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EDINBURGH, Juhuary 28th." The Burns celebrations were this year more widespread than at any time since the close of the war. Scarcely a town or village was without some recognition of the "natal day," and in the cities. and large centres the gatherings were It is many and varied in character, estimated that some 100,000 people drank.
TH, 1925
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" VINDICTIVE" FOR HONGKONG. IS DELAY DICTATED BY DIPLOMACY?
LIANG SHIH YI. ·
TALK ON CHINA'S AFFAIRS.
Mr. Liang Shih Yi, former Premier Announcing, in its isme for January of the Republic, and known as the "God th, that although the cruiser Findie- of "Wealth," who has arrived in Peking According to a memorial from the tier is now carrying out her a commisto participate in the Rehabilitation Con- Chinotung (Communications Depart sioning trials after having been a good feroner, was interviewed on February Representative of the Northe ment) to the Chief Executive, owing to
28th by the sterit nieasures adopted by Marshai many months in dockyard hands Chang Tao Lin and Marshal Feng Yu Chatham, she will not join the China China Daily News at his rooms in the Hajang for the effective restriction of Squadron until July next," the Novel Bank of Communications, Shanghai. military movements, normal conditions
and Military Recurd nida:
Mr. Liang was paying his first visit to have
tha Peking. beetl restored DO
"It is quite possible that there may be Shargini slice his enforced retirement. Mukden and the Peking Saiyuan Rail.
a diplomatic reason for delaying, the de- from the Premiership in 19 ways.
With reference to the conditions along parture of the Fiadictine, This vessel sines paid a lengthy visit to Europe and the Peking-Hankow and Tientain-Pukow the coast of "The Immortal Memory" Lines, further telegrams have been sent has been reconditioned to her original Americs, and, during his visit to Eng- Within the last 5 years the Burns festo. Generai Lu Yung Hsiang at Nanking, metier, after having been employed as and, he was received in audience by Hi tivals have greatly changed for the General Cheng Shih Chi at Tainan, an aircraft carrièr and in trooping ser Majesty the King, and a state dinner
General Li Ching. Liu at Tientsin, vice.
General
tables" on
General Su Yuch as Puoting,
Show mounta the same arma-
Hu Ching Yi at Kaifeng and Generalment as the other vanels of the Hawkins Huiao Yao Nan at Waching requesting class, which means that she is one of them to adopt similar stringent measures with this view to affecting an early testhe largest and most powerfull post-war toration of normal.commercial traite on the two railways. Up to the present..the. Fengtien army on the Tientsin-Pukow Line has restored the majority of the ble express cars to the railway ad ministration, while on the Ching:Hen Line, Gen. Hu has ordered the restoration of cars wagons and engines which have the tb, actually been held at the Chenchow station by the Second National Arms. Special dels gates of the Government are visiting, the carious railway stations for the purpose. of fading out whether there is any idle rolling stock in the bands of the ignorant soldiers so that the attention of their be called to the superior officers enn matter and early release of the stock for traffic be secured.
was given in his honour.
He has
better: the anniversary is still celebrated
CHINA'S FINANCES, with the customary spirit, but less of it.
Mr. Liang said that it was necessary Time was, for instance when women were excluded from Burns clubs as rigorously
cruisers allout. Her addition to the thus China's finances should he "put on
proper basis.
The present system as they are kept but of Freemasons'
was unsatisfactory and radient changes lodges. The bare ides of a mere women
Chias command will, therefore, mean a
in the fighting were necessary. He would disclose his sitting down at a club table and quang
substantial increase
plans at the Rehabilitation Conference. the poet's health would have scandalised
strength of that force. the Buras enthusiast of a generation
The recrudescence of the Singapore but as they were of too lengthy a charac ago. Now the sex are taking their place
scheme appears to have had a curiously ter he did not think it would be worth disturbing effect upon Japanese opinion. while explaining them. Steps should TAKE A PEGking speeches and proposing toasts, and their presence is heartily welcomed
This is, undoubtedly, traceable to propa- be taken to cut down military expendi by the other diners
Scotland gave a dynasty to Brithin,
anda, which is mischievously, coupling ture and to use more money in the con she almost succeeded in imposing Presby
British policy with alleged. Ameritan destruction of more railways and educa signs.. Even Japanese statesmen, who tion. He would not say if it would be, terianism an England, she gave London ers the kit, and she has given whisky to
think that China bad the world And now it looks as if her
found no grounds for criticism of the necessary to borrow loans from abroad, Singapore project when it was originally but he "did cult of Burns were on the way to become universal. The blast o" Junwar win is!
