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CHINESE LANGUAGE AND FAR EAST IN PARLIAMENT.
STUDIES.
Gold Medal for Professor Giles.
Status of Allens Bill.
WU'S TASK.
Ha He the Right Qualifications? Despite the fact that Chinese A Bill has been introduced into The Triennial Medal of the the House of Commons to provide soldier qua soldier is soknowledg Royal Asiatic Society, founded in for the continuance, under certained to rank high, he has gained a 1897, was presented on July 4 to conditions, of the British nation-bad name, and until some Napo Mr. Horses A. Giler LLD.ality of successive generations of leon arises who can lead him to born abroad. victory on the field he will be Professor of Chinese in the Uni-British descent versity of Cambridge, by the Under the existing law British jake to the world, and a ready President, Lord Chalmers.
nationality by descent enda after gibe for the Western librettist, Mr. L. C. Hopkins said that his the first generation for in the writes a correspondent in the before Manchester Guardian. General "teak in speaking of the qualifica case of persons bara tions of Professor Giles to receive 1915, the second generation) born Gordon, of Kbartoum fame eale the medal was most welcome and abroad. The Bill proposes that gised his qualities on more than If he were asked to every child born abroad of one occasion when he was sec- grateful. formulate in a sentence the special British father shall be a British paded to Chins to put down the mark and-merit of Fralessor subject, if two main conditions, Taiping Rebellion, and in more Giles's lifelong labours, he would calculated to show continued modern times General J. W. N. say that beyond all other living connection and sympathy with Munthe, a Swedish officer, who is scholars he bad humanised Chithe British Empire, are fulfilled, responsible for the training of the nese studies. He had by his writ-namely, that birth of the child is Peking gendarmerie, and who, by ings made more readers know more at the time registered at a British reason of his close association things about China-things that Consulate, and also, the child, on with Yoan Sbib-kai when China's were material, things that were obtaining majority, asserts his strong man was organising vital. He bad diffused & better British nationality by a declara-model army, is almost extra- and a truer understanding of the tion duly registered. The Bill gant in his praise of the groat Chinesa intellect, ita capabilities effects this by inserting certain worth of the Chinese saldiar to and achievement, than any other provisions in section one of the any competent leader. But these British Nationality and Status protestations do not prevent our cholar.
of Aliens Act, 1914, which defines comic writers-28 in San Toy" -from holding him up to ridicule, natural-born British subject.
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Prof. Giles said this was the first occasion on which the Royal Ariatic Society had allotted its gold medal for Chinese studies. It would be a great encourage: ment to future students who have little to look forward to st chel
Oriental School in London soars, understand. I am given to
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Sir Charles Addis said it would
Mr. Gershom Stewart, as one and it is from doggerel such as is! be impassible to exaggerate the infuance which Dr. Giles who had lived a good many of his presented in revue and musical exercised on Chinese affairs with years abroad, said he would like comedy rather than from the
thank the Government for serious opinions of acknowledged moral as its food. The soldiers increasing force as the years wenkijo
equipped down to the It was significant of the bringing in the Bill, as it would experts that the mass of people were thoroughness with which he had remove a great hardship and be agains its knowledge of bings enamelled muz attached to their haversacks. On the other band done his work that he bad pro-great boon to many people who Chinese.
China of to-day is bereft of the Chihli troops were compar Mission for Son of Magnate. vided for the continuance of the live in exile in distant lands and succession of scholars he was have not been able to acquire en-military leader who can combine atively ill-fed, and had not been
The appointment of Mr. Chang following in the persons of his ough money to retire to spend the soldierly qualities of Napoleon paid for five months.
The Mukdea forces lacked only Hsino-jo, son of the eminent in- distinguished family.
their last years in their own and his statesmanship, the neces
ry gift of a man who would leadership. That essential qual-dustrial leader of Nantongehow, modera warfare was 23 a Special Commissioner to Sir John Jordan paid a high coatry. He thought it was
by the Loyang investigate the industrial con tribute to Dr. Giles as an ex-rise messure, because it adds to purge the ills of 400,000,000 suffer- member of the Consular Service our outposts and friends in every ing people over an area that could monopolised
The General He can fight; he can ditions in Europe and America, in China and so s Sicologue. Sir quarter of the globe, and gives easily embrace Europe.
all our brother-countrymen in founders of several dynasties in command; and his determination has not only sprung a surprise o John stated that he had always distant lands a great corsola. China's storied past may be like to win or din is translated to the the public but also called forth a 'been a great admirer of the
wonderful felicity of Dr. Giles's tion and pride in remaining ed to Napoleon in both capacities. men by personal example and good deal of discussion in politi Englishmen, especially our sub-and it is not unusual to bear exalted motive and uncomprom-cal and banking circles. It is severity. Hence bla rumored in certain quarters that jects in Japan. They do not wish Pei-fa spoken of as the rightfalising
AL-victory
the Government, in appointing The President. Lord Chalmers.to become Japanese, and this Bill heir of their glories.
