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I asked Mr. Bernard Shaw (writin a London representative of the Adan
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lecture by Mr. Willoughby Viscountess Astor, M.P., presiding In books written, about China; and - Chester Guardian) for his opinion on Demir, Hon. Secretary of the Pl population, trade has fourished all / less legal trouble. But the. United the Chinese no shitement is more paying days at the National Gallery; *ge Bil Group, in the theatre of the !
China being vast in territory and
Information.
is close co-operation between the western merchant and the wester manufactureT.
The whole world seems to be affected by the trouble of the un- anthurised passenger, with the attend- ant dangers of fire, disease and end-
the proposed addition of two exka į
be wirelessed, a rendezvous arranged to which the others are the exception have gone about it very stupidly. "six years withone birds might bring and the culprit transferred in mid- or are the exception which proves It seems to me that what is
rum or opium.
It
States Merchant Service is getting frequently made or more strongly The position under the proposed Royal Society of Arts in mial wook, through these centuries. Hence there far more than its fair share. For one instated on than that, as a nation change will be that the Gallery will aid the vast majority of people were has been developed in the Chinese thing the officers and seamen of the sons of Han are a peace-loving be open free to visitors only on two: behind those who were protesting business world a well ordered system many ships have not yet developed a Those familiar with Chinese weekdays and on Sunday afternoons against the iniquities of the plumage traditions, living is terribly dear, and history take the statement with the The official caplanation of the step trade. In the House of CommxES of customs and conventions of com- stowaways are willing to pay big usual pinch of salt just as me is that the Government grant is too it was only members interested in the
in doing business mercial guilds and associations, of money for any help that is accorded chants
this mental reserv | buy pictures.
small, and more money is needed to trade, either directly or through their principles of mutual help and mutual them. For another, U.S. methods of country make a
constituencies, who - obstracted - the "I think.” he said, " that the whole | Bit. She denied that the Bill would protection. Between the employer Issuing food permit the guest of the tion when they hear some
fastle to live like a fighting cock veller descant on the wonderful proposal shows a pitiful want of cruse memployment, and expressed and the employee, between the buyer without arousing suspicion aft A bonesty of the Chinese trader and genuine business aptitude. It was the belief that the House of Commons and the seller, there is a sort of un-third reason is that there are any num-bow he never under any circumst decided at the beginning of the war was losing is. idemism. Ten Bills written contract, and good faith is ber of poor devils who feel that their ances fails to keep his contracts 20 that art and education were of no had been blocked by obstructionists, predicated in all transactions. This only chance of a fair living is in the matter how much he stands to lose value to Engh_d, and accordingly i though supported by great majorities, Land of Plenty, but who have not by it." These are echoes from the all the public picture galleries were and the House of Lords had passed explains the prosperity of our domes got the fare or who are debaired smoking room of any steamer cross turned into offices doing war business the Bill twice without opposition. tic, and, to some extent our foreign from entry by their colour. The ing the Pacific and the old China
Mr, Villorgbby Dewer said that trade, as well as the commercial inte Matson Line are lucky enough to hand says little and thinks tard and the children of the schools were
many found je, hard to believe that grity of our merchants, says the possess officers of the old type, who when he listens to them. Not that turned out into the fields. *
"As the members of the Govern 35,000,000 stins bad been imported Government Bureau of Economic can be relied upon to make a thorough such statements are altogether false-ment were not conscious of any to gratify a whim of fashion. Such
search for stowaways, and havingThere are many Chinese who love In the West, it is said that the found them, to obey the company's peace and there are many Chinese privation in the matter, they have destruction of bird-life imperilled the determined to continue this polley whole human race; indeed, the Regins The nearest traders who are honest to their own by cutting off supplies from the Professor of Natural History at Aber business man is not born but made. latest instructions. He has his environment to aid him outward-bound ship of the feet is to loss, but whether these are the rule National Gallery, but, as usual, they deen University hard deckered ful and help further, his inclination. Possessing a larger fund of capital, a
the whole of animate Natine to an better business organization as well ocean and taken back to his country, the others to be the rule we would i wanted is a comprehensive scheme end." To the native bunter & bril better commercial and technical It avoids quarantine and legal risks, rather not express an opinion, as for reansing (I believe that is the lantty plumaged bird was simply a commercial expression) the immense bird to be killed and sold-or ex- knowledge, be is able to invade other and provides very useful exercise in the N-C. D. Ness.
