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The Rt. Hon. Lent Iscucari, G.C.M.G, KOSL, KC.LE. (Chairman),
Rt. Hon. the Earl of SELBORNE, KG.G.C.M.G.
Sir FREDERICK ELEY, Bart.
Sir MONTAGU CORNISH TUENIL..
FRANCIS ALKKANDER JOHNSTON, Esq. Alexandan Exar Watent, Esq WALZER OSBORN GRAZENKOOг, Esq. The Hon. ALIÆRDER SHAW, M.P. Jamia Mackenzie, Esq. (Managing Director).. M. M. 8. GUBBAT, Esq., CB1, C.I.E. (General Haragur)..
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FRIDAY, JANUARY 19TH 1923
Dr. Gray, of the British Legation has done wonders with the buildings and ho has a good staff of Chinese doctors
It is extraordinary when we consider There are 40 beda; and, next to the Union the over-increasing number of tourista Medical College, they sou moro? out- and the books of travel pouring from the patients daily than any other hospital, in press, how very ignorant the averaga man | Peking. A tattered Union Jack droops ir yes about his neighbour's country. It pathetically from a fagstaff at the "en- is still trus that " one half of the world trance. Evidently the British in Peking does not know how the other half lives. do not attach much value to propaganda A Chinese doctor, à graduate of a Col- lege in America, at a lunch table in | Peking was envying the lot of the King of England who "did nothing all day er. cept sign billa” "He was quite amazed when I told him that King George, war the hardest worked and most worried man in the country! He had been ou the nursery legend, 1 daresay, that.
The King was in the counting house
counting all his money;
.nourished
The Queen was in the parlour eating
bread and honey."
At the same time he was complaining of the ignorance in America concerning the Chinese. He said that over there * 'Chinaman” and “Laundrymon were synonymous. terms in the eyear of the people. Apparently these Americans believe that China's millions earn their Itvelihood by taking in one another's washing.
But they knew you and others as students" 1 objected.
"
"Oh yes," he replied, "but they think wa are not ordinary Chinese, that we must be princes!”
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The Chinese have their own rough and ready methods of dealing with one an- other. Like that "book of household re- medies, Till the doctor comes," theat methods have to answer till the time that the people have a government which will TEH KEY TO GROW RICH. cure for them instead of spoiling and Afriend, walking exploiting them.
along Hatamen Street, saw a man wheel- ing a barrow of persimmons. A ricksha bumped into his barrow and thrbo rod juley persimmons rolled in the dust.. Like a streak, the man left his barrow and had collared the ricksha, man and compelled him to.drop his fare" and Ha come back and pick up the fruit. was then allowed to proceed; and the "fare," a dignified gentleman, had mean- while beer patiently and silently wait ing till the incident was closed!
His native Tela-
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CRIU CHU KEH,
Manager.
I went into Tientsic the other day on business, leaving Peking by the 10.15 ex- Anyone who bus read Mrs. Penny's press.
It was bitterly cold but the car entrancing story of Anglo-Indian life. "The inevitable Law," will remember riages were well warmed, though very dirty. The dining car attendants, as re- the inward struggle continually waged gard politeness, compare very unfavour in the heart of an Indian officer in the ably with those on the Canton-Kowloon Civil Servior, who had been educated in At this time of year the outlook England, and had absorbed British ideals from the carriage windows is extra of honour and duty; ordinarily drear-a flat desert of dry tions could not understand why he allow- mud, as far as the eye can reach, and ed his duties, as a servant of the crown, to interfere with the ambitions of his occasionally a line of withered, trees. Before roaching Tientsin the train crosses family. The same problem pursues Gov- a frozen, river with mud banks --
ernment servants in this country, but they Tientsin itself is also as flat as a board, usually scive their difficulties by taking❘ THE but the streets are wel laid out. and the the line of least resistance. A very old asphalt surface reduces the dust problem. Chinese friend of mine, who now lives in The shops are mixed up apparently with this vicinity, was explaining to n private residences, for it is difficult to two youngest children had been "poi find what you want. The train had been trouble," he said it had been-
soned."
