1946-10-25 — Page 3

The Social Irony And Political Paradox Of Hirohito's Tours

Hunder the new constitution appears in his pre- TIGHLY-strung Hirohito, symbolic of the state

sent tour of the country to establish both social irony and political paradox.

IN his brown shoes and crum-ponsible for his safety are convinced bled soft hat, he is proving that nothing is very likely to occtir beyond the slightest doubt that

in the future.

As for the Emperor himself, he is to many he is the only living in-not over-zealous about his own safety dividual who commands such a and offletuls said he could be quoted dogree of respect and devotion as feeling that it is now my duty to exercise everything in my power from his compatriots. ·

to give my people now hope and

and new strongs in life for the future. Communist outcries againot the Paradoxically, while sweeping poli- Emperor system notwithstanding, foluto has proved during sixical changes have been instigated on previous tours, and is proving to the one hand to alter Hirahlto's im- day, that he is the only human perial system, the extent of the speed rally

point of 10,000,000 Japanese. of Japan's recovery on the other hand The irony, lies in the fact that this will continue to hinge in a large mea- forceful popularity was

not born sure on the propelling force emanat- of personality, executive power orng from the same system.

Individual greatness, but because Hirohito is still at the apex of a pyramidal system with millions

Compromise Demarcation

trained in the past to worship at THE answer obviously lies in a

Its pltor.

Purpose of Tour

of

of

compromise line of demarcation between the old system and the new and devices have been defined in nome degree in the opening chapter of the constitution just approved by the Diel. This charter solemnly con- stitutionalisex the monarchy by the people's will and at the same time rely divests the Emperor of all Keverely his divine rights and political power. A more tangible compromise will eventually have to be worked out in the people's minds and this, a slow process of democratisation, is likely to take time.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1946.

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Harry Pringle, variety producer in the British Broadcasting Corpora- tion's television programmes, discusses a knotty point with: (L to ni Michele de Lys, Ronnie Boyer, Leslie Henson, (first rowi Jean Ravel, Trias Hender-

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Britain To Build Europe's

Biggest Suspension Bridge

·

To span the River Sovern across its lower reaches and thus connect England with the rapidly developing indua- trial area of South Wales, a new glant suspension bridge

estimated cost of £7,500,000. is to be built at an

the

TRONICALLY, the purpaso

Hirohito's present tour-as well ns of similar toum planned for the future-ly the comfort

the plight people, whose

he alone among all Japanese could have

The bridge, which will be avolded or greatly minimised. To

largest suspension bridge in Europe day, the man Hirohito must pain-

will have a centre span of 3,000 feet of his fully ruline thin; most

between two steel towers rising to prostrated, war-devastated subjecta

a height of 450 feet above high water. too. Yet there is little doubt must,

The paradox is deepened by the

At either. end will be 1,000 that his motives are genuine and fact that Hirohito never had the that the people's response is also forceful attributes of any Western spans, and vertical clenranet provid- true: herein Iles irony which dictator or great monurch of the ed for shipping will be 110 it. above emotion-not logic and system world. Therefore, popular faith in high water near the towers and about

him

must necessarily remain syn-120 ft. in the centre. Two immense anchorages, about 250 ft. by 130 ft., thetic.

Political significance is connected will take the pull of the main cables. with Ilirohito's present tour: (1) It Each will be made entirely of con- is his first public tour since the crete and their massive frames will overwhelmingly voted for the be relieved by recessed vertical faces.

alone can explair.

The milling crowds in Alchi and Gifu prefectures, waving flags, the farmers springing to attention the field as the Emperor's train pusses, the tears of old folk and the shouts of "banza!" for the Emperor from "tecnage school girls all indicate that the cardial popu- lar responБО which the Emperor evokes everywhere he

about the most spontaneous unregimented modern Japan

ver witnessed

ever

Porchy; (2) the four covers in- dustrial plants manufacturing goods for exp

as ceramies nud export, such

felt

Mustard Gas As

Keeping Britain's Communications

Open In Bad Weather

Recent spells of bad weather in Britain brought problema to, many people other than farmers and land workers.

Wind can damage overhead telephone and telegraph wires; rain can get into underground cable ducts- and cause shorting or earthing; roads can be flooded or blocked by fallen

progress trees as to hinder the

of mall vans; and fire is an ever-present possibility. But there is usually u way round the way through impracticable, and the Post Office has its plans prepared for just such emergencies.

In the case of road services for malls, etc., the answer to the problem is usually to use another road al- though on occasion, boats have had to be used.

