We gather from Messrs. Thomas Watson & Co's tea report that the quantity Or Indis exported. in. September Was "5 Tu; as compared with ib. exported in September "he export exported in the corresponding period of last readiness to die is the only type of self-protection she is able to think of. Her "resistance," in Shanghai alone, has cost her at least 100,000 lives, in the army alone, and several tens of thousands of dead among the farmers and workmen. At this enormous expense she has obtained nothing but the loss of the territory she. formerly occupied, Her artistic creativeness finds its material expression in an all-pervading and, from the modern point of view, perfectly criminal wastefulness, This Chinese wastefulness is whi Japan is up against, because thi wastefulness imperils Japan's very existence. Even the healthiest man cannot after to live in a neighbourhood the air of which is purified by masses of unburied corpses. Even the richest man cannot allow his brother or father to lead an existence based on loa obtained from outsiders rather than upon the increase of productivity But Japan has neither physical nor financial strength to spare and to be very careful not to be overpowered by the young and rich races of the Western world. Culturally, Japan has no use whatever for wastefulness and abstract idealism.
Japan is the only Oriental nation possessing an inborn and most intense sense of reality. It is this sense of reality which has enabled Japan to catch up with the West. Japan's newly acquired consciousness of her own strength drives her to force China to get rid of her quietism. which may be sweet and even enchanting, but is, at present, utterly cut-of-date. Japan alone sees that, spite of her so-called *modernization. China has fundamentally remained as she was and that there is no time to wait until China herself recognizes her cultural deficiencies and discovers a cure for them.
The pontoon known ax the Paoufong Wharf, on the French Bund, was submitted to sale by auction yesterday, under a decree of the Court of the United States Consulate-General. The bidding commenced at Tis 500 and advanced in small amounts to Tis 1,005, at which sum the pontoon was Knocked down. Mr. Seabroke was the purchaser, and, it was said, he was acting on behalf of Mr. A. Malcolm, to satisfy whose claim the sale took place.
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