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CHINA'S CLASSICAL SYSTEM.
(Continued from Pape 1.).
The Reonisánco in Europa was definitely a retrograde step it we regard it from the point of view and of European co-operation
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, MARCH 26, 1931.
NOAH'S ARK IN HISTORY.
DOOR CLOSED 6,000 YEARS
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London, Mar. 18.-Six thousand unity, for it, destroyed the inter- national republic of letters and yours ago the last pair of animals of religion and subsiltuted the trailed into the Ask, two by two, narrower but more virile system of Ham elosed and barred the door
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vernacular as the medium of cul-bridge, waited for. the flood to ret ture China was, therefore, similar him afloat. This all took place just to Europe in that unity, which sho0,000 years ago to day, according enjoyed before the 20th century, to Mr. Harold Penke, an English
was due to the acceptance of a classical and ethical system which cut pernas all provincial 'harriers, But if the same development takes place in China as in Europe, not greater but less unity will follow: for China is also rich in vernacular Innguages. Even where there is supposed to be the same language spoken, namely, Mandarin, the vocabulary of two places can be so" different, that two persons from dis tant parts can hardly understand one another.
antiqunción,
According to ancient calendar makers Noah and his family and the animals were aboard the Ark more than a month. Mr. Penke believes it was April 20 when Neah flonlly stepped forth on Mound Ararat.
Mr. Peake his published a book, The Flood." In it he writes that the people from the Persian side of the Persian Gulf moved into Mesopotamia and occupied Ur of the Chaldees about 5,000 B.C Then another group of people, com. ing in from North Syrin, settled in parts of Mesopotamia, including Kish."
The People Who Escaped.
It was the relies of these people, A dug up at Ur and Kish in 1020 by the University of Pennsylvania Expedition, which enabled the date of the food and Noah's peregrina- tions to be fixed. The flood, Mr. Peake says, 'took place in the fint country of the Tigris and Euphrates. It wiped out the two groups of people who had settled there búť third group, the Sumerians, who
Need for Common Language, With the development of roads and railways the need for a common, language will become ingre and' more pronounced; but that will nean not as in Europe permission For each area to develop its own language, and ignore all others but the necessity for acquiring two spoken languages." A great part of China must, therefore, become bilingual, the Cantonese, the Fukicuese,, the Swatow and Amoy communities will all of necessity; have to come acquainted with a form of Mandarin which they will spenk in addition to their own lan-mounda, escaped the deluge. gunge for Mandarin in some form The headman of the low-lying or other is spoken by the greater village of Shurupiak and his family, part of the population of Chiun. The warned by a friendly. Sumerian, movement in Chinn, then, is not built a boat and escaped the flood, exactly parallel to the Reunissance which drowned all the rest of their in Europe, for the latter broke up people. In later years people said culturally into its component parts, this man's name was isuthros, whereas the former seeks to enmbine which was Greek: others that it by establishing one common Inn-was Usa-Haphistin, which WAS gunge which will be simpler than Mesopotamian: and others that it the cinssient medium that it re- was Noah, presumably Hebrew. places, but which will serve pre- Mr. Peake says it was this man cisely the sane purpose only much who built the Ark. more effectively, for it will make
the content of the classical' system,
had built their towns on raised
more, accessible, by presenting it U.S. TO WELCOME KING in LL For less ornate and less artificially difficult.
The democratic principle demands thist knowledge shall be available in the common language of the people, and not concealed from
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A woman's appeal against the judgment of the president (Lord Merrivale) dismising her petition for the dissolution of hor marriage, succeeded in the Court of Appeal. She was granted a decred nisi. An appeal against a Diorcs Cours de cision is unusual.
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MANILA CUSTOMS
SCANDAL,
COLLECTOR ACCUSED OF SMÜGGLING OPIUM.
