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Is it fair of Mr. Maugham to let Daisy
A BRITISH RELIGIOUS PAPER'Squirt this vitriol in the face of such wo
PROTEST.
Mr. Busil Mathews, Editor of Ostcard Bound, contributes to the British_Weekly the following criticism of Mr. Somerset Maugham's much-discussed plays:---
Mr. W. Somerset Maugham bas pub- lished his play, East of Ster,"
The play is pivoted on the issue on which the future of civilisation depouds-the relations between the races (and especially between the white and yellow races). Last week, with three trends, I went to see it, for the point of view of this play is greatly important to anyone whose life work is bound up as that of all four of us is with the race problem, I know that The British Weekly does not usually notice the drama, bet not less than ten thousand people are listening to this play every week, and, willy-milly, Mr. Maughan is this vital and teaching the public en termendous issue.
What, theft, is he
saying?
The play opens with a "scene without words," exquisitely produced. One of my frienda was a man who has spent many years in China, and he at once localised the precise spot as inside the Hatu-mea (the Hata Gute) of Peking. He regarded a flawless picture of the whole scene as real Peking life.
Having how got the right Oriental at- mosphere, the first seene lands us straight into a vigorous discussion between two young Englishmen on the race question in its most crucial form-the question of the white man marrying either a Chinese or a half-caste-an Eurasian.
men?
But far, worse is to come, Barry, the husband of Eurasian Daisy, loses his tem per with the Auth, who says:
"You velly bad mau. Velly had temperi Ton no Christian"
1922.
SPORT.
FOOTBALL...
MATCHES FOR TO-DAY.
HONGKONG LEAGUE,
Divistös L-Kick-off 4.13 p.m.
FATAL MOTOR-BUS ACCIDENT
THE JURY'S VERDICT.
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The Coroner's. inquiry into the death: of a small Chinese girl who was knockyd Juwu on the Sham Shui Po-Yaumati
Harry: “A fat lot you know about King's . H.MS. Taniar, Sookunpoo "Road by motor bus No. 347 "nad 'fatally
Christianity:"
Anak; I know plenty about Chris- tianity. My father velly poor man. He say, you go and be Christian." I go Catholic mis- sion and they baptize me. English Church missionary, bu come along and say, Catholic mission to good, yon go to hell. I baptizė you. All right, I say you baptise ae. By and be Raptist missionary conte along and say, English Church mission no good, you go to hell. I baptize you, All right, any, you baptize me. By and by Presby- terian missionary come along and say, Baptist mission no good, you go to hall. E baptize you. All right, I say, you baptize me. (To Kuor.) You know Seventh Day Adventists "
Koe: I've board of them."
Amah: "By and by Seventh Day Adven- tist he come along amly, Presbyterian. mission no good."
Kuor: "You go to hell."
Knor: "I guessed it."
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ground. Referee: Mr. F. Smith.
B.M.S. Jandrose, v. H.M.S. Haykin, Navy A ground. Referee: År F. Williams.
Hollanda.
Referee Mr. A. Newton.
injured on October 17th was continued at the Magistracy, yesterday afternoon,
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After further evidence had been taken. the Coroner summed up to the Jury. He HoM,S. Durban e. South China, Navy said the most likely explanation of the B ground. Referee: Mr. W. Faccident was the story told by a youthful hawker who impressed him as being a
Rost truthful witness. He was Hongkong Club r. Kowloon, Club grati.better position than anyone to say what lefinitely did happen. He was standing Division Il-Kick-off 2 tb
waiting for the bus to come along. He Warders, S.C.A. had told them that the woman and the South China "B"
ground. Referee: Mr. F. Williams.child were walking along his side of the and then turn back in front of the bus H.M.S. Hawkins . Kowloon, Navy Areas. He saw then rush across the road
ground. Referee: Mr. Newton.
i and, the child was knocked down. If the Hongkong Police . King's, Sookumpoo Jury found that the evidence of the "A" ground. Referee Mr Cook mother and the woman, who were with the child. that the bus cante round the
R. N.
212.7170.
Anah How fashion you sabe, what he H.M.S. Ambrose University, Club
ground. Referee:, Mr. G. R. Perry, saic 2
IH.M.S. Dus laag (p. United &C, Nars "B" ground. Reforce: Mr. W. E Holland
Amah: "You go to hell, he say, baptize you, I been baptized one, two, tbtpc. four, frü times. I velly Christian woman.”
Harry (smiling): "I apologise."
