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FOREIGN LEGION FOR CHINA SUGGESTED
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It has been left for a literary man in New York to make a list of the ten most beautiful words in the English language. He includes "tranquil," "Juminous," and "bush," and explains that the beauty is of sound, not meaning.
By HOLLINGTON K. TONG. If "hush" why not "slush" and "mush"
Offers of services by thousands of Foreign Fought Here. Oscar Wilde declared that the Britons, Canadians, Americans and China herself has experienced the loveliest word in our language is other nationals to the Chinese con-benefit of foreign assistance in the "vermilion." He abhorred all sulates in various countries to assist military organisation. During the words ending in "ette," even China in the Jeol campaign re- Taiping rebellion she found that "cigarette," though one was rarely assure the Chinese that the spirit of under the command of Viceroy Li out of his lips..
chivalry in the West still lives. Is Hung-chang a comparatively small it not advisable. Tor the Chinese force of foreigners, led by their Newby Hall.
zovernment to accept these offers officers, proved invaluable. Viceroy Newby Hall, near York, where and form a foreign legion to help Li might be regarded with qualifica- Prince George was taken ill with halt Japanese aggression which tion as the father of the first_for- Influenza, Is a particularly lovely threatens to sweep over China? red-brick Adam house, built by** Nucleus Ready. Adam himself.
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eign legion in China. There is every reason to suppose that a well It would be easy enough to enlist equipped foreign legion-led by It was left to the mother of the say 10,000 volunteers to form a someone of the calibre of Ward or Prince's host, Captain Edward nucleus of the foreign legion. A Gordon-would do yeoman service Compton, by the late Robert Vyner. [recent telegram fröm London refer-to-day against Japanese aggression. Its two great show pieces are the jred to hundreds of Britons applying The reverses in Jehol have more stables and the Boucher tapestry for permission to opme to China and than sufficiently shown that feudal The tapestries were made fight the Japanese. Nanking has ideas of loyalty to their immediate specially for the room and are received reports from the Chinese chiefs still prevail among many of very carefully preserved; no smok-consulates in other world capitals those who are nominally fighting ing is allowed there.
transmitting similar information. under the national flag. The for- The garden, too, contains
It may be recalled that during the cign legion, properly trained and Įnotable relics-the statue of Chinese-Japanese armed clash at educated and made to be concerned Charles II. from the old Stocks, Shanghai last year not only with the interests of the Chinese Market in London, where the civilians, but also retired officers in people, can assist in gradually up- Mansion House now stands, and foreign lands, liberally offered their rooting the obnoxious feudal ideas the door of the notorious Jack services to the Chinese government. responsible for the partial collapse Shepherd's cell in Newgate.
During my visit to the Chinese of Chinese opposition to invasion. This door now forms the en consulates in San Francisco, Chicago trance to the filtchen garden.
An experienced foreign officer who and New York last summer was was consulted on the subject sug- shown piles of applications from gests the creation of a semi-foreign Your Daily Smile. Toreign" well-wishers of China in corps and an elaborate course of work itself is not yet entirely com-
which they stated that they would education for future officers of the plete. In particular the financial Impossible Feat.
be willing to give up their citizen- corps in order to be sure that they foundations of the new Constitution, We are told that the man who ship, join the Chinese army and will not prove themselves to be the Hong Kong, Friday, March 15, 1933. devoted a good
to which Lord Willingdon rightly saves money is not necessarily a fight the Japanese, and I was also masters rather than the servants of
deal of attention, miser. At the moment he is still require to be finished and most wizard. carefully scrutinized before any Lord Willingdon's
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shown piles of documents describe the state. It would be entirely ing new weapons invented which feasible, in his opinion, to start a were offered to the Chinese gratis. semi-foreign cadet corps consisting Most of the applicants applied at of very young men, about one half
A doctor declared that sweets do the consulates personally. Consul- of them being American and Cana- risk of embarrasament. But the not harm the teeth. Children, General Ko-ling Yeh at Chicago told dlans, one third or more of them Viceroy was as well justified in his therefore, need no longer refuse to me that he did not know how to Chinese and a small number of There were reasonable fears when tribute to the workmanlike char- eat them.
deal with some of them because they Europeans and other Asiatica The the last Round-Tablej Lord Willingdon became Viceroy at acter of
were so insistent upon fighting for number of corps members could vary The age of sixty-four, with an almost Seaston as he was in his belief that THOUGHT. WHILE THINKING. China that they offered even to pay between a few hundred and a few unprecedented series of proconsul-the political outlook in India showe
their own fares across the Pacific. thousand. For their military in- ates behind him, that his health a definite change for the better.
