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TUESDAY, JANUARY. 25 1927.
PROPAGANDA.
to getting the truth before the Chinese masses
To take Hongkong as a caso in
DAY BY DAY:
PRIZE DAY,
WORK, AHI THAT TALISMAN TO MR. A. E. WOOD ON CHINESE we have now put up three teams, raint, wo fear that hot nearly QUARD ONE AGAINST ONE'S SELF.-
hough is done, in the way of Bri-Mfrs, Campbell Praed,
P
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STUDIOS,
alko, encouraged. Owing to the lack' of a proper playground we regret to say that we cannot develope our games as we should wish. However,
namely, football,
And Fancy-ball,` basket-ball, Many
matches were played with other schools, and tish propaganda amongst the hun" Several letters on local school Although the school has only sometimes, we were lucky enough to
bocome winners. A ping-pong tour-" dreds of thousands of Chinese who results are unavoidably held over been in existence for about a year, nament was held in December insido
the first annual report of the Gov-the school with very keen competi reside in the Colony. The China until to-morrow..
ernment Vernacular School, which tion
Wo had four
picnica in the crisis appears now to be coming
was read at the prize distribution Peak Bay, one to Taipo, and ond
to Shatin, one to Castle to a hond, and for that reagon it
this morning, shows that it is be-Kowloon City. On each occasion over would be well were some organised
ing extremely well supported, and 100 students joined. is making good progress. The The health of the school has been effort made to keep the native po-
All the prizes were distributed by the gratifying on the whole.
nine classrooms of the school are now pulace fully acquainted with the
Director of Education, Mr. A. occupied, and we look forward hope- foreign standpoint. Despite the
Wood, and the school, which is fully to a successful future. situated just below King's College, vigilance of the authorities, it is
in the western district; was gaily inevitable that piolters and agita- While having two lighters Indecked out with Bags and flowers.
The Canadian Pacific Steam ships, Ltd., send us an attractive Chinese calendar,,
The British easel Agapenor, from Dairen and Shanghai, re- ports one case of suspected enteric fover.
your-one to
to
'MR. WOOD'S SPEECH," Prior to hunding the many and tors should be busy in our midat. tow, the steam launch Hopsang There was a large attendance of
varied prizes to the successful. scholars, Mr. Wood sald:--Mr, Li Is anything, on large and compre-collided with a cargo-boat in the those interested in Chinese edu-King-hong, gentlemen, and stu-" hensive liner, being done to counler harbour yesterday, No one was cational matters, including the dents.-It gives me great pleasure Hon. Dr. R. H. Kotewall, Dr. S. to come here to-day to present the W. Tao, Mr. Fung Ping-shan, and prizes at this, the first prize giv
their activities and to show to that peacefully-minded citizens
injured.
The only cases of notifiable dis- ease reported last week were four of typhoid fever, all non-fatal. The sufferers were two Chinese, a Portuguese and an Indian
by the
The health return for yester-Mr. Li Yau-chuen, they have nothing to fear from any day shows three cases of small- pox and one each of typhoid and repercussions of the China trouble? cerebro-spinal fever. All were Much. could be done by the whole-Chinese. sale distribution of pamphlets, in the Chinese language, promptly nailing down the lies circulated by our enemies, and in various other ways. Big developments are tak ing place Just now, and it would be wise and politic were some really organised movement begun to keep the facts, in their true relation to the general situation, well before the eyes of the Chinese massca.
The Liberal Split.
The old Liberal party at Home is getting deeper into the quar- mires of a "split" for, according to
. In our issue of yesterdy, we a British Wireless mésange yester-
**
A Chinese telegram received here from Shanghai this morning Wing On Company and the Lai states that the employees of the, Wah Company have resumed work,
and
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ing of the Vernacular Middle THE REPORT.