Amah: They all say to poor Chinese, love one another. I no think missionaries love one another velly much. Hiyah.".
Has Mr. Maugham defence for, that I submit that it is inexcusable.
It is not even caricature. For caricature This stud is an exaggeration of tha, suth. of Mr. Maugham's has ug relation to truth.
Mr. Maugham gives 'in a vigorous way the two aspects of this question as they would be discussed, say, in a good club it Peking. He does not go deeper than that If he did go deeper he would be much mure The thing is an absolute fabrication, interesting. One point necer mentioneliu tisue of impossibilities. And if it is false all criticism of the Eurasians is the obvious as it is-then it is a disgraceful falsehood; and vital point that they owe their very exis-for it maligos men and women who have left tence to while falkers-men of the tuck (and home to work on a comparative pittance to often the very men themselves) who do the live and present to the East the Christian criticising.
faith which was also born in the East..
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B.L.A. Fleet Auxiliaries, Sookanpool: corner on the wrong site of the road at "B" ground, Referen: Mr. Tyldesley, a considerable speed there eth be no doubt that the driver mas doing an un- lawful act, in which case" they would bring in a verdict of manslaughter. On the other hand, if they believed the youth. had hawker they would bring is a verdict of accidental death. The jury were also Sat liberty to add any rider they pleased. After a few minutes' absene the Turg Ceturned a verdict of accidental death. They also wished to add that there seemed to be some carelessness on the part of the driver in not pulling up" when be saw these people on the road. In view of this the Jury thought tha Kowloon Meter Bus Company should pay some compensation to the relatives of the deceased.
St. Joseph's. South China -A." S:
Joseph's ground. Referee: Mr. A. Fairburn.
The Division 1. hxture arranged to take place between Police and R.O.A on St Joseph's ground is now cancelled
At Wei-hai-wei on October 18th a match in the Hougkoug League Division 1. was played between H&M.S.'s Despatel and Hawkins resulting in, a draw game of one goat all.
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Mr. Webster, on behalf of the driver of the bus, and in reply to the Coroner, said that he thought the Company would pay competition, but that he had not been instructed on that point.
The Club und Kowloon fixture has been brought forward owing to the absence of On discharging the Jury the Cordner some of the warships from port. A good informed them that it was his intention game should be seen with the Club wine to write to the Company and inform core is that one of the Englishmen maries
be better served forward than Kowloon, I'bare no space to describe the plot. Its It has been put to me that it is so siners by asnall margin. The Club will then of the Jury's rider.
an Eurasian girl, Daisy, in whom East and
while the visitors will be stronger in thị West are pulling in different directions.
back division. Brown greatly improved The Chinese woman who poses as her old
the Kowloon attack last week against the Amab is really her mother.
R.G.A., string no less than 3 goals. Kowlood'ar: werking up a good side and will give the Club one of the hardest" games they have had this season.
Daisy has been sent to England by her English (but unknown) father to receive a good education: She returns ut seventoen, and is taken to the Presbyterian mission at Peking by a young official of the Legation, who is told by his superior to do this.
She and the Legution officer carry on a Haison, and this is what Mr. Maugham gives us :-
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Daisy: "They hated me at the mission. They found fault with me from morning till night. They blamed me because yon wanted to marry me, and they treated me as if I was a designing cat. When you went away they heated a sigh of relief. Then they started to convert me. They thought I'd better become a school teacher. They hated me because I was seventeen. They hated me because I was pretty. Oh, the brates! They killed all the religion I'd got
Now obviously she was taken to the mission because that is the one place where a lovely Eurasian girl of seventeen would be safe, would be looked after well, and her education continued. But Mr. Maugham gives us not a word about that side of the question.
that it is not worth noticing. But cf the teu thousand people week who hear, thoac words fully nine thousand would-impressed by the scenie accuracy of the play-take it as having sonte relation to reality.
Mr. Maugham may say that he is not responsible for what lies bis characters tell. But if he really sets out, to present the East-why does he reiterate absolute falsities again and again on one point and give not a glimpse of reality?
It is incomprehensible to me that (if only from the point of view of dramatic art itself, leaving aside for the moment questions of sheer human decency) dra matists who are intensely keen on reality elsewhere are ready to be silly and sloppy minded the moment they touch matters of religion or the Church.
For instance, Miss Clemente Dene, in her, brilliant A Bill of Divorcement," which is dated a
The tit-bit of the week will be the match at Seokuapoo between the King's und Tamar where the goalless draw of last weak will be continued this.
