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Whenever a Chinese scholar wants to account, for the failure of the republican experiment in China, he falls back upon the stock phrase: The people's understanding is not sufficient min fen-ti chih-alih pu kou. If one goes out into the highways and interviews the people as thoy come along thinkers, pedlars, coalies, soldiers, artisans, and small merchants-he will be in clined to agree with this verdict, for their appraisement of political Events in the Chinese official world- are pathetically childish.
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1926.
39 YEARS MARRIED.
LORD CHURCHILL TO SEEK
A DIVORCE:
Proceedings for divorce have baon instituted in the Court of Ses- sion at Edinburgh by Viscount Churchill, living at Langleo House, Galnahiels, against Venera Maud Viscountess Churchill, his wife, at present Hving in Rud St. Honore, Paris.
It is 39 years since Lord Chur- chill, now 62 years of age, married Lady Verena Lowther, a sister of the present Earl of Lonsdale, and a daughter of the third earl.
At the age of 12 he was a page of honour to Queen Victoria, bo-
At King Edward's coronation he was Lord Chamberlain, and at the coronation of the present King he acted as Master of the Robe.
In politics he has held office as he has been a colonel in the a Conservative Whip in the Lords; Guards and is a Prince of the Holy Roman Empire.
holds Grand Crosses in Prussian. Among many decorations he Portuguese. Italian Dutch and Greek orders of chivalry.
Yet these sanio uninformed peo-coming a Lord-In-Waiting in 1880. ple are the most accurate baro- meters, when one knows how to read them, registering infallibly the official altitude towards the foreigner in the community and presaging fair weather or storms for him after trifling and remote diplomatic disputes with China of which, one would be ready. 12. swear, they were totally ignorant. When the population of a com- munity like this is determined to be friendly or when it is openly hostlfe, one does not have to understand the language nor be familiar with the characteristic expressions on faces passed in the street, to know the temper of the people; but between laboured amiability and a frenzied display of contempt and hatred, there are degrees of friendliness, indiffer ence, sullen indifference, sup- pressed, dislike or contempt, atu- died but subtle impertinence and insult, and cautious abuse, which can only be read and appraised by one who is very familiar with the language, miners and faces mass of the Chinese community in which he lives.
Lady Churchill, who is a year younger than her husband, was in her younger days"a fearless rider to hounds.
She was the first society woman to cultivate a single curl on her forehead, thus setting a fashion which endured many seasons. Her reason was to hide a slight' scar on her forehead which she re- ceived when riding through n wood.
In 1900 she created a sonsution by "disappearing" with her son and two young daughters, and a reward of £5 was offered to London cabmen for information.
Two of her children had Queen Victoria for their god-mother, and her son. Following in the footsteps of his father, was Page of Honour to King Edward.
THE JOY RIDER.
Growing Hostility Visible. The greater part of the foreign population here has recently come to realize in, grieved surprise that Peking is becoming openly con- temptuous and insulth. From year to year this greater part of the foreign community has been oblivious to slow and cautious change in the temper of the pro- ple, keeping exact pace with the decline in diplomatic prestige, and HOW SIR ALAN COBHAM ROSE the comments of those who have returned from home leave, from time to time, calling attention to a
Some of the vicissitudes in the tenser atmosphere, have been eventful life of Sir Alan Cobham taken very, lightly. Now there is
were revealed in an address he no mistaking the fact that the Pe-gave recently at the Old Colony kingese are not only contemptuous Club, London, at a complimentary of the foreigner but have the cour-duner.
TO FAME.
age to be openly insulting. Some The Master of Sempill, who pré- groups in the street vilify you sided remarked that a lot had been when you pass, others burst into said about "Cobham's, Luck," but contemptuous merriment. Coo-there was no such thing. The rea- lies stroll "placidly in front of son for Sir Alan's success was that whatever yehicle you may happen he paid the most minute attention to be using, alow you up and to avery detail, and let nothing to smirk in what they think is a chance. supercilious manner. It is impos-. sible to travel a mile through the street without having at least a dozen of the street riff-rail look at you as though you wore some- thing nausenting and then spit with emphasis in the opposite direction. Soldiers sometimes spit at you, but the civilian has not quite risen to this courageous height.
Sir Alan Cobham said:"Short- ly after I was demobilised I met u fellow, and we decided to buy an aeroplane for joyriding. We had nominal, capital of £900... When wo started we had one Ford car, one aeroplane, a £300 bank overdraft, and a hammer.
"We went to our first joy ride show, and I shall always remember collecting the quids of people who The country folk move, more
wanted to fly. On the first day we slowly than the urban population, collected £45. It was extraodin but no less surely. A Legationary. We thought that we were on
the high road.to fortune.
GREEN ISLAND CEMENT Co., Ltd. employee who was here some years
ago and returned recently, is given "In five weeks we paid off all to riding alone through the coun- our overdraft, and had a very good tryside in all directions. He says balance in the bank. We had seve- that when he was formerly in Peral ups and downs after that and
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A Chinese Student's Fears.
This the optimists refuse to cre- dit, but with the past few days a Chinese returned student re marked with some agitation that Poking was in an extremely dan- gerous mood and that if the Can- tonese got near enough to make their propaganda têll in this com- munity, Peking would commit more barbarous excesses than any community in China. This man is not a Pekingese so he felt free to remark that, unlike the essen- tially timid and 'meek, though ex- citable, Southerners, these people are Tartars under their surface | veneer of suavity and good nature and revel in ferocity, once they are started. The same disturbing thought seems to have occurred to many foreigners, for there is general feeling throughout the community that we are in for something sensational in the very. fear futureRodney Gilbert.
(and, mind you, I never bought a tool) it took a railway truck to shift us. According to my part- ner, every nut and bolt we had was nine absolutely necessary. In months. we turned over £11,000, and carried about 10,000 passen. gers. Though we worked about 18 hours a day, my partner is still carrying on in the joyriding busi- ress."
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