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Did Britain, then, at moment in the past few years, contemplate an act of aggression. against Italy? Did Italy and- denly challenge a vital British interest ?. Was either of these the cause of the quarrel which grew su bitter that the burying GIVEN THAT THE THIRTY-
of the hatchet hae required a formal documentary epitaph? NINTH ORDINARY YEARLY
No. It was not that way MEETING OF THIS COM. PANY will be held at the Office started it all was, that Italy HONG KONG/AUSTRALIAN of Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & had a dispute with, the Amharic Co., Ltd., on Friday, the 5th rulers of the African country February, 1937, at 11 a.m., for called Abyssiniu, and pressed the the purpose of receiving the dispute to the point of war. Britain was a member of the Report of the Directors together with a Statement of Accounts League of Nations. The League for the year ended 31st Decem-adjudged Abyssinia a victim of ber, 1936.
uggression, and set about helping her by imposing economic spne- tions against Italy.
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In this process Britain played to Friday, the 5th
leading part. She did so des- February,
pite the fact that no British in- 1937, both days, inclusive,
tereat was involved in the dispute By order of the Board of between Abyssinia and Italy. Directors.
F. H. CRAPNELL,
Secretary
OSAKA SHOSEN KAISHA. Hong Kong, 22nd Jan,, 1937. Hong Kong. 18th Jan., 1937.
She did so despite the fact that members of the Government had
deep misgivings about the effi- cacy and wisdom of the collec- tive security policy-misgivings 4972 which the Prime Minister him- self had openly expressed. It was Mr. Anthony Eden, Bri- tain's young Minister for League of Nations Affairs, who made the in Geneva and in Downing-street. His resounding speeches committed the Govern ment to apply collective security, delighted the League of Nations Union, and encouraged Abya- sina's rulera to believe that Britain would back them to the end.
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DIVERTING ASPECTS Deplore Transfer Of
THE TEMPLE OF HEAVEN
BY
PHILIP NESBITT
Human conceptions of "heaven" make interesting subject matter. The mass of nerve-torn mortals abiding on the globe. must, by all odds, conjure up some antidote against the hard- ships of existence. Most frequently heaven consists of what we haven't go). Hell is always with us ... which is perhaps the real reason why, subconsciously,' we think in terms of an eventual heaven. The Polynesian's heaven undoubtedly is a realm where "pol" comes to be had, without the effort of preparing it. The Hebrew heaven is anything that hasn't the barrenness of Jerusalem's dusty hillsides and thorn bushes... but China'... China ... with the deepest of all "the" humanities... with her pageant of legends and ceremonies.... with her surging mul- titudes and immortal soul, has a "conception of heaven in materiał form which so exceeds all others as to leave the fortunate visitor. with throbbing pulse and delighted heart.
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way to the Temple of Her
They (ardent world travellers) who have seen the mosque of St. Sophia in Constantinople, are brimmed with awe and `ad- miration... yet the "Temple of Heaven" as it is in Peiping, is greater, more lovely, more colourful, I believe, than any other earthly structure dedicated to a conception of heaven known to
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I must tell the whole of it. One morning in Peiping, not very long ago (snow lay on the ground and the air was like the cutting edge of a caiving knife) we act out for a visit to the Temple of Heaven. The ancient. rumbling car of the American Embassy stood at the gate of the house where I lived. We wrapped ourselves in à comforting woll-skin robe and started off.
Pelping proper has a thousand or two angular, narrow lanes which serve as strects. We honked, rumbled and fought our way. past the padding rick'sha "runners, past the street called “Jade --- street," and down that teeming thoroughfare where the brass shops and the treasure houses are, until we left the city. And yet, we were still in Pelping. Several turnings were made out in snow-swept open land, and after passing through a forest of starving trees, we attained a closeness to the great temple.
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Surely this... this glittering series of blue (ultramarine) temple buildings and spacious marble surfaces is the most per fect example of man-made architecture (ever). From a certain position in the centre of a' flat, lifted an immense disc of mar- ble, with good,' large bronze incense burnerï artfully laid out In mathematical 'and ́mystic fashion, we looked down a mile- long vista. Several red-gated arches with outspread wings of marble, straddled the wide avenue.
The Chinese constructed these" places of worship with the most cunning skili ... utilizing, oddly enough, as the main sup- porting, inner pillars of the big round temples, fine Oregon fr and spruce logs, straight and majestie. No reluctance, either, is evident in the generous use of gold leaf upon the calling surface
Britain's zole practical endes. Italian relationships had neccesi- vour on Abyssinia's behalf-the tated, alarming precautionary Houre-Laval pact, acceptance of movements.of the British Fleef; which would have stopped the newspapers in each country war and preserved half his king-fariously blackguarded the other dom for the Abyssinian Emperor the prospect of war between the defeated by a wave of two Powers was openly can pro-League enthusiasm in this vassed..
Was
BILLS OF: LADING. STAMP TAX
British Shippers Seek Exemption
Nanking, Jan. 22. The British Embassy, has ap- proached the Chinese government country. The intimidated Gov- And to-day? Italy has all to exempt the British shipping ernment dropped the plan, Abyssinia. The Emperor is sell- concerns from attaching stamp tax dropped Sir Samuel Hoare, gave ing his household goods by to information from well-informed to their bills of lading, according
in a disadvantageous position.
his job to Mr. Edcu, and on- nuotion. Sir Samuel Houre, vin- circles to-day. AGEN, tinued sanctions.
dicated by events, has beenThe request, it is understood, 13 And what came of it all received back with honour into made on the ground that the ex- Miners in South Wales went the Government. In Rome, at emption enjoyed by government- jobless because there was no Mr. Eden's instruction, Sir Eric operated shipping enterprises has put the British shipping merchants. longer a cor trade with Italy. Drummond draws up a goodwill The Emperor of Abyssinia, pact with Italy Count Ciano, finding to his horror that Britain who fought as an airmen against was not prepared to follow up abyssinis, signs, the pact on econonic sanctions with military Mussolini's behalf. A crazy help, fled his throne. Mean tumiliating chapter in our history while the deterioration in Anglo- is closed.
