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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 27, 1927.
OUR UNIVERSITY.
WEDNESDAY,
APRIL 27, 1927.
DAY BY DAY.
ENGINEERS ARE THE PIONEERS OF
CHINESE IN MOSCOW.
BEING TAUGHT "NEW GOSPEL."
Ir
He Very Idea!
A languid lady drifted into a dog-dealer's shop and looked round vaguely.
"I want a dog," she said. "I
sent three Faculties which does not suffer from being understaff- ed, the time, of the tutorial body being almost wholly taken up with CIVILISATION, AND THEY ARE FROM the actual routine of teaching,THE VERY NATURE OF THEIR CALL- ING, EMPIRE-BUILDERS IN A WAY leaving little time for that re-wrich MEMBERS OF NO OTTER PRO director of the Matin, who is on M. Jules Sauerwein, foreign search and enquiry which is 80FESSION CẦN BE―James G. Inglis, his way via Russia to China has don't quite know the sort of dog essential a part of a seat of learn-
contributed to his paper at least I don't know what they're There were two Chinese cases striking description of the Chin- called. A bead rather like a bull- ing. There is no need here to re-
of typhoid fever reported yester-ese University at Moscow, to dog, you know, and the rest liko capitulate all the needs made mani.
a fox-terrior. only rather shaggy day.
which M. Rudek, its "Rector," fest by the report, but one cannot
gave him admission, writes the hair and funny markings. Do you London correspondent of the keep any dogs like that?" read it through without realising
"No, mum," said the shopkeeper that the present Vice-Chancellor
Yorkshire Post,
emphatically. "We drown 'em." and his staff have a very clear
There once was a'fellow called iden regarding the ideal institu-
Tate tion into which our University should develop. There is a ready recognition that educational work
The Ben Line sa. Bentinnes from England, vin ports, is due here on
Monday.
He attended one of the lectures, sitting among a crowd of Chinese The P. and O. s... Malwa is ex-students of both sexes, who, in- pected from Shanghal early oncluded the son of the Nationalist Friday morning.
Général, Chiang Kai-shek, and the son and daughter of the "Chris- tian" General Feng. Almost all students were Southern Chinese,
A thief entered No. 6 Gutzlaff is always more or less a disap-Street on Monday night and stole $115 belonging to a Chinese-tenant, pointment to those who are engag-named Henry Lewis.
The weather forecast issued by the Royal Observatory up till noon
is: "Light to-morrow
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Who dined with a mate at
eight-eight,
But I cannot now state what the fellow called Tate And the mate ato at eight
eight tete-a-tote.
Boy of fifteen at Willesden; 1 in spoke to father, and of course he
The most interesting feature of M. Sauerwein's description relates to the views expressed to him by some of the Chinese students who could converse French. They explained that in took my advice. French, German, or American
Bow debtor: I have no time to high schools they could get admit- The 9.3. Empress of Asin which tedly a magnificent education, but work; is all taken up with making tue here from Shanghai toit would not resolve their primary arrangements with my pressing
winds, fine to cloudy."
morrow afternoon at four o'clock, will berth at Pier No. 5, Kowloon wharf.
ed in it-the possibilities are so immense, the achievements 80 meagre, but it is true to say that pur University here has always had to live from hand to mouth in a manner that has neither add-is ed to its dignity nor smoothed its working. There is a well-inten- tioned pointer in the Vice-Chancel lor'a remark that "it is surely not a matter of indifference to British.. ers, who live or are interested in China that the British University of Hongkong is at this moment probably the only University in
A Chinese coxswain, employed on this part of the world which is the lighter Sam Pat Yat, was re- carrying on its work in peace."moved to the Government Civil Hos pital yesterday, with head injuries There is a solid foundation some-received by falling into the hold of where, werthy of all the support the lighter. that can be given i
Indiscriminate Shooting.
noon.
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A man. at Willesden addressed
Mr. Samuel Pope, the Clerkenwell magistrate: Routine and red tape are things I detest.
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problem, which is economic. It creditors. was explained to Mr. Sauerwein that, though the parents of the
Motor-car driver at Bow County majority of these children own Court: A miracle occurred directly II. E. the Governor has accepted little properties, they are practi- after the accident-a policeman ar- an invitation to attend the annual cally all so hopelessly encumber-rived. meeting of the Hongkong Generaled with debts that the interest on Chamber of Commerce to be held mortgages, combined with high in the City Hall to-morrow after-taxation, consumes 80 per cent. of the policeman who arrested him as
their meagre revenues. There- "Friend."" fore, when he asked why they were sent to Moscow, they replied, "Because we must find a remedy." The Remedy. That remedy, as inculcated by Radek, is "liberation from the oppression of forcin capitalism; then deliverance of small proper- ties from the tyranny of the money-lender; and then, finally, social reconstruction." The Mos- cow teaching thus appears to offer them a "new gospel," a solution f the pressing every-day problem confronting them in almost every village, and this interests them more than discussions about Con-shingled and bobbed. fucianism, towards which, says 11. Sauerwein, they display the pro- foundest indifference.