Our columns of late have rather commercial value of the National changed for countries with his wares. So, coming boat work, but one cannot help! to China, he studies our needs and thinking that in many cases it discouraged the belief in the inherent Gallery, the British Museum, the America the plumage probibition requirements. He begrudges no ex- enables the man to escape the punish- love of peace being in any sense a Wallace Collection, and all the other laws were passed only just in time. pense to make known by proper ment which his attempt to defraud special Chinese virtue. We have had institutions which are now being We lagged behind, but an Act of to record fierce fighting in Honza wasted on unbusinesslike fancies like Parliament was necessary not only to advertisement the opportunities in the company has earned.
Brigands in north Kiangsu and an the fine arts. store for the foreign traders. There
attack by pirates on a revende cruiser, It has also been apparently over-the sake of preserving good relations 'save · beautifut: species, but also for when the men who sailed under the looked by the Government that the India, the Dominions, and the "jolly Roger" best off their assailants musical services and the attractions and remained in possession of the to sightseers of Westminster Abbey
Crown Colonies. will produce: whatever the latter CHINA'S EVIL INSTITUTIONS. Spoils of waf. But the most dis- and St. Paul's could be made a con- quieting of all the tales of spoliation siderable source of revente by install. Deeds, the merchant will supply.
to which we have bad recently to ing the turnstile and the paying bar Added to this, are the facilities of transportation, communication, ex- The secret society is one of the give publicity was the narrative at the doors of these edifices. change and credit. Such being the wicked institutions of China. These told by the Rev, A. A. Phillips which **These are only the most obvious case, it is little to be wondered at eril organizations flourish especially described the robbery of his party suggestions. The policy of abolish that the foreign trader raaps hand- in Kansu province, in the Far West in the Yangtze gorges while on theiring Kalter, now spelt with a-k, and The superstition that when a family some returns wherever be goes. Their power is tremendera The way from Szechuan to the coast recognising it as a pernicious Ger- moves into a new house there will A Chinese merchant, however, is Kolaopui are so strong as to be There is something revolting in the man institution, could, if thoroughly shortly be a death in that family is, not so favourably situated. Lacking almost beyond the reach of the law. thought of those rough scoundrels carried out, probably wipe off the icrimately, not so prevalent as some the subjecting English ladies to the in-war debt. It would also leave us in others or the housing problem would up-to-date knowledge, he is unable to They borrow animals from
dignity of being searched. In spite that unique position among civilised be greater than it is. But the super- seire time by the forelock, and, lack farmers and omit to return them.
One man who had the temerity to of the fact that HMS, "WidgeonTM
States ing incentive, he is apt to let hand-
of which we have always stition exista. some opportunities slip by. Besides, try to recover his horse was visited arrived in time to hurry the departure
The writer knew a man of millious, he is seriously handicapped by insuffi at night by a batch of members, who of the desperadoes they got away
prominent in national affairs, who cient capital, lack of adequate trans- put lime into his eyes and cut out with such booty as they were able
having bought an estate, hesitated portation Lod "communication his tongue. Completely blinded and to collect in the time at their dis-
The French Government is for years to pull down the old-house facilities, uncertainty of commercial unable to talk, the man recovered posal. The fact that the "Wi- laws, the existence of the cumbrous and invoked the law. The society geon" turned up at the opportune accusing Wrangel of ingratitude after on it and build a new one because of Axis system, an unfair tarifi schedule, bribed the magistrate and justice moment was a piece of pure lack 200,000,000 francs has been spent this ancient superstition. Finally he lack of up-to-date commercial in was not forthcoming; but in retalia- which is not likely to happen very on him. Mr. Churchill spent more risked it and died some twelve years formation, disorganized state of in- tion the man's son was killed and his often. This is as well known to the than twenty times as much over the later and when he was about seventy- ternal currency, and lack of an inter-body mutilated. The blind father pirates as to their victims and the fact same adventurer, and has a claim to six years old. national credit system. Hence he thereupon took the twelve days jour that foreigners have been successfully twenty times as much gratitude. The origin of this superstition is fallows where others lead; he responds ney to the provincial capital, led by plundered of their goods will be The fact is that these tools of pisin. It is a "hangover" from the where others direct; he does not a little son of 10, and when last heard | known to the whole fraternity of intriguing, statesmen “have so cose days when it was thought necessary} venture beyond the coast. Foreign af was seeking redress from the pirates who infest the Yangtze and for gratitude at all. They are simply goods are imported by foreign traders higher authorities. There is little will tend to make travelling even hirelings who have been let down although he may be asked to carry law for the poor in this country, more perilous than it has been during They have done dirty job and Even after the been ill-paid for it, observes a con- on an agency in the interior of the though they are not without their the past months. country. Similarly, Chinese goods w methods of Justice when roused Captain of the U.S. "Monocacy" had temporary. are exported, by foreigners, and, very to the breaking poi: -Extract from put a guard with a machine-gun on board, the travellers' houseboat was often the latter commission their a Chinese newspaper.
fired on three thries: let us hope that own agents to scour the interior for native goods. The Chinese merchant
Whatever the
merchant lacks, the manufacturer
the cold.
