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BUDDA IMAGES.
GERMAN ETHNOLOGIST'S
CLAIM.
STRANGE EVOLUTION. A
A claim that the Indian and
Chinese images of Buddha are
three expeditions to the deserts of Central Asia, and brought to Berlin the fruit of his research, .said:
VISIT TO RUSSIA.
TUPAŃ'S COUP.
A SHANGHAI LAWYER ON
END OF "SAFETY FIRST."
RELATED DESPATCH.
Tatung, Oct. 10.
THE CHINA MAIL,
FOUL MURDER.
HILL STRIKE BY MEANS OF TERRORISM.
OBJECT OF THE RADICALS.
November 17, the day fixed for
TANG'S SEIZURE.
SILVER FROM BANKS IN HANKOW.
Information has been disclosed
siiver in its vault. A number of
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In a letter to the "Herald Shingling and Wav Hostilities broke out here on people the chance not to see me the declaration of a joint cotton that General Tang Shang-chi took Tribuno" (New York), Mr. W. E. ing. evolved forms of the Greek gods/Monday night, September 26. The again," laughingly remarked Dr. O. mill strike in Shanghai; fortunately away a huge amount of silver from Leveson, writing from London in }
CAMPBELL MOORE express trains to and from Peking Fischer, the well-known Shanghat passed off without any untoward In-Hankow when he "retired" and de- Apollo and Bacchus was put for- usually cross at Tatungfu some lawyer, who has just returned from cidents and the mill situation be- parted from Hankow. The Bank reply to Mr. Bradley Winthrop, ward by the great German time after midnight. On this Mon- a trip to Europe.
came easier, but this did not last of China was forced to give him who had endeavoured to check 19, Queen's Road C.
had been rather wild statements of Dr. ethnologist, Herr Von le Coq, day night they were both detained "I had a wonderful time, I enjoy-very long for, shortly after 7 p.m., $260,000 silver which Director of the Berlin Museumn here. The passengers were re-ed myself tremendously," he con- on November 18, two mill hands, recently shipped to Hankow from Joshus Bau "and his fellows" at one employed in the No. 5 mill of Shanghai for the redemption of the recent conference of the In- (Indian section) of Ethnology, atquested to alight and to shift for tinued, in reply to questions put to
stitute of Facific Relations at a School of Oriental Studies on themselves. Several of them were him by a representative of the the Naigai Wata Kaisha, and the its notes.
On the eve of his departure, Honolulu, says: other employed in the No. 8 mill of "As you Oct. 13...
stranded and were practically pen-Shanghai Mercury."
the same Company, were foully General Tang ordered the Centrail Mr. Winthrop is at some pains Herr Von le Coq, who headedniless. We took pity on Home of know, I left Shanghai and travelled done to death, writes the "Shangha! | Bank to hand over to him all the to show that Great Britain and i
the most distressing cases and via Siberia. I found that condi-
Bainch" offered them board and lodgingtions in Russia are quiet. The temporarily.
At the time when the notorious armed soldiers were sent on Friday not America was responsible for train in which I travelled was very Two special trains with one of comfortable, the cars used being general labour union was in power, night to the premises of the bank the introduction of the policy of these two workers represented the and broke open it's vault, seizing 72 most-favoured-nation treatment the Mukden Generals and his the old cars of the railway.
union in their respective mills, and boxes containing $360,000 silver. into foreign relations with China. In 500 B.C. China was in touch bodyguard were also seized at
"Near Verhneudinsk, in Siberis, exercised full control over the There was also a large quantity of That this is true there is no with the Greck cities on the Pon- Tatungfu the same night.
a bridge was broken and we had hands. The managements- was bank-notos in the vault, but the, doubt. But it was a policy aimed tus Euxinus and the old Persian
For several days the troops be- to stop in that town. This gave fully aware of this fact and had troops only seized the silver. The at equal opportunity of the na- the me the chance to study the country been keeping a strict watch on their accounts and books of the Central tionals of all foreign countries Empire. We have been through longing to Yen Hai-shan,
When the general Bank are reported to have been doing business in China, and it all the routes north of China and Governor of our province, had been life of Russia. I found it rather movements. Turkestan, and followed the massing on the eastern frontier. pleasant, the peasants seem to be labour union was eventually sup- destroyed.
on Monday night satisfied, and I also noticed no
planted by the Labour Unions' Uni- It has been also revealed that forms part of the doctrine en- emigration of European tribes. At the signal
fication Committee, the two de- Teng Shou-chuen, Head of the Fin- uncinted by Mr. Lansing in 1918 Everybody knows how Alexander they began to move over the fron- bourgeoisie class amongst them.
