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CHINESE TELEGRAMS.
(By arrangement with Wah Tisz Yat Po.)
SHANGHAI Jan. KP. General Ngai Chi Cheng, the Tu- chun of Anhui, is dangerously im Tientsin.
HOW LONG ARE TWO MINUTES?
How many people. one wonders.. car, without the aid of clock.or watch. remain silent for exactly or even ap- proximately two minutes? During a High Court trial in recent times a
́prisoner's estimate of two minutes was The 15th and 15th Divisions of the an important point in the evidence.. Northern Forces, formerly under the The judge suggested that he should hate Fung. Kank Cheung's command, tum his back to the Court (and in- will bereafter be put under the direccidentally to the Court clock and tion of the Ministry of War: Fung's face about at the expiration of two guard will be disbanded.
minutes. The experiment was tried. and the prisoner laced about after one Esamaring minute and in seconds. time in this way makes a not unin- teresting parkur game. There is, of course. ene periectly simple method of counting of 120 seconds.
The Cabinet again wires the South urging the resumption of the peace negotiations, A telegram has been despatched to Wong. Yap Tong and Tong Shao Yi requesting them to make the necessary arrangements for the conference,
Tong Shao Yi has sent a represents tive to Canton to consult with the Canton Authorities in connection with the proceedings of the peste confer-
ence.
The Japanese Minister at Peking protests against the inspection of goods by students at the Custom Hapses and Railway stations.
Kan Wan Pang telegraphed Luk Ching Cheung, the returning peace delegate from Europe, urging his im-i mediate return to Peking as the Shan tung question is becoming more and more critical A separac telegram has also been sent to Wong Ching Ting. one of the peace delegates, stopping him from going to Cantora.
Cheung King. Yu. the Hunan Tu chun, has-raised the rice embargo within his province. Exportation of rice will be allowed up to the 2,000,000 sheks' limit.
The proposal to establish a large Mint in Shanghai is going to come to something. The Minister of Finance has issued instructions to prepare a bill for discussion in the Cabiner,
is said that the tael will be abolished in favour of the dollar.
President Chu Sai Cheng will per- sonally offer sacrifice to the late Pre- sident, Fung Kwok Cheong, on the 24th inst.
Luk Ching Cheung has arrived at Saigon. As the ship on which he is * passenger is waiting for repairs his arrival at Shanghai is not expected before the 21st inst.
The Northern peace delegate is coming to the South with instructions to arrange with the Military Govern- ment the following conditions:
#3)
The President be recognised by
the South.
When
the average person claps his hands at a theatre or concert hall each group of three chaps." with a pause be- tween each one, represents, roughly, one second. For to-day's purpose, such a method of telling off the seconds. would be rather disturbing, but it is a useful way to evade the "forfaits." when playing silent moments as any
indoor game.
45,000,000 10 China by the end of the Chinese year at interest of 8 per cent, per annum. Security unknow T
SHANGHAI, Jan. 12.
It is learned that the political equa- tion of Kwangsi and: Kwangrung. has. been arranged for peace as follows :- Luk Wing Ting will be Inspector- General for Kwangtung. Kwangsi and Hunan the Military-Governor of Kwangtung will be nominated by the Kwangsi party, and a Cantonese will he appointed as Civil Governor of Kwangtung.
The Cabinet has instructed Dr..
Wellington Koo and Dr. Alfred Sze to ascertain the policy of the Powers in regard to the Russian disturbance.
The Bolshevists have occupied Irkutsk and Seminoff's forces are re- tiring southward. Unga. Hatato and Moonchau have been proclaimed under martial law.
The teachers at Peking have an nounced that they will resume their duty from the 12th inst,; the schools, thereupon, will resume study on the 14th.
Regarding the £5.000.000 loan reply has been received from Londen to the effect that the can cannot be negotiated because China tas 'not-yet re-united
The
(2) The South original position will
remain unchanged.
