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HUGHES & HOUGE,
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Hongkong, May 27, 1915.
PUBLIC AUCTION,
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THURSDAY,
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Ice Hours Street,
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THE CHINA MAIL.
CHINESE TO SPREAD ROWING IN THE JAPANESE LANGUAGE East. Te the British Empire has ne
CHINA.
ORIENTAL OARSMEN IN AMERICA..
'WHY N.A.W, IS TEACHING IT..
young men with a knowledge of Easter languages to compete with them, then Germany is going to beat us badly for Japanese trade. Therefore we train Some day; says the "New York The New South Wales. Department of our young man to meet the requirements Herald. when the world settles down Education is introducing the teaching of of competition." Professor Mardoch went again, there is a possibility of an inter Japanese in the secondary sclively, of the on to say that on the way from Japan to ecllegiatu regultú on the Yangtze Kiang, State and at the Sydney. University, Australia he had met several Austrálian the Hoang He or in Hongkong Harbour. Although the two Japanese professors, merchants who had spent unwunts ranging This is no idle dream, for up at Columbia engaged in Japan by Professor Murdoch, from £10,000 to 230,000 on Japaness the first Chinese rowing crew that bas lecturer in Japanese history the goods. These men, he said, were building YOUR EYES ever been seen in this country, or any University, reached Sydney only a week up the trade, and they must have repre- Fother, for that matter, in practising | or the ago, they are already busy with Kentatives, and Austman representatives SHOULD NOT BE NEGLECTED diligently on the lines and expects in their Australiga class. At the High Japan with a kaveledge of Japanese, a few weeks to go out on the water and school, North Sydney, and the Highs that their interests could be safely At the first symptom
pull the aweeps through. Certain seoffers School in Sydney Tradit; about fifty boys, Plooked after. In a few years' time there- of eye strain you should.
maintained that the fact that Chinesa selected for the study of Japanese, are fore, there would be a big opening for consult us. We testudents were being trained in the art
tackling the rudiments of the most young Australians in the East who were
Fri Japanese linguists,
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A HAFFICCL.LANGKAGE,
eyes scientifically and fit of ship was more or less dealt language in the world.
-the Columbia i glasses, to individual re-joke, but a visit
gymnasium gave visual proof thas the lessor Murdoch, who has been inter
No secret is made by Professor Murdoch quirements.
"Oriental-eight" is' rapully becoming and spectator of the initial excus
predicts for these Inds-the majority of of the difficuly of becoming a proficient actity. Ta facs, there is not only nau eight, but tws, and they are going to have who are not mons than thirteen years spenosd scholar. He has seen natire. on the of uge--temarkable progression. In fact, born Japanese children, he says, who have it out in the springtime, probably Hadson over at Edgewater, to see which he says they have displayed even a occupiat nine years in learning to write has learned the most. None of the boys greater aptitude for grasping the intro their own language proficiently. ** The ever had any experience in pulling an oár previously, but they an all enthusiastic ductory less than he has observed Japoness," he ezeliined, writes in the during his thirty years' residence in Chinese character. They had no cali- sud anxious to get out on the water.
K... Kwong, a graduate of Kang Kaw Japan inny native-born Japanese boysgraphy until they became acquaintiki wikis Fuiversity, has been the leading spirit into possess. He says he hopes soon that the Chinese, There is no alphabet. Their- the unvent to teach the Chinese how the demand for a knowledge of Japanese written characters are idiographs, express. tu row. He was a member of the Chinese
ing each one an idea or a sound. To gain full and finished knowledge of their augtinge and how to to write it-I umra speaking bow on the matter of grammar-
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SCIENTIFIC EYE EXAMINATION All sorts of
wrestling tram, sid, seeking to starathon among the youth of New South Wales his arms and buck, he asked Jim lice.will grow to aneh an extent that it will the coach, and Fred Plaisted, his assist-be necessary to import "more Japanese aut, if he could practise on the rowing! teachers, machines with the varsity squl. He had Junother friend whs was anxious to do the saw thing, and Fred Plaisted, in a sort
of joking mood, told him that if he could
A BENEFIT TO THE EMPRE
In the course of an interview. Professor
organize a crew they would be couched.Murdoch explained the reasons which
e has to learn between 4,000 and 5,000
characters. There are any number at Europeans who know 400 or 400 of the
The next day wong came down with actuated the New South Wales Gavers characters: these are some who know sixteet fellow students from Chiny, and gent in introducing the study of Japanese | 2,000 or 1,000; but there are very few wild' practice faithfully, and every day into the ordinary socondary school everi. | who know the lot. It will be our aim to now they are down, pulling away at the fenten. Summarised, they are aimed at teach the The student
#arostlage-naray
lub.
