A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or touch not the PYERJAN Spring. TIERE, shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, And drinking deeply, sobers us again, (Alexander Pope, Essay on Criticism).
PYERIS
SPARKLING MINERAL WATER
has been the subject of criticism throughout the Far East for many years, and is proclaimed the FINEST MINERAL WATER produced, ever increasing in popularity.
Most agreeable to the palate, refreshing and health-giving
Blends excellently with Whisky.
A. S. WATSON & CO., LTD.
AERATED WATER MANUFACTURERS. Established 88 Years.
FURNITURE
COVERS, TAPESTRIES,
"PHONE"
K. 32
OR
C. 1279
FOR
LAUNDRY,
DRYCLEANING
OR
DYEING
SERVICES.
EMBROIDERIES,
THE CHINA MAIL,
WHITEAWAYS
CHRISTMAS BAZAAR
IN
FULL SWING
THE FINEST SHOW
OF
TOYS & CHRISTMAS GIFTS
IN
HONG KONG.
BRING. THE CHILDREN
TO SEE
THE ELECTRIC FOUNTAIN
WITH ITS
SPARKLING COLOURED SPRAY
ALL WELCOME.
WHITEAWAY LAIDLAW & CO., LTD.
HONG KONG.
The China Mail.
[Every evening except Sunday. Annuai subscription, excluding postage abroad, H.K. $36, payable in advance. Local delivery fres.]
Fire cases of small-pox were notified yesterday and one case of diphtheria.
A fine of $5 on each of several Chinese dog owners was imposed at the Kowloon Magistracy this morn- ing, on admitting either keeping their dogs with no lleenees, or allowing them to be abroad without muzzles.
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1929.
THE BRAINS BEHIND
THE
KREMLIN
SOME CHARACTER SKETCHES
of Foreign notes made by: Chicherin on docu- Colonel F. S. Exham, D.S.O.. THE Department
Affaina, consequently, occupies ments received from abroad; and R.A.O.C., Assistant Director of a unique position in the scheme of reported to Ordnance Services, China Commund,"
the Political Burenti who has been on a tour of inspection its structure has been built up from
the, U.S.S.R. This explains why scandalous accounts of the private in North China, returned to Hong all sources without any relation to
life of Chicherin. The Political Kong on the "Empress of Asia" the personnel of the old regime.glea and filed them, summing up Bureau read Litvinol's reports with
this morning.
With two previous convictions against him, a Chinese was at the Kokloon Magistracy this morning,
sentenced to two months' hard la- hour for the theft of a wooden rice tub, from the ground floor of 95, Kanso Street,
the situation with the words "the more these two then squabble the going on in the
shall know of what is Foreign Affairs."
Department of
Out of over 1,000 officials who 4pm- posed the Ministry of Foreign have been kept on by Chisherin, Affairs, only four lesser officials more we No diplomatist of the old regime has ever represented the Soviets abroad, even in the Consular ser- vice.
In 1924, when the work of the
The Society of St. Vincent de department had assumed a more of less regular form, its board con- Paul acknowledge with grateful thanks the following further dona-sisted of Chicherin, Litvinoff, Kara-parties
khan, and Araloff.
The Chicherin-Litvinoff break, however, eaused complications. Litvinoff had suceceded in replacing Araloff with his personal friend Kopp. In consequence, the board was split into
two, the hostile being Chicherin and tions in aid of Hong Kong's poor:
Karakhan opposed to Litvinaff and Of the four, Chicherin alone was Anonymous $100; Colonial
Kopp. Electric Co $25; Club Lusitano competent to deal with foreigners.
Soviet Ambassadors $100; and Miss Sybl Joseph $50.
Speaking several languages, a Karakhan is not very intelligent; university graduate and a talented but gay, charming, and always in A Chinese, described as a linguist, technique af diplomacy, he was win the hearts of his subordinates. musician, and long familiar with the a good humour. He knows how to was ut the Kowloon Magistracy to-day before Mr. W. Schofield marked out for the "historic" part Karakhan charged with the theft of four ironed upon to play, that of luk be-consists of finding out exactly what
which he intagined he would be call- about foreign policy. rods from a building contractor at Maple Street, Shamshuipo. He was world of the proletariat. His whole Bureau; then all he has to do is to tween the bourgeoisie and the new are the wishes of the Political sentenced to ten days' hard labour.
programme resolved itself simply
carry them out. In spite of his into easing the points of friction ready compliance, the Political between the two systems, without Bureau does not like Karakhan. declaring himself until the day of
Invariably Stalin refers to him as the final conflict between Com- "that idiot.""" munism and the bourgeoisie.