Manila, March 17.-The sorlos of Insular investigations into the Customs Bureau scandals culmis. ated yesterday in open charges against Vicente Aldáncso, Customs collector, by Major Silvino Gal. lardo, formerly chief of
toms Secret, Service.
the Cus
Major Gallardo, who made his charges before the special commit tog of investigation, declared that Aldancee, in conspiracy with Jose The Woman was Mrs. Lilian Alindogan, A wontlhy Manila Woolf (nee Israel), of Woburn-man- Chinese, imported opium valued at siona, Frances-stroot, W. Her peti-thousands of pesos. tion alleged misconduct on the Major Gallardo told the commit part of her husband, Mr. Eric tee that Aldanese had on several Bowers Woolf, at hotel at occasions thwarted efforts to cap Bognor Regis, with an unknown
ture big opium shipments which, woman in July 1929.
he alleged, were consigned to Alindogan aboard ships from Amoy.
The couple were married on April 11, 1926, at the Western Synagogue, St. Giles, London. In July 1920 Mrs. Woolf reerived a letter from her husband at a Bogner hotel. This letter, which was read by Lord Merrivale, stated that as they had been separated for some months, Washington, Mar. 17.-The De- "I think it only fair to both of
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Queen of Siam when they rench Washington to pay a state visit to the American capital on April .
Can Chinese Be Simplied?. Can the Chinese language be simplified in this way? It is quite clear that the modern demineratie movement demands such a modifica tion, for the first eqanligt in such n movement is the control of a language through which the people can rapidly and easily be acquaint ed with knowledge to enable them
King Prajadhipok and his Queen will be the guests of President and Mr. Hoover at the White House. The visit of the Siami sovereigns to Washington will be accompanied by all the pomp, and ceremony which a republieni government is able to display.
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While in the United States King Penjadhipok will submit to operation on his eyes. Except for his state visit to Washington le
to take an intelligent part in the live as simply and move with new order of government. Then little ostentation as possible. modern scientific movement, the de- | mand for the new Western know-
ledgo makes such a change impera-learning. An adequate knowledge tive, and at the same time easier. will be essential but a pedas
mastery of detail, and that exact
to make it their cala interest in
us that I should give you grounds of divorce. I have, therefore, en- closed an hotel bail) as evidence when misconduct took place."
Name Kept Secret. Mr. Justice Hill, who heard the case originally, adjourned it for the woman's name to be divulged. This Mr. Woolf refused to do.
The petition eventually camo be. fern Lord Merrivale who, in his judgment, said that Mr. Woolf de sired to have the marriage dissoly
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Alindogan, who powerful figure in Customs circles, is now facing deportation on charge of sunuggling opium follow- ing his arrest in an opium "dive." The esse is now before the Supreme Court.
Aldanese, who is said to be a wealthy man, ja proparing to leave for Europe on a vacation,
Major Gallardo was recently transferred to the Constabulary headquarters following charges of inefficioney made by Aldanese, against whom he made his allega tions yesterday.
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A POSSIBLE SOLUTION,
Mystery still envelops the death of Francis John Charles Ellis, the 15-year-old Cambridge undergradu. Ar No. 4, WING LOK BUILDING, ate of Sidney Sussex College; who was found dead, gagged and bound, according to the Home 'papors.
It is suggested with some certain- ty that the police believe that the. boy took his own life. This opin ion, however, is rejected by the mother and other relatives, who say that he was happy and without worries, and that they can conceive
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The following statements, were made.
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(2) Mayor of Cambridge (Coun- ́cillor, Edwin Jackson); I wont to Ellis's room shortly after the discovery was made, and I formed an opinion which I bave since scon no reason to change, I am satis-
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went to an hotel and occupied a judgment, said the court recognised himself up in the war, described. I ments when writing- NEWMAN.
bedroom, and a chambermaid saw them in one bed.
