CHINESE SHIPS' OFFICERS.
CERTIFICATES NOW REQUIRED.
VALUE OF NANKING'S NEW ORDER DOUBLED.
FEE ONLY NEEDED?
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY, MARCH 1929.
GEN. LU TI-PING'S DEATH OF GERMAN RATIFICATIONS OF ART EXPERT.
REPLY.
WANTS ACCOUNTS SUBMITTED PASSING OF BODE BECALLS
FOR EXAMINATION.
A CONTROVERSY.
THE HUNAN SITUATION
N
THE "FLORA" BUST.
Berlin, Mar. 1. The death is announced of the expert, Professor
Nanking, Mar. 1, Marshal Chiang Kai-shek, Pre- sident of the National Govern-well-known art ment, was the host at a dinner Wilhelm Bode. party at the Government Head- quarters yesterday in honour of the dismissed Hunan military leader and Civil, Governor, Gen- eral Lu Ti-ping. In the Course of the evening, General La de disarmament of his troops, and livered a speech referring to the revealing extreme pessimism dvor leaving for Shanghai. the Human developments. He is
KELLOGG PACT.
FRANCE, HOLLAND AND DENMARK AGREE.
The Very Idea!
Lady Astor's unexpected retort of "Oh, tata!" in the Houso the other night should educato it in all the charm of the unexpected, and become historical.
This
ค
LIT INOFF PROTOCOL Power of feminine repartee is not confined to adults Mr. G. B. Paris, Mar. 1.
Burgin writes: "I am still won- There was but a brief discussion dering what reply I ought to have in the Chamber to-day when a Bill made to a little girl of ten whom authorising the ratification of the By way of opening the conversa- I once took fishing in Canada.; Kellogg Pact was submitted. With tion, I asked her, 'Do you know Ilis passing recalls the famous the exception of the Communist what Dr. Johnson says about rewar controversy when he deputies, all of whom voted man who goes fishing?" She said "Flora" at the Kaiser Friedrich was solid for the Bill, which was Man Johnson. Well, I explain- claimed that the wax bust of against ratification, the Chamber that she had never heard of 'Old Museum was the work of da Vinci, passed by 670 votos to 12. the bust showed it to be the work states that the Turkish Govern- fool at the other. She said: "I though a waistcoat found inside A message from Constantinople worm at one end of the rod and a ed; Dr. Johnson says, "There's 4 of an English modeller-Reuter-ment has decided to adhere to the guess you're not the worm?"
Wilhelm Bode, the German. art Litvinoff Protocol, which declares expert, was born in Dec., 1845, at that the Kellogg Pact, is in forco. law, but changed his mind and out waiting for its ratification by Kalvorde, Brunswick, He studied as between the signatories with- started his afresh, specialising in archacology ready been signed by. Russia, Po- univeralty career the rest of the world...It has al- and the history of art at Berlin land, Rumania, Esthonia and and Vienna, and completing his Lativa. Reuter. artistle education by vlaits to Italy. In 1872 he joined the staff of the
A Measure for the ratification By this new regulation, all Chi-
Royal Museums in Berlin.
of the Kellogg Pact was introduc- nese seafaring men holding Tes- vince requesting the officials to ed in enriching his section adopted practically unanimously. Even in his early days he succeeded in the Riksdag today, and was ponsible positiona
steamers work out on must obtain a licence on or before
accounts for past months deposition. He demands that the Arst class collection. In 1880 he. The Second Chamber, with only
up to the time of his Christian plastic art by numer-Reutor.
ous lucky finds and making it a
The Hague, Mar. 1. newspapers as a reply to accounts. be published In the
was appointed s
two opponents, has adopted a Bill director and Wuchang-Hankow Branch Political inter second director of the pic-proving of Holland's adhesion Council's charge of his misap-ture gallery. In 1800 he became to the Kellogg Pact-Reuter. propriation of public funds.
Shanghai, Feb, 26. As a direct result of the dis- tressing shipping disasters whieh have recently occurred on the China Const and the subsequent repre sentations from various organisa- tions urging searching inquiries In- to the cause of such disasters, the Nationalist Government has in- stituted a system of compulsory registration of Chinese officers and engineers under which all must obtain a licence issued by a now department of shipping with headquarters in Nanking.
March 28 next. All those func tioning as masters, officers, engineers must comply under
penalties for failure so to do, -
The official notice has been is sued by Mr. R. Longworth, the Habour Master, who took this ac- tion on instructions received from the Nanking Chlaotungpu.
Are Examinations Searching? Inquiries made during the past few days in local foreign shipping circles tend to show that foreign ship's officers and engineers are. not convinced the examinations are of a starching nature of indeed, in- vestigations of any really serious nature are being held by the Nan- king Government Department of Shipping into the qualifications of those Chinese who have applied for the licence demanded by the new order.
It is said that all who apply and produce some evidence of compe- tence may pay the fee and thereby obtain the now coveted licence.