Major J. L. P. MacNair, R.A.. who has held the appointment of Adjutant of the Royal Artillery In Hong Kong, and who is going Home In February, has been succeeded as Adjutant by Captain C. R. Hodgkin- son, R.A., who recently arrived in Hong Kong from Home,
would be the effect of the exten- A Chinese was this morning sion of Christianity in China, charged before Mr. A. W. G. H. Canon Streeter replied that it
Grantham, at the Central Magis-
to four tracy, with cruelty
full would do a great deal to solve ne grown chickens and three medium problems of the hour-which size wild ducka by crowding them in were ultimately moral problems. a basket large enough to hold only Faith, honesty and trust appear.to of the chickens. The Magistrate
imposed a fine of $5. ed to be the vital needs of the people.
Deceiving Foreigners Chicherin, knowing well that Russia is large and unknown, and that there are a thousand ways of hiding what goes on there from strangers, thought that it would not prove difficult for him to mislead public opinion in other countries. He was convinced that he would, for example, be able to conceal from foreign diplomatists the fact that the foreign policy of the Soviet was directed by the Third International.
understanda
nothing His method
Soviet diplomacy has no definite structure. That is obvious. The Political Bureau merely desires officials who shall carry out their orders, without Initiative, without reasoning, without questions, and without argument. One finds Communists of this description In Russia One such has only to be sent abroad for six months, and he understands that Stalin's foreign
It is for this reason that the staffs of the Soviet Embassies are changed so often,
policy is criminal and mad. Chinn Mail,
NET AND ART-CURTAINS CAN BE BRIGHTENED UP BY SKILFUL CLEANING OR DYEING IN OUR DRY CLEANING DEPT.
Guerland (CARPETS SPECIALLY SHAMPOOED).
THE STEAM LAUNDRY
CO.
Hullary Landrynoon, Dyer, and Deyeİonnors. HEAD OFFICE & WORKS: MONOKOK, TVL K. A KOWLOON HOTEL DEPOT. HONG KONG DEPOT, 16, Stanisy Mirect, Tal. C, 1270.
PEAK HOTEL DEPOT BONGKONG HUTEL (VIA)
PENINSULA HOTEL (Visitors anfy) (Write of Phona Jarconpiele Price List
URGENTLY REQUIRED
OLD BLANKETS
THE HONG KONG BENEVOLENT
SOCIETY
(Established 1889)
will be very glad to receive them at the
City Hall,
Every MONDAY and THURSDAY at 10:30 am.
$425
Per Box 25s
"PRIMUS INTER PARES"
CIGARS
World-renowned for their fragrance and aroma, yet their cost is barely half the price of other imported cigars of similar quality.
Light,
Mild,
Good!
YOURS TRULY TOBACCO STORE
Opposita Gort Radio Ofice. 22, Des Voeux Road, Central.
[The weekly edition of the "Chir Mail." Annual subezription, H.K. 813 including postage $15, payable in advansa.]
Published by
The Newspaper Enterprise, Ltd.
Printers & Publishers,
| No..SA, WYNDHAM STREET, HONG KONG.
TELEPHONES
Office: Central 22. Editorial: Contral 4641,
Cuble Address:-Mall, Hong Kong.
Stated
www.m
*+
He pretended that Zinovieff was only the "Lord Mayor of Petrograd" (this term had been used by Chi- cherin in a letter addressed to the
to have been suffering Canon Streeter's general stand- from ague, a Chinese of no fixed point is that he believes that the abode was at the Kowloon Magis
Soviet representative in London). tracy this morning before Mr. W. period when there was a conflict Schofield charged with the theft of
He Invented a story of his having between science and religion has a cotton jacket from another Chin- met the Bishop of Genoa-a meet- come to a close. The cause of eac living at Chung Hing Street. ing, according to himself, sufficient- The defendant was fined $25 with ly important to re-establish friend- human progress requires both the alternative of one month's hardly relations with the Holy See science and religion. During the labour.
Chicheria has never been allow- last ten or fifteen years there has
ed a free hand. The Political been in Great Britain, and to a
"They were exhausted, when 1 Bureau has no confidence in him. took them out," said Divisional The most humble labourer who held different degree on the Continent, Inspector Stimson at the Kowloon a red flag in the streets of Petrograd a notable movement of the lead-Magistracy to-day when a Chin- in 1905 is recognised as a Bolshevikk ers of both of these human ideal-ese woman was charged with over of that era, but Chlcherin has only & Bolshevik since isms towards mutual comprehen-crowding ten chickens by putting officially been
He was given Litvinoff as them in a crate that was too small. 1918. sion. This should lead in future A Ane of $5 was imposed. A # colleague. It would be very to harmonious co-operation, re- Chinese man was fined $5 for plac-difficult to find two men who differ- sulting in a new view of the ing three chickens and two ducks ed more widely. Hong Kong, Thursday, Dec. 12, 1929. world, as well as a combined prac-one on top of the other in a basket.
tical effect in making it a better place.