"Arriving at Moscow, was ceased workers somehow managed ance Commission, disappeared with and governing the attitude of in 300 B.C. conquered the whole tier on their way to Peking. There of Persia and North-West India. were three lines of approach. The given a very warm welcome by the to get themselves elected to the large sum of money. Many of our countries toward China to- There was and is in this ia by the Northern authorities, and was taken around committee, thus betraying their the officials connected with the day. shorter one
a thing finance departments have embez-policy nothing to regret, and I am He then founded cities which he highway, following the Suiyuan and shown the Kremlin, Lenin's loyalty to the old Union. peopled with Greek and Mace-railway. The longer route is from tomb, as well as other Interesting which Chines would not hesitate to zled government funds and disap- confident that it was not in the
Here also do for the sake of their own in-peared.
minds of Dr. Bau "and his fel- donian soldiers, who inter-married the capital of Shansi by rail to places in the city.
lows" when they spoke of pri- with the natives. This race be-Shihchiuchuang at which junction found Mr. Cerutti, who formerly teresta.
was the Minister for Italy at The other day a strike of work. came Buddhist. In Afghanistan we reach the main railway from
vileges which "foreclose Chinese and Turkestan Greek art became Hankow to Peking.
Buddhist modified into
art. Our Governor has thrown in his andor for Italy in Moscow, I was planned by radicals, failed to maté rialise, due chiefly to the opposi- Apollo and Bacchus became Bud-lot with the Nationalists. He has given a very good time in ploscow.
"Then I proceeded further on, tion of one of the deceased, and dha, and all the Buddhist saints always been regarded as one who are nothing more than Greek always played the game of "safety and arrived in Paris, where I had his action incurred the enmity of Heroes and gods modified into the first. For fifteen years or so he bought a number of old Chinese the former members of the generat Buddhist saints of India and has managed to take a safe seat books. Italy and the surrounding inbour union who are now China. Through Turkestan the on the fence and refused to get off countries were then visited by me, gling for power.
for any one. Suddenly he has and, as I said, I gave a chance to Buddhist religion travelled to changed his line of conduct.
He Shanghai people not to China. The Chinese took these is making a bid for the control of again for flew in an aeroplane, Greek types, already modified by China. Within a week of the out- accompanied by Mrs. Fischer, ever India and Persia, and made from break of hostilities the Shansi the whole of Italy and Switzerland. them the Chinese image of Bud-forces have reached Kalgan.
The Out of my whole travel, this year, I liked the aeroplane flying the dha, a Greek god in disguise. Mukden forces were taken quite un-
Herr Von le Coq showed slides awares by the suddenness of the most."
Dr. Flacher also spoke of the of the representations of Greek attack and fell back.
numerous towns he had visited in gods of the classics, and traced isulated and know little of the Italy, and with interest he men- their evolution through history situation beyond our own ken. tioned the fact that in Milan he In China, he added, the root There has evidently been serious had met an old client of his, a of all Buddhist-Chinese art is the fighting the other side of Kalgan. gentleman well-known to the Shang- Greek classical antique art, just During the last three days about hai public, whose case Dr. Fischer as the same Greek art is at the five hundred wounded soldiers have had defended in 1925, and had bottom of all our European art. been brought buck to the base hos brilliantly won-Mr. Rossi, who, at Shanghai Municipal authorities to America is a deplorable obstacle States treaty signed at Wang-wia
present, occupies a very responsible position in that town..
Referring to his trip. back to
Elliot-
sided, described the funds as "epoch making."
For two weeks we have been
Peking, but who now Isithe Ambas-ers in the No. 5 mill of the N.W.K. WINNING AMERICA. economic and political unity."
ace me
strug-
It appears that, on the night of the murder, the two men were hav-
· ALLEGATIONS AGAINST PRO-JAPANESE AMERICAN.