What qualifications are demand- ed by the Nanking shipping de- partment from applicants are un- known but It is said that the fart that a candidate has been through- a Chinese Bautical college and obtained his discharge is sufficent to enable him to bold an officer's ticket. One such institution an N. C. Daily News representative was informed, is the "Woosung Marine Products College."
The Foreign Practice,
Foreign shipping men point out the years of hard work, experience and general knowledge required by foreign government authorities be-} Jore even a ticket of any nature is ) granted to thoa atpiring to a spa- faring life of a responsible nature, They also paint to the number of Chinese shipping disasters which have preurred in recent years and mention that not only do Chinese shipowner jeopardize canntiess lives and valuabhi cargo and ships by, the employment of inefficient And inexperienced men, but also the lives and property of foreign ship ping empanies.
The Government has wired to Shanghai urging the presence of General Li Chung-yon in Hankow to make proper provision for the lenderless Lu Tiping army, in Hunan.
Yesterday, General La Ti-ping telegraphed to all Government departments in the Hunan Pro-
GALLI-CURCI IN HONGKONG.
ARRIVES ON PRESIDENT TAFT.
the
Madame Galli-Curci, the famous coloratura soprano, arrived in the Colony to-day en route to Manila, where she is to give five recitals. She will later return to Hongkong and give one recital at the Queen's Theatre on the 25th instant, for which there is sure to be a big demand for seuts.
its sole director.
Widespread Research,
Copenhagen, Mar, 1.
CHINESE LETTERS.
(Cautinued from Page 8.)
From small beginnings, Bode, after decades of labour, got to this novellet of China is a notable gether the great collections of reformer, and he is typical of the the Berlin museums and galleries. vallant literati who have engineer- He championed his life-work with ed the thought revolution. Far voice and pen, realising only too more powerful than bombs or Avon that it would necessitate shells, his books are reaching to great extensions in the buildings.the far ends of the eighteen vast In 1896 He founded Friedrich Museum League and on lion with the old order and lifting the Kaiser provinces, carrying a dissatisfac- Oct. 18, 1904, he saw the inaugu-a call to change and progress. He ration of the museum, to the cost has a tremendous following among of which he had induced the finan. the students and youth; his stories cial world to contribute.
are becoming the much discurged property of all thinking, patriots, and his spirit of endeavour is inciting thousands to new enter
On Dec. 1, 1905, he was appoint dd Director-General of the Royal
Here Hes the secret of the per-
fect shot: Your stanco-the club-shaft dropped should touch the knee; Feet firm and equidistant
from the teo:
Hold the club lightly in your
fingers, not
Like sixpence in the clenched
fist of a Scol;
Let your right leg and bip
your pivot be,
And swing your body round
until you sce The ball o'er your left shoulder.
When you've got.
Your left arm horizontal, bring
it back,
Describing the same are as when
It rose.
But with a speed that swift
and swifter grows,
So that the ball is taken in its
track,
And without any quitting at the
Amack
The club sweeps on to its
triumphant close.
small Italian town were looking through the menu, when a polite waiter came to their assistance.
Some tourists at an hotel in a
"The ham is not, and tho chicken never was," he explained, "so will you have your eggs tight
The famous singer and party ar-Museums. The entire domain of prise. Perhaps those. old Man- or loune."
art was the field for his researches darins, who wore golden. robes, and among his achievements were and wrote their poetic couplets the colletions of Ealian sculpture,with sweeping technique, all fire terrier pap named Kim, who, Today's Dog Story. "We had a wonderful bronzes and artistic the imagination. of tourists, but when barely three months old, had treasures from Arabia and the these new literati are living para strong senso of humour. He Basi,"
ticipants in a drama far more in- would frequently fetch a large teresting and romantic,
Indomitable perseverance and in 1909 a wax bust of Flora, dentocratle sympathy and social Acholarship, coupled with humour, ascribed to Leonardo da Vinci, was idealism, have won for Lusin the required for the Berlin Museum proud title of master of the Chin- Bode was one of the protagonists ese short story. He has
rived by the President Taft.
The party includes Mr. Hamer
1810,
The "Flora" Bust.
naver
it daintily by its stalk, chew it pear, from the orehard, dangling
hole in the straw of Susan's bed, into a juicy, sloppy mash, make a and lay the squash in it, then sit down to watch for results, Pre- sently Susan, an aged and
and
in the controversy that arose as written a long novel, but is now pessimistic terrier, would come In its authenticity, which he cham-working on a hook which is to be and make for her refuge from a pioned. But external and inter-composed of the letters of a mo- trying world, flop heavily down- mal evidence proved it to be the dern young Chinese, who at one And Kim, shrieking and yelping work of an English, Richard time determines to be a political for joy, would tear round Cockle Lucas, and its date to be reformer, and in other mooda lunga round the room in rapture as she
to forget the turmoil of his crawled out of the mess." live in Bode'n writings on art were of struggling country and
pro- penee. "Many of our most limportance. They
mising young men are cover a very wide field and are state of thought," he said to me, characterised by a readable style. want to present an analysis In Jan., 191, the Kaiser raised Bode to the nobility. He retired
of such a patriot," from his post as Director-General!
internationa
*
in this
*
I always think one of the great charms of my sex is that the best of us remain boys to the end. Mr. Baldwin.