there is & certain
Mr. Chang to the new post is said_that_though he was not will relieve them. Sir D. Mac-ready
trying to raise a big loan abroad qualified to speak as a Sinologue. Lean, Mr. Hopkins, Mr. Manville,smount of traditition attaching to
The political situation is now in order to finance the Peking he felt grateful to Dr. Giles for Lieat. Col. A. Hurray, SirStanley his person. It is said that if Wu
Bat according opening to English readers the Johnson, Mr. Neil MacLean and Pei-fu says he will ba at a certain to the beads of Wa Pai-fu. Ha de-Administration. treasure chambers of Chinese others, although in some cases place at a certain time, be will be clares his unwillingness to come to well-informed circles the rumor history, literature, and thought suggesting additions and modi there, whatever obstacles are ip to Pezing until his task is over but is not strictly correct. It is true fications were in sympathy with his way. In one of his early his hand is revealed in the chang-that Mr. Chang's mission is to losas, but it has been the Bill, which was rand a second campaigns he made known his aspect of affairs. Lisog Shib-i raiss
Yeh Kung-cho ascertained that the loans are time and committed to a Stand-intention to occupy Yochow, and (Premier).
the people were so demoralised(Minister of Communications), meant not for the Government. ing Committee.
that Wu Pei-fu entered the city and Chang Hu (Minister of but for Mr. Chang's father, with only a handful of men, and Finance-the three command-Chang Chien. found he had. quelled the dis- ing igures in the las: administra A LOSS OF SEVEN MILLION. turbance by his threat, although, tion-have been deprived of their
Mr. Chang Chien is popularly in order to keep the appointment, offices, and have sought sanct-known in the Yangtze valley 3 present day in the way either with the question of wireless 15 he had to journey to the cityary from arrest on the, soit of Ja-tke "Industrial King" and as of malament or of honorarian aid to transport. anticipates without the troops on which be pan. A new Cabinet of inoffensive Auch be is generally believed to distinction. He continued: The that wireless telephony will be had counted to effect an entrance people is now being gathered have made enormous fortunes together: and unconstitutional lately. In reality, however, Mr. are, of course, those dazzling adopted at less in the larger The ever-victorious General
liners. Is might also be used after this experience added the government has received a new Chang has been losing money on *tipends paid to professors of Chinese by the Universities of for cosstal work by small shipsruse to his strategie armory, and lease of life without, however, the most of his industrial concerns Oxford, Cambridge and, I baliew, Tha recently invented wireless in recent times has had occasion forbidding abadow of Chang Tso- Manchester-(laughter) —- while beam," about which little had yet to use it, notably when he charged lia. The ascendancy of Wa Pethe Tasung Cotton Mill. Bat the that of the professor at the been publicly disclosed, he said, into the Szachuenese last year at fu may. of course, start a train of profit from the cotton mill bas Fould be an additional safeguard the head of his personal body-consequences that will eventually not been large enough to balance to the maricer. Daring fog it guard.
lead to the restoration of coa-Mr. Chang's buge losses, hence CHANG'S MISFORTUNES. stitutionalism. He may revive
his son's trip to the United States. The campaign which has ended the old Parliament, or call Mr. Chang Junior, last year tried into quite phenomenal figures. could warn ships of approaching 1 am tired of calling Coineze the danger and enable them to keep a
prescribed course. The ran in the rout of the Manchurian national convention to bring to secure the Speakership of the Cinderella of language. Luckily, itter projected a beam of wire warlord is in a different category about reunification. however poorly remunerated, to the genuine student this language less waves, which might be liken-from those which have hitherto always been bis ambition, and, is like blood to s tiger: once realised to somewhat diffused search-marked the Loyang General's Tachan though he is, he is quite Chang Yi-lin' and in that "caru-
light beam. Predetermined signals career. His adversary had a 11ed, always a man-eater or a
goal. Sinologue, as the case may be. would be sept out by an automati- better strategic position, he had sincere in his desire to reach that|paign be is said to have spent bis If reunification can be achiev.father's money so freely that he
balped to increase his father [Cheaza and laughter.) For the cally controlled beam, and any more men, more guns. better! [Chest of those to whom this term: ships coming into the beam would equipment, and a far bigger wared, he may be forgiven cartsin debit balance considerably.
of statesmanship Mr. Chang Chien recently con- may not be familiar in all its hear on its wireless receiver the chest, as well as allies in Southern aberrations bearing. I may say that in China corresponding signs, from which and Central China. Unfortunate which have been a little difficult sulted certain Japanese capitaliste ly for Chang Tso-lio, he was left to follow, and he may prepare the for a loan to sustain his mills and * Sinologue is generally regarded it could ascertain its position.
to fight his own battles. Sun way for the gradual demilitarisa-factories in Nantungchow, but the As a wild man whose judgment
Yat-sen failed to keep his promisetion of provincial control which
Japanese agreed to finance bim and other faculties have been
in consequence of differences of is at the root of the present only on the condition that ha
with other Canion travail. opinion Ariously impaired by laborions!
