PROBLEM OF UNIFICATION STILL
TO BE SOLVED.
COMMANDERS AND THEIR HOLDINGS.
FENG YU HSIANG'S BIG PART IN THE VICTORY.
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THE DIVISION OF THE SPOILS.
[BY GEORGE E, SOKOLSKY.? --
The end of the Northern Expedition Anda China faced with the same problem of unification, writes Mr. George E. Sokolsky in the North China Daily News. At present, the capital is in Nan- king, for the Nationalists and their allies, the Kuominchun and Shansi, recognize that tacitly as the seat of authority:
But it is not altogether clear whether Shaani and the Kuomin chun will accept Nanking dictatorship or whether they will insist upon the removal of the capital to Peking. Their attitude to- wards this particular question will, in a very marked degree, be indicative of their attitude, towards the Nanking Government,
THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. MONDAY, JUNE 11th, 1928.
IN THIRTY YEARS'
TIME.
SOME PROGNOSTICATIONS.
OPTIMISTIC MEN OF
SCIENCE.
The Daily Mail published on May 12th its 10,000th. number and it has now been in existence 32 years
A special feature of the number mentioned was soins prognosticn- tions by eminent Scientists of world, conditions 30 years hence when it produces its 20th thousand number. We give the following extracta from the various pro- phesies.
THERE SHALL STILL BE WAR.
AND MORE TERRIBLE WEAPONS.
At this moment, China is divided; largest share of the amount collect- into parts as follows-
ed. Shanghai, including its for By FROFESSOR ▲, M. Low, the Dis- Kiangsu, eigners, paid for, the Northern Extinguished British Scientist and
Consultant Engineer.
Nanking Chekiang,
Kiangsi and Anhui.
Navy: Fukien.
Kwangxi Group: Kwangtung. Kwangai, Hunan and Hupeh.
Kuominchun: Kansu, Shensi, Ko- nan and Shantung.
pendition. It is true that some of this money was sent to Feng Yu Hsiang. Pei Chung Hsi and Yen Hai Shan, but these were free-will offerings on the part of Chiang Kai Shek rather than the result of a distribution of funds according to a
Shansi: Shansi, Charhar, Suiyuan, Tatung, and Chihli including Peking.
Mukden: Three Eastern Pro-war budget. vinees.
Yunnan, Kucichow, Szechuan and Sinklang fall" to none of these groups although all of them prob-
ably now fy the Nationalist fing.
Taxable Areas And Ports. It will be noted that the areas are about equal in influence, each group consisting of a combination of rich and poor provinces. Each group has at least one important opening to the sea and one lucrative tax area. This can be analyzed as
The peace budget must involve huge expenditure, for rehabilitation. Honan and Shantung particularly require financial assistance because of their condition. If the Ministry of Finance can" collect national taxes in all provinces adhering to the Nationalist Ang, and if a budget is arranged so that the revenues are equably dispensed on a national
basis and are not contributed to the
war chest of one individual, then
In thirty years time I doubt very much if it would be possible for a business man to be solely interested in the products of one country, for I believe that, he will read a news- paper which is international in its pred. It will be a simple matter tu travel from London to India in a few days, and it will be essential that this travel shall be conducted in comfort without isolation of the traveller.
I cannot think that the engineer of the future will be content with the two and a half per cent eff ciency of artificial light, surely the most important commodity known public, who improve their minds at to civilisation! That an increasing the expense of their bodies will not affect our interest in speed and comfort is impossible to credit.
Main motor roads will increase,
they will be covered with cheap
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WHEN A MAN IS DRUNK.
A NEW DICTUM,
MUST BE ABLE TO DRIVE
"SAFELY." W
Lowboy, May 19th. - The controversy. between" the Bench, and the medical profession as to when a man, and especially a motorist, is drunk is revived by a new dictum of Mr. Oulton, the, Lambeth magistrate, yesterday.
OUR SPARTAN ACTRESSES.
EARLY HOURS AND MUCH EXERCISE.
DIET OF CUTLETS AND PINEAPPLE.
Actore and actresses are still quite popularly supposed to be people who hate going to bed, writes the Daily Mail theatrical correspon- dent. The idea persists that when the play is over they go off to rowdy parties or to furtiva night clubs and there proceed to drink
́them.
He was dealing with a case in which a motorist was charged with drunkenness, and he said:"-
Drupkennel which is punishte champagne than is good for able may be something less than drunk and incapable, or drunk and disorderly. Surely the test of drunkenness when applied to charges of drunk in charge of a car, of a child, of a steam engine, or of firearms must ha a definite
·loss of control due to drink,
If the evidence, medical or otherwise, shows that owing to the consumption of alcohol a man is unable safely to control à ar of which he has charge, that man is guilty of an offence. This view differs from that of other magis trates. I am not bound, how ever, by what may be magisterial misinterpretations of what the Lord Chief Justice said.
