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Hoxoxone, liTH SEPTEMBER, 1918
A SIGN OF THE TIMES.
Is it a sign of the times that in the midst of what Lord MORLEY calls a "witches sabaoth of blood and tears," the Romanes lectures should have been re-instituted at
Oxford, after two years' cessation, and that to Mr. Asquith should have fallen the honour of re-opening the series. If it is not a sign that the worst of the crisis is over it is, at any rate, an indica tion that there is a return to the intellee tual field--a feeling that the field of action does not completely satisfy man's THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST-montality, but that he desires, also, a
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field of contemplation. Mr. Asquira chose to lecture on the Victorian Age, an Age to which he himself hardly belongs. An Age is, of course, da abstraction; primarily, it signifies a generation, but, inasmuch as the course of genius flows irregularly, to say definitely where one Age begins and another ends is a task beyond human power. To what Age, for
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The Hon. Mr. W. Chatham, M.G. FAR EASTERN CABLE, and Mrs. Chathum Jeft yesterday for a short trip to Peking and Japan.
Mr. T. D. Moorhead has been appoint. Customs for Rorioon during the absence ed to take charge of the office of Chinese
leave of Mr. A. H. Harris.
Hits a seaman.
getting his effects in a manner removed front that Agu. Tet an Age in litera ture, as in art, has something which distinguishes it. We feel that MILTON belonged rather to the Elizabethans than to the Age of Queen Axxz, and we have nothing to put between thesh. In the same Way we would profer to class KEATs and SHELLEY with the Victorians rather than
In Monday's issue it was groneously with the Annians (if such a word may
stated that James Allen, who was charged be coined), for again we have nothing in.at the Police Court with a serious offence, tervening. Indeed, KEATS and SHALLEY.
The lase was resumed if they had lived, might well have pro. yesterday before Mr. J. R. Wood, but was duced their best. work in the reign of not of a nature suitable for our columna. Victoria, as their elder, WALTER SAVIOK LANDOR, did. May we got even claim Scorr as a Fictorian in sentiment, the opening chapter in that series of novelists which certainly warmed the life's blood of the Victorian Age?
For a JANE AUSTEN was the legal inheritor of the Age of Queen ANNE so was Scort the legal testator of the Age of Victoria Ho banded to the next generation the
The following cases of communicable inspiration of form, dramatic power, in.
diseases were reported in the Colony terest, which rained the novel in the during the week which ended on Satus- hands of DICKENS, THACKERAY, CHARLOTTE day last: Bubonic plague, (4 deaths); BRONTE, GEORGE ELIÓT, MEREDITH, and cerebrospinal fever, 4 (3 deaths) : enteric HARDY to much the position which the | fever. < (3'deaths); and diphtheria sad pianoforte holds among musical instru. Perperal fever, 1 each.
Two cases of
ments,
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·COSSACKS SCATTER SOVIET TROOPS.
LONDON, September 9th.
A message from Tokio; date: August 31sp. states: It is semi-officially stated that White Guards and Cossacks, under General Alexeieff, have opened hostilities in Siberia by scattering the Soviet troops. [BY COURTESY OF THE CHENG NOI JAN PO."
According to the report of the Com-: missioner of Customs for 1917, the nativeLUK WING-TING CONGRATULATES population of the International Settles, THE NEW PRESIDENT. ment (Shanghai) is calculated at 643,000, an increase of about 20,000 during the past two years, the foreign population being about 19,750, of whom about 14,000 are Japanes
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The following telegram has bena received by the American Consulate- General, Hongkong, from the Manila Observatory:---
11 1.43 p.m., Sept. 10th. Cyclone or typhoon N.E. of Luzon, moving N.NE or N.E.
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PEKING, September 10th. Luk Wing-ting has wired to Hou Shib- chang congratulating him
upon his election as President and adding that the South-West provinces are only too willing to negotiate peace,
The Japanese Cabinet has telegraphed congratulations to Hsa Shih-chang TUAN CHIJUI TO LEAD AN ARMY
AGAINST THE SOUTH.
It is said that the Premier, Tuan Ch jui, will personally lead an army to sub due the South. Tuan bas asked Chang Cho-lam to accompany him. "
NO LOANS FROM THE U.S.A. The Chinese Minister in America has
long as civil war continues.
CANTON NEWS.