Unfortunately, he is days, and even nights, devoted to:
leaders, and the other allies ap-
be managed jointly by Japanese The study of Chinese. (Laughter.)!
men with axes to grind. He
and Chinese investors. Mr. Chang The future is full of promise, and
parently preferred to live to fight too prone to accept the advice of allowed his industrial concerns to 1 feul that some day Chinese will nerve storms. Though the victim another day-for their own ends.realises his own limitations as sacked the courage to agree to is often accused of being "bad- and for the glorification of the statesman, and he turus in his such terms, because he was afraid Mr. Chan-hsin Chu, the Chinese tempered." the trouble is really Mukden or any other leader. The indecision-anindecision strange that they would not only be
·Charge d'Affaires, wound up the one of health. Bad days usually advantage was still well on the Is at issue with his military arastically opposed by those con- prcrediag with an accomplished begin with irritation on "rising.side of Chang: get in seven days spirit-to men with only glim nected with the enterprises but Some little opset & cantankerous he was defeated all along the line mering of political sense for to make him an enemy of the merit and value of Dr. Giles's mood, and ance the balance topples from Changsintien to Macbang, goidance in matters out of his people, by whom he is generally
thanks to the treachery of certain military prosince. He greatest known as a patrioi.
As a result he turned his atten- Nerve-storms are dangerous: Mukden commanders and the need at the present time seems the wear and tear on the nervous better marat of the Chibli-(W to be a man-with-a-wide vision to to the capitalists of the West, system is highly exhausting and Pei-fu's) troops. Wa delivered of affairs and a firm band to and consequently he recommend. debilitating to the digestion and thrust round Changeintien, so initiate the reconstruction of heart; it causes also congestion in turning Chang's Bank, and is now China after Wa Pai-fu's sworded his son to the Government for
in rounding up the
bas finished its immediate work.ppointment as the Industrial the liver and brain; and, indeed engaged
bordes that were scattered by his That sword could then be the Commissioner so that he could negotiate loans under that pre-l collapse sometimes follows.
protector of legalised and cen- text. However, as soon as the Makano mistake-nerve-storms lightning movement. The "Republic of Montmartre
Both armies were equipped on tralised authority.
Presidential order was issued bas recognized de furto, the Re-indicate a nervous-dyspepticatate.
JOURNALIST-HERO.
■ppointing Mr. Chang, Junior, to public of the United States of When the digestion is perfect, the a scale unknown in Chins before.
The following paragraph from the said post, the Japanese cap- America and is sending M. appetite is good, and food eaten German artillery, Japanese rifles, Lucien Bayer, the popular singer keeps the nerves and blood well complete modern equipment, and of songs, to represent its interests fed. Then such good health per- and detailed organisation marked Finance & Commerce, Shanghai, italists became uneasy, because Of course vades the system that nervous dis the army under Chang Tso-lin's notes an interesting sequel to the Chang's visit to Europe and were attempt. Our readers will be America would mean a serious command. Washingtoo.
Japanese enterprise. Montmartre does not expect to turhances are rare.
Weak, irritable, nervous victims provided with goggles for the interested to learn that the Im-blow to taken seriously-that, no doubt, woull be a cusus belli-of indigestion should tape up their protection of their eyes from the perial Japanese Government has Hence they recently made
that sweeps over North presented Mr. H. A. Thompson of number of concessions to Mr. but M. Boyer hopes to be allowed nerves and strengthen their diges dust In present bis credentials totion with new blood. To make China at frequent intervals. A the editorial staff of Pinance & Chang, and are now said to be President Harding. They are this new blood it is necessary to visit to Changsintien during its Commerce, with two rasgnificent again discussing terms of a loan inscribed on a fair scroll of parcb-take Dr. Williams' Pink Pills; for occupation by the Mukden troops silver vases in recognition of the with bim. In view of the amica- ment, making known to all men these pills create new blood that testified to the completeness of gallant part he played in securing ble attitude of the Japanese, an that he is appointed Ambassador makes you feel fit from tip to toe. the organisation. Field kitchens the arrest of one of the Koreans other Presidential order
streets, camels and who, in March last, endeavoured issued the other day authorizing all kings. You will be delighted with the lined the to
industrial conditions Extraordinary princes, presidente, ministers, and keen appetite, energy and radiant bullocks, laden with shells and to assassinate General Baron Mr. Chang Haiso-jo to "study
food supplies, kept up a proces-Thanks the Japanese Minister of the
on his way to Europe. other tyrants, and especially to good health that follow.
Chemists everywhere sell Dr.sion to the front lines, and no war. It will be remembered that Japan'
of the myriad base Mr. Thompson, though severely and America.#Péking Leader... the three Americas. Nevertheless, his mission has its serious side.Williams' Pink Pilla, or direct particular Montmartre is zubt all jest and from the Dr. Williams' Medicion details seemed to be overlooked wounded in the breast, held on to folly. TheRepublic" has its Co. 36 Szechuan Road, Shanghai, Over all was that, atmosphere of the Korean until the latter, was poor, and looks after them, and 81.50 for one battle, $8.00 for six order in confurion which reigns taken over by the police. The in a peculiar degree at an army Tases stand about a foot high, M. Boyer hopes to collect a bottles, post free. goodly sum for them on his tour Write to-day for a free book on base, and that badinage which is and are the work of one of Japan.
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