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Beiglum owes the United States $480,508,983 in principal and in- terest. funding of this loan will leave Brussels for Washington on July 29. On the eve of its departure Belgian newspapers are attacking Americn, charging Belgium has been forced to acknowledge this debt in order to secure another $100,000,000 loan.
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The appearance of Russia in Buildings or personalities, hie Chine instigating and using toric associations or living indi-Chinese disorder in the interests viduals?
of Bolebevist policy, is, from the It would be difficult to deter-Japanese point of view, a signi- mine which of these made the ficant event, writes a Times cor- greatest impression, upon one respondent lately in Japan. "bunch" of those 800 American Twenty years ago Russian on- atudents who have invaded these croachment on China, caused the shores to obtain a direct nequain-Russo-Japanose War. It is tance with the England which Japan's settled policy, dictated by hitherto has been but a vague her vital interests, to appose any
"Are we vasinis inquires the word-picture to them, says the extension of foreign control in
Another journal, Nation Belge. Daily Chronicle.
Eastern Asia. Russia is again For nine hours one day recently encroaching on China. The me the Vingtieme Siecle, belleves it they indulged in the pastime of thod is new; territorial spoliation is not unreasonable to think that "rubbering" (the noun of which is out of date and economio pene America went into the war in or tration out of roach, so pehatra-der to "protect its accounts." It is rubbernecks, 1.2. sightseers)tion by propaganda has been seems outrageous to the Belgian Stoke Poges, Windsor and Hamp-invented and used with, from the mind that old debts should be no ton Court; and lacidentally they Moscow point of view, satisfactory much as admitted before, new obtained their first comprehensive results. It is obvious that any loans are granted. Burvey of London,
foreign Power which tries to According to this kind of Bel- must Except for a handful of males, the exploit China for its own political glan reasoning, America
saved the Belgians from "bunch" was composed of girls with or economic ende must come into have a varied taste in blanket coats, conflict with Japan. Perceiving starving, freezing and death by industrious pencils" and pens and this, the Russian Bolshevista hava disease during the German occu- tried to focus against England pation to preserve them alive and loose-leaf notebooks.
If they an agitation which began in a "protect ita accounts." Japanose mill.
are right, the Belgian rellef pour- The manoeuvTO makes noted its millions through the Ger- Upon the pages of the latter they endeavoured to inscribe the essential difference in the situa-man lines to keep American deb- Doubt- facta of history as recited by the tion. It is not Bolshevist ani-tors and "vaseuls" alive: Kuides. But while hustle is re- mosity against England with less that must have been the rea- Arme- puted to be an American habit, which Japan bas to reckon, but son why we fed the Austrians, when applied to history it disclos- Russian influence in China. It la Germans, Poles, Greeks, ed serious defects. "And the re-being used just now to embroil nians and Russians when Ameri- tailers of guide-books were rail-China with a-Western. Power. can food and money were all that
European quarrels are carr'ed to stood between them and death. ed to supply the deficiency. the Far East, and helpless China Such utterances are inexcusable.;
In the course of their two is press-ganged into the fight. months' tour of Europe their cel-}, Japan has a vital concern in all lection of literature of this kind this and her policy becomes of will assume enormous proportions, immediate importance.. if yesterday's experience is to be trusted..
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The chimney-pots. Beauty of the gardens, No rain; and No fog.
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They cannot be explained away: by charging them to politicians. The people of Belgium "make and unmake their politicians.
clothed. Belgian who was fed, housed and kept alive in 1914-1917 by American efforts is doing the voting in Belgium to-day. If poli ticians make such charges and newspapers utter them, it is be- cause of Belgians who support them.
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CHANGING CHINA.
STYLES IN THE PAINTING TRADE?
Fifteen or twenty years ago Nanking painters adhered strictly to the craft handed down to them from time immemorial. The paint,
place to foreign paint.
Nanking painters also paint big illustrated advertisements on tin sheets mounted on wooden frames" are fre-
a signboard or an
Japan's policy in China' da- pends on a fow simple but quite The "-er-airy produced at fundamental interests. Those Jeast one surprise for them. interests do not conflict in any Open-mouthed, they stared at the essential point with the interests Bilk hats of the Eton boys.uf Great Britain, the United Sta- Never before had they seen any-tes, and the Treaty Powers gene thing to compare with that spec rally, but the Soviet's now forward tacle and out came, the note-policy in China menaces them as It is too bad America cannot bel boules!
lkamionely nu did the old. Trust the Old World's perennial Christ-
Nanking painters used to be And when one Etonian, with encroachments. Japan's first
It is said that we can-1 mas tree.