It appears that owing to the forcible proposed, are now. displaying anything suficient to meet whatever needs were In these necessary, provided it was brought out sweeping around the globe. Anniversary retention of railway wagons and, veomo-
and spent properly. articles on Burns by distinguished men tits at Paotingin and Shihchinchuang. but equanimity at its revival.
wel who have no connection with Scotland. the section of the Ching-Har Line under circumstances the Admiralty may
THE LORD OF MANCHURIA. England dnd appear in
America. the control of General Sun Yuch is the
Referring to. Marshal Chang Tso Punch, that used to deal only with worse at the moment. It is hoped that regard it as tactful not to lend colour the hamorous side of Burns celebrations, the conditions will be improved, after the to this misapprehension. by distinctly in weighs in with memorial verses in exevacuation of the Third National Army creasing the fighting strength of this Lit, Mr. Liang said that everybody cellent Doric. Is it because England has troops, who will probably accompany China Squadron just ut the present knew what Marshal Chang had done
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left herself almost destitute of national festivals and commemorations that she A so ready to adopt Scottish customs? Is she like Rome, which adopted the gods of all other peoples and neglected her
OWN?
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and secondary schools. when a language or a dialect begins to die it is one of the most difficult tasks that man can undertake to bring it to fall vitality again. The Angiicising of Sectland. at least in
the inatter of speech, is almost complete. The verna colar, which used to roll genially from the tongues of the nation's intellectual leaders, is now unknown, except for an cerasional word or two, in our Scottish
General Sun Yueh to Hanan:
Latest telegrams from General. Heias state that orders have been issed to allow. the trains to pass Wushengkuan during night and that the cars will be inspect
SLORA MACDONALD, TABLET.
juncture. "'
A. TAOIST CELEBRATION.
nuk was doing for the benefit of the Three Eastern Provinces and the the people there. Until he took over
few rring of government there were schools, bad communications and corrupt administration. These things had been charged now and good administration excellent educational and communies- Had War tion facilities were the rule. Two weeks ago there wils a Taoistsbal Chang been born 30 years before br was, things in China, to-day would festival which only about gre, days, and probably have heen entirely different a ten years. lasts £te;
Anybow, it was not too late during that time everyone prays for the day.
tend.
4 Foochow correspondent writing in November last related the following in teresting incident
souls of the dead who have left no re- latives or friends to tend their graves or perform the necessary rites.
One evening, after dark we went down into the city and visited two of the big gest Taoist temples. The first contained
some marvellogs bits of jade, and several a single tea-plant root. All these curios were for sale. Above the altar in the
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In speaking of the Manchu Govern ment and the Republic, Mr. Liang did cot think that the country would ever return to a monarchy. Public opinion.
There was too strongly against it. were advantages under both forms of latter were stronger.
A TRIBUTE TO ENGLAND.
which he
England, where, he said, everybody was 20 COUT- teous to him. He thanked the great people of the great British nation and hoped that the ties between the countries would be greatly strengthened.
One of the features of the celebrationed by the Hupeh soldiers at the frontier at day time without further military just closed was the plea made on behalftestrictions. Notwithstaning the strain of the vernacular. The truth is that fed relations between General Hu Chips Barns is unintelligible to a large partyi and General Kau Ya Kau, the trains of his countrymen to-day without the of the Chin Han Railway are running
The Doric has be aid of a glossary.