1 Germany has ratified the peace Constitutions are to be made treaty so Japan intends new to take by the joint meeting at the over the German privileges in Shan- old and new members of teng as stipulated in the treaty. Parliament.
Foreign Ministry has decided to leave The Cabinet in a telegram to the the question to Mr. Lu Ching Chang South, says that the people of the who is on his way home. North and South are naturally bre- A report has been received that thren.
The present trouble, if not the Japanese fleet at Fukier has not settled at once, will serve as an op- yet retired out of Chinese waters. portunity for foreign intervention. The ships are lying only about 30
General Cheung Chck Lam strong- miles from Fukien. ly repudiates the rumour that he had taken part in a monarchy restoration movement, He asks the. Peking Government to make investigation.
It is reported that fighting is going on between the Japanese and Bolshey ist forces on a big scale in Siberia. The casualties on both side are said to be over 600.
The salt surplus of last month, amounting to 4.100.000 mels, has been handed over to the Chinese Government.
The Italian Minister has arrived at Peking. He will have audience with the President on the 12th when he will present his credentials.
i The Minister of the Interior pro- pases to grant 100,000 dollars as the ex-President's funeral expenses.
It is expected that shareholders of the Bank of China will get a dividend of 12 per cent. per annum from The Cabinet has instructed the the Bank which has made over Tuchun of Hupeh to destroy the 93.400,000 during the 8th year of the cpium seeds detaining at Hupeh and Republic.
punish the smugglers with extreme The old bank group will loan severity.
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CoresAGEN, January 7th.
World
THE GAME OF HAPPINESS LATEST SHIPPING NEWS.
All individuals and all communities
"Sulyang," from Canton tame in wish to be happy. Now and then the with 230 tons of general cargo. natural wish of the community be comes a passion and then we say The s.s. "Haiphong." brought 500 Mr. O'Grady, interviewed by Router's that there is a serious condition of tons of rice and general cargo from representative asid that he hoped a dearite compact would be signed wishin rest. The gambling spirit takes Haiphong
shold of thousands and they are ready alertnight the Bolshevista were
Coal amounting to 1.350 tons was genuinely desirous of the agreement as to stake their alto risk civilization Britain was, benuse only differences on itsell In a copy of a very early brought from Chinwangtao by the s.s. treinte remained.
a forgonen magazine which "Hain Lec." Mr. O'Grady said he had been commis sioned to negotiate on behalf of the Was started in 1753 by a group of
The ss. "Chipshing,” arrived here French and other nationals after be bad young men of fashion, including arranged the question of Eritish prisoners, Horace Walpole and obtined for a from Canton with 126 tons of general
Meanwhile, the first consignment short time a circulation higher than through cargo. supplies and comforts was being despatch that of the Rambler, higher even ed to British subjects in Rusia on Jun than was ever reached by Addison's The Hupeh," from Bangkok ary 9th ria Finland
The Bolshevists were. reciprocally, Spector) the present writer lighted brought 1,142 tons of general cargo obtaining British drugs nad Swedish last week upon an article on "The for Hongkong. agricultural implements. This was the Game of Happiness." It is full of first deal of Soviet Russia with the out
sonse and wit, and struck him as side world.
having some bearing upcon present day problems. "Life," says the essayist. "is no more than a certain term allotted to play at The Roya The "Yuen Sang," brought 343| Gume of Happiness." Had he said tons of general cargo for Hongkong! it to-day he would have found any from Manila. She bad 16 bags of
umber of readers to agree with him mail.
such is the force of reaction. after
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DISASTROUS EARTHQUAKE IN MEXICO.
Mexico CITY. January 7th. Arcoming to the Intess reports, a dozen towns and villages in the State of Vora Uvoz are ether wholly o partly destroyed and nlcahule is completely engulfed nothing remaining but 3 huge pit alled with debris.
HAVAS REVIEW.
Paris, January 10th. A Havas message vinte +1- The Erst meeting of the League Nations will be converd next Veck the French Foreign Offe
of
The ss. "Hwang Tah arrived with 1,014 tons of through general cargo and 960 tons of direct cargo.