paid by contract. usually about slight down upon his upper lip. interest as her qwn security. She not offer to pay all the costs of
$30 for a cigarette company ad- was induced do stand still, hand nos rooled out the Russian and the war and continue to support
vertisement with slight variations cameris "slot" the amazing youth, German armed, has in China, Europe in the style to which she
according to the skill of the pain- to an ecstatic chorus of "Uh, say and has made it clear that she has been accustomed. It is un-
ter.. At present, the companies d'you mind?" "Well, back home will permit no more to be ostah-
and shops generally pay the pain- For they'll sure be pleased with that?lished. She cannot allow China's fortunate that the American tax- weakness to be exploited for anpayer is growing weary of carry-
ters on a daily wage basis. and "Ain't he just too cute?"
extorsion of foreign politicaling the interest charges that
instance whenever a company de- No Rajn! No Fog. power, either by the permeation of Europeans, should be carrying.
Since we are, after seven years,
sires to make Comparisons with conditions on Power or by the rivalties of
Soveral. The sphere of in-growing a bit, impatient in the role
illustrated advertisement, it hires a number of painters from a shop, neross the Atlantic were constant fluence" policy is dead; the por-jof Santa Claus and Chief Easy they used was Chinese varnish.. ly jerked out, and the chief novel- mention policy is the new danger, Mark of the World, Europe is The change in popular taste for always including the proprietor, She has expanded by develop-out, not to love us any more. Is foreign style buildings and furni- the latter oftentimes being the ing modern industries
and gratitude, after all, then, no more ture, however, has created a de- most skilled hand in the establish- exchanging their products for than a lively sense of more favours mand for a new craft in painting ment, and pays them so much a which the Nanking painters have day. The wages are about $35 food and raw materials. She does to come? not as yet import much food, Wise old Polonins! He sum-been able to meet in a most credit a month for the proprietor, $39 month for the foreman, who "Friends who had visited Lon- except in bad rice years. She med it all up in "Neither a barable manner. In painting foreign don," explained a Middle West must import such vital raw ma- rower or a lender be" Nations style furniture and buildings, directs the gang and plans the student, "said it was always rain terials as iron and cotton; she are like men. Polonius knew. Chinese varnish has now given sketches of the pictures, and $20 for the sectional painters each of ing, or if not there was a fog.depends on Chinese sources for Philadelphia Ledger. They never said "a word about ironère and coking coal.
whom paints a particular part, or your gardens. I guess you Eng-China sho solle roughly one-third
section of the picture by following lish have got something to rave of hor total export,
the directions of the foreman, This pay includes food, which the about in this old city of yours. I third goes to America in raw silk.ble patriotic opinions which they These advertisements never saw such flowers, nor so Tho greatest development of have no means of translating into quently seen at the street corners painters must buy for themselves.1 many chimney-pots. But listen! Japan's foreign trade for the past government.
in Nanking, erected by eigarette Character-painting is still paid Why do you pronounce Har-wich decade has been with China, and China's history for 50 centuries companies, big silk dealers and by contract, the charge varying "Harrich and War-wick War- circumstances are canalizing it has been punctuated with perioda importers of watches and clocks. with the size of the characters. rick'? I cant get that." in that direction. Tafiff's exclude of chaos. Dynasty has followed Each of the advertisements invari. A dollar a character is charged for A dubinus her manufactures from the great dynasty; revolts have plunged ably contains an illustration of the. those painted on the walls to re- One girl achieved distinction through being admo-market of America their cheap the people in misery; no method
The painter is present the signboard of un inn, nished by the sergeant of the nose is an advantage in the poor of adjustment has ever heen de goods advertised. guard at Windsor "Cassel" for markets of Asia. Japan's, peces vised; China has had to await put to the most severe test when with an extra charge for any ad- posing too close to a sentry; and sities are her interests in China. the slow emergence of a victor, he is called upon to paint auch ditional small characters.
Her economic life depends on Can we expect something to bap advertisements as contain, for in- charge includes the paint supplied another stulent, when shown the the free and regular exchange of pen now for which Chinese his- stance, a package, of cigarettes of by the painter."
commodities with China. Her tory shows neither precedent nor the "Great Wall" brand, in which Poges. Church ingenuously inquir-capacity to maintain the standard preparation? A conference would the scenery perspective and de- a Nanking painter is three years. ed, "You don't say? Was he theef living' of her poople depends ont be the signal for agitation, and tails of Wall must be faithfully After three months' training, the of apprentice is given a monthly al- the development of the Chinese demonstrations. Concessions produced. market more than upon any other would be.ropresented as having this kind often cover a space of lowance of $1 in addition to free single factor. Japan has, there-been extorted by agitation, and over ten feet square and the board and lodging. In the second fore. substantial and reasonable mors would follow. The Fowers lastrations they bear seldom fail or the third year, when the ap- cause for objecting to foreign could make concessions.
