SATURDAY, JULY 26 1924
TO-DAY IN CHINA: CERTAIN
DIFFICULTIES.
FLOODS IN NORTH.
SURTAX TO BE IMPOSED BY
TEKING
(Reuter's Service.)
THE CHINA MAIL.
CHURCH NOTES.
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PRESS AND PUBLIC.Nothing is too good for Baby
"That brilliant writer Miss Rose Marauley as some interesting things to say in a recent article få the "inardian' on the subject of "The Press and the Piilin."
Nor is another aspect of the question to be neglected by those who believe that Intervention is the right policy. So long as there was a central Government and an
Peking, July 25, After dealing with the "process Imperial family, of which the A Cabinet meeting this morning of selection," which croupies a. members felt acutely the incon-resolved in favour of imposing for urge part of the life of the venience of being driven from six months on railways, telegraphs, drage ditur (the last phrase is their comfortable palaces in and postal services and navigation sur ur own; the persons of course near Peking, it was possible to taxes in aid of the food sufferers does not exist Miss Marktuley bring some kind of suasion to
on the lines followed in 1920, Tusks -- which section of the bear upon the authorities. But to question of a navigation surtax was reading public are the various day every city within reach of the referred to the Shawucht, Reitens nimed. And the they hit or sea might be occupied by foreign vende Council) for consideration. miss? How much insight that is, troops without affecting the issue It is understood that the Diplomats the jounalist into the inde to any considerable extent. The tie Hody is to be approached of his fellow creatures? strength of China is more and
Customs surtax, regarding the mare seen by the Chinese them which the Government also intend selves to lie in the country and not in the towns. I do not mean
to impose. that the use of judicions pressure is not still within the power of foreign nations, but it can hardly take the form of joint expedition of Allied forces. Europe could without difficulty paralyse the seaboard of China. But thereby she would infallibly raise once more against all foreign activity the boycott which has recently been used with unanimity against
The greatest difficulty that besets any action in China is the general misunderstanding of the situation which exists not only in England but in every other foreign country with perhaps, the signi- cant exception of Japan, writes Perceval Landon in the "Dally Telegraph" It is not only that the nature, the habits, the preferences, the prejudices, the aptitudes, the limitations, and the traditions of the Chinese are so remote from our own. The ignorance of the foreigner, however well-meaning, extends also to the mere physical features of the country and the practical disabilities which prevent the application of policies that have proved of value in other parts of the East. A month ago the famous master of mechanical transport. Mr. Ford, gave it as his opinion that motor cars would develop China.quicker than either railways or missionaries. No doubt he had in his mind the benefits that have always followed upon the con- struction of roads in other unsettled districts. He say even have remembered that Lord Curzon the Japanese, once expressed his opinion of the
The Problem of Government. civilising power of roads on the North-West Frontier of India.from any crude military clash It is in a policy entirely different Probably if someone had pointed
between the armed forces of China out to him that there, were no roads in China, he would and those of the outer world that have replied with a Napoleonicles That Europe and America some hope of a peaceful unification grette, Then they must be
should retain within call a force made." But the fact remains that
not only sufficient to defend the
KURBER PRODUCTION.
(Reuter's Sentice.)
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London, July 25. The Financial Times" pub fished a supplernent devoted to the development in the plantation af rubber for industry. An editorial says the time cœnia be very far world con' prodice will find ready ubicad wlago all the rubber, the
absorption at an economic price.
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There is of course sotie pews of almost universal interest, which finds response in nearly every breast. Of such a kind are hi. formations concerning peace, aud War: Partlajumkes, railway sidents, and strikes, weather, food Land Wembley, Dr Sueli a kind 10, as Mare Witli rabies bites live wows, and such, thrilling fruge meats from the wächt of Darvels, Then there is the fews meant for
the Construction of roads husclearly defined rights of their already received the careful attene tion of every foreign committee or nationals in the treaty ports, but ment of China, and that the practi- being thrown into the oscillating that the main cause of the poor Doubtless, ull. liese things have council cancerned with the develop capable at the right moment of
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section only political and pars lumentary cows, Torrigir newsle public utterances of this Whar publiely utter and sir forth, Even news of The celebration of dissolution of these in courts of marriages, mud of the subsequent
law, and such humsan stuff douląt- Dëss reaches the 'readers lóc whoi - it is intended. The human mind Lie, in many cases, a futhless pit.
of sutinental sympûthies, whichest At a mesting of the Anglo-Dutch is not for the cold mid hard, such Plantations of Java, S A. Strutt, ale present writer to probe. who read Lending Articles. airmas, expressed the opinion: Further I have even known these
cal inossibility of constructing
scale of Chinese hegemony is stress of the restriction scheme them in the face of the apathy and likely to bring about the peaceful grower
a truism. But nothing is less was not so mitch the refusal of the their place, for the fact is that we, to participate as that we will read arely everything the public, are so beautifully tamed even the hostility of the local in solution of a problem that is of restricted native cultivation that is offered to us. habitants throughout the richest
the first importance to Western
the Dutch Indies. De coinpetition, part of China has been deemed an civilisation than loose talk about of wirh was likely to heroine
But sometimes indeed oflen, the As good
Press serios, insuperable difficulty..