Before the war, emergency tele- phone and telegraph equipment was held at strategic points ready to be sent to any place at which break- down of services had occurred. During the war these reserves were expanded in size and range to cope with the additional breakdowns likely to be caused by enemy action. Like most other organisations and Individuals, Britain's Post Ofee had to face the damage caused by the enemy on top of the normal hazards of

peace-time, bridge is open. Now peace han come again the Bristol will be broughi 50 miles pre-war emergency arrangements nearer by road to, South Wales, and have been restored, with such modi- access to the latter considerably im fications and improvements as are to meet up-to-date re- gur conc time improvements. telephone arki telegraph

When the new

proved with the South and Midlandsments and in the light of war-

of England and willi London.

deler- Britain's Government is it.

mined to develop South Wales

tho is no longer that coal-mining is

source of employment, main Secondary, and lighter Industries, it is hoped, will bring greater security to the region. The new Seven Bridge will be a vital artery through which the goods of these industries flow.

Cancer Treatment

chinaware, and it is generally la that foreign trade holds one of the and essential keys to Japan's regenera- haption; (3) it comes on the heels of the Russian implications of the Em- Reports that few men along the peror's war gulit in the war crimes Emperor's railway

route "kept trial.

is no attention" working, paying

Charges have been raised that the testimony-by comparison to all American nuthorities and SCAP are a secreily sponsoring Hirohito's public past procedure that there is

the minimum of manufactured welcome.

appearance 15 tactics against.

line which re- Communist told this Co High Japanese officinia

Certain types of mustard gas correspondent that measures to pro-pudiates the Emperor. This conten-have been found by United tect the Emperor's person against tion is strongly disclaimed by geasible violence had been

Party

(By Harry Strauss)

will

Education In The

British Zone

By the end of August there were 13,898 schools open in the British zone of Germany. There were made up of 11,541 elemen betary and intermediate schools secondary schools with 261,468 pupils and 1,737 vocation schools and courses with 456,853 pupils. The total number of teachers available in the zone was 59,023. There were 296 approved schools and orphanages.

stripped cre officials. They assert that the States army physicians to with 2,838,651 pupils, 619 to datiger point. Yet Imperial of-Emperor's tours reflect solely his a possible substitute for X-ray cinls say that not a single untoward spontaneous wish while Gen Mac- plot marred. Hirohito's six previous Arthur follows a policy of unmed- public appearances and oficials res-dling neutrality.

Rain Or Sunshine By Scheme To Grow Tea

In New Guinea Pressing Button?

treatment of neoplastic tissues found in such malignant growths as cancer, according to the War Department.

Six universities were open in the one with a teaching staff of 1,190 and 23,160 students to be admitted in the winter term, and eight col- leges of university rank with a teach- student membership for the winter that term of 5,307.

Teacher-training colleges and Some 4,077 courses numbered 55.

were attending normal courses and 601 emergency or special emergency courses. The total feach- ing staff was 404.

of clans have smsay physi- studenis

held at various centres the country, ready to be brought into use at short notice. By the adoption of this method of dispersal it lo un- likely that any place will be coTI- pletely cut off from communication with the outside world for any long period.

In addition to reserve telephone telegraph equipment, provision is made to cover the risk of break- vital item down of power

and

at

in any, telecoration systern. Emergency power-plant is also held

plant strategic points. This

is capable of supplying the whole of the power supply at a small tele- pinne exchange or small telegraph part office, or the more important

1t of the system at larger centres. can also be used for charging bat- teries for use at smaller centres if necessary. Britain's Post Office Lakes all

insure practicable steps to against loss of service through break-

down.

CORRESPONDENCE

The Puzzle of Eire

(To The Edlier, H.K. Telegraph.)

Sir, For the benent of your non- British readers I should like to com-

The discovery was made as the result of investigation of the precise effect on hunuan organism of nitro- gen mustards which disclosed that they produced profound enemics through action on lymphatic tissue marrow-where blood Rain or sunshine at wil by the Salamaun, Oct. 22-A tea expert and bone push of a button was envisioned as

is being sought from abroad to ad- cells are formed an effect similar

to that caused by heavy X-raying staff of 248 and a prospectivement on "Intruder's" letter on Eire. one of the possibilities of science by vise on the most sultable areas to

Guinca. The dosage.

Northern Ireland did stand firm, Brig. Gen. David Sarnoff, President produce tea in New

Minister

for External Territories Proceeding on the premise

but, being subject to Whitehall could of Radio Corporation of America.

