That the social conditions and social system in Australia and New Zealand are the best in the world is the key-note of a report just handed to the Japanese Ministry of Home Affairs by Mr. T. Namae who was. sent to Australasia to me vestigate matters, Mr. Namae spent xbout five months la the Land of the Southern Gross, In the course of an interview with your correspondent Mr. Namae Ueclared that Australia and New Zealand, were models in these respects for the rest of the world, except in one respect, The people Tneke spiritual culture, he said.
An enormous amount of money, according to Mr. Namae, is annually expended in Australasia for educating the younger generation. The unusually easy mode of life, he thinks, is the cause why the Anzaca have failed so far to have better spiritual traits. One-third of the arrests made in these great British dominions, he said, were due to drunkenness, Mr. Namae then proceeded to compare the size and the density of population of Japan and New Zea and, New Zealand, he said, is two thirds the size of the Japanese Empire, but has a population of only 1,850,000 or 18 persons to the square' mile, while the density of population in Japan is 300 to the Square mile "The climate is good, living conditions are excellent and the scenery, climate and weather arz Tike those of Japan. There are no really poor people in New Zealand, fand such a8 are unemployed are not 0 because of lack of work."
New Zealand, according to Me. Namae, is the only country in the world having 20 great industrial problem to face. He then went on fo contrast. the wages paid in New Zealand with the pittances given Japanese workers, and the contrast stupendous. Gri one particular Tine he lays stress, this being the Police. In New Zealand, the police man gets even yon a day, according him, In Japan, it is a lucky Neep" that gets two yen a day.
'There are_no private benevolent hospitals," Mr. Namae went on. 'Ton million yen is appropriated by the Government annually to. take caro of this problem. 'The Widows' Pension Act cares for women who have lost their husbands or whose husbands are insane, and about two million yen a year is given out la "Health conditions are excellent The death rate is nine per one thousand of the population. Japan the death rate is 23 to thousand, The overage death rats in New Zealand is 6.2; in Japan, it is 36, The infant mortality rate is about four to a hundred; in Japan, {tis seventeen to a hundred.
"Food prices are low—far lower than in Japan which is really the most expensive country in the world 80 far as the cost of living go These large islands of the, South Seas possess great futures, Comrade Kopp's Intrigue That Comrade Victor Kopp, the Soviet Ambassador to Japan, has insulted Japan and is secretly fomenting revolution here was the charge made in the House of Peers yesterday by Mr. Ichizo Hatton Government nominee Upper Chamber.
'Some time ago, "Japan the 'Times'
issued a special edition of Russo-Japanese Economic Number, and Comrade Kopp contributed the following statement to its Tam extremely happy to note the enterprising spirit. of the "Japan Times" in publishing a special edition devoted entirely to Russo-Japanese relations, I note, ith a fecting of deep satisfaction, the rapprochement between the two countries, and the efforts made to lay the foundations of real friendship."
Mr. Hatton read this statement to the Peers and asked the Foreign Minister whether Comrade Kopp was or was not insulting Japan and iding and abetting revolution in this country. He hinted that wh Kopp wrote of "he peoples of the USS.R. who sacrificed so much in the battle for the betterment of the conditions of life and for the Fight of independent and unhampered development" and that the to realize their similar aspirations" that Kopp referred to the Bolshevik revolution.
Baron Shidehara, the Foreign Minister, in reply, said: "It is but right and proper that no foreigner be permitted to do or say anything that would disturb the peace of our country. I do not believe that the Soviet Ambassador meant anything like revolution when he referred to the battle for the betterment of the conditions of life' ete, and I do not think the statement could be regarded objectionable from any point of ron Shidehara's desire to whitewash the Soviet envoy, how. ever, did not satisfy Mr. Iattori who, turning to the Premier, M-. Wakatsuki, asked him what he thought of the affair. Before doing he said: "The battle for the betterment of life cannot be into ce preted in any other way that t! so-called proletarian revolution against capitalise: Even if we may take the Foreign Minister's sta ment as accurate, what does this help that Comrade Kopp offers mean? I do say that the words of the Russian Ambassador are extremely discourteous ones.
The Premier, in reply, affirmed his! belief that Baron Shidehara's statement was correct, and added that he believed the statement made by the Russian envoy was "perfectly harmless." The Premier went on to add that the Home Office wax paying every attention to propaganda that may tend to subvert the social structure in this country."
Mr. Hatton, in conclusion, said he had to accept what the Ministers said, but that, for his part, the explanations were highly unsatisfactory.
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