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GENERAL LORDI TREASURES FROM CHINA
Leaves For Italy
Shanghai Aug. 25. "With the departure of Gen. Lordi on Sunday for Italy via Siberia, the post of Chief of the Italian Advisers to the Commission on Aeronautical Affairs in Nan- chang has been odncially taken & Scaroni, who over by Col.
Sa- was in command of the vola-Marchetti aeroplane which was recently flown out to China from Rome and presented to Gen. Chiang Kai-shek as a gift from Signor Mussolini. The official and nouncement states that Gen. Lordi is returning to Italy on leave, but it is rumoured in official circles that he will not be coming back to China. A confidential report from Nanchang states that Gen. Lord will be given a high comi- mand in the Kallan Air Force, probably in East Africa.
A Comprehensive Exhibition
The cruiser Suffolk arrived at Portamouth bearing the Chinese Palace treasures which are to be shown in the International Ex- hibition of Chinese Art at Burling- ton House during the coming
winter.
It is a unique event. Surely no before British warship has ever. carried such a precious cargo from the other side of the world. The occasion, too, is unique. This will be the first international exhi- bition on Chinese art,
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DUMPING BY JAPAN
Geneva, Aug. 14. The League Nas challenged Japan's right - to retain the Chinese. Very little porcelain of privilege of League membership, this quality has as yet reached and at the same time rebuked Europe as it is so keenly desired by Britain for allowing Japanese the Chinese collectors. ***
If pictures, bronzes and pro calains are the chief Items among the Chinese Palace treasures, there are still other categories which are by no means negligible. There are, for instance, twenty-nine pieces of tapestry and embroidery mounted lik: pictures, which will prove a great attraction for their beauty of design and gay colours,
dumping,
This has happened througn the action of the Mandates Commla- sion in asking Britain why is she allowing Japanese products to be dumped into Palestine on an equal footing with the products of League members
The British representatives re- plied that the Anglo-Japanèse
Commercial Treaty of 1911 had There are some sixty carvings in prevented Palestine from taking jade, bard stones, and rhinoceros action, although Japan, by with- horn; and, there are cloisonne | drawing from the League had enamels, glass and lacquer.
The exhibition will be thoroughly comprehensive, including all bran- ches of Chinese art from the earliest days to the end of the 18th century. There will be priceless paintings, sculptures, in wood, stone sand metal, ancient bronze vessels and jades, exquisite porcelain, gay brocades and textiles, carving ivory and wood, lacquer, enamels and All told. there are ninety-five many choice objects representing packing cases on the Suffolk con- the arts in which the Chinese bavetaining approximately eight hund- always excelled
On the other hand, a report from circles close to Gen. Chiang Kai-shek states that the Genera- lissimo received a confidential message from Signor Mussolina that it had been found necessary to recall General Lord. The mes- sage went on to state that his place would be taken by Cal. Scaroni, an expert on aeronautical organization. One of Italy's "aces in the Great War, Col. Scaroni not only is held in high esteem In the Italian Air Force, but he also acted for several years as Air Attache in both London and Wa-istle greatnes are based. shington.
Visitors to Burlington House will be able to appreciater for the first time the true greatness of Chinese art; not the mare fancy trade goods, the amusing magots and chinoiseries which have too long been regarded in Europe as typical of China, but the things on which China's unassailable claims to art-
nation to-day can boast such a proud record,
They will be impressed with the antiquity of many of these objects; A message has been received
representing a continuous tradition from Nanchang stating that Colorful 3000 years. What other Scaroni already has entered upon his new duties, and that Signor Mussolini has declared that, not- withstanding any situations which may arise in either Europe or Africa, the present position of Italian aviation in China will be inaintained.
Capt. Furlo Drago, the Italian Air Attache, left on board the ss. Chenonceaux on Saturday.
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Finally, there are "old Chinese books from the National Library in Felping which will illustrate the art of printing and wood-block Illustration.
theoretically lost the equal right which the mandate system guar- antees to all League members
WEST AFRICA
The members of the Commission replied, that, despite the Anglo- Japanese treaty. Britain had ap-. plied quotas on Japanese goods in British colonies, especially in West red objects. They were chosen out | Africs, and that; apparently, simi- of many others in Shanghai, where lar measures could therefore he the bulk of the Peiping Palace taken in Palestine.. treasures have been stored since 1933; and the choice was made by the European selection comittee of five members in collaboration with their Chinese colleagues. It was a fascinating but arduous task which took some two months to com- plete.
The Commission's report to the Council remarks: "The Commis ston would be glad to learn why imports and products of a State which has ceased to be a member of the League of Nations are ad- mitted on an equal footing with products of States which are mem-
LOTTERY TICKETS
This magnificent loan from thebers of the League." Chinese Government will form, the nucleus of the International Ex- hibition, but many nations will be contributing France. Germany, Sweden. Holland and Belgium, and For the, session of 245 Shum probably others in Europe. The Chun Po Plu and 25 Macao Po Selection Committee going on from Plu lottery tickets. Chan Hing China to America received promises (31) a Chinese woman was fined
default two of lavish help from various parts €100 or in of the United States..