Lord Hewart's Ruling. When the problem was recently discussed in the Court of Criminal Appeal, Lord Hewart, the Lord Chief Justice, ruled that' "drunk
means drunk."
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Sir Robert Wallace. E.C., the chairman of London Sessions, has beld that "under the induence of drink' does not mean drunk and that a drunken motorist is one
who took intoxicating liquors so as to disturb his mental balance and rendered himself unsafe to be in charge of a motor-car. Mr. Bingley, the Marylebone magistrate, refuses to allow & doc tar to differentiate between the of a pedestrian, and his colleague, Mr. Hay Halkett, has ruled that. the law does not require a higher degree of sobriety in persons in charge of motor-cars than in per.
one walking in the street.
On the whole, this is fiction. abouts of the stage, and theatrical There are some well-known gad- parties are not uncommon, but the realise it is essential that they take majority of actors and actresses
caro of themselves, and I have never been to a theatrical party which a bishop might not have attended.
Actresses of the standing of Mies Edith Day and Misa Evelyn Laye, who are paid about £250 a week And whose livelihood dependa upen their keeping fresh and fit, are seldom seen at midnight functions. Miss Day has been in rome very long rupa and is credited with being one of the most well-to-do of musi cal comedy stars. That eho con. tinues to shine brightly is at least partly due to the fact that she does not barn the candle at both ends.
Miss Lilly, Elie's Opinion Leading women of musical comedy have only a certain period of sun- shine in which to make hay. Miss Lily Elsie told me after her recent come back that she would never again take a part which called for modern stage dancing. There is always a shortage of such stars, and while the salaries they receive may seem to be extravagant and the money they earn from gramo- hundreds of pounds a pone recorde it runs into many certain cases is very large, the mon in strain on the actress's physique count.
follow under the names of the com- China can be unified. Otherwise, efficiency greater than twelve per i drunkenness of a motorist and that must be taken into business ac
manding official:-
Lucrative
Tax Arca.
Kiangsu, Chiang Kai Shek,
.. Port to
Sea.
Shanghai. Navy. Foochow,
Eoochow Canton, Li Taxi Hain, Canton. Hupeh, Pei Chung Hsi, Hankow. Shangtung. Feng Yu Hsiang
Tsingtao, "Chilli, Yen Hai Shan, Tientsin. Manchuria, Chang Tso Lin, Dairen.
there will be more fighting in Sep tember, when the northern sun is less piercing.
3,000,000 Men Under Arms. These financial problems cannot bo worked out effectively without a
one million
disbandment of troops. It is my estimate that there are 3,000,000 men under arms in China, as soldiers or bandits. China does not require nor can she support an army of that size. It is roughly estimated that approximately dollars a day has been consumed by these military enterprises this year. A country that is so poor in means of communications, education and such expenditure. If a national army is to be organized and the remainder of the troops disbanded, their fighting value in the present only such armies as have proved war on either side need be retain
cars using less costly fuels at an 'cent. It will be nothing to talk to our office, from a train or aero- plane by selective-directional, short wave wireless, and still less to make use of a channel tunnel or to coun- teraet the ridiculous size of this country by means of safe aero- planes
World Language Waed. home will be avoided, though I be
Certainly, coal and smoke in the lieve this will be by cable trana mission and not by radio within so short a time. I doubt if women will be so interested in"elothes. I
hope the orgy of a meal will be less important, and I believe that the need for an international language
parent.
A committee appointed by the British Medical Association failed to find a standard test of sobriety
The consequence will be a tremend kind. ous production of goods of every
however, will be made in the most ancient field of production, the The most important progress,
industrialisation in the widest
From this, it will be seen that although Marshal Feng Yu Hsiang did most of the fighting and is largely responsible for the Nation alist victory, he has received the 'least taxable area and the lenstindustrial development cannot afford will become more painfully ap-sense of agriculture, which provides profitable port. If China is to be unified and the taxes nationally collected and the expenditures budgetized, this does not matter. Tuchunism in any form will cease to exist and no commander of troops will be troubled by the neces sity for funds. But if this division of territory implies independent tax collection, then Marshal Feng is inadequately provided for-and that will undoubtedly lead to
trouble.
1.
ed.