To agreg that example of the manner in which the coercion of this chaotic re- even the main thoroughfares have public, At the present moment at the Chinese we supplying item in the days news is of such enthralling interest, 80 very been neglected and encroached the condition of China resembles antive producers with maching
Sir A Strutt Sut there wanazing. then it must use up all; upon is offered by the Imperial that of Persia a few years ago. It highway over the
was then useless to make any re-authoritative support for the view the placards and nearly all the watershed
TO the Teheran that at 100. per ib. ive front page of every paper. In this between the Yangtze Kiang and presentation the basin of the Canton River. Government, because its writ did thore could be targets maira, bacatever iouralisis seran to plen
not run five miles outside the city a certain ly l opinim believed grime and more particularly imuri It is merely a paved path 2ft. in. in breadth. It barely makes
The whole of the months a year or two of rubber at 10d. der. Sonds in the Dock" they its way between the sodden rice. desert area of the country was per b, wold be the best choice of will blazon forth, Mazing states. felds, turning at right angles ten split up into mutually antagonistic salvation for the Kangen grower.ments"-then will follow the story, times in the mile to avoid some tribal districts, and brigandage Phe lairman opposed the selling sordid probably, vulgar almost cer-a jealously vindicated cultivation had become a habli rather than any plan, and sade his hopes, solling wat mensenting rights. But the old bridges are Occasional incident. The position were fixed rather on ww uses for rhymezile only to there. Haman drama, is now better, but it is not better rubber. He pointed out that the easily amazed. 12ft wide Once there was a road
“doubtlessi and probably melodrania; † wider still. Nothing can better because of any intimidation on nited Kingdom per rapit but with an intrasie interest. To
sumption was only one-fifth of tim illustrate the policy of traditional our part.
Sir John Jordan, than whom noof Anteri Therefore there was fastidions and sophisticated winds, encroachment that will fight tooth
or more experienced still room for propaganda at home.sk, stories, this set forth, are and nail against the machinations aner. of the foreign devil if he tries to sinologue lives, recently summed make his roads in China. The P this aspect of the matter. Without Chinese co-operation no Oriental does not understand or
One is in effective or permanent remedy actions and words the dominating "want quick transit. clined to doubt whether even then be found for the ls from position that he holds in the south. Grand Trunk Road would to-day which China is suffering" If that I refer, of course, to Sun Yat-sen be so, what, it may be asked, is I hold so brief for this ungrateful be fit for motor traffic had the English Jeft India twenty years the chance of the formation of any adventurer That he was at the
Newspapers have us in the ago. And the magnificent road sufficiently influential group of root of the recent labour troubles that we gave" to Persia from Chinese politicians to act with in Hongkong is admitted: Thu bollow of their hands, cut of which Quraits to Hamadan. was rendered foreign States whose assistance, his present action la Cantone meekly eat: we are 101 jurti- Warm Human Life Stul! useless in fifteen months by sheer especially whose financial assist cleverly chosen though the ground culor
ance, China so sorely needs at this was-is merely another move in bis-that is what the news editor likes neglect except for pack traffic.
The same quality, anti-foreign propaganda is as to give us. The two chief obstacles to a certain. He is próbably the most perhaps, makes him excellein j friendly understanding at this dangerous enemy that civilisation and affectionate" ustund moment are, first, the growing and has to contend with in China. But father. It does not, unfortunate- deliberately fostered antagonismit is idle to deny him the distingly, make him, for those who have of the younger school of Chinese tion of being a man of unlimited small relish for Hum Life Stuff, entertaining interesting or to the increase or even the con- pluck and determination; a man tinuance of any form of financial who knows his own goal and selector of the world's news, control by foreigners over Chinese shrinks neither from the means it Shall we ever be able to change revenues; and secondly, the inve- requires nor the responsibility its him?. He has always been the terate unwillingness of public men achievement will entall. It is be Bime. The earliest news-sheets in China to assume responsibility. cause in this quality he has uorival were full of the same kind of!
authority. Lastly, the Christiani Of these the second is the graver among his own people that Sun sensational drama-wives poisoning w is carried one step further-10 difficulty, but, it is useless to dis- Yat-sen has become a factor their husbands, parents butcher-
reconcilement with guise the fact that in the South which cannot be neglected, whe-ing children, and what not. Dis-enforce which prides itself upon its larger ther he is in power or a fugitive. mnt and tedious stuff-hus it to be brother in all cases, as a prelimin
ary condition of worship of God; political horizon and its undoubted He is a man, and had he had the endured forever?
even with au
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Roadmaking.
montent?
merely an offence and a bore, to the sensitive they are also horror, dox 'n tragedy. To simpler and robuster souls the perusal of such¦
'The matter may be a pleasure.
be right. Thes! journalists inay cater after all for the simple, the vulgar, the robust.