As usual. There is no obstacle at Chen- come almost as an alien tongue. chow ur way other station, though there Lord Anderson
daimer Suggusto,
are military congestions, ker in a thrive is Greek to 'most of The decline of the Scottish dialect has reached such a point that a large revival campaign is declared to be acces sary if it is to be saved. from oblivion. A beautiful chiselled block of granite! Burns enthusiasts have been, laying from Balmoral, forming & tablet me their heads together, anul among the mea: f morial to Elora Mucdonald, has been fascinating statuettes, each carved from Bovernment, but those in favour of the sures they suggest for the succour ofte, the Elora Macdonald College for Scots is the devotion of greater attention Girls at Red Springs, North Caroline to the vernacular literature in primary it is about three fest square, and bear centrs sat & god reminiscent of Father Mr. Liang spoke highly of the way in
was received in Unfortunately the Royal Coat of Arms and the crest of Christmas. The hail a lung, woolly white the Stewart Society, along with the beard a folly pink face, and on his head following inscription. This tablet of a weird contraption studded with pearla granite trom. Balmoral was gifted by His He wore a long red eat, also embraider lajesty King George V. to the Stewarted in peark. On either side of the Society for presentation to the Flora altar was a small shrine, where groups Macdonald College in memory of of men were playing at Mah-Jong! Scottish heroine as another, link between The second temple was eaty to find, Britain and America, 1745-1925, Flose as a white, ribbon was looped along the Macdonald spent five years of her mar
streets which led to it. A huge crowd ried life in North Carolina, and dis was stething round this temple, and we played active interest in the American had to fight oar way through. The attrac- Revolution on the side of Great Britain tion turned out to be a sort of pappet
show, with paper scroplanes flying around A single-scrow steamer, built to the HIGHLAND), CATTLE,,
The picturesque Highland cattle which and motors rushing over cardboard cliffs
The following promotions and appoint order of Messrs. Chambers & Co., Liver pool, for trads in the Far East, was have figured in so many old paintings and falling down painted waterfalls. The ment will take effect from 1st March,
1925: launched from Stannergate Shipyard, and are greatly admired by visitors to crowd was very good-natured, and did Dundee, by the Caledon Shipbuilding the land of glens and bens, are threaten its best not to squash us. At last, hot and Engineering Co. Ltd.) She was rd with extinction. They are no longer and breathless, we stepped over the christened by faxtle by Mr. James profitable stock, and the demand for threshold into what seemed at first to be Chambers. The principal dimensions them has consequently fallen off Their a golden fairly land. The whole place are:-Length, 400 ft.; breadth, moulded, yield of milk is not heavy, but it is par-was hung with embroideries in heavy 02 1.3 in.; depth, moulded to upper ticularly rich. It is said, indeed, that no gold. Under the glaring electric lights deck. 20 ft.; gross tonnage (approxi- milk yields such creeam as does that of the effect was brilliant. Behind low mate), 4.000. She will be fitted with the heather-top-cropping Highlander, gold-embroidered screens stood Taoist
Lieut. W. Brackenridge, M, G., Machine Diesel motor engines by the North For a time farmers found it profitable to priests draped in saffron robes edged Eastern Marine Engineering Co. (Ltd.), breed Highlanders, a demand for them with black They were banging away at Gun Pintoon, is granted 12 months' leave having been created in England, where all sorts of strange instruments. At in-of absence from the Corps, with effect. they were placed in parks and woods of tervals one of them struck a huge gong-from March 1st, 1925. large estates." But the war conditions It had a beautiful sound, deep and ten- Lieut. D. C. Logan, M.C., No 6 A Rugby Scot who had a chat with intervened, and this demand has fallen der. A priest, seeing us standing behind Platoon, is granted 12 months' leave of some members of the French Rugby team,aff The breed being threatened with ex- the barrier with the crowd, came towards absence from the Corps, with effect from. including reserves, before they left Edin-tinction, the Board of Agriculture is cons and fed us through a side door right March 1st, 1925. bargh, found them, very good fellows. Herring a herd on one of its farms. A into the centre, where the orchestra
No. 300 Lee-Carpl. G. H. Cuthill, No. was interested to learn that they came tad of Highland ponies is also being was playing, and we were able to wander & Platoon, is granted in months' leave from different parts of France. One was kept, as this animal is likewise vanish about and examine the embroideries "to a Breton and looked very like a Wessing. Highlander, another from Toulouse was THE HUMOUR OF GOLF.
homes.
STEAMER FOR THE FAR EAST,
Wallsend.
CELTS-AND OTHERS.
fair and was claimed by the Breton as
12. It always looks absurd, says Mr. Stacy a Celt, while a third and hefty "loon was resident in Berde and looked, as one Aumonier, one of our best known short- some great big story writers, to see of the players said, like a descendant healthy man hitting a tiny stationary of the ancient Helvetin famous ball with an
Mr. iron club. But Celtic tribe of mountaineers, which
Aumonier, is not telling the whole story. eaused Julius Caeear to invade Gaul.
Sometimes the great big healthy man hits the ball with a wooden club, sometimes The French Rugby men had, of course, with an aluminium club, and sometimes
NOT RUGBY AS WE KNOW IT."
a great reception in Edinburgh, and an he may not hit the ball at all. When enthusiastic send-off. It must be said. he does not hit the ball the spectacie bo-
our heart's content.
