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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, AUGUST 14, 1989.

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Anniversary

THE anniversary of the outbreak

of hostilities in Shanghai has a spiritual significance for China similar to that of the Double Teuth, for the hinted awakening of China's nationhood on October 10, 1912, became an accomplished fact during the gallant defence of Shanghai two

The years ago. Shanghai hostilities gave China a new inspiration; a new and firmer

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Aggressiveness; and

realisation that something more ♦ | than mere clan and family loyalty existed in the country. National consciousness, once sneered away As an impossible virtue, is now admitted on all sides as being n growing characteristic of Chinese life.

Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's anniversary message expresses the new feeling which is sweeping China-courage in the face of great suffering, and determination to bring about the complete reju- venation of the country. The fulfilment of these idenle is to be through a spiritual and economic bulwark against Japanese · aggres- alun-two powerful weapons if they can be applied with full force. But it is type of fighting which requires even greater courage than the bayonet charge, and its success depends almost entirely on the degree of unity which China can develop in the applica- Japan's tion of such. tactics, armies can probably go on fighting in China for an indefinite period, but Japan will be crushed if the Chinese

sufficient can exhibit courage to fight her with moral and economic weapons. Chiang Kai-shek's call for a united front based on these ideals, therefore, is as important and significant as

as his appen!, two years ago, for

a determined stand by his fighting forces in Shanghal.

Politics And Sport

THE invasion of politica into

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sports is one of the more regrettable features of contem- porary international relations. There are occasions when political conditions rightly demand cossation of normal fraternisation in the field of international sport, but as a principle, the subordina-. tion of these relationships to mere political whims can never be con- cedad. It is this principle, it would seem, that Hongkong'a two tenals champions, Taul Wal-pul amd his brother Taul Yun-púi, áre applying in their decision not to play against the Thailand tennis players who are in Hongkong on a visit of goodwill. It is difficult to subscribe either to the notion or the motive behind it. There is a degree of discourtesy in their bohaviour which it is impossible" to condone. Even if there is any truth in the allegation of anti- Chinese Influence in Thailand (and this is open to considerable doubt) our Chinese tennis champions would do well to remember that visitors are not political representatives, but are hore as an expression of goodwill and friend- liness to all nationalities in the Colony. To offer them such an unmistakable insult is unpardonable, and cannot be tolerated..

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THE MISSING TROPHIES

How the Japanese

salmon gets

into the tin

OR every tin of Canadian salmon that crosses the counter to the British housewife, two and a half tins of the Japanese product are sold to her.

For every £1 we spend on tinned salmon with the Dominion, we spend rather more than £2 with Japan.

Look at these (official) figures. In 1038 England bought 150,000cwt. of Canadian salmon; and 305,000cwt, of the Japanese product.

In that same year we paid Canada £772,000 for her fish, and Japan no less than £1,600,000.

Why is it that the English house- wife buys two and a half tins of Japanese salmon for every tin of the Empire product?

There is a number of reasons, First, more Japanese salmon is sold in England because it is cheaper. Taned salmon, which is a very valuable food, is favoured In households where every penny of housekeeping money has got to work overtime.

AN oMelal analyals of

saimon . tinned

sales revealed the fact that the Canadian varieties, which cost more, are more freely bought in

by GEORGE GODWIN

the North of England and Scot- land. The South of England and the West are the chief buyers of the Japanese product.

Why, the reader may ask, can- not Canada compete in price with

The the Japanese producers? answer is that she could do so only by bringing down the standard of living of her working people to the low level now prevailing in Japan.

There is a widespread idea that If we cared to do so we could buy all the canned salmon wo need within the Empire. This is in- correct. The total

of output Canada, for example, would yield only forty per cent. of England's needs,

The trouble is that we are not buying that forty per cent. And the reason is that given above: the widest English market is for the cheaper varieties. And these come to us from Japan.

The Agures speak oloquently of the rapid rise of the Japanese sal- mon fishing and canning indus- tries. Look at them,

In 1920 Japan sent us 123,000cwt. of tinned salmon, with a value of £500,000. In nine years the figures are trebled!

