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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1931.
WUCHOW BOYCOTTS WESTERN CULTURE.
JAPANESE GOODS.
NEW BUND BEING BUILT..
(From Our Own Gorraspondent.)
-Wronow, October 19,
The most important matter at
ITS SOURCES AND INFLUENCE.
INTERESTING LECTURE AT THE UNIVERSITY,
"MANTUA:"" TRAGEDY,
HONG KONG POLICE SERGEANT MISSING.
Now has reached Hong Kong o a tragedy on board the P. and O liner Mantun shortly after her de parture from Hong Kong for Eng The following is the text of land. It is learned that Lance
Wuchow at present is the anti. A very intéresting lecture on Sorgeant John O'Neil Gibbling,
The Water Supply. The Water Works Authority are going to lay water pipes in the main streets and will supply water to the houses in a year's 'time."
delivered last night by the Hov, Sources of Western Culture," Father D. J. Finn, S.J. before the Hong Kong University Eduction Society."
liner, committed suicido Inst Sntur- who was a passengur on board the day night.
The message despatched from the liner indicated that the officer had apparently jumped overboard. H is believed to have been slightly mentally unbalanced latterly and for this Hone after nearly four years ser годест Was being invalided
vice in the Foren,
Japanesa movement, Poople here hiaro decided to boycott Japancar goods, and following several meet ings of the Chamber of Commerce it has been decided to soal up:
"Culture is but another word for Japanese goods in all the shops cultivation or tording and refers and to send pickets to search all primarily to plants, as we conceive stenmera coming from Hong Kong all growth to have a likeness to If they find any Japanese goods that of plants which is so obvious, tho will find the person who imit wha natural to use the word ported them, and burn the goods culture for the training, de- afterwards.
A native of Jarrow, Durham, thế velopment and refinement of mind, late. Sorgeant Gibbling joined the taste and manner and so it comes force on November 8, 1927. having to stand or the condition of being been formerly in the Coldstream thus refined. From that the next Guards, and was promoted to the step to the indication of the in- rank of Lance Sergeant on June 10, tellectual basis of civilisation 1948. He was a diligent officer and easy. Thus the Oxford Dictionary had passed his first and second defues the awkward word in my Cantonese certificates. His tragie title and thus I take it for the pur death is deeply regretted by his paso of my few words. Bat civili- former colleagues and all who en sation presents a vast field whotherjoyed his friendship. you take account of times, places with weatoro eilture, that is, of or typha; so we are concerned only certain lands west, let us say, of the meridian 30-west of that lie and the focal points of Mediter the Aegean coast of Asia Minor rancan civilization. This is the type 1st Kowloon Resident: What is of culture that has become Büro- tius China Exhibition, de you that it did not originally possess Bean while absorbing other elements know anything about it? and it of this type of culture that the two Americas, North and South, are colonies.
The New Bund.
Along the waterfront, from Tai Num Road, the construction of an excellent bund has been completed, Shopholders along the bund" are forced to pay a levy according to the standing of each business. It is said that the Sun. Foo S.S. Co. agency of the steamers Kongaing and Kongso have paid more than two thousand dollars, as the said bund runs just in front of that company's par (pontoon), and it is very, convenient for the passengers. Other shops have to pay from $30 to $200.
The local Public Works Depart mont will continue to extend the Bund by sections as they can find the money. As business in Wuehow is poor just now especially, owing to the boycott of Japanese goods, It will take a long time to get the
bund finished,
Business Bad Owing to War. Since peace talk has been carried on in Canton the people seem to be settling down in Wuchow, but as the business in the interior is dull, the Incal market is also .quiet.
Formerly there were several hun- dred singing girls and now only several tens are left, ard although two or three new restaurants have been put up, business is very limit ed.
HEARD ON THE STAR FERRY.
2nd K.. nothing except what's on the posters..
1st K.R. It might be rather good, I hear they will be cutting thona ivory balls. I've often wor dered bow they were done,
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Four Great Periods,
sources unist include Greces and “It will now be patent that the Rome, for these are the foci of far just to see a man cutting ivory. 2nd K.R.: I wouldn't pay a dol. Mediterranean civilization in ite balls. distinctive manifestations, looking at western culturo as it other things as well.
But 1st K.R. No, but there will be exists to-day, one must takes nend K. What other things? and the wider area; therefore two it; got a friend on the Committee. count of the lapse of 25 centuries 3rd K. I know a bit about other periods call for note: The It's going to be a jolly good shot. Medieval, say, the Thirteenth Cen wonderful collection of Chinese tury, and the Renaissanco. Of art, curios and nitiques being got couras, it would be presumption together a series of displays in beyond the reach of mere folly to the Theatre Royal-fireworks a
at about describing or discussing the Murray Purnde Ground--brans four such periods in one short lee workers, allyer workers, ivory cut. he had to exhaust one of the periods getting on with the job. ture, an expert would complain if ters and blackwood carvers, all in limited series of talks. My purpose is to set forth the most dis. tinctive notes of each and to illus trate each period with some views of typical monuments or artistio may have the merit of emphasise productions. A contracted survey and contrast.
