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| THE FIGHT FOR POWER
Whilst it is not surprising to read that Marshal-Yen Hsi-shan has decided that no more
salt
revenues are to be transferred to Nanking from districts which are in control of his forces, and a part of the Tientsin Customs re- ceipts is also to be retained, the movement cannot but be regretted,
establishing, as it does, the fact
that these monies are to be seized for the specific purpose of per- petuating internal warfare. A Peking journal, commenting on the matter; says the action is likely to have a decisive effect on other parts of the country, which will now understand that Marshal
DAY BY DAY.
The rainfall registered at the Botanic Gardens during April totalled 2.26 inches, spread over
To-day, being the anniversary of the discovery of Brazil by the Portuguese, H.M. ships are dress
ed with the Portuguese ensign on the mainmasts.
tempting to lay his hands on that
FREEDOM EXISTO ONLY WILRE portion of the revenues on which THE PEOPLE TAKE CARE OF THE foreign loans and Indemnities are GOVERNMENT.-Woodrow Wilson. secured. In this connexion, it is
The Gazette containa list of announced that the Bank of China Justices of the Peace. There are at Tientsin has been appointed || 87 Official and 146 Unofficial. custodian of the rayenues which the Shansi-ites are retaining, and that arrangements are being made to release the September-March | eight' days. quota of the salt revenue required to maintain the Crisp Loan... No doubt by acting in this way. Marshal Yen and his advisers are anxious to avoid any complications with the Powers. Nanking, how- ever, has addressed the Diplomatic Corps on the subject and intimated its objections to the utilisation by the Shansi leaders of any portion of the Salt and Customs revenues. An Interesting situation has arisen, sіnсе
the Shansi War Lord is on control of affairs at Tientsin and does not
admit Nanking's right to the revenues. Marshal Yen's contention would probably be precisely that of Nanking that the funds, if secured by his enemies, would be used for the purpose of furthering civil war. No doubt they would, in one case as in the other, for in China it is usually the "silver bullets" which win wars.
On the general question of this
threat of a big new civil war, we cannot but bemoan the fact that the country fails to settle down and get urgent reorganisation work in hand. There is so much waiting to be done, but no sign of any serious grappling with the problems calling for attention.
that the Parcel Post service to The Hongkong G. P. O. notifies Kwangsi, with the exception of that to Wuchow, Kweilin and Pingle, temporarily suspended until fur ther notice.
The new automatic telephone system will come into operation at midnight to-night. It is of the utmost importance that subscribers do not use their telephones from 11.45 p.m. until after the change-
over,
The rescue of a Chinese woman, who threw himself overboard in a suicidal attempt, was effected by a seaman of the Yaumati ferry Man Lee yesterday afternoon. The woman was removed ashore to hospital.
THE HISTORY OF CHESS.
Game Older Than Methuselah.
In his free translation of the Indian name for the game, easily Odyssey, Pope wrote, concerning distinguishable in the Spanish Penelope's horde of uncouth suitors: "ajedres," that lat (al) chatto (z), With rival art, and ardour in the word chatur meaning "four," as their milen
already indicated,
...
At Chess, they vie, to captivato Chess appears to have penetrated the Queen.
from Spain into Christian Europe It is doubtful, however, whether arly in the tenth century! The Homer himself, had be known of vikings were greatly enamoured of chess, would ever have. ascribed to it, and the Danes played chess in that or any other board game, no England before the Norman Con matter how ardently played, the quest. Want of equanimity among possibility of "captivating" a live hose warrior players over this now and non-participating queen! The usually tranquil pastime is illustrat- ancent Greck pastime of "pessoi, ed by one unfortunate Danish earl pursued at Ithaca "on hides of in England playing with King was a game of checkers or draughts because the monarch insisted on beeves, before the palace gates," Canute, and upsetting the board played with pebbles and usually aking back a knight he had care the aid of dice on a board of desah lost. thirty-six equares. Medieval en
to
thusiasts, fond of expatiating on Feudal Europe welcomed chess the antiquity of chess, were wont to with open arms, for all who dispos credit either Ulysses or Palamedes fed of leisure in those days of Im- with having invented it during the mobility men and women, whether siege of Troy to help the heroes in castle or army, donjon or menas- endure with patience their long tery-found in it a much-needed years of inaction outside the wails, mental
exercise wherewith but actually no such game was combat the tedium of their intellec- known to Europe in ancient times. tually isolated lives.
