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Mr. George E. Solkosky gives in the article reprinted below from the North-China Daily Nexa a most interesting analysis of the position and influence of Feng Yu Hsiang, the Christian " General.
Mr. Solkosky writes with a fairness and impartiality not usually found in articles dealing with this provocative and mysterious figure, and be gives, what most of us want to know, something about the characteristics of this man who has played a päårt of steadily increasing importance in Chinese affairs.
TION.
OPENING TO-DAY,
CHINA ON VIEW.
To-day will see the opening of the China Exhibition at St. An- drew's Church Hall and Grounds," the ceremony being performed by H. E. Major General Luard and the Hon. Sir Shou Sen. Chow at 3 p.m.. The exhibition is also being can- tinued to-morrow, when the Hon. Marshal Feng Yu Hsiang at this } reasons, already indicated, but be-Sir Henry Pollock, K.C., and the moment has achieved a position"el¦ cause Chineso mcsy psychology Hon. Dr. Kotewall, C.M.G., will such political pre-eminence that seems to require the spell of a name" declare the exhibition open, and on without.accurately plotting his posi and there is no name in Nanking Friday when a simillar duty will be tion in the political scene, there which fires the popular imagination | performed by the Hon. Mr. Owen can be no understanding of the as much as does that of the "Chris Hughes and Dr. S. W. Tso events which are occurring in tian" General. Explanations can The aims and objects of this ex-| Peking, Nanking, Tsinan and Kai.be offered for his astonishing pohibition have been referred to feng. For, he, with increasing emphasis, is making himself felt in all 'capitala...
pularity.
frequently in our columns and we give below a contributed account of some of the things that may be seen at the Kowloon Church Hall and Vicarage grounds.
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"ON YOUR TOES."
REGINALD DENNY IN A NEW ROLE.
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lish comedian, in a new Reginald "On Your Toes shows the Eng-
DISORDER IN HONAN.
CITY SEIZED BY RED SPEARS.
GOOD HARVEST BUT NO MARKET.
TIENTSIN, March 10th. When the temple celebrations of perhaps be something of a dis- the first-month of the China year appointment to those who are wore in full swing, suddenly there accustomed to look on him purely appeared, as it from all four quar as a laughter maker. But thoughters of the country, hundreds of it is not a Denny picture in the Red Spears. They attacked the usual sense of the term it is by no
First, he has always had a favour. able Chinese press because he has His influence in Nanking cannot always supported the most popular be measured in mere terms of mili tendencies of the moment; he was tary prowess. Everybody in Nan-an ardent Christian during the days king bows to his wishes. In the when the hope of Chins seemed to dispensation of cabinet position, lie in Anglo-American co-operation Marshal Feng has been particularly and methods; he was violently anti-Colony, and we are sure that people Deany role, and one which will effective in bringing North-western Japanese during the Student Move. It is not too chay, for many of personalities to the fore. The Vice ment period; he wanted to make Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr. Y. war on Great Britain after May L. Tong, is a North-westerner; the 30th; he became allied with the Minister of Interior, Mr. Haeuh Tn Russians when they fired the minds Pi, is the outstanding non-military of the youth of the country; he was personality of Marshal Feng's or the first to turn on the Russians ganization; the Minister of Com- when their influence waned. In a merce and Industry, Mr. H. H word, he senses public opinion and Kang, has always been an associate | follows it long before other military
Marshal Feng Yu Hsiang, leaders have caught las tendency. although, siner 1025, he has also been active in the Kuomintang in dependently of his North-western afflictions.
of
General Chang Tza Kiang, who is really second to Marshal Feng him self in military command," remains at Nanking and fights for religious liberty, while General Yu Yu Jen who, when he was in active military command, fought under Marshal Fengin recent years in Shensi, leads the opposition in Nanking and manages wield an exceptional in Auence at this time..
mining who is to hold Pukou.