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The Military team will have more room on the Garrison ground and should make the game more open which will give Lieut. Jones more chances to break through thar he had on Navy "A" ground Inst week The King's are confident of winning, but their hopes may yet be shattered by the Naval team who have got together a good side. decade bence (in the A game that will attract a large crowd 1930's, I believe), introduces a pompous, will be the one between South China and The platitudinous, unctuoos parson of a type Durban on Navy "B" ground. that was disappearing in the 1890's, a type Durban are already nominated as League whose last representatives are being-so to champions, but they will find a few stum- speak-wheeled in bath-chairs off the stags bling blocks before they reach their goal. of life to day. By 1950 he will bus extinct A drawn gaine would not come as a sur as the dodo. "But Miss Dane, in the midst į fa piece of a stained drama of fine quality, directly she touches the Church lapses into the fatuous and the unreal
Why? Is she fair to herself? Is Mr. Maugham fair to himself?
prise.
The Hawking, and dabrore will do battle on the "A" ground and in Record- ance with the form shown by the flagship at Wei-hai-wei the match should end in a win for the Hawkins.
evenly contested and end in a draw,
THE TRAFFIC IN ARMS.
AUSTRALIANS AGAIN BEFORE THE COURT.
The case in which Owen James Smyth, ex-bar mannger of the Palace Hotel," Kowloon, and William E. Pitts, second- stoward on the .. President Jefferson, both Australians, are charged with im- porting a large quantity of arms and ammunition into the Colony was men- tioned at the Magistracy, yesterday
Mr. F. G. Vaux said that he had been instructed by the American. Consul to appear on behalf of the defendant Pitts." He asked for a reduction of bail. It was quite impossible, he said, for his client to raise 85.000, the amount already fixed as bail. The defendant had now been in police custody for some time and the police well knew what the man's means wore.
Chief Detective Inspector Murrison bail said that he had no objection to the being reduced to $3,000.
Mr. Yaux suggested $3,000, which amount his client might possibly raise.
The Magistrate (Mr. Hamilton) said it was a serious case and one man had already jumped his bail of $5,000 on the same charge. His Worship said he had a great responsibility but was prepared to reduce the bait 10 $3,000. He remanded the case to Thursday, the 10th inst.
Smyth was also remanded to the same data, on bail of $1.000.
Three Chinese concerned in the case It is understood we're also remanded. that the three Chinese are to be defended by a barrister......
Kowloon ard expected to be too strong for the Harkins on Navy "A" but the BAIGON RICE MARKET, later team is unknown kcally. A good-
The Compagnie de Commerce & dec game is expected.
South China "should beat the Navigation d'Extrême Orient, in thein-
October 23rd, Warders on last week's form, while the report dated Saigon, South China "A" will find St. Joseph's state-
I will guarantee that any of the women in the theatre who laughed at this passage I am not now trying to defend the In the Junior matches there will be The Police meet the would, if they were made responsible, for Church or to ask for any favours for her; some close gares. instance, in London for the honour and well. I un only pleading with the dramatist to King's at Sookunpeo and a fost game is expected to end in favour of the Military being of a pretty Eurasian girl and found be dramatically true; "to hold the mirror team. On Navy "B" the United A. C. are her in clandestine relations with a young up to nature" and not be content with a due to meet an unknown quantity in the Foreign Office official in Whitehall, bave fifth-hand cliché that was out of date Durban Reserves and if rumours of form taken steps to check it in precisely the same before Miss Dane or Mr. Maugham bad count for much the game should be very way that a missionary would in Peking. left school. Frankly, when they touch Where on earth Mr. Maugham found any organised Christianity they reveal, appall: background for that ridiculous libel about ing incompetence. harshness one cannot muginé.
May I frankly plead that, in the interests Did he go to the Presbyterian mission of the drama as a medium both of art and any other mission-in Peking? of teaching about life; in the interests of Where did he ever meet or hear of any decent treatment of men and women giving girl who felt like, or would say, that their lives freely for the East thousands where did he get his views about his of miles away; in the interests of his great a strong combination and go down rather Since our last report the arrivals of: siona? Did he, for instance, see the audiences that carry away false impressions heavily The Ambrose Reserves are yet to paddy have decreased and a fair de Chinese nurses and medical students at from his play above all in the interest of maken their first appearance in the League mand has prevailed for the destinations. the ground last week of Europe and Subo, prices are fina with the Union Medical College and Hospi. the future relations of the races, Mr. for although on tal at Peking, superb in its scientific Maugham should eliminate these blots their opponents the Club Beserves did not an upward tendency, especially for
tura out: The R.G.A. and Fleet Auxi- prompt shipment. A fair amount of” equipment, and unsurpassed in either the from his play?