The facta were that Mr. Woolf,
who was engaged in businces in signs of fainting. When I untieded uneron from the room, but has Regent-street, was found spending him he could not stand, though the since confessed.
the grave responsibility confront- ing judges of the Divome Court in "It would take twelve minutes for Agent; FERRING DEBT WORTHING
BUSHEY, ENGLAND, two experts to tie up a man in Sorious. There was no evidence that Mr. | administering the law. Woolf was likely to be guilty of and constant efforts must always that way," said Mr. Goldston,
He added: "I have just expertsuddenly collapsed and died, either The old knowledge which is no knowledge of the obscure region of promiscuous misconduct or of any be made to prevent collusion-
classical allusion, which is import- kind of intimate association with cloaking the facts for the purpose mented on a very strong young from heart failure or suffocation; ant only to those who can afford any woman, much less of an illicit of the parties obtaining & divorce. he became exhausted, and showed momentarily panic-stricken, escapi
fellow, and in about two minutes
That the innocent friend; though
life, these are not necessary for the association. He did not find that, people. The problem then is or has adultery was proved. been to adjust the language to the new demands but there is sturdy Mr. Raynor Goddard, K.C., for opposition to the new system, which Mrs. Woolf, said that the first is replacing the old laborious pro- ground of appeal was that Lord reas of learning the classical books. Merrivale refused to infer miscon necessarily and always regarded as duct on evidente certainly not loss sacrilege by the priests of the old strong and he would say consider. religion. It denotes loss of reverably stronger-than had been habi ence, and when innovations are per- mitted in one direction there is tually received in the Divorce danger of the iconoclasm spread Division and the Ecclesiastical ing generally. Now nothing has
longer esteemed as in the past can rerinin buried in the old classical language, while the new is com municated through a simpler and more flexible medium.. Until the langungo is made a vehicle of thought, such an the lowliest pea tant can hope to possess, both in reading and writing, the future of the democratio inovement is in doubt. Knowledge-must always be the key to power and as that is gained through language in all its forms, only those who have the mastery of the form can aspire to control the country.
Danger of Iconoclasm. Instead, therefore, of the Chinese langungo being the end of educa-
The dethronement of an idol is
been so highly regarded in the past Courts for the last 100 years, as the sacred, characters of the
Public Interest, Classical language and their 880-
ciations. The Chinese scholar who-Lord Morrivato also held that first arrested thought and imprison-rs, Woolf was affected by the ed it in the written character on
handkerchiefs ware over his hand less than thros minutes.-
must have been bound by two other "T Yool sure that this young Ellis
people,"
ʼn wook-end with a woman at #7 863- aide hotel. It would be making a to delude oneself, that such a time false protonco if one was minded was not constantly resorted to for the purposes of misconduct. the Master of the Rolls, "that the "It appears to mo," concluded
An Experiment. court ought to be satisfied on the An extraordinary" and plausible evidence that misconduct was cam solution to the mystery, was aug. mitted: It is the duty of this court
to say that Mrs, Woolf has made gested by an eminent. Cambridge out her decree nie and there must be a authority....
Lord Justices Lawrence and-Roma or concurred.
It is that the police and univer sity authorities have actually re Mr. Hayner Goddard asked that,ceived a confession by somebody in view of the lapse of time since who knows how Ellis met his death the petition was first heard, "the
This would indicato
Where Theory Holda. This, theory though it is, woulď!! the police investigations have been account for the aped with which
completed. The only point for tho police to substantiate would be tho friend's statement. This would be done to satisfy themselve that no violence was used.
They have already shown that the theory agrees with the opinions of doctors and, conjuring experts that Ellis could not have tied him- self up;
it recounts for the electric? light being turned out in the room,
This case," said Mr. Goddard, decroo nisi ahould be made absolute Ellie and a friend were and for the fact that no sound of
the bamboo did more for the fact that the husband had refused civilization of China thon Promoto gite the name of the woman. tion for a select aristocratio, fow theus who stole fire from heaven in it is necessary that it should be order to give it to man, or the unknown genius who invented the como, in the future, for the masses wheel at the dawn of history and the means or the instrument of reduced man's labour. ----- (Continued at foot of next column.)
“(To be Continued.)
"is of considerable interest to tho publis. and to the profession who (Continued at foot of next column.)
within 14 daya...
Mr Latoy on behalf of the conducting in experiment which King's Proctor said there was no objection to this soares, and the spurt acceded to the request.
involved gagging and binding;
That Ellis willing victim,
a struggle was heard, Ellis boing
the willing victim to the experi