The Empress of Japan." arrived!
Vancouver with 150tons
he way. Indeed, moralization.apart. here is a sense in which we are all from
greed. What we differ about is how of through and 145 tons of direct play the game." Hall the thought cargo of a general nature. She also ul regard it as a game of chance and brought mails for Hongkong. alf as a game of skill. Still chiefly, [
The "Nagoya," from London Ays the writer in the Worlds but he
Nature brought 900 tons of Pig iron and 900 admis an element of leck
has season to the palates of tons of general cargo. Her direct mankind by the spirit of gaming which cargo consisted of 200 tons--general he has almost equally infused into She had on board 36 bags of mail.
her rational children. The suc-
It will of course, te pablie, but it will pecbably be only formal meeting to enable the langue to get started.
The inaugural ting of the Economics Council of the General Cualederation cess of the player depends, he main- Labour has just been held in Paris..
Labour circles meeting is re garded as signiñcans of the development Which is likely to concentrate the forces of the Syndicalist organisations on prae tical improvements in production anc industry rather than political activities.
AMERICA HAS NAUTICAL
SCHOOL
To help in the upbuilding of the American merchant marine the State of Washington has established a nau- tical school with every facility for training young men it become marine officers. This school is entirely in- dependent of the training stations now opermed by the federal government under the direction of the United States Shipping Boardi
The state's training school has been established in this city at the Wniver- sity of Washington, where the United States gunbear" Vicksburg" is used for reaching the, embryo mariners. The school has nothing military about The students are cailed cadets and only those between the ages of 17 and 21 years are eligible to take the two-years" course. They will be trained to become marine officers only.
B.
The cadets live aboard the "Vicks- burg, which was made available to the school by the United States Navy department. The only expense the students have is for food, clothing and For ledging which the, two-years' course is $155. This is the only expense the state has asked the caders to meet.
The pupils will be given a four months' cruise each summer and some of these trips may lead to foreign Forts. There will be no military in- struction.
The classes will be taught all branches of navigation, seamanship. marine engineering and elementary ship instruction, such as storage and unloading of cargo.
Lieut. J. E. Jones, United States Navy, retired, is chiel engineer, Commander F. E. Eckhardt, of the "Vicksburg." superintendent, and Lieur. John McNulty. Formerly of the staff of Rer-Admiral R. E. Coontz. is executive officer of the school.
The Washington State Nautical School is a permanent state institu- tion created by act of the last gisla ture and $100,000 is available for its maintenance. The Federal govern ment will provide hatt of this amount.
"PROOF! PLEASE."
When M. Pichon, was first appoint- ed Minister of Foreign Affairs he created a mild sensation by calling on all members of the French Diplomatic Service who used titles to furnish proofs of their right to bear them. Despite the republican form of gov- ernment, tities are still so for re- cognised in France that the Ministry of Justice has a "bureau d'enregistre- ment de titres," which on sufficient evidence being furnished Issues' certi.. ficates, to authentic. bearers of rides. The fees charged for these certificates are fairly high, ranging from £52 in the case of 'simple chevalier to £400 in the case of a marquis and £720, in the case of a duke.
tains, upon his ski atention, and to some extent. There can be little courage. It does not depend upon doubt that industrialism changed the what are usually called his circum-temperament of the English working Now it would To say that wealth will not men for the sadder. irances.
nsure it is an unparderable" trulam; seem to be changing again. Nations "ndif poverty and content had live long enough to go through many seen the vehicles to convey it id man- ¦ phases. For the individual time is.
ind a sickly calm would stagnate) short.
activity." "Deep gaming and Among the wisest hints thrown out high playing "are less dangerous than by this very unworldly man of the "averice." On the other hand, hol world is the one' which suggests th
We
is convinced that the sharper husbands and wives should respect "over wins, and "sedacity of counten other's methods of seeking happiness.
nce and police cozonage' are both Married unhappiness so often seems. like tactics på despair.
