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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, MARCH 6, 1948.

POTIDAN RULI "Beggar my

Neighbour

"HEY, THOSE AREN'T THE CARDS I DEALT YOU!"

JAPAN'S

Currunt in

“Candidus” asks

Must We Risk Another War?

I

SOMETIMES wonder whether, in times of

crisi, the people of the British Isles realise | that many millions of British subjects overacas look to the Motherland for guidance, or whether they are sweetly oblivious of their world-wido.} responsibilities.

On Thursday of this week, we in Hongkong read with considerable interest and concern, the debate in the House of Lords on Russian policy and recent happenings in Europe, so suspiciously engineered by the Soviets. Call them Com- munists, to clarify the issue.

"Today," stated Lord Salisbury, "we are faced with a moment of national perll, The British people are waiting for a lend, It is for Parliament to see they got it."

The worthy Lord appears to have over- looked the fact that Parliament is the people, and it is the people, in the first and last analysis, who form the Government,

It is only too true that it is suicidal to permit party divisions tu sap our national strength, but here again, that state of affairs is solely due to the people themselves.

HIDDEN

GOVERNMENT

HILE advocating an early

pence settlement ;1༥ it basic condition towards the reonomic well-being not only of the Japanese but of the people of East Asin as well, the noted economist. Prof. D. B. Copeland, Australian Minister in China, added the hope that that "would not mean hcom. plete withdrawal of the Occupa tion Forces." 31 IN

that the qualification was made by Professor Copeland having regard to the discovery, by

during

BY JOHN MURDOCH

the WHIT,

Correspondent in Japan

of the 'Eastern World'

LORD Salisbury did not think "It was by accident" that the Argentine, Chile and Guate- mala incidents had occurred. i and all thinkers will thoroughly agree. In today's news (Thurs- of the strong day) we reach British protest made in conner-

quake flors come. In World War 11.tion with the insult to the Bri- muughly one-third of the then potish Flag in Guatemala City. lation of more than 3,000,000 In We also read of the serious Osalca becume air-raid victims. whlie nore than 300.000 houses and rioting on the Gold Coast, and buildings in the elty were elther note that, according to the burnt or destroyed, Osaka, in fact,

is only now beginning to shake her-Governor, Sir Edward Creasy, Affecting the Japanese flats win Japanese diet. In shops in Osaka or caused by USA. 11.2.s and. In the political body called the United self free of the rubble and dust it. had been incited by a new ter as acutely as the shortage of Tokyo there are always plentiful argot of American Occupation volees. Gold Coast Convention. What's food and clothing is the meagre sips supplies of such fish as purgy, suzuki. an earthquake ply of fuel and elvetriedy. Because mackerel, goby, swordfish.

now "would be just rain did not fall this

co. ton hack," year to the flounder, turbot, earp, goldásh, cei,

the betting thut the now possible entefiment areas where Japan's vast shark and, perhaps most popular of

Anyway, the results of the efforts "body" which has suddenly hydro-electric grid originales, elec all, the young octopus. I tasted the of the selentile group which created triesty to industry and householders cooked, sinuous legs of a baby octo- earthquakes on a minor scale will be sprung up, is not Russian in- has suffered a drastic cut, although pus and it was like chewing a bit of placed before the world's Geological spired? We out here have seen

allowed rubber. But I haven't seen many nar

Dynamies Conference due to take still about twice the Viss-Minister of the brook or rainbow trout which foiland; that is, provided the earth- Shameen (Canton), and again General MacArthur's Intelli.

place in the

[the British Flag insulted on spring at Rotterdmin, gence Department, of a "hidden Okamatsu, of the Commerce and In-

I were introduced Into Japanese ***

quake does not occur dundry

told streams from the U.S.A.

before then. Department in Tokyo, government" in Japan which

we have pretty shrewd ideas as me that his Government hopes

The last big earthquake in Japan was to who are the sponsors and might sabotage every effort to the earl of the winter to table legis- by