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The Lonely Furrow; Secondly, he has been so far evey from the scene of political activity that he has not suffered much more personal contact. Ex- cept for short periods in Péking and its vicinity, he has always been in the wilds, as it were. Only the occasional traveller has seen him personally and has usually gone away with a report of poverty, hamility, equality between officer with the pomp and circumstatice of and soldier which has contrasted their militarists.
when living in Hong Kong, to get anything beyond surface view of the wonderful civilisation of Ching all round and this as amusingly explained below by a contributor, is not merely due to indifference but to the language barrier and also to very real dislike of any suspicion of staring and prying which is shared by English and Chiness people.
However, at Kowloon to-day and to-morrow China is very graciously placing herself on view and this is, an opportunity not to be missed.
means a poor one:
city of Huaiking from all threo gates--east, west, and south--and Denny is the son of an ex-cham- gained an entrance. The purpess ion heavyweight, but he has been of the attack of the Red Spears was brought up in ignorance of this fact to assert the rights of the people by his grandmother. Under her in protesting against special taxes guidance he becomes dancing and other extortions imposed upon. master and wears a small moustache them by the military. However, which changes, and, we think im not being very well armed with proves his appearance. But love, rifles and ammunition, they stood in the person of a very pretty little a poor chance of holding the city actress, Barbara Worth, lends him for any great length of time. to leave the ball room for the ring. Several hundred of the Kuomin WHAT CAN BE SEEN AT THE our hero shaves off his moustache the Red Spears out of the city, Barbara, approves of "he-men," so chun troops mustered and drove
CHINA EXHIBITION. and goes into training Grand-killing over 200 and wounding mother's softening, influence, how about as many more, whilst "the WATCHING THE WHEELS GO successful although he is billed to
rest fled to the hills. prevents from being very
Fruitful Honan. ROUND."
meet the champion of his day. By means of an indescreet. but well calculated flirtation with the oppon- [CONTRIBUTED.]"
eat the heroine rauses" Denny to such a state of jealous anger that he wins the championship fight. and some fighting which was quite There are plenty of ring side scenes
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One of the favourite occupations the day and Hong Kong residents of messenger boys, people oop fer
car-cleaning and tongue-scraping
ever,
troops who lay siege to their cities.. usurp their railways, and plunder travellers attempting to cross over- land.
Missionaries Forced To Leave, The Minnioaite missionaries from Kaichow have all been forcel
Thi
last of the missionary workers have arrived in Tientsin. Such events... as these do not encourage belief in. the reports that foreigners and
foreign property in the interior
As was the case last winter, sufficient snow and moisture have fallen to water the winter wheat and north Honan is like one great wheatfield this spring. For over ten months north Honan has been north. The merchants of the three cut off from the markets of the on Home leave is to watch the convincing and exciting,. And there He has never been in the centres men with the pneumatic toothpicks are also, of course, a number of
large centres, Changte, Weihaiwei The control of the Lunghai Rail- Canton and therefore he has not surface of Piccadilly. Here in Hong into the story. The audience yes and many hundreds have been rob of population such as Shanghai and perform marvels of dentistry on the amusing incidents -skillally worked trade connections with the north, and Huaiking have most of their way has come completely under Marshal Feng, and he is therefore with the forces which, through Chinese New Year, when all things the laughter was
come into direct personal contact Kong it is not done, except at terday were certainly pleased and bed while trying to get through master across Northern Kiangsu to
pretty can the fighting lines or over land to. Heichow, in spite of the fact that curnalism, the lecture platform and are possible, to stand and watch a tinuous, but we think Denny would Peking or
the school-room, mould Chinese Chinese workman hammer out à that area is really within General opinion. General Chiang Kai Shek, brass bowl from the sheet of metal, comedy or dramatic roles than to Many perishable
do better to play either strictly has lost thentsin, while others Chiang Kai Shek's sphere of in for instance, suffers considerably or the pewter-maker conjure us a attempt to combine both.
commodities fluence. In the event of a set-back from his participation in clique work of art under his skilful
that are usually shipped to the to the Nanking troops in the present quarrels within the Kuomintang, fagers. I have stood and watched
Flesh And The Devil."! ~ northern markets have been utter- Northern Expedition, the control of
John Gilbert, Greta Garbo and ice. At the same ting, these mer. ly wasted or sold at a great sacri- this railway and its rolling stock but Marshal Feng has never been in primitive dental operations in the Lars Hanson are leading players in will be an important factor in deter. & Kuomintang capital nor directly market, and seen the intricacies of Flesh and the Devil" which comes extra and special taxes to the chants have to continue paying participated in a clique quarrel ex Three Indueness In Nanking.