The original Hindu chess game, From the twelfth to the fifteenth called by the Sanskrit name of centuries, chess occupied among Chatur-anga, is popularly supposed those of gentle birth, and later in to have been played in India for the homes of burgesses, a relatively thousands of years, but apparently greater place than even carda in it was not widely known there until any modern time. the sixth century of our era. Only with the close of that century do we least one common pursuit in their Crusaders and Saracens had at find any allusions to the game in respective tents; the troubadour Sanskrit literature, and the fact was doubly sure of a castle welcome that the Chinese record chess as when he included, as he usually did having been adopted from India in with his repertoire of song and the year corresponding to our A. D. romance, some skill
The Hon. Treasurer of the St. John Ambulance Brigade begs to acknowledge with sincere and grate ful thanks the receipt of the follow 537, and that the Persians likewise knights and maidens at chess; and ing donations towards the Funds of claim that they received it a few game as the accepted mode the St. John Ambulance Brigade:-years later from the same country of polite social intercourse. Dairy Farm Co., Ltd., $50; Anony in the reign of their Chosroes the The
familiarity with: chess mous, $20.
Great, rather corroborates in point of all well-bred damsels of of time the Hindu and Arabic olden time is well illustrated by legend of its invention in the pre- Shakespeare's introducing Miranda, ceding Brahmin tutor of a young Indian with the but recently shipwrecked century by Siasa, the in Act V of "The Tempest," playing King named Shihram.
Ferdinand, within three hours, of their meeting.
His Excellency the Officer Ad- ministering the Government has been pleased to recognise, pro- visionally and pending instruc tions from the Secretary of State for the Colonies, Doctor Santiago
Llosa as in charge of the Con-
kong.
Seemingly, China is once again tosulate General for Peru in Hong be thrown into turmoil and unreat. For what purpose! Merely that rapacious war lords may satisfy their cravings for power and wealth. Is there to be no end to these things?
It is notified for the general in formation of cabin passengers of Chinese nationality intending to procced from Hongkong to Malaya that failure to produce a valid passport duly visaed by a com petent British authority result in their being prevented from landing in the Straits Settle ments.
There has been added to
The legend runs that Sisan sought, in contriving this innocuous extent among the people, making The game found its way to some war game, to impress upon his serious inroads on the time of those royal pupil the impotence of a supposed to work, and apprentices monarch without his subjects, us were bound in indentures to symbolized by his helplessness on abstain, among other things, the chessboard when deprived of from cheas. John Huss, the pieces and pawns. Delighted with Bohemian Reformer, while in the play, the King asked Sissa to prison, deplored not only the name his own recompense, and the excessive time he had spent at philosopher-tutor, anxious to teach this game, but also the great risks. another lesson, stipulated as his re- he had run therewith of being sub- mayquirement one grain of corn for theject to violent passion!
first, square of the board, two for the next, four for the third, and so
The medieval game was much. on, doubling each time, throughout slower than modern chess, on ac- the sixty-four squares. When count of the small value of the calculations were made of the total queen and bishop. A preliminary number of grains demanded, it was period was necessary for each side figures, the cost of the needed cereal position of its own choosing, with- found to run into astronomical to muster its forces into a strategic being estimated at an equivalent of out giving much attention at first eclipsing the modest billions of the liness caused the ready-made posi- many trillions of dollars quite to the opponent. This lack of live- present-day war-debt claims. tion or "jeu parti" to be hailed with
the
Britain and the Soviet.
The Labour Government's re- fusal to grant the necessary visas for a Soviet football team to tour Great Britain demonstrates very convincingly that the Government is not so much in favour of every thing appertaining to the Soviet as the Conservatives would have Yen is irrevocably committed to the country and the world at large the Royal Faculty of Physicfanı |
money.