[BY COURTESY OF THE CHUNG NGOI
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MILLION DOLLAR LOAN.
September 10th.
The agreement for a loan-df one million dollars from the Bank of Taiwan has been signed. Seven hundred thousand dollars" were paid to the Treasurer yesterday. It is said that the money can only be used to maintain the notes, and further loans up to the amount of two million dollars may be leat if the above is not enough for this purpose. The Treasurer,has decided to establish an exchange bureau within ten days.
ATTACK ON AMOY.
The pianoforte, musical entbu-enteric fever were reported on Monday. siasts declare, is an orchestra in itself, The British medical men of Shanghai and the novel combines in itself story,
Met од September 5th and decided romance, and drama-even poetry, if we
to offer their services to lock after refuse to limit this by form. Scorr 30 beds for wounded or sick patients sent showed the world, how the novel could be to Shanghai from the Siberian front. reported that the American Government made as perfect a whole as the drama. They also decided that it was advisable to will not lend any money to China so bow the interest could be increased, the wait for the communication from the figures made to move, the action perfect-Principal Medical Officer in charge of ed within a compass which permitted the
H.M. Forces at Vladivostock before, dis- mind to survey it as a whole. It may be cussing the formation of a Red Cross unit' granted that the Victorian Age produced for service in Siberia. The generally no greater novel than "Tom Jones" in expressed opinion was that if such a unit character-drawing in wisdom and in
were urgently needed the British medical sunny geniality, bat in greater knowledge men in Shanghai would do their best to of their art in a sense of form, the
work together and make it a success. Victorian novelista surpassed FIELDING and RICHARDSON, masters as they were of the human beart." Crude, irresponsive and artificial as "Jane Eyre" undoubt- edly is, yet the author could have given lessons to all,ber predecessors in the matter of form-that sense of form which serves to make Villette," a tale of prac.' tically only two characters, even greater than many of Dickens's and Thackeray's many-charactered works. But CHARLOTTE BRONTE stands by herself, a genius of unconscious inspiration.. It is easier to trace the outlines of SMOLLETT's mantle fallen on DICKENS, of FIELDING's. on difference in form. Exquisite as is the TRACKERAY. Yet here again there is
art of." Humphrey Clinker" one feels that it suffers under those limitations
Women's Work Party of the Hongkong Commander Li Lieb-kwan, who was which had been inherited from an even
Chapter of the 'American Red Cross, re-fired at by a number of rioters on the less formless agc. If DicaEns could not shipped by the ss. Chim to Shanghai for ascertain the guilt of those who were ports that the following supplies have been bund, has personally held an enquiry to draw & character better than SMOLLETT, nor THACKERAY than FIELDING, yet in the slips. 1,380 handkerchiefs, 218 property It is said that two of the captives were Franshipment to Siberia:870 pillow arrested at the spot during the sensation. Cope and dramatic power given them by bags, 105 pairs underdrawers, 130 under soldiers under Lam Fu's command, and a their greater instinct for form, their shirts, 1 pair spiral socks. 3 pairs socks, it is suggested that they fired the shots, characters stood out upon a more life- like stage. In FizDING, RICHARDSON and pillows, 18 rolled bandages, 325 abdo-river.
3 pairs bed socks, & mops, 46 surgical them as they threw their arms into the but no proof has been brought against SMOLLETT we see the figures but "as in a glass darkly." In DICKENS and THACKERAY many-tail bandages, 395 triangular band- minal bandages, 210/4-tail bandages, 180 they are as living persons whom to ages, 285 "T" bandages, I' nfghan; 84 meet would age be aurprising. Was it, suits pyjamas, 3 bed shirts, 15 bed then, in a sense of form that Victorian jackets. 9 wash cloths. 24 taped shirts, and literature excelled 1" Here again we 6 bandaged foot' socks. besitate, for the most intellectual of the Victorians-BROWNING in poetry, and MEREDITH in fiction-seemed just to want this sense to make them the undisputed monarchs of the Age Again, KEATH, SHELLEY, COLERIDGE and WORDSWORTH had an art sense which was withheld from
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their successors in the realm of poetry. Their greatest work has had no rival eince. BROWNING we may admit as more human and more varied, but never so great an artist. Yet the Age was a wondrous one-full of life and colour, by means so dull and unintellectual as MATTHEW ARSOLD proclaimed, nor artificial as Russia would persuade us It was an age of high hopes and, potent reforms-of failures, if you will, but also successes: On the surface it might *ppear, in ARNOLD's phrase, that the Age
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life at Islington to an illiberal, dismal only passed from "an illiberal, dismal life at Camberwell," but, standing more"
remote, we see an undercurrent of feeling
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A bridge about 60 miles to the west of Amoy was occupied by the Canton forces yesterday. The Northern troops have retreated in disorder. The cruiser Hui Al is to be dispatched to cover the mili- tary operations against Amoy.
