modern and Australia.

try. She imports heavy artil Japart behave on the field of The aluminium of which lory as well as motor-care-and battle.

Japanese aeroplanes are made aeroplane parts. is bought from the West, and so also are most of the engines

The Japanese calculate that, in them. however brutal, cowardly and contrary to all international

He could be

stopped if

The British Empire and the United States take half hor

we wished exports and supply two-thirds of The raw silk and the textiles her imports. An embargo on ex- law their actions may be, the which Japan exports, and which ports, even only a boycott of her, indemnities imposed upon "civilised" world will do noth- are her only means of payment Japanese goods by ourselves and her every time she resisted ag-- the first considerations is the ing but watch and shudder, for the war supplies sho imports, the Americans, would stop the gression, and burdensome loans and that she will now realise are bought mainly by the British horrors which Japan is perpe- pressed upon her for develop- housing problem, particularly her long-cherished hopes of Empire, the U.S.A. and the trating in China.

t is quickly rer edied. One of

of

Dutch East Indies.

ments which have brought pro- fits only to the foreigner.

as it applies to lower class work-acquiring the hegemony

A boycott has already been ing people. The conditions in China, if only her methods are

Yet we do not lift a finger to proposed by the Indian Congress sufficiently frightful to win her stop the imports essential to leaders. Such economic pres- When the first barbarians which many of them live are a rapid victory.

Japan's aggression; nor do we sure could not involve us in war. broke their way into the Roman deplorable. Here is a situa-

Empire no one foresaw that the Is it possible that Japan mis- refuse to buy the goods as she

Even, the Japanese are not so tion, in fact, which Hong-calculates?. Is the world really exports, although every penny hong cannot afford to tolerate, so inured to horrors that it will paid to her helps to kill the mad as to take on the United ancient civilisation of the Medit- States and ourselves together. crranean would be destroyed by

the:. either from

stand supinely by until the Chinese people." humane EX

Our diehards, influenced, no the Goths, the Vandals, the Japanese air, force has razed sanitary point.. of

Japan has little coal, less doubt by old friendship for the Huns, the Lombards and view.

every Chinese city to the ground, iron, no oil, no non-ferrous "gentlemanly and

chivalrous" Franks. So to-day the states- Crowded tenements, and their and the mounds of dead and dy metals except copper,

no cot- Japanese, say she could take men of the Western democracies say: "Well, what is China to almost complete Jack

ofing surpass anything Jenghiz ton; she cannot

supply Hongkong and Singapore.

us, it is too far away to matter." Khan ever dreamed of?

herself with the industrial sanitary arrangements, are al-

Yet if Japan conquer ways breeding places for dis

or

ease. It is surprising to many bage

even

with the United States to stop

now

Would this really be so easy? Would their defences not hold out a few weeks? Can ships we in our generation shall see. Australia and India pass to collection. Presumably caught. But the

approach move without oil? who have observed conditions in the Sanitary Department has should be from the direction of

her, even if the end of Western civilisation does not come for these packed living quarters evolved its system after care-friendly advice, perhaps, and that epidemic is not more de-ful study. It may be that what take the form of instruction con- one really believes

Would Japan really dare? No a few decades more, and not that she we, but our children, sec Lon- structive there, and that it does fault there is to be found with cerning the evils that can result would.

And if she would how don suffer the fate of Nanking to-day. not occur with more frequency it is n result of non-co-operation from carelessness and thought she has control of all China's much more will she dare ence

The Japanese have fostered For past escapes Hongkong by the general public. In any lessness to the offenders them-potentially vast production of an ideal whose victory speeds should be grateful; and for them event, there is a fault. There selves. In the tenements the coal and iron?

Her ambitions the end of the values upon possibly thank Fortune and the】 are places here and there where same system might be applied. do not stop short at China. How which our civilisation has been South America (West Coast) via Japan, Honolulu,

long will it be before she lays built up. Although they use the fact that the "alum areas" ure

garbage of all descriptions is and the lessons of personal her hands on the Dutch East armaments invented by Western Hilo, Los Angeles, Mexico & Panama.

populated by persons who know left on the curb in containers or hygiene emphasised. Where it Indles, Malaya, Australia and science the outlook of their rul Takaoka Maru (Starts from Kobo) Fri., 20th Nov, the value, or at least the com- scattered indiscriminately in the is necessary to have rubbish India?

ing class is more barbaric than London, Marseilles, Antwerp & Rotterdam,

fort, derived from bathing. But street. Into this unfortunate deposited in containers along the

that of the kings who ruled Eu. Of course, American Co- in the present over-crowded | human beings prod and poke for street, those should be of a operation is essential. Yet in rope in the Dark Ages.. condition, unless it is ameliorat something edible.. It is a known variety which cannot readily be epite of our refusal to co-operate ed before next summer, there is fact that during the cholera opened and their contents scat-Japan in 1931-32, the integrity not only because the latter fights Japan tries to destroy China, increased danger of spreading epidemic a number of casos re-tered abroad by hungry de-of China and the Open Door against her for freedom, but be- infection. And, bearing in mind suited from this disgusting prac-stitutes; or at least they should remains a goal of American cause the Chinese have establish- that expert authority holdstice. Yet one does not blame display a warning against tam-diplomacy, and, if we showed a ed a republic in place of a "Hea- real desire to stop Japan this ven born!! ruler and because for Hongkong is ill-equipped for the unfortunates for their piti-pering.

time; and were willing to make them Western civilisation standa fighting.epidemics, it is time forable attempt to find some morsel Whether these

suggestiona joint action in the Far East a not only for weaponis of destruc- action. In the first place the of food, poor creatures, but

part of Anglo-American econo- tion but also for intellectual free- are practicable or not, and they mic co-operation antiquated method of dealing rather the conditions which en-

on a larger dom, an end to ancient super- with that unpleasant "night courage it. Basically, of course,

are not original but come in the scale it is almost certain that stitions, emancipation of women, so!!" problem requires attention. this is not a problem of sanita main from interested residents the Americans would stand in democracy and other things ab

with us:

horrent, to the rulera of Japan. In that respect it is for persons tion, but of economics.

of Hongkong, it la time the Gov-

In addition to these calcula Only the victory of China in ornment made a very serious informed on such subjects to!

tions is the fact that the most this war can save both the This brings one to the sugges effort to deal with a problem of peaceful, and in many ways the Japanese and the Chinese people offer suggestions; and for those

irected to put forward their tion that education might play a the first magnitude is people most civilised, race on earth is from extreme poverty and op

affects the health of the

with becoming a pression. That victory can be complaints. For a start, Gov- useful part in the solution of the of this Colony. It is not too colony of the most brutal and ensured by the, minimum of

problem. The first much too say that if funds arg ernment might consider the sanitary

China has suffered for a hun- for economie pressure on Japan modernising of methods of col- thing that suggests itself is that lacking some form of levy should backward of all the Powers. effort on our part. The demand lection and of equipment. And the general public be warned be devised to make possible im the first place for action is in the against depositing rubbish and mediate improvement of a situa-dred years at the hands of the is beginning to be heard even

tion which is not only degrading West. Oplum has been forced from unexpected quarters.

Let us make it too strong for crowded, tenement areas. Then, refuse in the streets, and that to the community but a definite upon her, territory and conces-

sions and privileges taken from the Government to disregard It.. too, there is the problem of gar-offenders be fined if they are menace to Ita well-being.

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