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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, ĬTUESDAY, OCTOBER 123P^(9)ZES
Mr. M. T. X. Tyau, writing from 7 Melbourne-mansions, West Kensington, comments as follows on the letter from Sir Valentine Chirol, published in The Times Wankly Edition of September 20th, on the subject of Count Nogi's suicide:-
The subject of suicide is both repellent and fascinating at the same time. It has always baffled the efforts of philo sophers and psychologists, and to-day its mysteries are still unravelled. despair Confucins exclaimed, "When one knows not all about life itself, how can he pretend to know about death?""
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Count Nogi died the death of a horo; more than that, he has also died the death of a virtuous man, It is this conception of death, not draped in black, but clothed in virtuo and sanctity, which constitutes what Sir Valentine Chirol describes as a striking illustration of the gulf that divides the East and the West. Here, in the West, the motives that prompt a suicide are either emotional or economical; but in the East they are intellectual.. With the latter, the in- tellectual Ego predominates, and the very act reflects care and deliberation.
Of late in China one finds meny instances of a form of suicide utterly incomprehensible to the people of the West. They may admire it, but they I refer to the cannot understand it. tragedies of those who lamented the impotence of their, country and deplored their ability to ameliorate its condi tions. If in their lifebine they could not accomplish their cherished desires they hoped that by their death the motive of their deed might fire the imagination of their. compatriots and stir them up to vigorous action,
Rewives of The Times way perhaps recollect a remarkable ducntent publish ed in its columns three years ago and sent by your Correspondent at Peking. A metropolitan official, Yung Lin, wearer of the eighth Button, shed tears of blood over the fortunes of his country, and then, having sent to the Press a memorial for the Prince Regent in justification of his act, "sacrificed his life," in the words of the Imperial Edict bestowing upon him posthumors honours, "in order to display his patriotism." He called atten- tion to the evils besetting the adminis tration and anggested sound remedial
lie concluded Then
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as
"I am a member of the Imperial household, and my family has been recipient of the Imperial bounty for generations. The contemplation of the dangers of the times made me sick at heart. Full of grief at what I cannot alter. I have braved death in making my remonstrance. Lacking literary ability or grace of style and knowing that the law punishes him who speaks of what concerns him not, I have decided on:
this self-slaughter. after sending in document in tear of punishment, because ny constitution is not strong enough to endure the cruel tortures of my gaolers, Iso I beseech your Highness to pity and
forgive.
My original intention was to ask ay superior official to presont this memorial. but I feared that your Highness' anger might extend to him for presenting it. Then I thought of stopping your High- -ness chariot and presenting it per- sonally, but your suite is too large to render approach an easy matter, and a call to you on my part would result in being robaked. So I decided to send it by post to the newspaper, where your Highness will be able to peruse it and act accordingly: Then I shall live though I die. Weeping, bitterly I pro strate myself and reverently hand in my memorial.".
Surely no fair-minded critic would he prepared to demounce all this as sheer hysteria, the product of a diseased brain; but whether he would comprehend it ar go a step further and endorse it, is, perhaps, a matter open to question.
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The Stefansson expedition was associat- ed with the American Museum of Natural History, and the New York authorities of that institution scenu convinced that, from the ethnological standpoint, the discovery of Erickson's descendants, made on Vic- teria Island 30deg. east of the mouth of the Mackenzie River, ranks with the dis covery of the lost tribes of Israel.
Mr. Stefansson's party has been ex- ploring for five years in the neighbour- hood of the regions at the "top of the world," and nothing they found was quite so interesting as the 2,000 mysteri- ous whites, who are still living in the Stone Age, apparently indifferent to and contemptuous of the advances in civilisa- tion made by the outside world. The dis coverer says that they are of purely Nor-. wegian origin, and have never seen any other people than those of their own colour. More than half of them have red hair, blue eyes, fair skins, and light eve They live on boll. brows and beards. shores of Coronation Gulf, on the taain- land of North America and Victoria Is land, which was formerly known as Prince Edward Island.
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Mr. Stefansson is convinced that the Bembers of the strange tribe are the direct descendants of Erickson the Lucky,. and he has prepared an important trea
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