Sarah Gossler, Hend of the THE ATTEMPT ON LI LIE-KWAN.
DISSATISFIED RICKSHA
COOLIE. DEMANDING MORE THAN THE LEGAL FARE.
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support of the provinces of Kwangtung, The Constitutionalists, having now the
Kwangsi, Yunnan, Kweichow, Szechuan, and parts of Eunah, Fukien, Hupch, etc, wish to deny the current reports that com promise will be effected through the divi- sion of political offices in the Republic. The
very suggestion offered by the North- era militarists and the members of the bogus Government in Peking is offensive to all self-respecting citizens. The Presi- dent of the Republic, according to law, must be elected by the representatives of To elect a President by unlawful agree- the people in Electorial College assembled. another; without reference to law and ment between one military party
and
Constitutionalists demand the free recon public sentiment, is an act which never should be encouraged or permitted. The vocation of the first National Assembly of "The little boy stated that on the 8th department of the Government, headed by the Republic in Peking, as the executive instant he engaged defendant's riesha at the President, does not possess the power. "Star" Ferry Wharf. Kowloon, to carry to dissolve the legislature, and the Eresi- him to his house. When he reached his dential mandate of June 12th, 1917, forced destination he tendered defendant five upon President Li Yuan-hung, dissolving cents, but defendant demanded more and the National Assembly, is illegal. banded the defendant an extra five cents used abusive language. Witness then South-West cannot allow a party of mili tarists who happen to hold army com and went into the house to call his father, mands for the time being to dietate elec
tions or changes of law, When be returned, the ricsha-coolie had disappeared.
At the Hongkong Magistriey, yester. day, before Mr. E. D. C. Wolfe, a ricsha. paller was charged with demanding more West, af No. 9, Humphrey's Buildings, than the legal fare from Master Terence
Kowloon.
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The National Assembly now meeting in defendant because on a previous occasion cognized by all, the very one which elected
Mra, West, stated that she summoned China in accordance with laws first re-. Canton the only one properly elected in when he was given five cents by her son he Yuan Shil-kai, Li Yuan-hung, and Feag. adopted a threatening attitude.
Kuo chang to office has, on September Defendant atated that when he was 4th, 1918, formally announced given the five cents he examined it care- demnation of what has been donita pon- Is be to be considered a late Victorian 7 make it one of the epochs in Britain's fully to make sure that it was not a ing-illegal loans, treaties, and other acts,"
forged coin. Probably the complainant including the farce of electing & Presi thought he wanted more money and gave dent. him another five cents. After doing this, complainant took down his (defendant's) a joke and went away amused. He never number. Defendant thought it was only attempted to assault complainant or to use abusive language.
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All his best work in fiction was deac in the Victorian Age, but as a poet he is
The Far Eastern Tank Week Campaign neither literally nor figuratively of that raised nearly a million and a quarter Age, and there are some who believe that sterling
The Dynasts" reaches as high a level as
The Siamese Royal Stables will not race any poetry of the last century. RUDYARD | again during the continuance of the war. THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST KIPLING, also, occupies an anomalom His Majesty's example will probably be position, dependent partly for his in- followed by the majority of Siamena spiration on the Victorian Age but owners.
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The Constitutionalists also wish point out that any qualified citizens legally elected President of the Republic or Vice-President should receive the sup port of the people irrespective of party or territorial reasons,
Inspector Gordon stated that which a
There is no section of the country which ricaha-coolie was given five cents, the
desires earlier peace than the South-West- legal fare, he usually spat on the ground genuine and lasting peace may be pro
ern, but the leaders cannot see how and threw the money down.
Mr. Wolfe fined defendant 310, with republican principles already promulgat cured without reference to the laws and the alternative of a month's hard labour.ed in Chiza.
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