The account of Dr. Bau's ad- dress has been very much epitomn- ised, and the discussions were closed to the Press, but it seems clear that the principal "fore- APPLICATIONS FOR SUBSIDIES. closures" which he had in his mind were, first, the extra- territoriality enjoyed by foreign- The "Miyako" expresses surprise ers in China, and, second, the ing a talk in the mill quarters on monitood when three armed at the report that some Americans monopoly of the vote in foreign men rushed into the room, fired at are championing Japan's cause in them, and immediately decamped. the anti-Japanese immigration con- settlements enjoyed by foreigners The radicals are working to bring troversy purely from self-seeking to the exclusion of the Chinese. about a strike by means of terror-motives, and advises the American To the first of these Mr. ism. The murder of the two mill Government and people to take Winthrop makes no reference.) hands has caused considerable con- steps to discourage the practice of Yet, apart from the pros and cons Eternation in will circles.
these unprincipled people who, of the matter, there is a certain feigning sympathy for Japan, are appositeness in the suggestion trying to get money from the that America, which first secured Japanese Foreign Office on false extra-territorial
rights under pretences,
treaty, should be the first to nego- It is superfluous to say that the tiate for their abolition. The anti-Japanese Immigration law in clause in question in the United
Intimidation by Pickets. The local Japanese Millowners' Association held an extraordmary meeting at the Japanese Club, Shanghai, on November 18, when the question of appealing to
afford protection to cotton mills was discussed.
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The Chinese claim that their art pital here in Tatung, goes back 4,000 years is absolute- It is reported locally that
The me question has been rais-tries, the Tokio journal says, and on July 3, 1844, a clause which ly unproven. All modern investi- force of Shanal soldiers have gone Shanghai, where office duties called ed in the past from time to time and it is with a profound feeling of had no parallel in the British UNDERWOOD TYPEWRITERS gation goes to show that even in over the hills in a direct line to him most urgently, Dr. Fischer re- the fact that workers are still aub. gratitude that the Japanese people treaty signed at Nanking two Neolithic times China received Peking and are now within forty marked that he had had gccasion ject to intimidation by strike regard the efforts being made by years earlier, was based upon a Americans, who, letter from Mr. Cushing to Mr. great impulses from the West. of the capital at the foot of the to witness the assembling of the pickets when
their way to work Pro-Japanese
of Forbes on June 22, 1844, in which tends to show a lack of protection sympathy for Japan, are striving he said:
actuated by unalloyed motives hills at a place called Mentoukou. Lengue of Nations at Geneva, as Professor Grafton Smith, commenting on Herr Von The force moving from the south well as the arrival of the American on the part of the police.
nt the railway junction at Shih- Legionnaires in Paris. Of these It is understood that the Chinese to create an atmosphere favourable "In my opinion, the rule which le Coq's statement, characterised chiachuang are reported to have occasions Dr. Fischer spoke with millowners are desirous of joining for the revision of the objection- obtained in favour of Europeans it as one of very great interest. reached Paotingfu. Another re-enthusiasm, saying that both were the Japanese millowners in
and Americans in the Mahometan The view, he said, "has been sugport says that the warload of Man- most impressive as well 25
in-appeal and it wna for this reason
At the same time, it is distress-countries of Asia is to be applied gested on previous ocasions, but churia, Chang Tao-lin, has alreadyteresting.
that yesterday afternoon's meeting Ing to learn that among the groups to China. Americans are entitled i. is new to find it put into such left Peking. These are the reports Dr. Flacher atated that he travel was held.
of Americans who ostensibly pro to the protection and subject to concrete form."
that are posted on the streets, and led vin Siberia, and while in Mos- The meeting which lasted about feas friendship for Japan are some the jurisdiction of the officers of Sir E. Denison Ross, who pro- may be called the official bulletins. cow he witnessed the demonstration an hour and a half came to no de- who, under the cloak of sympathy, their Government. The right to We Are very quiet here in against Great Britain. This definite decision on this matter, are bent upon accuring from the Tatung. When the local General monstration, he said, was most im-writes the "Shanghai Mainichi.” Japanese Government funds for the be protected by the officers of DODWELL & CO. LTD. moved out to the eastern front thepressive, A vast number of in-
assumed object of promoting the their country over them are in- Sir Francis Aglen, the former Tupan of Suiyuan, Shang Chen, habitants of that great city had
movement for the revision of the separable facts." Inspector-General of Customs, was in charge of the base here at gathered to witness it, and it was troubles, three Chinese, one armed, by ntcan motives from the begin-points, the exclusion of the Chin- In connection with labour Immigration law. Being actuated As to the second of Dr. Bau's Sir George Macartney, and Mr. Tatung for about a week. We are most orderly and wonderfully car-
entered 1633 Robinson Laurence Binyon were among the now informed that he is the ried out. The outstanding feature
Road, ning, tuese Americans are said to ese from the municipal vote, Mr. While he of this, Dr. Fischer held, were the three shots, wounding two of the their importunate requests. for frequently and so unfairly been
Shanghai, last Friday, and distinguished men who listened to Governor of Kalgan.