This morning's Harbour Office return gave 17 arrivals and 23 de- partures, of which nine and seven There respectively were British. remain 66 vessels in harbour, of which 23 are British.
A fuki, employed at a Chinese imports and exports office at No. 210 Wing Lok Street, is alleged to have disappeared with $6,000 which was to have been paid over to the San Tung Yick shop at Bonham
500 There are At present students, including 50 girls, but
Woman at a midland court: I
live with my sister-Solicitor:
Woman: No, only my husband. es any one else live in the house?
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A City hat-shape maker, who was
Court yesterday for not paying his summoned at the Guildhall Police rates, said that his business was ruined by women having their hair
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The intest from the classroom :— Teacher-"What is meant by the phrase 'a bolt from the blue."
Pupil (after some cogitation)—
The firing by a Southern battery on a United States warship on the Yangtze, reported yesterday, and of which the last has evidently In referring to the report which not been heard, marks one of the most serious of such events that has just been published on the have occurred during the past few working of the University of months. The shooting in this case
is described as being apparently | Strand East. Hongkong we would like to con- deliberate and malicious." and it
M. Radek declared that he ex-"Running away from the police. gratulate the Vice-Chancellor, certainly appears to have been a
Sub-Inspector A. Nicoll, trathcpected the Chinese eventually to between £400,000 and Mr. W. W. Hornell, on his very case of wanton provocation. fupolice, Kowloon, is going on Home provide frank and candid review of the had a report of the British gun-Mars. He is making the journey versity.
leave to-morrow by the s.s. Anyo 5500,000 for a much larger Uni- real position of the University as boat Cockchafer being fired upon vin America. During his absence in institution of learning. "The with riffes, the snipers being his deputy will be acting Sub- Vice-Chancellor has now said pub-silenced with the vessel's machine-Inspector A. W. Smith.
Kuna. There was a time when
our issue of yesterday we also
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licly what a great many people Such incidents were considered At the Marine Court this morn- have been thinking and saying privately, namely, that ou Uni- versity is still under-equipped, under-staffed and not nearly well
ing, Lo Lin, the steersman of a trading junk, pleaded guilty to a charge of mooring his craft inside the Cable Reserve at Douglas hart, and was fired $15, with the alternative of two weeks' imprison- ment.
tantamount to acts of war, and the gravest view was taken of them. The public, learning o this kind of defiance of another nation's 'fing, would only a year or two ago have been all agog as provided with funds enough to what would follow. Often, perform all that is to be expected such incidents were glossed over from a University so uniquely by the Chinese authorities of
Consequent on a severe beating former days with, the excuse that situnted as here in Hongkong. irresponsible rebels or brigands a little Chinese boy was admitted In the past there has been much were the culprits and an apology into the Government Civil Hospital on theor indemnity were sufficient to suffering from injuries to the legs The boy's step-mother, who is al- end the mattor. So serious has
leger to have administered the chastisement, is being held by the fore the magistrate. police, pending her appearance be-
praise justly bestowed
CORRESPONDENCE.
A RAMBLING CLUB.
(To the Editor, Hongkong Telegraph.1
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DISARMAMENT.
DISAPPOINTING END TO
DISCUSSIONS.
Geneva, April 26. The session of the Disarmament has closed. Count Committee Bernstoff, speaking to journalists, declared that the various Govern- menta, by their instructions to their delegates, had shown very little zeal for the disarmament proposals submitted.
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A writer un masculine etiquette states that if you are not invited to leave your but in the hall "you will keep it in your hand. You will never, of course, keep it on your head while in the house."
Other useful don'ts for hat- wearers are: (a) Don't drop your cigarette in it; (b) don't sit on it; and (e) don't hurl it about the room unnecessarily,
Nearly 100,000 people per week in Great Britain need examination for spectacles. Mr. Owen Aves.
Might not community singing be practised in Cabinet meetings to cultivate a little more harmony?- Mr. R. A. Taylor, M.P.
Once this country gets into its He foreshadowed only a slight head that battleships are no use change in their armaments as a re- the security of trade und the sult of the committee's labours, and Dominions of this Empire will this would disappoint public opin vanish,-Vico-Admiral Sir A. E, M. ion, which was awaiting real dis- Chatfield. armament.
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"It is now established," says the Chemical Age, "that detonation in engine using liquid fuel is of chemical crigin, being due to the formation of organic peroxides which become concentrated in the unclear drops during compression, and ignite them simultaneously when the detonation temperature of the peroxide is reached."
Apply that principle to the ques- tion of whether waitresses in cafes should have their hair bobbed, and the problem is solved.
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"What are you studying now?” asked the rich mother.
"We have taken up the subject of molecules," answered her son.