(Mr. Ward) said that it was planned Injection of ritrogen mustard into "We may yet have rain

not do otherwise with the profitable sideline of war contracts

the radlo shine by pressing

butions to develop the territory to produce the blood stream in rigidly measured

products Imported

troops. by doses might be a specific for, blood

of Allied spending power When that day comes we shall need primary

such as tea, coffee and and lymph world weather bureau in which Australia,

the production

out experiments

For Eire to live entered, with a vast against, would have been global forecasting and control will cinchona-for

at a number of institutions, includ-

civil war and occupation by have to be vested," Gen Sarnoff told quinine.-Reuter,

Ing New Yort Memorial Hospital.

foreign troops following. Obviously guests at a dinner honouring him for

The new method has been used in

Adult educational facilities were Eire could not grant the ports and the treatment of lodgkins's disease,

still remain. neatral. In any case, FRENCH LINER TO CHINA a rare malignant malady which is being utilised by 79,218 students in

the zone, with a teaching stall Of will war imminent in 1930, why did characterised by severe enlargement

There were 10,340 youth England give the 1,754.

eports back?" of lymph nodes and spleen an

We are constantly reminded protozoa, groups with a total membership of accompanied by

Germany's past, but what of Eng- anaemia, which. eventualy, p...es | 550,797.

land's record in Ireland? The vast Inassacres,

ngainst savage Laws Catholles, Hundreds of thousands left to die in the faminer of 1840-7 down to the "Black and Tons" (forerunners to the Gestapo) a few years ago. Surely this was no incentive to Eire to join hands. What of other minor countries left to their fate by Eng land-)

-Poland, Baltic States and Bal- kans all cumshaw to Russin.

his 40 years in radio, according to. United Press.

Gen Sarnoff said an Important him scientific figure recently told that experiments already are un- der way in weather control.

Other scientiae possibilities, Gen Sarnolf tuid, were delivery of mail

Marcellies, Oct. 18.-The French her Andre Letion will leave Morsellles to-day, resunun tea trafic between France and the Far East,

The Antre Leben will eail at Port Said, fatal. Suez, Colenbo, Singapore, Balkon, long- by radio, direct communication sets kong and Shanglial. with which anyone in the world could contact anyone else, the use of atomic

energy to combat disease. formation of deserts into gardens worldwide television, and the trans-diversion of ocean currents.

SIDE GLANCES

is

Of 28 patients treated at Memorial Hospital three in whom the condi-; tion was caught in its early stages: showed conspicuous beneficial effects by although

by treated exclusively

Ad- nitrogen mustard injections. vanced cares of this disease other malignant maladies, however,

By Galbraith showed little improvement.

CÓPR. 1919 BÝ NA SERVICE, ING, T. M. REZ, U, IL. YAT:OFF:

8-19

"What's the use of me wasting my life scraping at this violin? ... Can't musle lovers hear anything they want Just by putting a nickel in a juke box?"

Memorial

SINO-JAPANESE TRADE TALKS

of

As regards Mr De Valero, yes, he has some Spanish blood, but remem- ber "Intruder," Mr Churchill is only hail Engilsh,

Intruder inalnustes that but for Eire's stand, the Partition would be ended-just like that: but Ulster's resistance for a century, with Ran- dolph Churchill's "Ulster will Fight" In 1880 and the illegal Ulster Volun- teers with imported German orms in 1013-4-down to the same mulishness

Negotiations are in progress Capt D. A. Narnofsky, of the in Tokyo for increased barter Army Medical Corps, reporting extrada between China and Japan neriments at New York Hospital said: "There is no reason in 1947, according to Chinese to believe that any cures have result- press reports, ed from this therapy. It offered no

What China is cpecially desirous therapeutic advantage over properly of obtaining from Japan Bre dynamos

use in convives and factory equipment used X-rays. Its general

methods of in exchange for which, she is ready preference to standard

is X-ray

recommende

to give suya beans and straw mats. and

Meanwhile, it is learned that China until the Indications Umitations of this new agent are will receive another 1,200,000 pounds more precisely determined by further of rayon yarn before 1940 ends in elinlent studies.-Reuter.

three shipments of 400,000 pounds each in the next two months.