School. As the Hondmaster has already explained to you, the Theroport of the Head Mastor was as follows: It may be needless school includes not only Middle for me to point out that the establish School classes but also a Normal. ment of this school has been for the division and a Higher Primary di the Colony, as such a need has been advancement of Chinese education in vision. realized
Government and the ពង the
OBJECTS OF SCHOOL. " Chinese community. The great terest taken in its establishment may The object of the school is bo instanced
by the careful considera- threefold: it hopes to flon of its
turn out the Board of syllabus by the Education with H.E. the Governor
E the Governor young men equipped for a business headed by the Director of Education which Chinese studies have played altending, and by special canumitter life with sound education in
the Board, and the two Chinese mem-teaching of English has not been consisting of some members of the principal part, but practical born of the Legislative Council.
neglected, "Secondly, it aims at The first Entrance Examination was held in the Hall of Ellis Kadoorie producing good Chinese teachers School on March 4th and 6th, attend- for Vernacular Schools, and third- ed by 404 "candidates, rather only, it hopes to educate students in couraging number including some 80 such a manner that they will be students of the Confucian Middle able. School. For the benefit of sharing the University where
to pass On to the fresh; same stuff the Vernacular Normal
they will School for Mun, founded by the Goy-specialise in the study of ernment in 1921, was merged into the Chinese language, literature, his- Middle School. Subsequently, ut ita tory and philosophy. This is not commencement of work on March 6th this school comprised the Middle the place to talk about the pos- School Division, the Normal Division, sibilities of establishing a Chinese and the Higher Primary Division, Faculty in the University, but I amounting to a total of 142 students should like to take this opportunity of saying how much we, who are interested in this school, look for. ward to the establishment of such a Faculty.
The Royal Observatory reports that the monsoon will freshen again along the coast and over the North China Sea. The local forecant up till noon to-morrow is: North-east winds,
cloudy.
During the twenty-four hours ending ut nine o'clock this mor- hing, nine ships arrived and eleven departed, the British figures being four and three respectively. The total number of ships in harbour was sixty-two,
on roll.
2
FUTURE. HOPES.
of the
a
THE OLD AND NEW.
.
briefly commented on the censor-day, a new Libera! association is being formed under Viscount Grey ship of news at Harkow, the object and will be composed of all those of which is, without doubt, to keep who do not see eye to eye with Mr from the outside world any news Lloyd George. This is a fatal mis- regarding the situation there which take, we think, and will result in
the eclipse of the party as an ef
One of the chief objects is not to the liking of the Nation-fective parliamentary force for a
Emerging from a lane yester Middle School division is to prepare alists. Besides the mutilation of long while to come. If one goes day, A scavenging, motor-lorry was students for the newly-organized right buck to the origin of the run into by a lorry belonging to Chinese Dupartment of the University, Press messages, however, it up "split" one finds that long ago, in Messrs. A. S. Watson and Com- which, if it meets with sufficient
Arancial
It seems to me that we should be pears that Mr. O'Malleya despre-war days, Mr. Lloyd George pany. The former lorry was nancial support, will develop into patches have been subjected to con- was always thought to be a "dan-struck squarely and substantial rolment of the year was 150, and Ity, that we, here in Hongkong may Chinese Faculty. The maximum en- careful not to let slip any opportun- siderable delay-another circum-gerous" man even by the Liberals damage was caused to the vehicle average attendance 138.89, including, have, to preserve and perpetuate the attendance of 20 students who the tradition of profound Chinese stance which shows that the Chin. whom he so greatly assisted to put
back in power. He has always On his forthcoming return from have never been absent for ese authorities do not scruple in been in the van of the "forward" leave, Mr. W. G. Fitzgibbon, First the staff, in combination with that of sacrifice the modern spirit of re
During the first half of the year,
and yet. not to scholarship, the methods they adopt to gain section of the party and has not Clerk in the Colonial Secretariat, the Normal School, consisted of three search, but to combine in a happy hesitated to criticise everything is to be transferred permanently Arts graduates, two holders, of the their own ends. We may be sure; which, according to his very liberal to the post of Secretary, P.W.D., Chinese doctorate degree, ons Chunaze, degree the old culture with newer also that side by side with these code, conflicts with what should be which position he held for eighthree trained teachers, and four comparative methods. It is ob activities there is a good deal of the truly progressive trend. He
getting suitable
in view of the ordinary Matricula- Kuomintang propaganda going on house" and all his war-time ser-
has never been forgiven for "Lime- Home.
teachers at short notice in March, tion requirements would have to be seven."members of the and that no effort is being spared vices, grant and prodigious as they Resealing of probate of "the were in part-time service. But at modified, and accordingly a special to distort the British attitude in were, have not succeeded in wash- will of Mr. Andrew Burman, for-present five of these part-time poats Matriculation Syllabus has been ing out his past sins of being too merly of Shanghai, who" died at have been convorted into three full-drawn up and approved by the Uni- the present crisis in China.
time posts. The school has lost liberal. Viscount Grey, has grown Chelston, Torquay, on
authorities. In versity October gent deal by the resignation of Dr.