"I hope you will be very atten- tive, and practise constantly," she This was why the British re-said. "I tried to get your father presentative at Geneva had pro to wear one, but he could not keep
posed to deal first with that Ride
management of the University, on the anti-foreign. demonstration the various Vice-Chancellors and been in the past few months, how on the hard-working staff of pro-ever, that one's perspective of such events has quite altered, and fessors, lecturers, etc. There has the tendency is almost to accept
The Political Department of the The League of Nations would been much creditable achievement these occurrences, as part of the and it would be wholly false and general Chinese uurest. Obvious Army Headquarters at Shanghai lose its authority if it failed in this task. The world, was awaiting ly, however, such deliberate, and has issued orders to organize a erroneous to assume that when the indiscriminate attempts to kill "Ching Tang" Movement-that is, security by disarmament. The As- present Vice-Chancellor is indulg-foreigners, which are in contraven-to clear out all radical elements sembly of the League, and the ing in criticism he is doing any-tion of all international rights, from the Kuomintang-in all the public opinion of the world, must cannct be permitted to continue, schools and colleges of Shanghai.influence the Governments, so that a result might be reached.--Renter. thing other than indicating the and a point has been reached All students refusing to join such
Air Armaments Problem. way of further progress.
London, April 26. And where the Chinese troops, what a movement are to be ousted, says
Speaking at a banquet given by the value of the present report, ever side they may be fighting for, the Canton Gazette.
must be taught that firing on the fires annual report since the foreigs ships is an act calling for
By order of the Special Commit the Government to members of University was opened in 1912, lies immediate and drastic punitive tee of the Canton Government the the International Conference on mass meeting scheduled for Mon-Air Navigation, Sir Samuel Hoare, in the courage with which the in-measures.
day was postponed until to-day. the Secretary for Air, said we in England had hitherto taken the The meeting will partake of a stitution's needs are stated and
double purpose.
In addition to view that the best hope of success present shortcomings confessed.
celebrating the suppression of the for restriction of air armuments An annual report which confined
extremists from the Party, the was to move step by step rather than to attempt at once a solution itself to a mere recital of facts
meeting will also celebrate the re- and figures would, in the present
moval of the Nationalist capital of a great and complicated pro- to Nanking.. circumstances, have been of little inspiration, but that now publish- ed by the Vice-Chancellor tells of requirements, indicates the main
Sir, I am most interested in lines of future development" and
"Rambler's" letter of yesterday. rives one the picture of an ideal
A Rambling Club would be toward which our University must very useful institution, and pro- ever aim if it is fully to justify bably also quite entertaining. I
agree with him that Summer is a caught in the compound of Queen's with us. They wished rather that its foundation.
simultaneously Brussels good walking time, for there is no College as a result of a special all questions connected with air Paris Whatever else it does, Hongkongnecessity to walk in the hottest watch being kept subsequent to armamenta
Copenhagen University maintains a uniformly part of the day, and I have gone the occurrence of a number of taken into account. In deference Amsterdam
Vienna more walks during the hot thefts from the College, were to their wishes the British Govern- Berlin high standard in its examinations,
weather than in the winter-charged with trespassing beforement had modified its original
position.
Lisbon Major C. Willson this morning. and it is stated that work has alYours, etc..
"None the less, dangerous lost it. It was stated that when discover. ways been handicapped by the fact
ed, after six o'clock last night, the will be found that when in the Bucharest clder boy was supporting his com-final stages of treaty the actual Buenos Aires
the that the majority of the students
numbers of Shanghai panion on his shoulders, in a posi-question enter the University ill equipped
tion which suggested that they machinee comes to be settled, this Yokohama In the practical use of the Eng-
Sir,I have read "Rambler's" were endeavouring to enter the widening of the problem will force New York lish language. That is a remin-suggestion as to a Rambling Club first floor of the building by climb the nations to put in very high Gonova demands for their own require- Milan der to the feeder schools and col with very much interest and iting the waterspout.
Defendant's explanation for this menta, or will stifle the whole Stockholm
Prague Madrid leges. No-one minimises the diff-should be well worth developing,
Personally I know, there are was that they were trying to re-problem in a maze of complexities.
Athena culties of imparting a practical disadvantages In-
cover a ball which a student had I hope I may be proved wrong. I kicked into the building from the need not say that, even though the
views of the British Government Rio use of English to Chinese scholars,
atrect. but the Vice-Chancellor's remarks
have not been fully accepted at Bombay Geneva, we shall none the less try Hongkong ought to lead to a raising of the
to work loyally upon any basis Silver (spot). matriculation standard in this sub-
that may finally be approved.Silver (forward) British Wireless." jeet. There is not one of the pre-
SHERE KHAN.
Hongkong, April 26, 1927.
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Walking by your wild lone,
And waving your wild tail In the wild wet woods ali by yourself. Yours, etc.,
CAT.
Hongkong, April 26, 1927.
IL
YOUNG THIEVES.
ATTEMPTED TO ROB QUEEN'S COLLEGE.
Two Chinese boya, who were
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Found guilty on the charge, the elder boy was sentenced to aix weeks, while his companion was ondered to recolve eight strokes of the birch.
of the problem that was most it in his eye." urgant, and that appeared to be the most simple, namely the risk to the great cities of Europe from sudden attacks of air forces within reach of them.
Other countries did not agree
of
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