All communications should be oddressed to thm Newspaper Ex- terprise, Ltd, to whom all remit tances should be made payabla.
London Offices:-The Far East ern Advertising Ageng (London), Lt., 36-38, Southampton Street, Strand. W.C.2.
RELIGION AND SCIENCE
He a
-G.B.
TEN YEARS AGO.
[From the "China Mail" December 12, 1919.] ནང་ས་ To-day's dollar la worth 5/- 240.
A Yarn About Sir Henry May:-—A commercial traveller who arrived in Hong Kong yesterday had a good story Hia to tell ahout Sir Henry Muy. Excellency went, it seems, to Koren on a shooting trip, accompanied by his There he met a commercial A.D.C. traveller (act this one) who, nat knowing hini, began to talk of Hong Kong. After praising the roads, ho mentioned that he hadn't seen the Governor, who, the people were all saying, was a pro-German. Sir Henry then, rather tardily, disclosed his iden
The commercial traveller, taken alnek. ut a bold face on it, and asked Sir flenry if the gossip was true. Sir Henry said it was not true, but that he didn't mind much what Hong Kong
people said, as they were always talk- ing scandal. The story does not end
hore. The commercial traveller told it to the man who arrived yesterday, and he in turn was retailing it not long after to a man in the smoke room of an Atlantic steamer. He said he had it from the man himself, but could not
otherwise vouch for it. "it is quite true," said the stranger in the smoke room, "for I was the A.D.C."
On the one hand, Chicherin, a former nobleman, a man familiarity. Resident in the Colony since 1887, with all the ins and outs of Westorn a Chinese
On the other hand, Litvinoff, at the Kowloon life. was
Canon Streeter has served on with the theft of 6 lbs. of copper a Boor, naturally impertinent, with morning charged a small tradesman from Warsaw. Magistracy this the Archbishop's "Commission wiring the property of the Kowloon a career behind him that was full on Religious Education," and is Docka. It was stated that this of incident, but showing no signa on the staff of the University of copper was old wiring from off the of fitness for diplomacy. The author of many profound Oxford and Queen's College.
H.M.S. "Cornwall," and was kept in still an adventurer. A
the alectrical store. The defendant
Litvinoff's Attacks books on religious philosophy, large part of his published works was arrested by Mr. H. Marriott, It was Impossible for these two Canon B. H. Streeter, D.D., have been devoted exclusively to D.C.M., and when searched the cop men to work together. Litvinoff's (Fellow of the British Academy), the problems of the relation of per was found in the defendant's attacks on Chicherin knew no limits.
hat who was interviewed by a "China religion to modern thought.
and girdle! Sentence of 14 He belittled him in front of his days' hard labour was inflicted. subordinates; crossed out marginal Mail" representatíve at the
He had intended spending three] Bishop's House this morning, I months in China, lecturing and stated that his book "Reality" discussing with students ques- had had the success almost of a tions concerning the relation of popular novel in Great Britain. Science, Art, and Religion, but Another book of his, "The Primi- owing to illness, he has had to tive Church," had been made curtail his holiday in Hong Kong "the book of the month" by the to two days, instead of a fort-Europe's "Mystery Man" American Book Society.
night.
"THE Mystery Man of Europe,” who now Hes ill in Paris, Probably
MEN, WOMEN, AND AFFAIRS
Sir Basil Zabaroff As A "Mystery Man": Clever Swedish Scientist: A Canadian V.C.'S
Initiative And Courage
of Sir Brafl
Canton Streeter is a scholar of
In a lecture at the University. international repute, and has this afternoon Canon Streeter has earned his title. recently returned from the Con- will sum up the principles and
lesя iB known ference on Pacific Relations at main results of the Conference Zaharoff's early life than that of Kyoto, which he attended as a on Pacific relations at Kyoto, on any other famous man living. member of the British delegation. Friday at the Cathedral Hall at He was born in a village in Whilst in Japan he gave a series 5.15, he will address a meeting Asia Minor, of Greck parents, of lectures at the Imperial on the subject of "The Froblem about 30 years ago; and that is University of Tokyo on "Science, of Pain," considered as the great about the only authenticated fact, Philosophy, and Religion." His difficulty to belief in God," and about his youth. It is said that book "Reality" has been trans- at 8.30 p.m., at St. John's Hall, he sold newspapers as a child in [lated into both Japanese and will speak to students on "The
Chinese and has enjoyed a wide Conflict Between Science and Re- better authority, that he entered Constantinople. It is stated, où sale in the Orient. The lectures ligion." Next week at the Cathe- his uncle's shipping office in that which he delivered in Tokyo on dral Hell, on Friday, December city and acted as a guide to tour- Science and Philosophy are to be 20, Canon Streeter is to meet ists In his spare time.