fired turn onti-Japanese the Instant Winthrop repeats what has so Herr Von le Con.
was with us we received a good number of Chinese mounted
male inmates. According to the "Morning deal of instruction in the prin- soldiers in the pay of Soviet Rus-
funds are rejected by the Japanese said during the last two years, Government, and take to the bual namely, that the United States Post, ethnologists welcome the ciples of the Kuomintang.
holds no concessions, no special discoveries of the German expert, as they strengthen the views put
on Dr. Fischer. "If the Pukow thing yet outside his office. There
spheres of influence, and no pri- forward by such men as Vogel Tupan left for Kalgan his instruc- railway were in order the trip were piles and piles of various mat-
vileges. I say unfairly because] and Grundwedel as to the in-tors followed him. We are now would not take over thirteen days,ters awaiting his arrival, and he
it is not quite true. The greater fluence of Greek on Indian art, left in comparative seclusion. as it would not be necessary then has now undertaken the defence in
part of the present international WHEN DREADED CROUP and help to confirm a closely rea-} For two weeks there has been no to take the boat to Shanghai. Ithe Elly Widler case, which will
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settlement at Shanghai is the soned hypothesis that has been business in the city. All carts and wish to emphasise again that the come up before the Swiss Consulate
former American settlement. It} A thing of dread, that comes in the built up on evidence obtained pack animals were commandeered train is most comfortable, the Court on Monday next.
night without warning. Just a hoarse, was the practice of the Chincac from many different sources. for military transport. Now that sleepers are very good, and the During his trip to Europe, Dr. métaille cough, a choking, gasping for Government before 1911, and it|
Discussing Herr Von le Coq's the front is well removed from food is not bad. On the whole, I Fischer has acquired a number of breath, a threat of suffocation. Oh may be still, to refer to Shanghai
valuable announcement, Mr. W. J. Parry, Tatung trade is beginning to as have immensely enjoyed my trip old
the relief of knowing that there is in dispatches as Chinese things,
the Anglo- specially books, which are worth a bottle of Chamberlain's Cough Remedy Reader in Cultural Anthropology sume normal conditions and carts through Russia."
Asked about conditions here on fortune. He promises he will have the choking phlegm, stops the hoarse unfairly because it is hardly and pack animals are bringing in
In the house. See how it clears away American Settlement. I also say. at University College, said: "Some time ago Professor Elliot./the new harvest produce.-"P. and his arrival, Dr. Flachier stated that la catalogue made of them for re- cough, and brings rest and sleep to creditable to America, whose mer-}|
T. Times."
he had hardly had time to do any-
Smith brought forward the view that the Maya culture had been Influenced by Asiatic civilisation, suggesting that it was brought from Cambodia, in French Indo-i China, to America. Both Grund- wedel and Vogel have worked on the principle that Buddhist art was based on Greek art, and that that was inspired by Egypt. There are now definite links in the chain Egypt-Greece-India-Indo- China (Cambodia)-Mayan terri- tory, Thus, there are various art motifa connecting Greek and Far Eastern culture, as, for instance, the Greek key pattern and the meander pattern derived from the Greck garlands used for decora- tions on tombs. Further con- firmation has recently been given by Dr. Krickeverg in 'Steinder
Weisen' for 'October, 1927, in which he admitted the possible derivation of certain elements of Maya art from Asia, and this can be taken as evidence that Profes- Bor. Elliot-Smith's views are sure- ly but slowly gaining ground. All links in the chain are daily more complete, and from this standpoint Herr Von le Coq's.con- firmatory evidence is most wel- come. What still has to be estab. lished by direct evidence is the passage of Asiatic art from Cam- bodia to America."
Hesia.
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The "Miyako" confesses that similar despicable practices have been indulged in by some Japanese upon the Chinese people. These unscrupulous Japanese would have the Chinese bellave that they were devoted to the advance of Chinese interests as well as the promotion of Sino-Japaness friendship, and try to get money from Chinese on the false pretence of financing their movement. These misdeeds have done much to estrange:Chin- ese feeling from Japan and the Japanese,
The Japanese people must be on sure ground before they accuse the Americana, says the "Miyako, and It strongly urges the Japanese Government and people to see that no Japanese act in such a mean manner towards the Chinese in future, so that the cultivation of the true Bino-Japanese friendship
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