For instance, of Feng Yu Hsiang's forces, the 1st Kuominchun and the Kansu Cavalry, have been outstand ing; of Chiang Kai Shek's troops, the 4th Army, and so on for each commander. If such a method of disbandment were followed, no one man would have enough troops to do much fighting without the assistance and co-ordination of effort of all the other forces. But it is doubtful whether Nanking would be prepared to give up its huge army of hetero- geneous fighters. These troops are are not of much value to-day as the war has proved, but with a Euro- pean staff behind them," such an army may again become important, and that, of course, is on the cards at any time.
abolished war, but rather that the I do not think we shall have study of the atom and the applica have taught us to obtain weapons tion of synthetic chemistry will more drastic and foods more easy of assimilation. New nervous dis eases, and an outery for improved city silence, communal kitebená, and other things will give poli. ticians a splendid opportunity to compare their difficulties with those of the good old times in which we shall be alleged to have lived to-day.
BY
MEN TO PRODUCE MORE.
WITH LESS STRAIN."
ment of agricultural production raw stuffe for the food of mankind. And this vigorous higher develop will at the same time solve the pro- overwhelming quantity of useful blem of the final destination of the commodities the problem of mar- kete.
"
Besides, the demands made on a atar's financial sympathies are end- leas. "You would be amazed if you knew how often I am asked: one once told me. for the loan' of £30 or £100," criticise us seem to forget how "People who utterly dependent we are upon free- dom from illness and accident," an actor said to me the other day. "It I broke my leg in crossing the street or became cut about the face in a motor accident, it is quite poseible that I should, be finished! for stage work. In our way we bave to live As carefully as "do athletes,"
pineapple in the cause of bodily Scores of actresses-very likely the fashionable diet of cutlets and hundrede have put themselves on
alimness.
There is a revue dancer in Lon- don who has an hour's complete manage every day. The last time I wanted to have a word with Miss Gertrude Lawrence I had to wait till she had got her afternoon "nep" over.
"
If you go to supper with Miss Sybil Thorndike you will find that cocoa is her staple midnight drink; if you have a meal with Alice Delysia you will find that she will drink nothing but water or a little red wine. "Red wine is the best thing in the world for the com- plexion, spirits the worst," she
China's Over-Populated Areas. If the productivity of the over- populated hunger districts of Chine is increased, if the sparsely inhabited giant plains of the Argentine, Biberia, and Australia are occupied by productive man, if the opening-up of traffic with the tropics brings to mankind the riches of their foresta, then markets will come into being which will take in exchange for their im- portant raw stuffs and half-ruways. products the quantity of industrial products which is produced, to whatever heights, production may
rise
TO THE MOON.
A DREAM JUSTIFIED BY SCIENCE
Ginger ale is the only thing you can get Mr. William Mollison to drink when he has a new produc- tion-in-hand Practically every morning of his life Mr. Tom Walls is up with the lark and out with his horses. Mr. Joseph Coyne con- etantly goes for long walks in the park, Miss Edna Beet swims and sits for hours watching cricket. You very seldom zee. Mr. Frederick Lonsdale or Mr. Noel'Coward at a theatrical party.
Feng Won The War, The position of Marshal Feng is pivotal in the politics "of the day. He has won the war. With the ex- ception of the 4th Army, none of Nanking's troops showed any capa city for staff work or for fighting, Feng Yu Hsiang saved Chiang Kai
PROFESSOR CARL OPPENHEIMER, Shek's forces at Hsuchow, Taining
one of Germany's leading authori- and Tainn. He captured the out
ties on chemistry and medicine. skirts of Tainan before Nanking's
We can indicate how things will armies reached Taian. His troops
be in 30 years if there are no were never involved in the quarrel
hindrances. The serious disturb with the Japanese at Tsinan, the
unces in the development of chil 4th, 40th and 9th Nanking armies It is interesting in this connection drea due to want of vitamins being largely responsible, with to note that Feng Yu Hsiang had (nickets) or maladies of the glands, occasional sniping by Chen Tiao adhered closely to General Galen's with inner secretions in consequence Yuan's troops along the Shantung plans for a small, mobile force, of faulty assimilation and faulty FROM PROFESSOR PIO EMANUELLI, Railway. After the Tsinan incident, deeply impregnated with the Com-feeding, will have in a very great secretary to the Fatican Obscrva Feng Yu Hsiang's troops continued mander's ideology, while Chiang measure beer checked.