local ministers of religion and educationalists, and will lecture on "The Place of Religion in Modern Education."
terest in Monte Carlo casino; and in 1918 he was knighted on the recommendation of Mr. Lloyd George. Now, old and sick, he lies in Paris, too feeble to pull the strings that once led to half the capitals of the world.
Distinguished Scientist AMONG 'the many distinguished
ember 1 for Europe, were Professor
Japan.
DI
passengers on board the P. & 0. A.J. "Rawalpindi," which left on Do-
and Mrs. A. F. Enstroara, on their return voyage to Sweden from Ja Mr. Enstroem, who has been one the several delegates of the Swedish Government to the two world power and engineering congresses recently held in Tokyo, is the managing direc tor of the Royal Swedish Academy of Scientiae Industrial Research.. Ho has been organising and directing with remarkable skill and success the manifold work of this governmental instituta since its initiation ten years But it is a fact that, Hving in
ago, which short space of time region frequently disturbed by its different laboratories kava - par- wars, and even more frequently formed a series of successful inver by rumours of war, he realised. tigations which count among the on a number of technical
By his initiative and courage, of two run. with the assistance nors, he was able, in the face of great difficulties, to capture two machine-guns besides two officers and seventy-five men. com. tinuing to hold the position until eventually relieved by his batta lion. Captain Macdowell's own account conjures up a delightful picture of the incident.
Finding himself alone with two Tunners and being anxious to acquire a certain make of German officers* revolver, he decided to search an up- parently deserted dug-out system, posting his runners at the two en- trances as a precautionary measure. Rounding a dark corner, he found himself fac to face with a large number of the enemy, who promptly offered surrender. Unabashed, he proceeded to disarm them and des patched then up the stairs to, the open trench above.
The Real Cause
HALF-WAY through his disarming operations the queue haltod, and Captain Macdowell "feared that his. bluff had been called. Hastily retir. ing with his back to the wall ho sternly commanded the remaining 'Germans to lay down their arms and march on. To his intense relief this show, of, confidence again proved, suc cessful.
translated into Chinesc.
Canon Streeter made the in- teresting observation to our re- presentative that Christianity
before anyone else what could bo flourishes most amongst the edu-
most important for modern industry, NEWS IN BRIEF
done by an astute man in the sell- and new or better constructions, ar- ented classes in Japan, although
ing of munitions of war.
4 rived at as result of the Academy's' he would not care to apply the
Major B. R. Mullaly, 10th Gurkha
He began by selling a sub-
researches, have been released and same remark to China, not hav-Area, who has been Home on sick in the Peru-Chile war, and, firat AV.C. Story
generally adopted by the Swedish In Rifico, and Brigade Major Tientsin marine to Greece, sold two more
dustries concerned.
"It was, not until afterwards that to Turkey, sold arme to both sides ing thoroughly studied the post-leave, will embark for China in
he discovered the real cause of that tion in that country. It was January, and will resume his later acting for Vickers, he jour ACCORDING
most disquieting pause in the pro- ad an agent for Nordenfeldts and
ceedings. His runners, failing to efgnificant, he added that many pointinent. Captain P. J. Shears, neyed up and down the world dis- Gazette" of June: 8; 1917, Cap-dead the first ten as they came out distingulen in the half-light these men were already disarmed; shot 2nd Border Regt., who has bem members of the Chinese Govern carrying out Major Mullaly's duties tributing munitions of war tan Thain Macdowall, who went ment were Christiana,
at the top of the dug-out steps- over from Canada In order to bis during his absence, wil rejoin his
Acquiring great wealth, Sir present at the Prince of Wales din hed: a disouraging effect on their contretemps which," not unnaturally. Asked what he considered own regiment In India.
Basil Zaharoff bought a huge inner, earned his Vt bef use
who were following, aftor,
the "London
اسر العيني موعد