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II.

GOVERIE ANT OF MANCHOUKUO.

(1) Preliminary Comment:

6. There can be no question that on the whole the system

of government is working, not exactly smoothly, but without

developing so much friction as to destroy its efficiency. It

is one that la repugnant to British ideas but it is dangerous

to apply Anglo-Saxon principles to oriental races. That the

Manchoukuo subject has no liberty of action or thought gives

an unfavourable impression of the government's ideala but we

have to remember that to ninety-nine per cent of the population

liberty is but a name. If they are subjected to autocratic

domination, it is only to what they and their parents have

always been accustomed.

7.

The change from the rough-and-ready methods of their

former chinese war-lorde to the meticulous, not to say fussy,

methods of the Japanese was bound to be distasteful to the

Chinese, particularly as their new masters were alien, but the

Chinese is very adaptable and such foreign observers as are in

a position to judge are generally agreed that he has settled

down with oriental resignation to life under the present régime.

8. Order has been restored in the greater part of the

country and is returning in the remainder. Laws have been codi-

fied and law courts set up. Taxation has been standardised.

A beginning has been made with standard education.

has been made for government hospitals in principal centres,

doctors are being trained and efforts are being made to educnte

the public in methods of hygiene. Improved farming methods are

the subject of intensive study and new tracts are being opened

Pallways and roads are being built, In material benefita

the new régime can justly claim to be fulfilling its promise to

give the country orderly government. If the story ended the re,

the administration might well merit the sympathy and support of

up.

Provision

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