Adventures Plentiful.
struction foreign officers should be would never stand the strain of so| critica) a period in India. Theref were no aller feurs; and perhapsi the one achievement for which hel
The Greek Within Us.
himself would take credit in looking! Jove hurled his thunderbolts when
'Tis better to have laved
And lost
Than weed and be for aver
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Politicians, Rupert, nre
1. One ward from the Chinese gov.imported. In addition foreign ood jerniment, and not only 10,000 foreign Chinese Instructors should be ob- to give these young men Įvolunteers would gladly fight under tained
the Chinese banner, but perhaps regular academic training during the two or three times as many.
the period of their enlistment which
At the prysent time, there is a may be for a period of six years,
back on the first half of his term of he was angry, but could be placated people who solve the problems that office is that he has succeeded in by sacrifice. Luck in the chase, would not exist if there were no horde of young Americans, estimat- keeping himself so amazingly fit to depended on the favour of Diana. politicians. cope with it. And here there is an it was at the pleasure of Neptune irresistible temptation to quote from that a voyage ended happily or dis
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ed at 100,000 roaming around the United States and begging their way from state to state, uncared for
The creation of a foreign legion, which may appear fantastic at firet aight, will have a salutary effect upon the Chinese army.
a private letter, from one of those astrously. They were as tempera-1 A zoo keeper says that ten years and apparently not wanted. They gifted Civil servanta "on the spot" mental as tenors and prima donnas, is the maximum life of a wolf. So are adventurous and full of the whose views are too often dismissed these vanished gods. Vanished? all we need to do now is to hold fighting spirit. Ins negligible by comparison with The word seems out of place after out a little longer.
those of the politicians who were on one has rend the Henry Thurston the spot under very different con- lecture delivered recently by Dr.) ditions twenty years ago. It was W. F. G. Swann, director of the "A scientist has invented a device not meant for the public eye, but its Bartal Research Foundation, before which, he claims will enable the dead unconventional phrases may give a the American Society of Mechanical to hear." better impression of the Viceroy, as Engineers. Atomic physics; it seems,
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The forthcoming marriage of
this momennt, than any formal es the Iliad and the Odyssey. Instead A brain is only as strong as its ese to ask: why cannot the Govern- timate. "Lord Willingdon (he writes of making sacrifices to Greek gods, weakest think. after a Viceregal visit to his dis- we pay homage to Greek letters in trict) seemed full of beams and fight, strange equations. There is pai, for not a bit the "tired man," but hall example. The priests of the new Ing every fresh tussle with glee and quantum mechanics slaughter mat- with B most captivating boyish ter and burn incense before It, Like! buoyancy about him. But his pre-Jove, the atom
by Mr. T. V. Soong in a recent enrique de Graca, clerk, of the address leads practical-minded Chin-Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank, and Celeste Maria Xavier, of 21. Jordan ment receive better value for the Road, Kowloon, has been announced. funds spent in national defence?
The forthcoming Why not copy a page from history Wilfred Mulcahy, school-master, of marriage of and use some of the methods that Island House, Taipo. and Clair have proved successful with the Couper Munro, school-mistress, of Textile industries employ about 50/grent conquerors such as Jenghis Kingsclere Hotel, Kowloon, has been
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A Chinese male, Cheng Sung while Army Is Deficient.
alighting from a fast moving bus in Perhaps some will maintain that Sal Kong Road, was thrown heavily. there is a loss of dignity involved in sustaining concussion of the brain, the creation of a foreign legion. which necessitated his immediate re- This might appeal to the ultra-moval to the Kowloon Hospital. A motion picture cartoonist has patriotic who allow their nationalis-
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him and made it possible for him to whimsical disposition designated by hit boundaries, as he is undoubtedly prí. If Euclid had attempled to About 74 per cent of the more doing." This last sentence is of im-ascertain mathematically precisely than 42,000 motorcycles used in portance too, for they make a pro- under what conditions Jove or Diana Switzerland are owned in com- found mistake who attribute the suc- might smile upon a human venture,munities of fewer than 10.000 in- ceas of Lord Willingdon's reign to he would have earned the
habitants each. some sudden reversal of policy. He|mendation of the modern experts in has proved himself a wise adminia-wave-mechanics. Perhaps some-an- trator without ever losing his clent Nobel Prize would have been invented a device for advertising tic sentiment to paralyze their rea The forthcoming marriage has |Liberal traditions. He knows India the reward of
purposes that displays a briefsoning power. But realities have to been Illuminating
of announced,
Wilhelm constantly be faced, and it would be futile to Buchner, merchant, of 63, Cumber- too well and too recently to suppose equation. Since the atom no longer animated picture that that there is any practical alter-jobeys any laws of nature, since it repeats itself.