In what English church would they be so polite to a mere foreigner! Truly China is the land of courtesy.
BOY SCOUT, MOVEMENT.
THE DUKE OF DEVONSHIRE
PRIZE."
VOLUNTEER DEFENCE CORPS
The following are extracts from Hong kong Volunteer Defence Corps Orders.
ENGINEER COMPANY.
No. 4 Corpt. G. T. Padgett to be
Sergeant
||
No. 476 Lee, Corp!. T. W., Carr to be
Corporal..
No. 628 Spr. J. F. W., Plascott to be
Lance-Corporal.
LEAVE
of absence from the Corps, with effect, from March 18, 1925.
MARKEMEN.
The undermentioned have qualified an marksmen and are entitled to wear the badge for one year-Pte. R. Lapsley C.6. A. M. Thornhill, Sergt. P. A Wells, Corp. J. A. Lyon,
RESIGNATIONA.
#
Pic. J. R. Way and Pte. W. A. Stopani, Reserve Company, are permit
K. I. MeCrea, of Rossall School, hated to resign from the Corps, with effect
CINEMA NOTES.
QUEEN'S THEATRE.
"My Love is "Sadly Shining" featur
however
that one did not like many of comes much more absurd, as it is then been adjudged winner of "The Duke of from February 93th, 1995. their tricks on the football field. They that the face of the tiny stationary ball Devonshire Prize of Twenty Guircas Then the for the best essay on The Value of the were repeatedly penalised at least a becomes dimpled in smiles. dozen' free kicks were given against them primeval qualities of the big healthy man Boy Scout Movement as a Factor in the (1)Development of the Empire," competed for "feet up." for offside, and to display themselves as he either "obstruction." And one liked least of all brandishes the club in the air, (2) breaks; for by the boys of leading public schools. their habit of chattering lika magpies it over his knec, or (3) uses langunge The prize is awarded annually by the when an opponent was preparing to take before his caddie for which he is after British Empire League in memory of its a kick it goal from a free or a try, and wards reprimanded by the elab secretary: actually shouting just as the ball was It may be that, like Solomon, Mr. about to be kicked. That may not be Aumonier confines himself to the ladies' against the rules
of Rugby, but course. it is not bably it Rugby as we know it. Pro-
the custom in France, PERSONALIA.
Mr. E. H. Liddell, the Olympian Cham- and the French players do not realiso. what we think of such a thing in this pion, says that he never made any change country. They have a lot to learn yet in his diet during his period of training-
Brat President, Spencer Compton, eighth ing Mady Christian is the picture show- Duke of Devonshire. The prize essaying at the Queen's Theatre to-day. It is a Revolution, for her tutor of humble.birth to be published in the March issue of The story of a girl's love, during the French British Empire Review.
and the objection offered by her brother, Lucien, the Duke of Cramont, who a angered the young tutor that he turned a revolutionist. Later shows the re- volutionists taking revenge on, the nobil
-FAMOUS » BOXER'S FUNERAL:
A hundred thousand people lined the fities by burning and pillaging also
in regard to the etiquette of Rugby foot- Sir George M'Crae, ex-Liberal M.P. hall, and the spirit in which it should and formerly Chairman of the Scottish route of the long funeral of Jim Driscoll taking in captivity some of the nobility be played. That obviously applies to Board of Health, writes to Mr. Asquith, at Cardiff on February 3rd. It was at amongst whom was Jeanne, the girl loved the players as well as the spectators, and "I feel very strongly that my immediate teaded by sportsmen from all parts of by the young tutor, now a revolutionary About 500 followed the leader, and now known as St. Just, the as regards the latter it is interesting to duty is to resign my membership of the the country. note that the Irish Union have complain- Liberal Party"; and to Mr. Lloyd-hearse on foot, then came 76 carriages, Bloodhound. He sets Jeanne free when ed to the French authorities against the George, "I do not feel that I can go on Children from the local Catholic Church, be hears of her been captured. St. Just. way the spectators hehaved in the recent ploughing the sand." For over 30 Jeart with which the boxer was associated, also sets free her brother, Lucien, who match at Paris.
Sir George has been one of the leaders joined the procession, each carrying a was also a captive, and the story cods.
wreath
in the lovers' union. (Continued on next Column). of Scottish Liberalism.
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