It is true.
of
course,
Russia has became
Hat of medical practitioneers the name of Dr. R. J. Patchett. of the Empress of Asia. He is a Licen tiate of the Royal Colleges of j Physicians and the Royal College of Surgeons. Edinburgh, and of
and Surgeons, Glasgow..
The name Chatur-anga, signify-enthusiasm by countless players in ing four parts, referred to the the latter Middle Ages, and trea chariots (ratha, our rook); the tises in Latin, Old French and It is notified that all claims cavalry, or knight; the elephants Middle English, dealing with in under Clause 4 of the Annex to four bishop); and the infantry, or numerable "gias" of "guys," as Section IV of Part X of the Treaty pawns. Four armies, each with a problems were called for short an of St. Germain-en-Laye and of the king, three pieces and four pawns, both sides of the Channel, form the Treaty of Trianon by British sub-coloured respectively yellow, black major part of early chess literature, of acts committed by the former of the board, yellow and red being Cotton, King's, and other famous jects in this Colony arising out red and green, stood in the corners and fill quantities of MSS. in the Austro-Hungarian Government or matched against green and black libraries, in the British Museum by any Hungarian Authorities, The great Persian classic poet and elsewhere,, of the Conservatives, who have lodged with the Custodian of years before, ambassadors
since 28th July, 1914, and before Firdawsi (A.D. 1000) in his "Book the 12th August, 1914, must be of Kings," relates how, nearly 500 dwelt on the evil effects of pro-Enemy Property not later than two from India to Chosroes I bearing ternational language of chess, it paganda which seems to be more months hence,
the new game, and a royal challenge was rendered "jocus partitus, to unravel Its mystery, the penalty and in English as the "jupertys" or
1
This word "guy" was an abbre- viation of giu-parti, an even or came divided game. In Latin, the in-
the establishment of a new Gov-believe. ernment. We feel, however, that almost a mania to the Opposition it would be nearer the truth to which has clamoured vainly say that political considerations in against the resumption of diplo
matic relations and has time and this case are subsidiary to the
time again advocated drastic main desire, which is to secure action in view of so-called Soviet propaganda. The Government has that meanwhile pursued its own policy, Marshal Yen and those who are
and despite the gloomy forebodings supporting him aim at the creation of a new Government, to supplant that established at Nanking, but, or less non-existent, there is not an when all is said and done, war atom of proof that the resumption Mr. Ka Fongnew, the manager or reward for failure or success to "jupardle," from which is derived lords and political cliques in of relations has so far resulted in
anything but good for Great Bri- police that at the beginning in Daniel's time, the wise men of the actual game in all Europe, north Building, has reported to the asked for seven days' grace, and, asking, has been adopted to designate Chinn Usually establish new tain. The refusal to allow the Soviet last month, a salesman of the Sam Iran were set to work. They fail and east of the Pyrenees, as in the administrations for one purpose
team to visit England, made in the Hing. Imports and Exports firm, ed, after nearly a week's German "achach," the Italian namely, that they may seize the absence of evidence that the tour No. 187, Des Voeux Road West, deavour, and thereupon the Vizir scacchi," the English plural form revenues of the districts
be over would
genuinely sporting, went to his shop and ordered 430 took the game home with him and
(Continued on Page 7.) which they manage to gain control, shows that the Government knows catties of tea, value at $129. The solved the riddle, in twenty-four
goods were duly delivered, but hours. The whole history of China since full well the danger signs and can when the bill was sent round be firm with Russia when it feels yesterday to the Sam Hing, it was the establishment of the Republic justified. The objects of various discovered that the firm had chess play of two armies, the second
Persia then adopted a unified WHO WAS has been a succession of scrambles Russian sporting associations are closed down.