deny that Mr., Soong's severe stric-land Road, Kowloon Tong, and Hilde native to the great experiment in is moody, since it may become angry
tures upon China's military forces Zobel, of Dermbach, Germany, who self-government which has been pur-enough to emit light, when provoked The first tunnel ever constructed, were not justified.
is on her way to Hong Kong in the sued without intermission by sue or reduced to such complacency that in Egypt is being built to permit Although individually the, Chinese 8. Duisberg. cessive British Governmenta and it does nothing at all it can be dealt a canal which leaves the Nile river soldier is in no wise inferior to the successive Viceroys since the War. with only in, the Greek way. Instead just south of the Barrage to pass Japanese solider in moral and phy He is "striving," as he said recently of atomic humours, the physicist, under a hill,
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Personal Pars.
Mrs. F. H. Blakey and Misa N.
to the Legislative Assembly, "with talks of "states"; instead of discuss- absolute sincerity to advance asing dispositions, he displays psi to Aeneid of powerful and tempera-disciplined, and moreover he is de-Blakey left Hong Kong yesterday rapidly as possible to constitutional the multitude and utters equations mental psi. No doubt Dr. Swann la ficient in modern equipment. by the 8.8. Taiping for Australia. reforms. And it is hoped that he not unlike the incantations of an right when he assures us that the On the question of the loss of will Jong retain his "boyish ancient priest, despite their mathe-jangry atom or the good-humoured dignity it might pertinently be ask Mr. and Mrs. T. C. Fowler and buoyancy," for there is no man bet-matical garb. We fool ourselves atom is much simpler than the old-ed whether the fact that France has Mr. P. Fowler were passengers on ter fitted by experience and sym-into believing that electrons are the fashioned kind which was as easy detachments of foreign legionaires the s.s. Taiping for Australia, which pathy to preside over the Indian ultimate particles and speak of them to understand as a clock. "We can in North Africa and Indo-China and left Hong Kong yesterday. Government at a time when British as the_one_reality. But to the get a better correlation between the that during the world war she em- courage and British statesmanship theoretical physicists it is pel that various actions of the atom by refer-ployed her foreign legion in the Mr. and Mrs. C. E, L. Grist left will be more highly tested than ever is the Holy of Holles. Electrons ring them to laws about what we most, hazardous campaign are held Hong Kong for London yesterday on before. Certainly his speech at are no more than the chips in a may call the temperament of the to be a reflection on her dignity.
Delhi betrayed no sign of flagging poker game. In the equations and atom than by seciding an explanation | As a matter of fact, in the past;
the sa. Conte Verde.
or of faintheartedness. There could in life it is pei that reigns supreme, jin terms of springs and weights." Great Britain has employed mer! Mr. and Mrs. C. F. Wilkins and be nothing very novel In it, for this pet that decides whether or not We are grateful to Dr. Swann for cenaries in ber European and Amer- two infants were also passengers for is a moment, not indeed of in-stoves keep us warm, psi that makes having enlightened us. But just ican wars. With the expansion of London by the same ship. activity, but when all the prepara-the sun shine and the world go how much progress have we made the British. empire it became un-
tory work of the last five years-round. We have a new Olympus. since the siege of Troy? Whether necessary to subsidize foreign Mr. and Mrs. K. M. Bowes-Smith from the Simon Commission to the Its seat in the nucleus of an atom we call aur god-Jove or pai mattèri auxiliaries, but the practice was not and Master W. A. Bowen-Smith" end of the Round-Table Conference And Schroedinger, de Broglie and little. It is the attitude of mind abandoned because Great Britain were passengers by the s... Conte —is under review, for submission to Heisenberg are the Homers and that is important. The Greek in a falt that her prestige had suffered in Verdo which left Hong Kong yester- the Imperial Parliament, That Vergils who write the Mind and the still asserts himself. Great is pat. any way.
day for London,