TEST-TUBE GENIUS

In December of 1946. Its origin was ମ about 150 miles south of Osaka Diet to modernise

MIERE must be few Japan's coal mines and make them a

people state charge.

the sea, and the tidal wave caused by Osako who

It swept inland and did considerable Are the British people in the identity of a middle-aged Japanese age to life and property. During British Isles going to wait for who is often seen collecting garbage. The late world war, there were two the day when the Union Jack losser Japanese earthquakes, at Nagoya and with his hands and puttling it into a

Tottori. Previous to may be pulled down in London Our garbage collector is Dr Eyalım Kinosita, a distinguished scientist

was in September, 1923, when about? who stands on the 407

70,000 persons perished. threshold of a discovery which

may save countless lives. He is confident that he

democratise the nation.

Its widespread tentacles are more dangerotis than the notorious anti- British and anti-U.S.A. Black Drogon s Society which, encouraged Japan's warring ambitions, Beneath the oh-

the

in

Are aware of the

organisers.

Sequlow veneer of interest in demo- census, Japan's total population is pack slung round his shoulders. that, the biggest earthquake in Japan itself?

into the

in --

ed by about 400 gangs wport-.

berst farme

1/

About the 78-

BLACK MARKET

overseas

nients has been a

is

HE Japanese Exchequer will bene- His-discovery that-butter-vellow expedition. The ccessful shopping going to risk another?

Are we

POPULATION INCREASE Sa result of the first post-war erney, these revolutionary forces are now estimate to L said to be planning the overthrow of million mark. Cbared with mans Orcupation reforms and post estimate in 1946, the latest, more ac

Stern and pessimistic, some treaty stipulations. Of enurse, curate figure dennies an intreuse of

NO MORE KISSING

may say, but can there be any may be long after the signing of the

dve million. The rise is attributed well on the way towards establishing

doubt by now as to what Russia pence treaty next summer, before

the

repatriation of

JAPAN'S Don Juan-says

will now really desires, and is striving the Japanese

a cure for cancer of the liver, but he greret overnment'

Japanese and thereased birth-rate, is meantime handicapped in

be Hable for a comes

face-sp for? For God's sake do not let severni aziers. Colonel

By January next. an overall investi- respects such as by lack of adequate kiss in public.

when they steal n democratic Charles Kades, deputy chief

ugation of the population of Japan scientific equipment for

They can be sent us delude ourselves any longer. General MacArthur's Governancut whit assess

developing the number in various his laboratory experiments. Even the to prison for six months and We have fought a war from Department, , said that "the organisa- vocations.

food, or lack of it. needed to keep fined 500 yen (£2 10s.) for which we manage to survive, tion"

was working behind

the rats that he uses for his experis peek at a wife before she goes off by the Grace of God! kuromaku (black curtain). Buence, he explained, extended

drawback, hence on a visit to relatives or when she re- all political parties and was

the reason for his garbage exploits. s from a

Those who grasp the. At in 1918 by another 300 mil dye used to corrode ersatz butter, trams or trains will be sentenced to hands of girls or molest them in tion yen, mainly through the transuc- seientifically known as dimethyl- tions of black-marketeers. The gure arenoze benzine, might be the con- seven years.

penal servitude for not more than WE here in Hongkong are us help- is based on the premise that the pre-tributory cause of enneer, started Dr

less as the proverbial rat in a rent rate at which fines for vidia- Kinosita off on his present experi-

the Revising tion of the Price Control Law are ments.

code,

and yet anxious and deter Japanese legislators have agreed that mmed to do all we can to back up pouring into the Government's cof-

The "kissing business" has been fers will continue.