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In the treaty ports and Peking, and so far in their immediate vicinity as it may be necessary to go for golf, or archaeology, or the purposes of the tourist, there are indeed fair to excellent roads, but it is not with the treaty ports that the present crisis is con- cerned. As an illustration of the temper of the Chinese in this matter, it may be of interest to recall the project of the motor road between Peking and its port Tientsin. Several years ago this Scheme was inaugurated with no little enthusiasm. A beginning ly greater political ability, and opportunity that has been 50 Miss Rose Macauley is writing and agreement was made from the Peking end. where, as I have said, the anti- fruitlessly offered to his northern stuff about. London evening papers. The distance is not
great foreign agitation has taken a form rivals there can be no doubt that probably 110 miles and the unknown in the North-this refusal he would have succeeded to more usefulness of such a highway was
to accept any further foreign con- than the mere digniles of Yuan, unquestionable. But years trol has become the shibboleth of The one thing throughout his passed and the enthusiasm waneda, somewhat spurious patriotism career that he has lacked has been There was little value in the road In. the North there is far less actual foreign recognition. He would
THE COSPEL. until it had reached Tientsin, and it opposition to the principle of probably not deny himself that it The gospel for the 6th Sunday is not improbable that the enter foreign supervision, and had it has been the sense of injustice that after Trinity is that portion of the prise would have died of exhaus-only been suggested from the this refusal stirred in him which sermon on the Mount, in which, tion long before it attained its goal outset that any such control should has been at the root of his anti- after the opening description of the had it not been for the exertions be exercised by the League of foreign prejudice andpropaganda Christian character in the Beati of Mr. Woodhead from the Tientsin Nations in which body the He is said to have made the bitter Indes and of the functions of end. As it was, the road was susceptibilities of China have been comment that it was merely Christians, as at pace die walt' eventually brought into the river constantly flattered-no serious the existence of comfortablcd the light of the world. Our port, and its arrival was duly cele dificulty might have arisen, and Legations in Poking which Lord draws out the outline of the brated. But by that time the Peking certainly it would not have assum- weighted, the scale
(a) The leading against Christian Law. end had ceased to be
crossed its present proportions..
him. That he does believe that idea is the contrast of it, us a law the scales are weighted in favour of principle and of liberty, with the that one intrepid American naval.
The unwillingness of public of the north is obvious; and it law of rule and restraint, which officer had actually made the entire journey, but as an experiment la men to face responsibility is an would be to dwell in a fool's was the righteousness of the Chinese road-making it was con- impediment of another order. paradise to think that because, by Scribes and Pharisees." clusive as to the chance of success Reviewing the whole political acid the unauthorised action of one elsewhere. Last year in Tokyo of China, it is impossible not to be of our naval offices in 1972, he the sagest of all Japanese states struck by the almost universal was saved from assassination by men, after a long discussion of the tendency to shirk public respon his own people he will therefore situation in China, and the possibisibility in any form. It may be be in the least Better disposed lities of useful intervention there, said that there is in all China only towards the British, who have pa suggested to me, as the deciding one exception to this rule, and it is two occasions saved him from factor against the possibility of beyond question that he owes to certain death. This fact is not the operations in the central provinces, his intrepidity and to his willing-least of the difficultles to which that "there are no roads in China." ness to face the result of his own I am now calling attention.
able. There was indeed a story
Shirking Responsibility,
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Hot Weather Disszúða ion of the sixth commandment- from the deed of bloxished to the
Disorders of the bowel are extremely thought of causeless anger, and the word of contempt und abhorrence. dangerous, particularly during the hot For the word Raca. ("vain fellow) the of the summer mobe and in order to protect yourself and family in a term of contempt: the words against nudded stick, per a batte of Thou fool of utter condemnation Chamberlain's Calic and Diarrho and abhorrence"--not to be pro- Remedy. It can be depended upon. nounced except with grave for tale everywhere.
INVIGORATING
GUN RUNNING ?
FATHER AND SON UNDER ARREST.
(Reuter's Service.)
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OLYMPIAD.
EARL CADOGAN'S VIEW.
(Reuter'a Service.)
London, July 25.
An official view of the Olympiad London, July 25. boutroversy is given by Euri Cado Captain Cecil Attfield, and hit gan, Chairman of the Council of father were charge at the Man, the British Olympic Association in a letter to the "Times" admitting sion House with attempted gun that certain **fiery contests runing between April 8 and July should not be staged before term
last from the Thames to Russia. peramental audiences and stating Both were remanded, bail being, that the executive of the Inter- refused.
The
Counsel for the Commissioners national Olympic Connell is now of Customs suid that the charge dealing with the regrettable fa was made under the Arms Excidents. He and others who wit (Prohibition) Order, 1921.
assed the Games bad reached the articles concerned in this case were conclusion time the great Olympic machine-gun parts and mounting, meetings can, under the firm hau of the International Olympic Con A further charge was probable.
Counsel for the defence, when ittee, continue to be carried on bail was refused, said the penalty for this physical and moral advance- under the charge was only a £100ment of all nations.
fine.
Mr. Atthold, senior, repudiated j liability, and had been headmaster
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