king on each side being replaced for the nation's revenues. The distinctly political and Mr. Clynes,
by a vizir, or ferz. This modified CONINGSBY? movement now initiated
Chatur-anga was called in Persia by on the evidence before him, was Marshal Yen comes into the same fully justified in taking the action junction of San Shan Road and everywhere in the Western world and subsequently throughout Islam the chatrang,"
and was playedj he has. There could be no objection Kowloon City Road, at the junc until, nearly 1000 years later, category. We hear a lot, as wel
to the tour if it were purely of a tion of Prince Edward Road, La modern chess took its place in always do on these occasions, of sporting nature, but it has an un-Chi Kok Road and Centon Road, Christian countries. the object being to form a Govern-pleasant political background, one at the junction of Prince Edward Chess was played at Byzantium ment which shall give the people highly flavoured with the spirit of Road and Boundary Street, in by the year 800, as shown by an freedom from oppression and ex-Communism and quite rightly ex-
Maconnell Road on the south side exchange of letters between the tortion, but it is a notorious fact ception has been taken to it. When opposite Calder Path, and at the Eastern Roman
Emperor Nice phrases such
junction of Hill Road and Pokphorus and the Caliph Harun-al- as strike pickets, fulum Road. Objections have to Raschid at Bagdad, famous in the the Administrations workers' fighting committees and reach the Colonial Secretary not Arabian Nights. Harun's father which have come and gone during proleterian self-defence are used to later than May 23rd.
was a strait-laced. Commander of the past twenty years or so have denote the activities of so-called
the Faithful, for it is recorded that... heralded their assumption of sporting associations, then such Local estate worth $7,200 was in 180 he had written to the people power by like pronouncements,
bodies should be viewed with the left by Yeung Wai-chow, student of Mecca classifying chess, along greatest suspicion. Britain has, who died intestate at the age of 24, with backgammon, or nard, dicing, whilst subsequent events have apparently, looked on the proposed at the Yeung. Wo Nursing Home: etc., as among those vanities which shown that one is just as bad as tour in this light and there will be year. He was formerly of No. 10,
Happy Valley, on August 17, last The Byzantines doubtless knew
lead astray. the other in resorting to all man- few to quarrel with a decision which Yuen Cheung Chung Kai, Canton of chess from the Persians early in ner of illegal and oppressive again demonstrates the reasonable He is survived by a widow 22 the seventh century, but the gen- taxation. The professed desire to and moderate policy of the Labour years of age and a three months was directly due to the conquest of eral westward diffusion of the game old daughter. Letters of ad Persia by the Arabs about A. D. serve the nation soon resolves
ministration have been granted 650. With the spread of Islam, "al itself into individual military and
to his father, Yeung Tuen-po, the The Peak Tramways Co., Ltd. widow, Yeung Yan-shi,, having shatrang" was era long intrenched civil officers feathering their own advertise that no late cars will run renounced her right and title to in Moorish Spain, where it reached nests at the expense of the poor, after 12.05 on the night of Sunday, administration. Petitioner is temeral centuries. Spain and Portugal a high point of perfection for sev- tax-ridden people.
May 4.
porarily living at No. 46, Lower Lascar. Row, Hongkong. ·
are the only countries of Europe to day retaining practically the old tour
of the China Tes Company. Davide the payment of tribute by. Persia our word jeopardy.
to India, or vice versa. The King "Shah," the Persian word for the
that
all
Government.
The Government intends erect public latrines at
to
**
Harry Coningsby is the hero of the first of Benjamin Disraeli's three political novela. The sub-title, "The New Generation" tells something of the author's intention straight away..
In the character of Coningsby, Disraeli sought to portray his ideal of Young England and to show how. perfect atatesmen may be and training to this end. formed by judicious education.
To. the young man he gave as tutor Sidonia, 2 wise, learned, liberal-minded dow who was to train Coningsby in such a way that he in hla turn could train and educate the generation to come,
Nobly in conception as are the characters of Sidonia did Coningsby, their creator was too egolatic to refrain from the temptation to put a large- portion of his own personality Into them both, and so made them easy targets for the satirists; among them Thac- keray, who burlesqued them in his own novel."Codlingsby"