4.
day
teen months before proceeding dificulty
assistant musters, Owing to the vious that with such specialisation
Staf
this
old and, perhaps, a little more con-28th, 1926, has. bean granted to Au Tui Tin at the end of the year syllabus the English language, and servative. And so has Lord Ox- Mr. G. G N Tinson, of Messra,in order to take up a new appoint- subjects taught in English, have
ment at the University.. ford and many other-great-past-Johnson-Stokes-and-Master The Liberala. It is almost a tradition late Mr. Burman left an estate of that the Liberal party should lose £43,743.3.6. in the United King- men as they grow old and less men-dom, while his Hongkong estate tally virile, but Mr. Lloyd George amounted to $17,790. i.
temporarily housed in three places-paramount place.
From March to July the school was important though nota the Middle School Division in Ellis in connection with the teaching of Kadoorie School, the Normal Division English, it is very desirable that in Nos. 9 and 10, Wing Wah Terrace, part of the instruction should be and the Higher Primary Division in
room for a
seems to be one of those men who has retained all his youthful ar
the temple opposite the back gate of given by a teacher whose mother The various police stations were Ellis Kadoorie School. In September tongue is English, and I hope that dours for reform and so he goes on warned this morning in connecthe school was removed to its present it will always be possible to make
the matshed "blundering" about much to the antion with an armed robbery which premises where
vas provision accordingly. I am very damolished to make woyance of older men who ought to occurred, at half-past ten o'clock, covered playground. A word of pleased to have this occasion of have dropped out. And, as Mr. in Chee Wo. Street Yaumat. thanks should be given here for the thanking publicly Mr. Fung Ping Lloyd George, is very powerful and Police officers are working on the readiness and generosity of the Hend Shan and Mr. Li Yik Mu and
of Ellis Kadooric School, Mr. B. J. still leads a large section of the case, and the only details available
da Rome, in meeting our needs
through them a body of gentlemon Liberal Party and has lots of funds are to the effect that the robbers regard to temporary use of class known to us as the pan hok fun, for political purposes, his former succeeded in escaping after hold-rooms and school furniture. The for the generous financial help centreres break away and forming up the inmates of the house, school is no less indebted to the they have given to this school. Mr. their own' association. They are and stealing a quantity of pre-School for their generosity in trans-Fung and Mr. Li have shown an
Council of the Confucian Middle going to remain Liberals; they say,perty.
ferring to us their library, science ap-untiring interest in its welfare. but they do not want to be in the
paratus and school furniture. sane, company as that arch-libéral
HEADMASTER COMPLIMENTED.
We are all acquainted with the | Moscow-inspired propaganda which "has been-disseminated from Canton for a very long time past, and we know that wherever the Nationalist armies have gone the paid agitators of the Kuomintang have been busy trudging the name of Britain and all things. British. The Kuomin- tang has certainly nothing to learn in the sphere of propaganda, thanks to the organisations built up with Russian advice and money, and Britain has suffered much from the deliberate mis-state ments which have been broadcast in China during the past year and a | half. Unhappily, there has not been much done in the way of counter-propaganda, at any rate here in the South. In Shanghai, we understand, there are several very active organisations which sec to it that the other side of the story Is told. By means of pamphlets, placards on tramcurs, street orators
Paris and other means, the native popu- Brussels Ince is kept acquainted with facts Amsterdam
Berlin as they are, and much good work is Copenhagen
Vienna done in this way to offset the lies Helsingfors circulated by the enemies of Lisbon
Buenos Aires the, Powers in general and Britain | Sha:
Shanghai in particular. Britishers general. Yoko
Yokohama Athens .... ly, we fear, are given rather too New York much to belloving that the justice
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Lloyd George. That is a vast mistake, for they would bo better out of the party. How Liberalism can hope thus to be effective at the polls, we most certainly cannot see.