tory, Rume. the advance northward, while the Kai Shek is following the classical Infectious diseases, above all,
With years one of the pro- Nanking troops retreated to Taian Chinese organization of pitting malaria, yellow fever, sleeping sick blema
Yes, the times when actors and moet fascinated the and Heuchowfu. His crack troops great man-power against the enemy nes, as well as tuberculosis and
minds under General Lu Chung Lin were
philosophers and as actresses began their day, at mid- in front of Machang when the armis will win, The superiority of the stamped out by hygiene measures of our day-namely, the problem till am. it is because they are not in the expectation that numbers syphilis, will have been almost tronomers of antiquity, as well as night have changed. If now and then they do have the zest to dance tice was arranged. In all this fight small, mobile force in Chinese fight Sensible feeding, based on the of interplanetary communications jaded and are in a physical condi ing since last August, he has losting was clearly proved in this war, advanced knowledge of food assimi- will be well on the road to solution. 8,000 men. His 1st Kuominchun of both Feng Fu Hsiang and Yen Hai lation, will guarantee the normal The mon will be the first world to tion to stand an occasional " night 30,000 men has remained intact and Shan having smaller forces than any development of the child and the which is still the best fighting force and of other commanders,
maintenance of the normal health will be attempted. Stadies and ex- extra-terrestrial journeys the most mobile army in China.
** Finance And Disbandment,
of the mature man. Whereas Chiang Kai Shek has add-
By the help of the rapidly adperiments to this end have alrendy If disbandment and the national vancing science of the physiology ed mere numbers to his army until
begun he had 180,000 men between Hsu collection of taxes and the budget and psychology of work each man chowiu and Tsinan, Feng Yu Hsiang ing of expenditure takes place, then will be in his right place, and the has added no troops, hat has kept China is fairly on the verge of uni- output of each will be a maximum fication. If all sides continue to with a minimum of bodily and his army fit.
maintain separate armies, separate spiritual strain.
...
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Within 30 years this seductive problem will no longer be a theore fical speculation by learned pro- fessors, but an object of practics] experiments and attempts on the
mechanica
The first step will be to send to
out!!
U.S. WAR SHRINE IN
ENGLAND.
CLASSIC BUILDING AT
BROOKWOOD.-
It is expected that the memorial to Americans who died during the war in England or elsewhere which
The Nanking Government is now treasuries, and separate military In 30 years little coal will be part of daring technicians and faced with the serious problem of establishing its asserted nat.onal plans, then another war is inevit burned. It will be turned on the authority. If it becomes the recog-able. Much depend upon the spot indo gases, which will be sent the moon rockete with a multiple is now being erected at Brookwood aised national Government-not re- relations of Chiang Ke Bhek and in all directions into per charge, whose fall on to the surface Cemetery, Burrey, will be complet Feng Yu Hsiang. There are so and power, and into petrol for of the moon will be watched by cured in November. The architect is cognised by Foreign Powers, but by the provinces of China, then China y rumours in the air, that one motors.
Where water flows its force will astronomers through powerful tele Mr. Egerton Swartwout, of New will ipso facto be unified and a new dares not choose amongst them, but
scopes. Then new and more perfect York ers entered upon. If, on the other the events of the next two or three be used for producing electrical rockets will be sent until the system The memorial will take the form hand, there is a prolongation of weeks will definitely fix their repower,
lationships,
is sufficiently safe for men to risk of a classic building of Portland It is probable that the enormous regionalism, then there will have to
Whenever the Nationalists have power of the rays of the sun and taking the journey. For this pur-stone, with a Doric portico, laced be more wars until either China is
pose it is necessary to have with four pillars Inside will be unified and centralized or the rights captured a great contre like Hankow of the moon will be put at our
enormous sources of energy, which a vault. of the provinces to factual self or Shanghai, the commander-in-service, so that the human race will
we do not now possess. chief has entered the city in control immense energy with the Ferhaps within 30 years physicists stained glass windows, designed A notable feature will be the government are recognized."
triumph, not unmixed, it is true, help of which all rough work will and chemists will be able to give it and executed by Mr. Reginald by C.P. opposition. Yet, on the be done.
to us by the decomposition of the Hallward, who is associated with verge of the taking of Tientain and
Refolding In Work:
atom and the liberation and utilian- the British Imperial war memorial tion of the immense interatomic tablets lately installed in West energy, contained inside the atom minster Abbey and in Continental Someone may think all this a cathedrala They will embody the dream. But it is a dream justifed insignia of the 18 American regi-
zmente engaged in the war.
The Struggle Over Taxes The issue over which this struggle will eventuate is taxation. At pre-
Peking, Chiang Kai Shek returns to There will then be a generation. sent the Nationalist Government Nanking. Is it to prepare for a of men rejoicing in work who, with collects taxes in four provinces, triumphal entry into Peking or is it the entire mastery of the forces of Chekiang, Kiangsu, Kiangai and because Yen Hsi Shan has not ex-Nature, will create commodities Anhui, Shanghai contributes the tended a fitting invitation 1
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