liaries should play a drawn game.
business has been done, also, for Java in East or the West as an educational institu
Secretaries of Clubs should note that ries and broken rice, No. 1 and 2 mixed. tion, the College from which last year
the kick off is 15 minutes earlier this There are still farge stocks of paddy in alone over a score of Christian, Quinese
week.
the interior, but bolders are waiting for doctors and surgeons graduated and went FRANCE & KWANGCHOWWAN
better prices. out to heal their fellow-countrymen in
China. Did he ask thein about missions
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Did he go to men like His ExcellencyTHE QUESTION OF RETROCESSION W. W. Yea (ex-Foreign Secretary to
TO CHINA.
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the Chinese Republic), His Excellency Alfred Sze (Chinese Minister first in
The Asiatic News Agency states that London and now a Washinton), His the Kwangtung guilda in Shanghai aad Excellency Wellington Koo (Chinese other places have wired to the Centrul Minister firat in Washington, then in Government urging that as both Japan London, and now Foreign Minister in the has agreed to restore Kiaochow to China Cabinet at Peking), or to the present and Britain to restore Weihaiwei, as i Kowloon F.C.-Townsend; Wheelerand Minister of Education at Peking, or to Miss result of the Washington Conference, Knight; Morrison, King and Pasco; Mil. Zung We Tsung, the young woman reporter France should be requested to open dia lard, E. G. Hall, R. J. Brown, Mason of the great Shanghai daily, with her eussions with China concerning the rendi- and Coombs... amazing work for social and industrial tion of Kwangchowwan, as she promised reform, or Dr. Mary Stone, the great Chinese to do.at the disarmament parley. lady doctor, or Miss Tseng, the lead of a Foreign Office has instructed Mr. Chen.
The
KING'S .. TAMAR.".
"PASSION'S PLAYGROUND *
Based on the well known story by the Williamsons, Passion's Playground" is being acreened at the Coronet during the week-end: The stap in it is Katherine MacDonald, one of the acknowledged. beauties of the screen, Her part as the
Carlo and gets into trouble there provided.
advantage.
CRICKET.
QUEEN'S KOWLOON.
splendid school-or the hundred of Chinese Lo, Minister to Paris, to approach the The following will represent the King'a young convent girl who goca to Monte men and women who are leading in the Poincare Cabinet concerning the Ewang. against the Tamar on the Garrison scientific, literary, commercial and pro. thowwan problem so that negotiations ground at Sockunpoo, to-day: Pie, her with opportunities for dramatic fessional life of China, who are the products can be opened between the two countries Blacoe; Opls. Wynne and Griffiths; Sgt. acting of which she takes the fullest as soon as possible. It is reported in Newton, Pte. Hodgson and Cpl Barlow; of missionary education.
Mr. Maugham is very careful about the Chinese official circles that the French Pte. Williams, C.Q.31:8 Burnett, Lt. scenic accuracy; why does be lapse into Government wishes China to purchase all Jones, Cpl. Dyer and Pta Scott, what is either culpable ignorance or (if public buildings and other properties built by France in Kwangchowwan at he is not ignorant) deliberate maligning? gricat cost. Furthermore, it is stated
The first examples of the real relations that the French will only agree to hand The following will represent the King's The following have been selected to re of missionaries to Eurasian giris that back Kwangchowwan to China under against the Police on the Garrison ground present Queen's in a friendly match comes to my mind is that of Mrs. Arnold certain conditions. They point out that at Sockuppoo at 2.45 p.m. to-day:-Cpl.E.C.C. to-day, on the Kowloon ground- Foster, of Wuchang, who has adopted Kwangchowwen is the only French leased Holland; Ptes. Crummey and Williams; J. 8. Curreen, 8 H. Ismail, S. D.. Eumsian girls as her actual foster daugh- territory in China, while after the reptes Jones, Gritchlow and Wildman ters in her home, and has orrounded storation of Kaiochow and Weihniwe, Ptes. Love, Cook and Dangerfield, Cpl. them with an atmosphere of love and fapan will still be in possession of Port Carr and Pte. Livey. Liberty and spiritual Beauty. She stands Arthur and Great Britain will hare
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