1:
There is something wrong in an And now that my story was educational system which does. of the Prussian State Museums done. Mr. Ricks summed up the not recognise that some human on Oct. 1, 1920, but retained the point of it all, with his asual beings are born with an in- control of the Kaiser Friedrich discernment; "It is indeed re- capacity to spell Mr. Robert Mascum. On his 80th birthday Assuring to know that in Cathay Lynd. fund was raised in recognition of the pen is still mightier than the is work and the large sum hand-sword?" And with that we walk-
Their argument in the latter Samuels, Galli-Curci's husband, ed over to him was employed ined out into the brilliant streets always been people who said that
R. M. B. in the Christian Science
spect applies, of course, to the pasMr. Lawrence Evans, pianist; Mr. purchasing several valuable addi-of New York, sibility of collisions with foreign Louis Alberghine, flutist; and tions to bla collection it the} vessels through the inexperience of those in change of Chinese vessels, lisa Anna Ristel, Galli-Curels angeam.
Years of ven life are absolutely essential before any certificate is issued by any foreign government and heavy penalties are enforced for any deviation from the course
of procedure laid down.
No Qualifications
maid.
GOVERNMENT CHANGES.
In the case of Chinese aspirants FIVE NEW APPOINTMENTS
There is no such rule and conse-
quently many have occupied posi
GAZETTED.
lions of the utmost responsibility The following appointments without any qualifentions to made by H.E. the Governor jualify such appointment.
gazetted:
aro
The new order-which is set out Mr. W. J. Carrie to be Head of below-may, of course, mean that the Sanitary Department and Re- the Nanking Covernment is insti-gistrar of Births and Deaths, tuting examinations and investiga-
Mr. H. R. Butters to net as Chief
tions of a searching nature before Assistant to the Secretary Issuing liernees to potential ship's Chinese Affairs. officers and engineers but the gen-
Monitor.
HE CANDY KIT
BOY:
WANTED
for
Mr. T. H. King to act as Captain
eral opinion amongst local shipping Superintendent of Police and Chief men is that such le not at present Officer. Fire Brigade, during the the case.
The notice issued by the Harbour absence on leave of the Hon. Mr. Master is as follows:
E. D. C. Wolfe, C.M.G. "Chinese shipowners are kindly
Mr. E. Ralphs to act requested to note that all Chinese Director of Education, during the officers and engineers employed absence on leave of Mr. A. E.
Wood.
in their vessels must be in posses-
sion of certificates of competence
JLA
Mr. E. I. Wynne-Jones to act as
of service, for the rank they hold. Deputy Clerk of Counells.
"Such certificates are issued by
the Nanking authorities. Those
not in possession of certificates by Holders
of tickets for the
оп
March 28, 1928, will not be re-S.P.C.A. fancy dress dance cognized by this office as being March 8 can still book tables at entitled to appointment as masters, the Rose Room or Grill Room of officers or engineers.
the Peninsula Hotel for that date.
This circular is issued on infor- 'mntion received from the Nanking
Chiaotungpo."
1
The forthcoming wedding is an- nounced of Mr. J. Moodle, master The name of Mr. A. Stevenson, mariner of the a.s. Foolsang, to Manager of the Dairy Farm Com Miss A. M. Tollan, of Mesars. pany, was inadvertently omitted from Jardine, Matheson and Co., Ltd., the list of those present at the Com-residing at pany's annual meeting on Thursday, Cameron Road,
Durbar
House,
108, IT REĄ SERVICE, INC.
FEQUEBAT.OFF.
Rollet for the unemployed.
Throughout my life there have
something or other was going to be the ruin of the stage, Sir Johnston Forbes-Robertson.
We are all getting rather tired of these slender, wraith-like young women of to-day. —Mr. C. B. Cochran,
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The conception of righteousness the fundamental business of life is not natural to Europe,~~~ The Archbishop of York.
I have lived a happy life.-Mr. Augustine Birrell.
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Facts that are not frankly faced have a habit of stabbing us in the back-Sir Harold Bowden.
I can always say what I am' trying to say with a gesture.-- Mr. Churles Chaplin.
A prize was recently offered to
a class of children for the best design of a "really comfortable house."
In the design of one boy was a room right away from the house, but connected by a lang passage, the doors being marked in as.of extra thickness.
Being asked why he had put a room so far from the rest of the house, he explained that it "was a quarrelling-room for fathers and mothers."
The Duchess of Beaufort (a niece of the Quech) was involved in a motor accident recently, at Tetbury, Gloucester, whon. her. car came into collision with an- other car coming 'round' à' corner. No one was injured, though the car in which the Duchess was travelling was badly damaged. The Duchess went on to the meet of the Badminton Hounds at Jeskament's Bottom, and took part th the day's run none the worse for, the mishap.
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