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EURASIA.
CIGARETTES
sai praded Hastsar and south- wal Alway they had retuite! their characteristure as as scramb tural people and they bud absorbei
Lecture at Helena May the peoples with whom they bal
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contact. Isip bability intermarna had bees very shaly intrda resis
A most interesting lecture enti, Bed Historical Contrasts Mr. Lee showed as the bih Eurasia was given by the Bev, J.
ranges to the West had beed cas Romanis Lee of the Hongkong dibuty encountered by China in University at the Helena Mas inter relations with the West. From -titute sesterday afternoon. There ti- North arsiers
Bud/-pee Pinto Chica latred.og certainly fcluding the Hon. Dr. Clauf Sever new elemente
and Mrs. Severn and the Hod. Mr. falsached by the Chinese whose itality but H. E. Pork.
culture was higher than thele own.
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The lecturer pointed nut (that it was only by examining the past that we mould understand the pre-f |--26.
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earne
Contact with Europe. During the The Century with Modern history had its rust the coming of the Mungole to
was col
at the
17
-EAST OF SUEZ."
Peking on the Stage.
Having just read Somerset Maughan "East of Suez" we are curious
to know how Mr. Maugham could ever have ex-{ pected to put his openice scene Maugham knew exactly how he 00 30 ordinany stage. Mr. wanted that scene to look-the
one with which he so assuredly opens his play-"A street in! rather large order for the ordinary Peking. He knew that was a
stage
director от whoever! manages stage scenery, so for two fascinating pages he went
into details as to what that street
sery fur back to the past soil it Chins intetiese bets scene should nclude. To us those
buck to and West montre poble mod prehistoric tirnes that we learns aurants of Eampan" travellers at veitin of the top tiae show that a hege amount Fluropeas and Mister propios of business was in between the Hummel was geographically two extretorts the Euras
From Centra. Asa contineat. Chatiscal.
With the overthrew of nations Lad migrated in te the Monzole, kometer, the fee direction--towel- the East and tween East and Wes was once the West, to the Atlantir sad their el-ed Pacific.
Tomat
tak÷3 into
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two pages are the best of an other wise rather ordinary play in which there are a great many my no sabe's" and "velly goods" to
reader that the play takes place. convince the audience or the
in China. With the pageant of Peking still vivid in our memory. M. Maugham's stage directious bringback all the colour and noise In ennsidering development in and smells, all the filth and beauty Since both Asiatz and Furpena | Humph a strong, incluence of the Chinese capital. But even people- bal the same probustoria | Africa.
with these directions that scene {factors the difference between the farcounty Muemover Hitrope Was A
could't possibly be put on a New pracassis, ob York stage. twu were only the more remark- frontinent
There are water fuble. Those differences night-te-land- which barely wanted carts-Peking, water carts, [resolved into two different types of for the diversity there while teia,
the scene, and where west of development. Thus, while the which was of a more di matained Suez could a water cart be coo- Chinese were distinguished by bar- mature geographically, male for
structed that would squeak and ing, proceeded on bomogeneous homogeneity,
spill water as efficiently as do lices European development bed There were many people who those in Peking. And the whole been characterised by its diversity.thought that the differences te scene could so easily be spoiled Mr. Lee then 287- some villtween Eastan! West works at by a stage director who had been Hiustration- to substantiate th.. as to make union impossible, fle to Japan and not to China and point. It was a remarkable thing thought. however. that while there was some different difference was rather more a mattering system were the same. And
assumed that al: Oriental sprinkl the art of painting as practised (of expressing than of fundmental that street scene of Mr. Maug- in the North and South this Couture. l'hists af enabunt were to ham's ende, as it should. with was the fread in the mysticism under wild Mongolians riding across on conifested in the varonis schools sing religion and it the spint of shaggy panies and finally camel [of painting in Europe.
train swaying slowly down the To produce that scene effectively Mr. Maugham would mas Lave to rent the circus tent and real; half the animal row!-Clare
Ousley, in the upandeertiser.
WH- Deser >
great a
that
the
the arti- which muld be a preciated by men of ether races. Chinese Sense of Unity.
Some might think that these were This same units was found in an entheent to affect the Chinese political ideas. Here was
bring about constantly found
the idea of harmony between East and West. monarchical rule quio: baad in He would print out, however, the band with much Local Government. immense resolution brought about But alwas the sense of unity was by improved methods of emunci too strong to allow much individual cation. Also, the same problems development.
of poverty were suffered by the How different was the state of Eastern worker and his Westere affairs in Europe in the political. brother alike whigh called for a philosophical and artistic apbétus eminun subutine. In conclusion,
street.
BANK PRESIDENT'S SUICIDE.
Difficulty of Collecting Accounts.
in the British Isles alone there was the lecturer saii there was much surprising diversity and the average which the Past mild learn from Englishman erud no more under- the West and the West from the
The honourable Chinese tradi- stand the political priomplaser De East in the common aim of their tion is that when a man cannot Valers in Ireland thna hé could of civilisations which was to bring pay his debts at the end of the Ghandi in India.
nint the witbordination of the year, be commits suicide. In The history of Europe brought indicidal will to the commen Japan they are ridding them-
but strongly the fact of national good while at
time salves of such notions, but it is olestage. Here again was a coc.allowing th. and vidund full embarrassing for creditors, and a trast, for whereas Europe bad legitimate expression developed on national lines, China A rute of thank to the lectures hvi proceeded more on civil lines by the Hon. Mr. H. F. Pollock Thus while the appeal in Europe Drought the proceflings to a close, in times of stress bad ally been made to antional antipathies in China the reverse was trun in China we were continually present-
THE NEW DELHL
The programme for the com-
ed with the spectacle of rivalspletion of the new Delbi sets the striving for national unity.
case bas just occurred where the creditor committed suicide be- cause the debtors failed to feel the des obligation. Mr. Hisanaga Tetsujiro, the president of the Chizuka Bank at Chizuka mura ia Fukuoka prefecture killed himself with a dagger at his own residence at one in the afternoon on the 1st. of Jequary. He is said
sanitation and irrigation arrange- Nationalism in Europe, however,ments and the railway diversion to bave been in despair through was not without its good side. It to be completed by October, 1924, the difficulty, owing to the de bad certainly tauch to do with that the Secretariat by October, 1925, pression of trade, of recovering diversity of development in which Government House October, 1926, money that the bank had len: out. Chios was lacking. Outbursts of the Legislative Chambers Janu-Japan Chronicle, creative energy in Europe har al- ary, 1926. Completion" means way accompanied a bigh state of ready for occupation. The dec- Dat osal feeling.
orative work
only on-
at Government Caruso, Elman, Kreislet, Melba Pachmane Mr. Lee then dealt with the House and other major buildings early history of the Chinese-bow most naturally. be a matter of in the earliest times they had time extending over several probably left. Eastern Turkestan decades.
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