As Japan's urgent need for for-

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"I'm simply bursting to tell the neighbours about your raise, but I can't remember what I told them you were making last!"

eign currency becomes accentuated her drive for this and other British markets will be intensified. She captures that market because she offers her goods at prices with which the British producer can- not compete.

It is often said that the Japanese product is very much interior to the Canadian. This is a half truth. There are a number of varieties of salmon, ranging from the Sockeye, or Red-the best-to Pinks, which posscas less food value.

It is this variety of salmon that the Japanese export heavily to England. It is the variety most favoured by the English housewife with a lean purse.

So much for the consumer end of this controversy. There remains another--the methods of fishing, and here we come up against a tendency all too common with the Japanese, namely, contempt for ordinary standards of fair-dealing.

FOR many years the United States

and Canadian Governments

have spent money to increase the salmon supplies of the waters of the Facific Slope. They have built hatcheries and run laboratories for the study of fish life.

They have cultivated these ter- ritorial waters just as a farmer cultivates his fields, and they take the view that this harvest of the sea is theirs.

The Japanese assent to tifs view. They have given many assurances that they will keep their fishing fleet off the Pacific Coast of the North American Con- tinent.

But United States and Canadian fishermen report constantly the presence of Japanese fishing boats in territorial waters. Bristol Bay, of Alaska, has been a happy poaching ground for the Japanese fishing fleet tar a long time.

Their method is to fish and can at sea and for this purpose their fleet operates with a parent ship accompanied by trawlers and gas boats. United States cutters have repeatedly caught the Japanese poaching and though their gear is out over miles, the excuse ten- dered is always the same. They are merely dshing for crab-which is permitted,

The

extensive poaching of

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Mount Clemer. Mich.

(U.F.)—

Japanese salmon fishing units' is tending to deplete these waters, waters whleb have been stocked and tended by American and Canadian enterprise 1or many years.

Here is a typical protest from an American skipper. "The Japs have so much gear out that it is im- possible for us to set our gear. with Behring Sea is covered Japanese boats."

Canadian fishermen operating on the Fraser and Columbia rivers are faced with poaching, which de- pletes the salmon schools on their way to the rivers where they make for the headwaters to spawn and die.

In short, the Japanese, having depleted the Chinese waters. 1s turning his attention to the rich fisheries of the American con- tinental shelf.

That Japanese fishing units are persistently and consistently poaching in our waters is proved by a body of evidence that ranges from aerial photographs to eye- witness evidence from scores of skippers and men.

TWO tins of canned salmon were placed be- tore the writer in a London office this week. One was stamped on the end with the word CANADA. The other was stamped in the same position with the word

CAN.

The first tim was a genuine Canadian product: the other as genuinely Japanese.

Why the word CAN on the Japanese goods instead of JAP?

Does such marking constitute a deliberate attempt to trick the British housewife, inviting her to bellove that CAN is merely an abbreviation of Canada?

Any such hasty conclusion would Involve a gross injustice to the enterprising people of Japan. For Can. It so happens, is the name of a Japanese company which manu- factures cans for salmon.

Similar misunderstandings have arlsen in the past. For example, Sweden is the name of a Japanese village where matches are made- for export. They are duly marked with the place of origin. They bear the legend: Made in Sweden.

Bo, too, there is the Japanese trading centre which rejoices in the odd name U.S.A. Its goods are similarly marked for export,

IN all such cases the claim may be arguably ̈ true. But there is an-

other name for it.

The remedy for the present un- desirable blas tëwards Japanese salmon export would seem to be to. take at lenst every hundred-. weight possible of Empire pro-- duced in salmon and to acquire. the balance from the United States and Russia,

Maybe with a radical readjust- ment of buying it would be possible. to eliminate the Japanese product.

That it is now highly desirable-- to alm at that end is fairly obvious..

Boy In Fear Of Movie

CLEVELAND, O. (UP),—A 13-

A wille testified in her divorce sult year-old boy was found with a 33- that her husband provided only "eggs calibre revolver behind a drug store and bologna" for food during their here. Reason: "I was going to the- two years of married life. She said movies to see 'Gunga Din," and I: her husband was in the egg byslucs.] carried it for protection," he said,

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