to arise less from difference of view, The game can be played, we learn, or even of ideal, thun from a mutual from one to any number of players, passion to convince and convert, but the garie of one is the least enter have all known devoted couples of aining. A pary of ten or a dozenwism one was sociable and the other s the most desirable set. if two shy, or a whom one was artistic and Had people elect to go hilves. they the cina prosaiz and practical. should not complain of one another's either indiged for a moment the hope game. Children should be initiated that he or she could work a change. carly into the rules: money should of character, the game of happiness he put at their card parses. and would have been Just for both. It they should never be asked to refrain could only be played successfully by from laying odds d their paints de-a tacit agreement to dißer: _A_reli-} part this life. Plainly our author does gious woman and a secular-minded | not favour awaiting gama "; neither deus he believe, what we all say now. that happiness depends chiefly upon temperament.. The cynical reflection that a hard heart has great deal 10 do with serenity has not occurred. 10 Sim either. The selfish game he dis- misses as a' dull one, whereas we constantly see it played with signal success and great apparent enjoy
ment.
man are often very happy together, if only each will allow the other to look for happiness by his or her own lights. The advice to parents to let their children take risks in the search for happiness could only, we imagine, begiver, or taken by an Englishman.. In Englard we do systematically give. | our children freedom to make or mar their own careers in a manner un- He makes the intimate circle known to the Latin races. In which upon which the happiness of a man country in Europe is the game of hap- ar woman should depend very large. [piness played with the most success? Ideally perhaps, it should contain a The war filled London with foreign dozen persons but surely it seldom faces, and we do not think that the does. That number allows for five expressica predominant in Latin faces or six persons outside the average is one of happiness. They look alert, family. It is large-hearted man but not at ease. Nevertheless there Indeed who has so many friends on is more look of gaiety in a French whom he depends for anything more and Italian than an English crowd. thas pleasant intercourse. Amar The Australian and Canadian troops who lives in the world has prob- looked amazingly happy. For sheer ably fifty friendly acquaintances whose ficy of life we should imagine that no luck gives him pleasure, and whose type of face since Greek sculptors death would sober him for at least idealized men and women has ever quarter of an hour, but of whom he surpassed the Colonial type. By could not say that his happiness would what rules do they play the game o! be intrinsically impaired by their loss. happiness, we wonder? It is re- They and he do not play the game of markable how seldom the dark-skin- life at one table, as it were. Did nad people look really happy. The people a hundred and sixty years ago negro lace has ofter a rather silly have more friends than they do now? look which caricatures" gaiety, but They had more time to cultivate them. serene happiness of expression seems The game of Happiness takes time. to be confined to the white race. The The King's Ministers, we are assured, Inces of the higher natives of India want time to learn it," and "Kings often suggest peace. But happiness are strangers to the game." This to the European mind must convey fatter statement is followed by no ex- some suggestion of high spirits." In- plariation, though it certainly seems dian spirits, so far as they are betray- to require one. As to temperament. d in Indian faces, seem to fall below we wonder whether we in the present the line of happiness as we here con- day do not give too much weight to ceive it. it as a factor in happiness, just as On the whole, we think it must be people in Miss Austen's time gave admitted that ye as a people are less too much weight to good sense and proficient in the game of happiness self-control. Surely it is often the than our children over the seas, or direct result of circumstances, and car than some of our neighbours nearer he changed by them. It is a tragic at hand. It is, however, only fair to sight to see the spirit of the optimist add that if in an English crowd onc broken with his luck; but one has sees few faces, as it were, abandoned occasionally seen it." Happily the to happiness, few who are openly re- reverse is true also. Some frail and joicing over their winnings, neither sad characters become strong and do we see many faces abandoned 10 buoyant if exposed long enough to the fury, to grief, or to chagrin. Where full sun of prosperity. Certainly the "Roya game "is concerned, class temperament changes, and we Englishmen are energetic players and think, it might be argued that national very good losers-perhaps the best temperament changes also at least in the world.--(Ex.).
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