cept indirectly, when he has in carried on in the light of day, but to the Queen's Theatre on Sunday, fluenced them all and he has been, all the time one felt that it was The story is a romance of modern Broadly stated, there are three times, in a position to offer his not the common rule to do that. life on the Continent, and some of distinct political influences in Nan- services as a middle-man for peace. One wonders why: the inner work the love scenes were chosen from the king. First of all there is the Kuo- Two Contrasts In Support, ings of a jade shop. or an ivory recent tests made to decide whether mintang. All acts of the Nanking
Finally, although it is very dif- carver's den were hidden mysteries blondes or brunettes were the more Government are taken in the name calt for the foreigners to realize it, how they got the little ivory balls
to me. I never could understand temperamental.
John Gilbert is a youth who of the Kuomintang but that same compromise of any nature. with what inside each other. I often pick up hazards all for love, Greta Garbo to evacuate to the north. The Kuo- denotes something very abstract the Kuomintang calls militarism, stray feathers from my table siren who charms all men, Lars minchun troops gradually took ful! now. Then, there is the influence of which really means Peking, and autumnal feathers" ished from an Hanson the wronged, husband. possession of the hospital, schools, the Peking Government which has with imperialismi, which means little ageing duster used in a perfunctory "Flesh and the Devil" is said to chapel, and missionaries' homes worked itself into the Nanking Gov- more than that the treaties should way by a slightly bored cleaner-up, be a very remarkable: pieture and and forced all work to cease. ernment through the Old Chiaotung clique and the local Shanghai finan. remain unchanged. is still very un- who wonders why this craze for has been well received in London ciers, and which is really paving the popular with the masses. Marshal eternal polish and dusting.
and New York. way for the continuation of the still following slogans and catch-magazines, illustrating some event, Feng offers no compromises. He is Wood-blocks "I have seca, used in same personalities in Peking when
words. and if the Northern Expedition Kuomintang membership, then, turn true in every detail to the original, paid 10 cents to the lady at the are being protected. All the nis
The rank and file of the or a line drawing of a caricature, woman grinding rice, cheerfully succeede. In a word, although Mar- shal Chang Tso Lin may be defeat to him. At the same time, one hears all done by hand, I have since wheel for permission to turn the sion stations in north Hopan ex ed by General Chiang Kai Shek, the delegations to welcome him to their carvers; the "chop" without which which she must privately have on. Kuominchun troops, and at least of Chibli province gentry sending found out, by patient Chinese wood heavy millstones, a proceeding, at cept one have been looted by the Peking politicians headed by Mr. Liang Shih Yi, do not intend to Province.
4 Chinese business man is lost, dered concerning the mentality of three of them are occupied now by them. This one station, that an far Had she Essentially Marshal Feng Yu sometimes carved in ivory, or rock the amateur millers." lore their positions and their in-
has escaped, is Wuan, bepame this fluence when the Nationalist Gov. Haag is a brilliant politician. He crystal or even in wood. These known that one or eve Scotsman district has not yet been trigen aner
has survived all the changes of a little known trades fascinate me, ernment removes itself from Nan decade, not by fighting, but by always want to know how things she would have wondered the more.
were among her helpers doubts by the Kuominchunt king to Peking. As there is no one politics and all the signs show that are made, and how they work; at Possibly similar feelings will be military preparations are being writing, great in Nanking who can match Mr. he will survive the present war. a very early age the internals of engendered in the breasts of these made on both sides of the Chang Liang Shih Yi in astuteness and political experience, and as the only Bat he cannot survive except as a watches were as an open book to Chinese craftsmen, when they see River in north Honan. The Feng, political minded members of the servant of the Kuomintang if them, due to my mischievous prying others paying good cepts to watch tien and Kaominchun armies may
what to them is a very everyday Kuomintang are travelling the world Northern Expedition should succeed. fingers,
try. their strength at any time. this task. The opportunity to indulge for an education, this Peking in-In Chinese political circles, it is
North China Daily News, They have fluence in Nanking is not to be dis- therefore suggested that the North-thirst for information, is strictly
for reward, em Expedities will not succeed, but limited in Hong Kong, the language similar goods to those which they counted.