who
the encouragement ot commercialvaros all tan in a very short time make Kwong is the diptain and stroke of the
first erew. He, like most of the "ethers,
relations between Australia and Japan. hitself acquainted with the Chinese as
is studying political science, and most of Japan." says Professor Murdoch, is well as the Japanese language, and that
the onrimen come from the neighbourhood
or Shanghai. Kwong said that when they back to China, they expect to spread the propaganda of the car.
our nearest neighbour. She has 60,000,000 is an 'advantage rat po be overlooked.
very busy people. When one includes For the reason I mention it is na good Farmasi and Kre, that
menos beginning the teaching of Japanese a
20,000,000 more. A knowledge of her the University; that must be done in the language will in the future be one of the secondary schools. There must be a good
biggest achievements of a young Austràground work, for the Japanese system of}
Fifteer POTS, VERY FINE MAIDEN Frames, Lenses, and Protection gass always tell a Chinese student even from lac, an open up to him a care to the instruction is certainly the most coto-1
HAIR FERN
And
A number of POTS OF TEA ROSES.
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usual.
HUGHES & BOUGE, Auctioneers.
Hongkong, May 25, 1918.
PUBLIC AUCTION,"
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(FOR ACCOUNT OF THE CONCERNED),
THURSDAY,
the 30th May, 1018, at 2.30 pamaz
at No. 2, Kimberly Villas,
Top Floor, Kowloca
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HUGHES & HOUGH,
Auctioneers,
Hongkong. May 18-1918
PUBLIC AUCTION.
434
THE Undersigned have received in- stractions to sell by Public Auction, (FOR ACCENT OF THE CONCREATED),
ם .
SATURDAY,
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He said "It seems a shame to find that the Chinese students in our home canary do not take up such a fine wert for building up one's physique. Yon ear
yeurs go on, however, it is getting more the rear by the slouchy way he walks. East, which will not only be narative rated on the face of the earth. As the This exercise will straighten them out, so himself, but will be of immense benefit amplified. I do not hesitate to say that and when we go back we shall try to have from a commercial papect to not merely young? Australians will be able to hold rowing taken up in the various colleges Australia bus to the whole British their own with the boys of any nation'in throughout the republic."
Kwong said that there were some fine Empire. The Japanese language, in the acquiring a falt and complete knowledge of the language and its culigraphy." Pro- strutches of water for heldiag races. Just written character, is based on the Chinese fesser Murdoch proceeded to explain that hear by St. John's College, at Hongkong and one who has a knowledge of how to the full course, as introduced in the New there is a river that would be ideal for write Japanese cun "in a
few months South Wales schools, would take eight: the sport, and necr the Hang Kow Univer- sity there is another place ideal for a master the caligraphy of China. Add the Fears study to charplete at the rate of six hot instruction per week. That
Anished panege- keng Harbour would be a great place foJapan, and thyre do not appear any scholar. Classes were, however, being rowing races.
fimits to the usefulness of a yomg opened for the teaching of merely colle The general build of the oursien is not very big as compared to the usual candi. Australian who has a knowledge of the quial Japanese, which could be used date for an American crew, Most of two languages." Professor Murdoch went murcially to an extent. There would be no course for colloquial instruction. ecompactly built, though on to point out that New South Wales merely a you or of training. Kwong, the stroke, weighs only 125 was the pioneer British pomessou to pounds, but he is as solid as a rock and is
ORDER ng course. He also stated that Hong teeming millions of China to those of would produce
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one of the best wrestlers of his class in seriously take up the teaching of Japanese nilege. Dr. Elliott, of the physical and the fact had already been so com department, declared he had one of the mented on by American citizens in Japan ikus hest hearts of any of the athletes he had who had a deep appreciation of the
examined. i
Dr. Wellington Koo, now the thescerelor value of the language-that sador to the United States from China.he lunce in the near future to the intra- w student at Columbia not so long duction of Japanese classes in Arurient
ganit be was quite, enthusiastic over schools. >ports.
A STETESDOUS GROWTH
The growth of Japanese trade since the outbreak of war." said the Professor,
An idea of how serious the rowing is taken by the Chinese students is shown by a monitor who keeps a book of the attendants every day, and each candidate has been stupendous. When the war is cheeked off when he appears for concludes it is going to extend further. practice,"
Great Britain bay practically lost all her young men who were conversant with the language and caligraphy of Japan. They volunteered for activo service to a man, and 70 per cent of them are counties. If we want to share in Jupau's coramerelati
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