Imprisonment, ut the Kewlour: Magistracy yesterday morning. Mr. W. M. Thomson, the Magis- trate further ordered that the
They will see, for instance. bronzes of noble form, cunningly decorated date reliefs and tooled designs, which date back beyond the siege of Troy and which tar surpass the best contemporary metal work of the Mediterranean civilisations. The Chinese have always excelled in bronze casting. tions stored in Shanghai; but many chariot Attings, mirrors, personal of the figures of Buddhist divinities
ornaments, shrines
The best Chinese sculpture is of a religious kind, and it was not re- presented among the Palace collec-
montas'
tickets be destroyed.
Admitting possession of tickets, the woman said that she
the
and religious and saints from the old temples. Laid not know they were Po, Piu as
figures will astonish the modern | craftsman by their beauty of form, Another achievement of ancient China is the manufacture of silk fabrics. Exactly how old this is
we are not sure, but the fact that
Pagodas and grottos of China are worthy of a place among the great sculptures of the world.
In welcoming the generous loans to the
some
friends gave them to her. She was given instructions to take them up stars when she wa
exhibition from foreign arrested by the Police, yesterday countries we must not lose sight at 254 Rectarnation Street, Yan- beautiful brocades were woven as
of our contributors at home. Great mati. early as a century before the Britain can boast some of the Christian era has been, establishernest collections of Chinese art, by recent excavations. About the End they will be freely drawn ON. same time the pencil brush was Whole groups of important first made; and another epoch- ceramics, such as the King Ha making discovery by the Chinese blue and white, and famille verte gave paper to the world. Buk, porcelains and the gorgeous Ming paper and the brush prepared the three-colour wares will be supplied way for the greatest of Chinese at home. So will the bulk of the artistic achievements, calligraphy early pottery of the Han and Tang and painting.
and intermediate dynasties rang- ing from 200 B.C. to 900 A.D. - .
There are besides some first-rate bronzes and many Jades, and an almost inexhaustible supply of the minor works of the Chinese crafts-
DR. TEMPLE ATTACKS FASCISM
Though very few of the earllest examples of either of these remain to-day there is enough to show tha, both had reached an advanced stage by the fourth century. The classic periods of Chinese painting | man. passed while Europe was still in the Dark Ages; and the prolific dynasties of the Sung (900-1279). and Yuan (1280-1368) produced thousands of mature masterpieces before the first of the European primitive saw the light.
The Archbishop of York (Dr. There are about # hundred Temple) spoke of Coinmunism and pictures from the Palace collection Fascism as expressions of a force which claim to belong to those deadlier than any heathen peril great periods. Hitherto Chinese in a broadcast from York Minister:
· paintings earlier than
the Miny Cynasty (1368-1644) have been rare as black swans in Europe; and even if we accept only a modest precent age of the hundred clamants is definitely Sung or Yuan, there will be enough to make the exhibition memorable.
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Christianity has now no rival religion to contend with" he said. "Under the Impact of Western knowledge other forces of religious faith crumble away. It was with- in Christianity that science grew. It could not, in fact, grow any- where else, and only Christianity is proving in experience to be cap- able of surviving alongside of it.
Chinese paintings are executed on slik and paper and largely in ink. They are essentially calligrap- nic. Indeed, calligraphy, which is an indispensable part of an artist's training, ranks in China fully as high as painting itself. There had previously been little opportunity for the study of Chinese Calligraphy form of faith in God. in Europe.
But under the influence, not so much of sciencǝ itself but rather of the civilisation which it alone makes possible, there is springing up 37 over the world a rival to Christianity and to every other
EXTREME DEVELOPMENTS
Another feature of the exhibition
"It la uanally called seculariam, which cannot fail to evoke generalIt does not always deny "God in enthusiasm will be the display of ceramics. It is commonplace that
theory, but it ignores Him in prac- tice. It takes a cosmopolitan form
in the putter's art the Chinese are in Communism and a national unrivalled.
form in Fascism. But it is not The boast will be fully substant-connned to these extreme develop sted by the ceramie contributions menta. from the Palace collections TheIt is found wherever men direct Sung monochrome porcelains with their life by regard to mateffal or their lovely grey, celadon green, merely human forces and pay ho lavender, and cream white glazes: heed to the providence, the fudg the brillant Ming reds and blues, ment, and the red seming love of and the blue and white of the God. This is a deadifer peril than Ming and later periods will delight any heathen beller- the eye of connoisseur and layman.The Church is growing as never Among the polychrome painted before The opportunity for ad porcelains, too, there is a pecuilarly vance at the present time as welcome series of eighteenth boundless, but it will not last century wares. They include some ever. If we cannot seize it trul of the daintiest imaginable por ly, this new force of seculariams clains, thin as eggshell and ex- establish itself, and there quisitely painted in famille rose vance will be incalculably? midine; colours In a taste that is purely | dimicult "
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