that Marshal Feng Yu Hslang will difficulty probibits a great deal of are fashioning will be bold in an survive. There is much in this Chi-explanation on the part of the other part of the grounds, and Finally, there is the influence of nesc way of stating a fact that im-worker; Punch kad, during Wem- maybe some percentage of the Marshal Feng Yu Hsiang and the plica a change of relationships be-bley, the drawing of a small boy, wealth that accrdes to their busi- North-west. This influence gains in tween Nanking and Kaifeng in the carrying a large Chinese lantern. ness will find its
WRY into their |authority, not only for the military near future.
On enquiry, his mother found that pockets. it had come from one of the shops To watch the nimble fingers of Brigadier General John George in" Hong Kong.
the man who is making little wax Erskine Wynne, who died recently How much did you pay for it?" dolls, replicas of China's actors and at the age of 68, was gazetted was her firet question.
actresses, is an occupation that to the Field Artillery in 1880. fact, never got home intact, but Didn't pay nothing. The men affords untold interest Out of He was tranferred to the R.G.A., had come to earth rather forcibly couldn't speak English, an box full of different coloured wax, and served in various appointments about half mile beyond the Golf couldn't speak Bamboo, so I just he adds a little here, pinches in England, India, Hong Kong, Club, just missing a creek The took it!"
piece there, rolls a long worm-like and Bingapore. When the War aeroplane was badly smashed but Although some of us pride our strip between his fingers, makes & they were informed that the aviator selves on our knowledge of Bamboo, deft touch with a bit of bamboo, dant at Lydd, and passed out the had escaped unhurt
and can speak with a certain degree and after a final dab colour, first 73 batteries that went to of accuracy and fluency, in the Demounts the finished product upon a France. In 1817 he was appointed monstration Aren at the ** Chinn"
all for a lew cents! He turns out Commanding the First Army in Exhibition we shall not need it, for pics of stick, and there you are, as Artillery Adviser to Lord Horne. there will bo intervreters to ex these masterpieces at a rapid rate, France. plain and clucidate the various pro- using no tool other than his bands, cesses to be seen: Here will be and a sliver of wood,
— SIR ALBERT-GRAY. gathered under one roof about 18 Fire-crackers too, of which China different trades, each in fill work uses millions, the manufacture of Bir Albert Gray, K.C, who died ing order, and one has only to pay these in specialised art There on February 27th in Chelses at the a small fee in order to watch other are other interesting items, but your age of 77, and was at one time in men labour, no small privilege in curiosity is now whetted, and I mart the Ceylon Civil Service, married, itself!
not dilate at too great a length, in 1885, Sophie, daughter of Mr. On a recent excursion to the something must be left for the vitit. 8. Wells Williams of the United. monastery at Castle, Peak, several The earliest opportunity will be States Legation at Peking, and persons in the party, on seeing a to-day, at 3 pm, in the St. Andrew's widow of the Hon. Thomas G.
(Continued on next Volumn), ... I Church Hall and grounds.
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Popular Imagination.
AEROPLANE CRASH `AT. SHANGHAI.
AVIATOR "VERY YOUNG IN FLYING."
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SHANGHAI, 'March 23rd...
Inquiry of some of the Chinese near by, one of the foreigners being Golfers out at Hungjae on Tues able to speak Chinese, elicited the day afternoon saw an acroplane information that this was the
aviator's first solo flight come sailing over them towards the. It appears he went up a few days nerodrome in a manner which led before as a passenger and express
ed the opinion that dying was easy one of them to hazard a bet that and that he could do it by himself. the machine had crashed. It was Hence the trip which ended so bad endeavouring to land with the wind, and the impression was, as Was he a very young man it dropped out of sight, that it was one informant was asked. no longer under control.
"Oh, yes," was the reply,Very Investigation by two of the young in dying-North China - golfern proved that the machine, in. Daily Nawa
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