EXCHANGE RATES. ··
London, Jan. 24.
1227/16 .84.91 .12 144
U.S. SUSPICIOUS.
GENEROUS GIFTS.
with
As you have hear from the Massrs. Fung Ping Shan and Li Yik Headmaster they have been asso ernment in conjunction with Dr. S. Wan Man Kai in a Government ap- Mui have been appointed by the Gov. ciated with Dr. S. W. To and Dr. W. Tso and Dr. Wan Man Kai, mem-pointment designod to further the bers of the Education Board as "Hok Timp of
of the school. Their keen in- interests of the school, and to all terest taken in the school has been these four gentleman I wish to ex- much appreciated. In the name of a press my hearty thanks for their body of Chinese gentlemen interest co-operation. I should like also to ed in our school, Messrs. Fung Ping Shan and Li Yik Miui generously of say a word of appreciation of the fored to contribute $1,000 towards the work of the Headmaster, Mr. Li first year's expenses and also free King Hong, who has admirably The latter shipment was the first scholarships of $30 each annually contended with the difficulties of
GOLD BULLION SHIPMENTS "FROM FRANCE.
New York, Jan. 24. A twenty million dollar shipment of bullion arrived from France on Saturday, following closely the ar: rival of a four million dollar con- signment earlier in the week.
20.48 since the war and in some quarters (being $24 for fees and $0 for books)
to a maximum of 50.
18.21 the opinion is held that this is the every year.
94.-13
initial step in an attempt by France
scholarships setting a new institution on its
fect, a task in which his staff has While bouned in th
separate loyally supported him. to return to the gold standard with-places the school experienced gome
I remember that in 1924 when I difficulty in keeping discipline, but 40.7/18 out a Franco-American debt settle in the second half of the year, dis- was in the Secretariat for Chinese 2/6% ment and without revalorisation of cipline improved when better super Affairs, my old friend Dr. Kote- 2/01/16- the franc.
972
06.20
Later.
It is now announced that the 116 bullion shipment from France was 18.10 not one of twenty million dollars, 19.02 but of $1,200,000.-Reuter:
100% 29.70% 5.13/16 1/0.3/82 12/0 267/16 20.8/10 Drittel Wireless."
Genova ที่โลก of their cause will, in most cases,
Stockholm carry its own propaganda, but the Fre
Prague time has come when we must ad
Madrid Rio realise the power of the printed Bombay.
Hongkong mesange and, the spoken word in Silver (spot) putting our cares before those Silver (forward) whom we wish it to reach. The newspapers can, and do, accomplish The forthcoming wedding ie
great deal along these lines, but announced of Dr Seck Wah
phoon, residing at No. 41 ́A, Bon- their efforts need to be supplement-ham Bond, to Miss Buon Lan-chan, ed by other agencies when it comes of No. 1, St. Stephen's Lane,
vision became possible.
wall, discussed with me the pos- With regard to studios special pro- gress has been made in Confucian sibility of starting a Government been cultivated especially in the Nor- kong.. Little did I think then that ethics, Literary taste in Chinese has Chinese middle school in Hong mal Division, but both written and within three years I should have spoken English loaves much room for the privilege which is mine to-day improvement The school find the
the
honour of being inspected by H.E. of being present at the first-prize- Shanghai, Jan. 24.
dational and the Director of giving of such a school as this.
on March 22nd and by the The respons of the public, indicat Though the bus employees Director, of struck a few days ago through fear and 6th and Septembar 23rd. In Dued by the large number of applien- of molestation by the tramway comber four normal students sat for tions for admission, is gratifying. men, it is reported that they are their final oxomination conducted by I shall not detain you longer but now arranging to present demanda 4 Government Examiner, and two conclude by wishing teachers and to the management.
were successful..
SPORTHE.......
The tramway men returned t work this morning, and the service is gradually getting back to nor-ball and ping-pong are the most popu
Of school aporte football, volley- mal-Router.
lar." Basket-ball and swimming are
pupils a picaannt holiday and a how strenuous year of successful offort
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