Some to represent a faithful replica of prentice can work independently, agitations which interfere with Chinese could profit by them. The the pictures on the cigarette pack his monthly allowance is increased normal trade.conditions.
problem of government would be ages, hundreds of times magni- to $2 or $3. But not all the ap- prentices can master such tech- nique aa picture drawing or The Japanese would consider
a three The Nanking painter is not character writing after The Japanese, who know China a more practical method to be the best, have little faith in the power support of that aspirant to power only a pictorial artist but a calli- years' apprenticeship. These ac- In handling complishments are never acquired At an examination held recently of a number of Chinese to settle who
seemed to have the grapher, as well. by Dr. Gawler the following the government of China by con- best prospect of setting up advertisements of some Japanese by a majority of the Nanking members of the Indian Division ofference. The Chinese people a stable government. Chang Tso companies which advertise patent painters during their life time. the St. John Ambulance Brigade know nothing about, representa lin has certain qualifications medicines like the "jintan", the Only from 20 to 80 per cent, of passed the Efficiency Test and are tive government, and are not in a which command respect. He has characters, partly in Chinese and them can paint pictures, Chinese certified as qualified to render condition to learn. Ninety-nine governed Manchuria successfully, partly in Japanese, are often of characters or even Roman letters.
A single charac- Those who fall short of such ac-: "First Aid to the Injured:"-A, R. per cent. are illiterate, and there Ho is at the moment the strongest enormous size.. Minu, M. Hussain, M. Farid, M. is no way by which they can be of the military leaders. If beter sometimes measures ten feat, complishments remain
The cigarette companies hands throughout their lives. A Sabhan, T. Hamet, M. Y. Razack, given a comprehension of public loame to an understanding with square. M. R. Abbas, H. Hoosen.
Issues.
Wu Pai-fu he could climate Feng and silk dealers do not, lag be- common hand is generally employ Chine, in the 5,000 years of her and gontrol Northern and Centra hind in this kind of advertising.ed in painting furniture and the existence, has never Bottled such China. The "Red" Government In some of their advertisements, wood work of the buildings at a questions by conference. Who is of Canton would be a problem, the characters are often equal in daily wage of $0.80 or so with to be included? The military but all the problems of China size to those used by the Japanese board. There are about 100 paint- barons who have reduced China cannot be settled at once; If companies. Characters of smaller ing shops and 700 painters in to hor prosent state? They are Chinose Government existed size, which also require the ser- Nanking-Chinese Economie Bul- not even trying to establish por-which could maintain its auth-vices of the painter, are written letin. sonal dominious; most of them ority in the north and contro a on the walls to represent the sign-
pew of William Penn in Stoke
fount'n pen inventor?"
ST. JOHN AMBULANCE
BRIGADE.
AN EFFICIENT DIVISION.
Dr. Millward was the Surgeon Instructor.
All members of this Division (Indian) are now efficient.
CHINESE APATHY,
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Wilfrid Rhodes, who for several merely amase fortunes and retire long stop would have been taken board of a hotel or an ordinary winte:s hus been in India acting with their millions to the security towards rehabilitation. In hold- shop. These characters some that the King, har ordained by as congh for the Maharajah of of a treaty port. The politicians ing suob views the Japanese may times occupy a space of eight or letters patent that the county Patiala, does not intend to go out of Paking represent only them have less than our faith in the nine square feet each. In paint borough of Stoke-on-Trent shall this year. Kilner and another solves and their wants; they would power of conferences, but they Yorkshire professional will pro- sell themjalvos or China with have an instinctive knowledge of ing such big characters, the pain boa ofty styled "the Olty of Stoke- bably undertake the 'duties which alaority. The students under- what is practicable in China, and ter first outlines the seleton of on-Trent, and that the Mayor, in previous years have boon un- stand neither the outside world the opinion indicated hero la so- cach character, secondly, he traces aldermen, and burgesses chall dertaken by Rhodes and Hirst, nor the Chins of the 400,000,000 borly and seriously held by many out the outlines of the different be styled "the Mayor, alderman, Rhodes and Kilner, and Rhodes pocsants. Officials, bankers, and Japanese who have given the strokes in fine, faint lines and and citizens of the city of Stoka-
then paints the characters. and Robinson,
business mon would utter sensi- question their best thought.
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