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The Watchlaopu, it is learned. had referred the matter to the Legislative Yuan. The finance committee of the legislature will shortly discuss the request of the British Frabassy Inion News.
Colony Governor
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I now ask you, gentlemen, to drown your sorrow at the loss of Mr. Phillips' services in Canton, by joining me in drinking to his unqualified success in his new and We important port in Shanghai. thank him for the assistance he has so readily and ungrudgingly given us at all times, and we wish him an enjoyable and health- giving hơʻlday in England, (Ap“. plause).
MR. PHILLIPS REPLIES Mr. Philips said: "Mr. Dodwell and members of the Chamber of Commerce and China Association. Committees, I appreciate very highly this very great compliment you are paying me in inviting me.
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Enquiries at the Japanese Con- . noon elicited the information that sulate-General yesterday after- the mission will be composed of representatives of the Nagora. Commercial Museum and the Tea Exports Association of Japan. · The party will pass through the Co- lony on its way to Manila, where an exhibition of Japanese gooda will be shown, following which they will come to Hong Kong.
It le further understood that.
to be your guest to-day just before the party presumably is on its way
I am leaving South Chins and go-to the Leipzig Fair.
ing on leave, to return-not to the South-but to Shanghai.
I have had the most pleasant relations with your members and with the leaders of the British community in Hong Kong. I have received the very greatest ' ns- sistance from two Governors-8ir William 'Peel and Sir Andrew Caldecott--and especially from the leaders of the British community here."
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With reference to the Chair- man's remarks As to the great loss which the Colony and the whole of South China, If not the Far East, was sustaining on the transfer of Sir Andrew Calde- cott to Ceylon. Mr. Phillips said he agreed that this was a very severe blow and he could orily assume that specially difficult problems in Ceylon required a very specia. Governor 'ke Sir Andrew to den! with them. There was evidently a very strong feeling in this Colony. on the subject of the transfer and many of his Chinese friends in Canton had in the last two days, expressed their deep disappo'nt- ment at the loss of so distinguish- ed a Governor and one who had made such a favourable impression amongst the Chinese.
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The Annual TCD, dinner was held in the Gloucester Hotel on Thursday 21st inst. when the fol- lowing were present:-Mr. H. C. Machamara. in. the chair; The Ravd; G. K. Carpenter; Dr. P. L Chan: Mr. A. G. Clarke; Mr. R. M. C. Dobbe: Dr. G. V. Grinish; Mr. B. H. C. Hallowes; Dr. G. H. Herry; DA R. B. Jackson; Surg. LE Comdr. J. G. Maguire; Mr. T. Megarry; Mr. J. P. Murphy: Mr. M. G. O'Connor; Mr. C. G. Perdue; Mr. G. S. Kennedy-Skipton: Mr. W. La B. Sparrow: The Revd: E. D'A Staunton; Mr. E. G. Stewart: Major W. E. Tyndall. M.C.; Mr. E H. Williams; Dr. L. Yang,
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you all and I hope that we shall meet from time to time in Shang- hai and continue the very close association that we have had all the time I have been in the South. When I go to Shanghai the sup- port which I have had here will give me great encouragement in facing the responsibilities of i difficult post. I thank you most sincerely for the honour you have done me In making me your special guest to-day. I shall never forget. Mr. Dodwell your exceed- "I want now" again to assure ingly kind in fact, all too generous you," concluded' Mr. Philps, "of-reference to myself, I thank my very great regret at leaving | you all." (Applause.) (mi.
Referring to his successor, Mr. Phillips expressed, the hope that the Chamber and China Associa- tion would extend the fullest sup- port to Mr. Blunt who was an old friend of his, and who had had long experience in China,
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and on the bodies of an army of fire-eating dragons clawing their way in endless circles around both the inside and the out- side of the temple.
There is a quality ... a mood ... a sense of perfect things, which permeates the Temple of Heaven. In fact, there is a heavenly spirit abiding, within the marble and the beams, and in the delicate, limitless, essentially Chinese designs which decorate every inch in the thousands of square yards of surface of the temple buildings,
There is said to be a temple room in India, where abstract forms are so phychologically arranged as to have a same, and. singular effect, upon all the eyes and minds which come upon them. Thus it is with People of Heaven It is so perfectly ar ranged, so powerfully and delicately erected, so weil coloured, so "heavenly that all those who see it are impressed with a dream of heaven. It successfully touches whatever it is that we all possess of spirit, as to make us think of one thing. "Heaven" Afterward, when we felt we had more than taken in the Temple of Heaven, we climbed into the rumbling car and fought. our way through the bitter cold until we were among the smok ing cook pots, the sweating rick'sha boys and the beggars once more.
I think it was on this occasion, that I purchased a little sold-plated bronze Goddess of Mercy. It seemed the right thing to do to commemorate our visit to the one place in the world where the true spirit of what is "Heaven" seems to abide. the Temple of Heaven In Peiping.