JAPAN: War-fare

Last week dumpy, soft-looking little Emperor Hirohito sampled the warfare on which his soldiers in China are fed. For breakfast he and his wife squatted before a low table on which rested a bowl of boiled rice and barley, and side dishes of powdered bean paste and pickled radishes. At lunch the menu read: millet gruel, side dishes of bean noodles, pork, boiled spinach and salty pickled plums. That evening the Emperor and Empress dined on boiled rice and barley again, had side dishes of dried fish, carrots and boiled lotus roots. One day of warfare was enough for the Son of Heaven. To date his army and people have had a year and half of warfare and are growing a little tired of it.