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THE " HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, DECEMBER 2örä, 1999. -
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A PEKING DIARY:
[FROM A CORRESPONDENT-]
December 8th, 1922-
Feking in fact is humming with activi. ties; and numbers of people have given themselves up to sosial service. · Educated Chinese ladies hard started schools for I heard it publicly stated, to-day, teaching women, knitting and other in- before a Chinese audience, that the coun- dustries, including the revival of the old, try was drifting into a." Federation of Chinese cross stitch patterns which were autonomous Provinces." This remark in danger of being forgotten. «
occasioned no comment and seemed to be taken for granted. It is never sale to prophesy in China, however, even though we are always, doing it;, and sometimes, of course, we happen to be right."
The old Chinese residential houses, with their rambling courtyards and labyrinth of rooms, land themselves to all sorts of purposes, and can be easily adapted. They are quite different in style and The action of the Foreign Legations in 'design from the Chinese house in Canton dealing directly with Wu Pei-fu" (albeit and the south, where the planning is so through the "Foreign Office) concerning stiff and inelastic. the Honan' bandits, is a startling innova- tion, and would hardly be tolerated even in a normal "federation" of States!
Ho
Dr. Grant, the Professor of Public Health in the Union, Medical Collège, gave a very interestng lecture, this morn- I met a lady, this week who had escaped in which was open to all doctors and from Honaa after being captured. Her aures. His subject was "The importance companion was a lady with two sinal of Infant and Maternal wolfare." children. The robbers insisted on taking gave some rather startling figures for the two ladies with them, but after baing instance, the mortality among mothers in conducted into an adjoining room where the United States in connection with they saw the two youngsters, saleep is child birth is greater than the whole death bed, the thought of carrying the little rate from Tuberculosis. He quoted Sir. ones about with them from place to place Arthur Neesholme'a saying that the In- evidently cooled their enthusiasm, and fant Mortality is the best index of the they left without their captives!
sanitary conditions of
For & country. every thousand births in London, 93 in- The comedy at Tsingtao of the Chinese fants die before they are 12 months old. authorities tacitly acknowledging the The rate in Berlin is 146 and in Bombay. overlordship of the lawbreakers; and 630.
entering into negotiations" with the robber The knowledge that, oven before the bands as if they wers normal belligerents, War, Prussia was so far behind England has, I think, been a greater shock to in sanitation was a surprise, I think, to Peking even than the scandaions outrages some of the Chinese doctors, present, for in Honan.
the old ides dies hard that Germany was first in everything scientific.
It is an extraordinary thing that even in Peking, with the finest police force in China, there have been native distilleries bottling brandy and gin, etc., and print ing labels, the exact copy of Hennessey's "Three Star" and other English firms. I knew of this several days before any notice of it appeared in the local papers Owing to the Chinese now consuming more and more foreign drinks at their ban- quets, these illicit distilleries will, as time goes on, increase in daring and ingenuity. A great many Chitiese bave an idea that brandy is a tonic, and makes you strong"; and I have met men, who could afford it, who were taking a whole bottle a day. Of course the poisonous stuff, manufactured on the sly, is sold cheap, and cheapness will always mako na appeal out here..
The only bar to the almost universal purchase of British goods is the price of
Now Zealand, by energetically tackling her infant mortality problem, brought the rate, there, of 83, in 1909, down to "45
in 1919.
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What the mortality in China, among the new born, can be, no one can guess only any, one, who knows anything of conditions out here, realises that mora children die than survive. This looks as if Ching, when fully awake, could double her population in a generation. Of course people," like J. O. P. Bland, would say that such a state of things would be a disaster and the country couldn't sup- port the population! Certainly not under preient circumstances; but if China really awoke, there would be a genuine Government and security for enterprise, and all her vast potential wealth could be
tilised for the benefit of the race.
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them for it is taken as an axion by the THE PROPRIETORSHIP OF people that British manufactures are the best and most durable. But it is com paratively, valy the very few who can.
A correspondent, on whose accuracy, the indulge in anything beyond the bare editor of The Spectator states that he can necessities of life. Traders familiar only rely, has sent to that journal the follow- with big centres like Peking, Tientsin, ing account of the various steps which Shanghai, and Hongkong, cannot realise led to the arrangement under which the that the people they come across are only proprietorship of The Times has passed an infinitesimal part of the great mass to Mr. John Walter and Major Astor:- of the population in the country. The Only a few people in legal, "journalistic, wealth of the big citica falls and rises and financial quarters have been aware with the prosperity of the country, at the of the tense struggle which has been in back of them; and the fire and swords progress for some weeks for the control of robbers and soldiers is gradually but of The Times. Victory has seemed to lie Surely draining away the riches of the first with one and then with the other, of land. The accumulated property-that the protagonists. Now the issue is products" of generations of honest labour decided. Wednesday's newspapers.con in the field-is going up in smoke, as the tained the very formal, but most interest- tu fei hurry from place to place, burning, announcement that Mr. John Walter ing what they cannot carry away, and had, in co-operation with Major Astor, slaughtering the farmers, on whom the acquired the holdings of the late Lord) prosperity of the country depends ulti- Northcliffe and Sir John Ellerman in mately.
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"This keen competition for The Times The other day I noticed a street which is not surprising. It is, indeed, a curious was particularly well watered. The pre-repetition of history in its similarity to sence of a modern water cart explained the negotiations which preceded Lord the reason The old way, which is still Northcliffe's acquisition of control four- popular, is a wheelbarrow, two, men and teen years ago. It is not generally known a dipper.
that Lord Northcliffe's original "holding in The Times Publishing Co. Ltd., was The weather continues to be perfectly not sufficiently big to give him control lovely, to the astonishment of the antives That was only secured to him by virtue who my that, normally, it should be of an agreement with Mr. Walter. It colder and more disagreeable,
was not until two months before Lord Northclife's death, when Mr. Walter sold his ordinary ahares to Lord Northcliffe, The repairing of sreets is going forward that the latter actually became governing. rapidly team callers and gange of proprietor coolies working day and night. evidently want Hatamen to be open and time that Lord Bothermers wished to own "It has been an open secret for some comfortable for traffic before the end of The Times The resignation by Bir Campbell Stuart, the managing director of The Times, of his directorship of the At this date. China, is without a Pre Daily Mail, when it became apparent mier and without a Cabinet! Yet the that Lord Bothermers would become chief country gets on as before! It is con- proprietor of that journal, was regarded fidantly affirmed that Tao Kun will be a significant, and rumour affirmed that. President before New Year. They say he was championing the Walter interest DAIRY FARM NEWS. that there is a Triplo Alliance between him, Wu Pei-pu and Chang Teo-lin,
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a matter of fact nobody really knows the Times, until it became known that Lord exact state of affairs; but overybody feels Northcliffe had directed in hig will that that an extraordinary arise has been his shares in The Times should first be reached. Certainly Peking is excited. offered to Mr. Walter, although only at
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I had an interesting talk with an Amerification lay the weapons of the legal and can friend. Neither of us knew the other financial contest which has just ended
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