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America is hound to grow even greater in amount. As our foreign trade is almost entirely in the bands of foreigners, we shall be exporting
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* Auckland-must havề -thought of Viking, the giant who played so smashingly at Forest Hills in the summer of 1914 and a few months later was gone at Gallipoli. Not fer from it a milion British died if the field; the battle, dead of finis-Ausi vila dlane equalled ours. Our rivals
the answer sent by the machine-gun desperately to be recognized by new edifice. The books are full of is not consulted and he is left out in
warning to the gentlemen of the road rank with those that are ranked as pear tr have persisted into early will also be interpreted as a fair Western Powers as a nation of equal instances of this practice which ap! that a foreign flag canst be respected civilized Powers and yet she is not Christian times. There is a castle in Moreover, what China imports are
whatever disrespect they are willing able to afford the elementary protec Germany where they will show you chiefly manufactured goods and what
to show to that of their own country. tion to travellers on her greatest the place where a child was buried into she exports are chiefly zgricultural | more and more. raw material and The upper Yangtze is, as every inland waterway. She is over the walls at its erection; and, the products. In such exchange between importing more and more manu- one knows, the main artery of trade ran with an
army, some ten legend is well known of how the evil a country possessing raw materiala factured products, with perhaps a between the coast and West China. It times as large as she has any spirits, threw down". St. "Columba's and another possessing manufactured greater and greater difference in would seem that now every district need for, but so far from that army church on Iona. Island as fast-as he articles, the inevitable as would favour of the latter. If so, the cop has its local brigand who exercises being any protection to her people it built it until he bad buried a man naturally be on the former. Besides, tinual drain upon our natural reauthority over a certain stretch is the country's "greatest danger, alive under one of the pillars, when such fancy articles as Chinese embroi-sources as well as specle supply will of water. All boats passing over And so we return to the text from all went well. dery, carved wood, lacquerware, be tremendous, yet in addition to that particular part of the river must which we started. · China la, accor
In Greece to-day it is said to be the porcelains, gems and jade, etc., that we have to pay every year sixty pay tribute or take the consequences. ding to her apologists, the most markets, for their lovers of former principal que, on the Boxer. In- trade is killed and traffic becomes look north, south, east or west measure's man's shadow and bury the The New York Evening Post
no longer find large foreign million teels as interest and part The result of course must be that peaceloving nation on earth but custom of builders to surreptitiously days have now perforce to retrench demnity. The outlook is therefore impossible. For the sum paid to one one sees nothing but seething resulting figures under the new build/cludes an article on The men we the fact, bet all the more reason why in their expenditure after the war uninviting, and it behoves our com pirate does not carry with it unrest. It is as foolish as it ing-the best that can be done in view cannot beat "as follows: In contest we should do so. These brave dead and discourage the purchase of mercial and financial classes speedily immunity from being rebbed or even is futile to sigh for the good old of the popular prejudice now-a-days between the Britich and Americans we do not beat.
to devise ways and means to murdered by the next. Boatmen, days, but the mandarins who were against human sacrifice. And every the British hardly forget that some of On an average, China imported dur- ameliorate the situation. On the for their own protection, establish a then the butt of many gibes for once in a while you may hear the old their best runners will never break
CAUSE OF DESPONDENCY. and exported Tis. 470,000,000 worth also duty bound to assist, for such destination and value of every boat short work of the petty brigands the hearse stands at the door. P, their best pob players never li Dinigestion and coat shoes and ing the last few years Tls. 550,000,000 other hand, the other nations are liaison with the marauders and the their ineficiency would have made, saying "When the house is finished are her best gollers never tee
|ESPONDENCY is “afters caused by of goods annually. The difference was unsatisfactory conditions are sure to load of cargo is quite well known to who are ruining, not only the trade of Some profess to see in the custom of sprint in the smoke of the Somme, aber diser
a mallet. The runners made their
quickly disappears when Chamberlain's therefore Tis. 80,000,000 in favour react on the world at large. For these gentry before a start has been China's greatest and wealthiest playing corner-stones a survival from and the polo players died putting their strengthen the digestion and move the taken These tablets of imports, After the War, the trade not only will China be impoverished, ¦ made.
vince, but what is of more impor- with Europe has gradually revived but the Chinese will be too poor to This, to be sure, is the negation of tance, the credit and fair fame of the bloody practice of our barbarian last ounce behind a bayonet. Ausbows For sale by all Chemises and while commerce with Japan and buy the world's surplus supply. government. China is striving the country.
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