Professor Kinosita, sitting in office at Osaka Imperial University (infra dig). The Tokyo Police are our beliefs and hopes when we his perdone, and that it is "dami dari strong union of British freedom- loving peoples, but we are shaken The black market in tobacco is one Where he is now chief of Cancer now determined to eradicate "all view from IN TORTO

afar off the trend of other of the biggest problems of the Research, told me: 'We have made a things of an erolle nature." cities of Japan today, one does not Japanese authorities these days, and tremendous stride towards a solution things banned will be pornographie Among

events in Europe today. require to go "slumming" to observe is largely due to organised thefts of the cancer mystery, but luck of literature (though the stuff I have Do the people of the British Isles homeless hungry vagrants prowling from warehouses and, in a lesser depletely breaking down the unknown enough compared with other cilles a few hundred square miles (300

de equipment prevents us from round the streets all day in search free.

com- ren in the shops has been innocuous realise that this small Colony of but employees menking out of food and who, at nighi, are most smokes from tobacco firms.

But factor and isolating and studying the outside Japan), prostitution, and any all, which includes a few practically ly Court in the railway stations, then nothing is shered to the virus. Since

1011 We have

nu revue or play in which the hips. or uninhabited Astands) has a popula trying to And Japanese sply these days. From five way of knowing what scientists In breasts of girls are "exposed in nation of

on of approximately two milion, municipal cemeteries in Tokyo, the outside world were doing in the attempt to express extreme erotia large number of whom are

Britis stealing wooden matter of cancer research We have cism." Producers of offending plays subjects? They have come here of for had little or no access to scientifle will be sentenced to not more then dreir own accord because they are Journals and publications since 1941, six months imprisonment or fined a satisfied with the freedom and and working in the dark has imped- maximum of 500 yen. ed our Renius

of the test-tubes is a remark-

cfenced all walks of life-

admirals and generals, former millionaires au "blackmar ket millionaires, former kamikaze (suiride) troops, pickpockets and or- dinary Japause spivs.

HOUSING

Osaka and the

huddled together,

warmth

thieves have been

#rewood.

LAWFULLY STARVED

progress." This Japanese

a country where blackmarketing able man in many ways. During the

is rife, it is amazing to note the war, while on board ship, sailler off A Tokyo, forthright character of one Japanese, Japan, he was

struck down

on

dirana

criminal

trap,

To deal with this problem of the plaques, possibly to sell them homeless, Japan's Government has instructed its forestry department to blueprint plans for the opening of

Sudety of life under the British flug. new areas for the cutting of timber

They look forward to the protection to provide more

SUCCESSFUL PLAY houses, Shigetoro

and freedom which they have en- FTER a

run four months' Sasayama, Vice-Minister of Agricul-

in joyed for years, and have no desire ture and Forestry, told me that the

to meddle in politics, although there ΤΟ "Gateway

The Japanese Government's main idea to

Flesh," the most sensational stage are radical elements which are today combat the housing problem, and its Yamaguchi, who recently starved to mirrors and a local anesthetic

n young Tokyo magistrate, Yoshitada acute appendicitis. With the ald of

to secure converts to endeavouring that of its kind

Japan attendant evils, will be the quicker death rather than buy food through instructed the purser of the ship

He has yet

in the Communistle policy, just as there seen,

sulli is

playing transportation of domestic fuct and illegal channels. One Japanese how to operate and remove the ap- within the four male islands.

to packed audiences 011

tour are in every other part of the world food from rural production points daily, headlined the story "Socrates pendix.

The today. to the cities must affected,

of Japan Dies." Another: "Justice

work of a little-known author, called Dr Kinosita has a cultured English Tamaru, it is the boldest plece of flongkong's future, and it is

Only a strong Britain can assure in Japan Itos Not Died." FOOD

wife, formerly Marguerita Ritson, of stage writing that jaded occidental While the whole of Japan, from North London, who, before her mars minds could desire.

inspect which is of such tremendous It is the story, importance. Do the people of the CASAYAMA was pessimistle about Government officials to corner-boys, Japan. She is a gifted poet and one in Japan; of the e find loves of Ben British Isles fully appreciate their

ringe, was a teacher of languages in in live scenes, of modern prostitution Japan's food prospects for the have in one way, or another dealt on of her poems which she showed to street-walkers who live in the base responsibility to the outlying parts winter months of 1948. Because of the black market, Yamaguchi recent floods causing severe damage decided at all costs to obey the Food in graphically described an air raid ment of a bombed-out district to farmlands, there would not be the Control Law and have nothing to do by 1.20's on Osaka. same rice quola as last year, he said, with the black market,