"There would have been no Inte and I was ravenously hungry." I walked the thoroughfares till I was tired, foreigner who imposed the fine of $50 on looking for a resturant.
a junk for smuggling, but they were In Hongkong you can find what you require. almost furious at my doing it. I heard after- with your eyes shut. All I would see was wards that they had to sell their children
"A to pay the fine; and they took the a very fourth rate looking hotel. last
hailed a ricksha and told him revenge by trying to poison my children.” my desire. He rushed me off to the: fourth rate inn! I told him to try. I had not seen my friend for years and Inquiries are welcome again. After a long ride he landed me this was all news to me
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at sonie Russian place where I was in- "How did it happen?" I aaked." formed that it was long past the lunch "A prosent of cakes arrived at the hour; and advised the Trocadero in house, and my wife thought it came from Victoria Bond. However, my ricksha a wedding feast in a neighbour's house. runner got lost, and I abandoned that When the little girl came home from vehicle. Paying him more than he de- school, she cried for something to cat served he pursued me with words. En and seeing the cakes, ale est several and quiries at a shop onded in my finding my wife gave some to the baby boy. myself in a really good hotal. The When the poison in the cakes began to clerk at the desk could only promise me act, after I had returned from the office, tes and cake, and even that the Chinese I thought at first it was cholera, and boys wanted me to wait for till 4 o'clock, suggested "cholera" to the doctor I had Another appeal to the desk, however, called. He thought so too. Later, I
another doctor
who pro mitigated the sentence, and at length tea summoned appeared and two tiny cakes
nounced it arsenic; but before, anything Still hungry I went to do my business could be done the two childra were dead. ..." Because she was always sorowing I found the office I wanted. I asked the very pleasant and polite American over the less of those children, my wife
died two years later? clerk, why I had had no reply to a letter written some time before. He had q knowledge of having received a letter, but pointed out a pile of correspondence on the desk, he had not yet attended ta owing to the holidays, and said my letter might be among that lot!
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Mr. Justice Greer had some very perti- nent comments on the city of Leeds in the course of his charge to the grand jury at the opening of Leeds Automa Assizes on November 23rd. When I arrive at these manufacturing cities," he said, almost fill me with dismay,
Northerings
of which I am glad to think are sibly
in the course of
by time curable ot effort on the
the inhabitants. part is the dim, gloomy, and gr of this city. and in a city.
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Current, Barings and. Fixed Deposits been interests at rate of 8 per cent, 4 per cent, and 6 per cent, për annum, respectively.
L. 8. HOLUM, Hongkong, October 2nd, 1920,"
I very dearly missed the last train back to Peking. I was at the station much too early, and asked for the Peking train nt the platformu *ndicated two I paced up and down where a crowd of Chinese passengers were hanging about. real I noticed a waiting room and went in
This to get warm. platform, on the other side of the Hike waiting room, drew in. There is some or two very fine public. thing grand about a long express sliding outsides of which are detasedings,
by the dirt
created by majestically into a station and discharg smoke and the woot and ing a crowd of passengers! I went to industries in processes of various kinds. have a look, and noticing a group, of Surrounding them are miles and miles. foreign travellers getting out for an air-
Presently a train at the of the centre of the city," one
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ing. I remarked. "This is the train streets, with houses composed of black- |
Pukow, isn't it "
I bricks and black surroundings generally cannot help thinking that something done, even with the
the powers exist, to prevent the
at prestation of smoke which)
"No, this is the express for Peking,
But I was distinctly told that the mormous accumul
Peking train was at the other plat-makes form
Our
manufacturing cities, in- stead of being ur addition to the beauty "No, that will be the train from of our country, a black spot on its face. I
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think the time is not far distant when the business of cities like these will be carried I thanked them and lost no time in
dd in such a way that no smoke will result finding a seat in the right train!.
A Lat all.
time when heat in our
our bouses in the BamB good dinner in the dining ear helped to will be distributed come restore my spirits. Though the electric way that light is o
is distributed. but that light in my carriage failed, the dark time is far distant. I should like to suggest nese within enhanced the glorious moon to those in authority, in the meantime, that
bo done
"to improve the light view outside. The full moon shed something might.
of these great cities by stricter
a glory on the dull. Jandscape of which of the laws which at
one could not grow tired,
exist. The other thing which fills me with
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One of the lesser known-eights-of- Poking is the British Charitable How all sure that there is not some compact of pital. After the Boxer upheaval oer between the two things I have. tain individuals bought and endowed a Nothing tende more to the preservation of group of houses in the Chinese city. I social order and the obedience of the law think the sam brings in about 200 taels than the possession of a home which a maxi his wife and family can enjoy. I think a month Private zubscriptions - augment this now. The original idea was a place an improvement of the slum areas of our towns will necessarily be followed by some where the Chinese could obtain free treat-dimination in the amount of crime." ment without religion,
It is a sorry place situated in a nest of mean, narrow, dirty streets.
The present calendar, he added, was the most serious that he had ever had to deal with at Leods.
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