Grecian Culture.
1st K.R.: Sounds all right- Anything to ont
3rd K.R: Yes, Tens" served, "all afternoon and Chinese dingers every night, from seven till mitic.
Chinese dinner What's it like?
and F. I've never had a
3rd K.R. Come and have some with me on November 5, the first day of the exhibition
1st and 2nd K.R. O.K. Thanks. very much.
......
3rd K.R."Suppose we go along to the Y.M.C.A, and buy a patrons ticket now.
Our first source, then in Greece Thanks to the efforts of Dr. Maand for our purposes, we may Kuss Mo and the active help of take the one city of Athens at one General Wong Shin, Hung and 350 B.C. It is not the absolute definite period. about 450 B.C. to General Li Chung Jen, the Kwang-well-spring of that type of culture; ticket? sai University has kept open. But for Dr. Ma and the General it would have been closed, but there are still not many students.
Besides the North Hill Public Garden, there is another publie garden on the opposite side of the Fu. River" near the old British Can- salute.
To
1st K.R: What is patron'a fures with which Greece had the exhibition: admits you there were earlier amb powerful ard K. The reason ticket of contact, from which Greece learn everything on all three days and ed much and derived elements of costs only five dollars. the greater benefit to herself. We priceless gift of the nithabet but are indebted to Greece for the Green had merely skilfully adapted It embodied much of the old Roman the discovery of a neighbour. Yet spirit of law and justition, added in the period wo choose, Lho Taze to the strong moral code sluch has and Confucius were end not yet left an indelible imprint on the 50 yours-Grecce stood distinct and West- the highest moral tradition General Pei Chung Hsi arrived suprems and Athens was, according of the West and of the Mediter here a few days ago but left at to Pericles," an education to rancan peoples (Le Bras). The ouce for Canton by the .. Kong-none, wan by man, for independence typical of the age and that archi. Greeco and her members yield to building of the Cathedrals is ning, Samahui, at the request of spirit, may sidedness of attain testure is one the inspirations. of General Trung Jen.
ment, and complete self-reliance is of the West. What is more evident General Wong Shim Hang bas
limbs and brain."
even to us in the East is the finished burying his mother in the West is agreed to find in the vluch are distinctive products of the Pericles was not short-sighted for University and the Grammar School Yungyuen, and is
now in Hong then Athens unngoing models of per Middle Ages In the. Universities, fection in the composition of his scholastic philosophy set about the tory and of drama, in examination authoris of all knowledge, gurau- of deep philosophical problems, in,teed the supremacy of reason among the art of persuading men by public human faculties and sharpened the speech, in the rendering of beauty wits of its students. Renaissance into art. Athens furnishes the scholars were more inrlebted to the exemplars of well-balanced thought, Scholastics than they cared to ne of just emphasis, of directness and knowledge. of truth to nature. There is an actuality and a humanity in its Madrid. The charges of a torliterature that can never tarnish, mented bull turned a village holi-Hong Kong might be reminded that day into tragedy at Bobillo de Oxford trains statesmen and ad Adrade, near Avila The collapse ministrators on the study of the of temporary stands placed specta-Athenian Thucydidöğ...... and the tors at the maddened animal's Athenian Plato. mercy:
Kong.
SPECTATORS THROWN INTO BULL-RING.
1
1 KILLED-25 INJURED.
Influence of Rome!
The Renaissance.
"With the Beitiasance there "ap peared the power of wealth und magnificence with the princely patron, the princely merchant and the princely learning. Art and science-regognise individual names Many women and children were
as marking their advance. Man is among the several hundred persons
more satisfied with himself and his: thrown into the ring by the crash Republic and the Caesars, its out to suit macht. Ever since. thien As for Rome, the Rome of the place is a schome of things worked ing of the stands. One was killed great contributions have been the the West has been living in similar and. 25, received injuries,NERS transmission of the Greek inherit sentiments except that they have In trying to escape from his tor-ance though somewhat altered by become more and more democratie. enters the bull rushed at the its own stamp of pragmatism and of the very obvious implication of breach and hurled himself upon the studious observation then too the the Reaissance le return to the prostrate struggling mass of hii all-pravading influence of the Latin Ancients, its results have been so manity. His sharn horns were tongue (it is still so much the obvious that they have not, all been within an inch of a helpless specta-learned tongue that Chineas outlived yet whother that return tar when the bullfighters rushed botanists must learn it if they did not mean delay in the un and diverted his attention would speak internationally), but natural development of Europe in After a strenuous effort they sue above all the influence on the legal doubt that crosses, men's minds ceeded in luring him from the thought, legal codes, logal exacti- more and more in recent years ring Me!
tudes of the West
In illustration of these sources Cho Home Secretary, Benor With the Medieval period, and their dependence Father Fin Miguel Maura recently prohibit new fores is can to have entered showed, slides ed villages bullights of thin non-the-stage the powerful diree and architecture an exple
chiefly: ture, which are usually held in. tive apirit of organised Christianity, signbounce, os momoriala the oublie square,
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