EARTHQUAKE EXPECTED

Ble

of the Empire?

of

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family's To offset the rice shortage, Susayama meagre ration of food, however, was plans to import larger quantities of just enough to feed his two children. carrots and pumpkins from Hok- he unself kaido, ond bring more Houshu.

Tokyo. They have pledged their at- tractive leader, Setsuko, never to fall in love, but when they shelter u NTICIPATING that the main dan- the polica, cupid and his bow

Japanese gangster "on the run" from lived on thin gruel. ger point in Japan's next earth- amok providing plenty of Ash from became through malnutrition. His quake may be central Honshu, Japan. There are, too, plenty of thrills

colleagues called his fanatical avowal ese seismologists recently made arti- the shape of ju-jitsu fights

run

nction.

amom

1 On-an-Death-Pledge and tried fcial earth tremors in order to test the girls and any sadistic streak in Japan's food supply in the 1948 is elve him food from time to time, the quality of the earth's crust. One the audience is amply entered for by rice year, from November, 1047, to Yamaguchi's

argument in refusal October, 1948, will be 1,002,000 tons was: Daily I nor sending black-se noted Japanese scientist, Dr Tanaha- the flogging of two of the giels who short, and agricultural experts fore- keteers to gaol. How can I eat the that about 50

University, told

ma betrayed" the cost a crisis in midsummer of next food supplied by them?"

percent of the many wooden houses in the neighbouring industrial city of Osaka (population

erumble in

year.

The total consumption in the entire rlee year

may be about 50,000,000 koku (347 lbs. 1 koku).

while the

FISH PLENTIFUL

ed" the "group's" Interests in one way or another.

liked the orchestral background

nt 1048 census)

-1,292,441) would to the flogging scene. As the girls the next 'quake, which were being flogged to death by their

of was likely to be the most devastating leader, the band would play, pianis

I BAW

supply will be about E simple Japanese peasants 10,000,000 koku, making a shortage Uhoyama

TH of roughly 12,000.000 koku, or 1,692,- never vorry about the next meal. earth crust of Osaka, he assured me, symphonic-limbed

(Mount Cormorant) ever to hilf the middle of Japan. The. "Nearer My God To Thee." 000 tons calculated in terms of un- Whe short, they stand under a tree had been found to be the least like- beautiful necording to Japanese stan

The girl performers are young, and no doubt polished rice.

by the river and catch falling fish, ly resist violent tremors. In the dards. They are natural in move- Japan's

Agriculture-Forestry The fish come from the cormorant other two big towns in central lion- ment ant gesture on stage and make Minister, Inouye, hopes that, for birds which frequently disgorge their shu-Kyoto and Nagoya, De Tana the piece convincing. sake brewing, sweet potatoes will be over-filled stomachs. Fish is plenti- hashi, Dr Sasa and other university it in Osaka, where it was giving four

When used instead of rice. His department, fut in Japan, chiefly because of the scientists had found that the earth shows a day, the is planning to re-organise tho dla seasonal flow of warm ocean currents

nudlence were tribution of food

crust was tougher than in Osaka, This packed like sardines, even to stand- on a "generous from the south and cold currents, discovery was made by a simple ex- ing en masse in the passageways. I scale" after a study of the world from the north, there are both periment-the carrying out of small think the Japanese must have liked food situation and estimated crops of migratory and permanent varieties in explosion tesis in bombed-out areas the wheat, barley

and Irish potatoes Japanese waters, Consequently fal of the city. It will be prolly hard give

production although they hover available during next year.

is second only to rice as an item of on Osuka when, or if, this carth- plause or otherwise.

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