Hitherto, mader, the barter agree

some months ago. ment concluded China has received all but 130,000 pounds of the 1,000,000 pounds of rayon yara ordered some time ago The Government-sponsored Cen- tral Trust is responsible for the disord (bution of the rayon to local silk

AIRFIELD CONVERSION

· TO AGRICULTURE

Turning "swords into plough- shares, the Ministry of Agriculture has converted mere than 100 of op- proximately 650 airfields in England and Wales into agricultural tracts and, with the Service departments,

(latures-outer.

BATTLE AGAINST GODOWN

is conducting a survey to free other PILFERAGE IN SHANGHAI airports, says United Press.

Ministry expects to obtain 195 airfields for return to agricultural use in view of the acute food situa- tion. Under the programme, nearly 50 per cent of the land now used for airflelds will be devoted to some kind of agriculture.

before this war, refutes this stafe ment

The letter as good as admits that Ulster remains a purely by force of British arms. Surely with a Labour Government in power, unsympathetic In- to the Unionist Reactionaries

J disin truder's "Old England"

the legrating fast, and what will Orangemen do, then? Commit hari kari at King Billy's tomb or will there be a rush o green dye to transform their sashes?

As to the return of Irishmen, at the outbreak of war, surely this is only human nature. I suppose that at the openning of a war between another country, the vast Eire and locust swarm of English and Ulster- Shanghal, Oct. 24-Demarcation men now in Elte for plenty of food and clothes would immediately join

sumo fà

of the elty's wharf ond godown area up witir Eire's forces or would they? into restricted districts to eliminate I think the answer is the pilferage will be made by the Shang- each visc.

bat Port Authority after consulting with the City Planning Committee, it is reported to-day, pa

BRITISH TRADE MISSION The Port Authority also decided at

Tlentain, Oct. 24 The United Kingdon Trade-Goodwill Mission, led by Sir Leslie Boyce, arrived here yesterday fren Teigtad via Peiping.

Central Nows, Ma

BRIAN BARU.

SHOWING:

TO-DAY

KING'S

CHARLES

At 2.30, 6.10,

7.16 & 9.15 p.m.

Was he thief killer, lover..

BOYER

JOSEPH

man who kept,

drive sweat

nderbis strange spell?:

INGRID

BERGMAN

COTTEN Gaslight

MAY WHITTY

:LANSBURY • BARBARA EVEREST

TO-MORROW

SPECIAL MATINEE PERFORMANCE AT 12 NOON DAILY See the Exciting Climax in The Final Chapters of

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SHOWING

TO-DAY

QUEEN'S

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At 2.30, 5.15,

7.15 & 9.15 p.m.

Join these lusty marines in their search for thrills,

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20ьCENTURY-FOX PICTURE

To the e Shores of

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In "Tachnicolor

Maureen!

Randolph

PAYNE+O'HARA + SCOTT

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SHOWING TO-DAY at 2.30, 5.15, 7.20 & 9.30 p.m.

Starring EDWARD

with

GLENN FORD

MARGUERITE

CHAPMAN EDGAR BUCHANAN

A COLUMBIA PICTURE

ROBINSON CATHAY

Broom Play by sunk Wang, Laulo Mattar kad Borden Toei • Bhuchić by WILLIAM A, SEITER + Prpèseul tey Lands F. Etsaga

4 SHOWS DAILY

At 2:30; 5.15,

7.16 & 9.15 p.m. .

➡WANCHAI ROAD WANCHATA BIGGER & BETTER THAN “SUN VALLEY SERENADE” SANJA HENIE JOHN PAYNE in

"MARRIAGE ON ICE “

Starring: JACK OAKIE-SAMMY-KAYE

EXTRA PERFORMANCE - COMMENCING TO-MORROW & SUNDAY, OCT. 26th & 27th. DAILY AT 12.30 P.M.

AND THE

"TARZAN

NOTICE

GREEN GODESS”

SUPPLIES OF KLIM

Supplies of Klim totalling 300,000

New York, Oct. 24-Tlie Board of Advertisers requiring spaco In Managers of the New York Cotton The Hongkong Telegraph" are 1bg, have been reloased at Shanghal

exchange be Exchange announced the

would be closed on Saturday due to requested to submit, copy not and are expected to kill the black sustained pressure on the exchange later than 5 p.m. on the day employees, Exchange member firma

a meeting to-day to build two new pontoons in Woosung harbour to aid aliipping. The pontoons are to built by the National Resources Commission in conjunction with the Central Dockyard in the area design aled by the Whangpoo Conservancy Board Central News.

and the Clearing House, Aarociation. preceding publication. -Reuter.

market.

Klim has been selling there at $35,000 per 6 lbs. tin (about-- $36 ilongkong dollars).