1
SCHOOL LEAVING
CERTIFICATE.
FUKIEN PROPOSAL AROUSES
OPPOSITION.
CHIANG'S GESTURE TO OPPONENTS.
4Continued from Pugc 1.)
Canton in the anti-Chiang Kai- alek movement.
COMPROMISE REACHED Ho's personal envoy is on his way
The telegram adds that General
10 Canton to consult with the Canton leaders,
Canton Quiet.
June
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, MAY 4, 1931.
HEADMASTER AND EXAMINATIONS.
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CHINESE CLASSICS.
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RECORDED MUSIC.
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Preparations are being made at Johannesburg, for a special expedi tion into the Kalahari Desert io of the discover the whereabouts supposed lost elly of the ancients, uins of the city are report- Speaking at the prize-giving dayed to be in the main covered by Fohow, Apr. 30.
at Wali Yan College on Saturday the desert sands, which are only stromk has been
occasionally-ocattered by Considerable interest
6.00-7.00 p.m. Chino Programme, afternoon, Mr. Lim Hoy-lun. the
7.00-10.30 p.m. European Pro- The elty is conjectured to armed of lute by the artion of
Canton
Home very out-winda. Is exceedingly quiet.headmaster, gave
gramme of Columbia Records kladly the
Commissioner, Ectuentional
the ambject of have formed one of the links in a Cheng Shih-kuel, who has ordered There have, been a number of spoken views on
chanzest
the highest examinations in the Calony. Among prehistoric chain of forls stretch-supplied by Messrs. Anderson Music
things, that all schouls in Fuksien a to
referred to ing from Sofula on the Portuguese
7.00 p.m. Stock Quotations. examinations
703-7,30 [3.271. Muric Comedy take part in a uniform examina-official, including the appointment other
as necessary evil, East African cost, to Zimbabwe. of a new Police Commissioner,
Tunes. tion for the leaving certificate,
Commander Chan
Hing-wan late to abuses, but reminded the and thence across the Kalahari to Gerd opposition to the
gathering that examinations were proposal
Valsis Bayar depot, is reportedl They bass by the pupils in formerly of the Canton Garrison
Parta, whilst there are troop but a means, not an end. Circulars Hehonis, Government have been seat round, meetings of movement on the North River and were by no means a perfvet instru- profe have been held, and petithe East River for concentrationment, but they served a useful purin emeralds, diamonds, rubies, and itons presented to the Educational purposes in Northern Kwangtung.pose and possessed positive merit.
The annual report for the past year was very satisfactory and to the showed that the College had malu- | mont areas of Namaqualand and ther Report).
ained the standard of which it has enjoyed since its open- Ling eleven years ago.
Offer
To meet the situation thus prr: sented, the Commissioner has held several meetings of the Bends of schools both Government and pri- vate), and as a sort of entpromter It has been deelied that this year at all events the uniform examina- tion will only count one-third, the examinations of the schools them selves counting two-thirds. So far from the examining lourd trying to puzzle the pupils with hari que fiens, the questions asked are La be↑ taken from the books which are being cativ indied sehoods.
kreipian
The maintenance of order in the city is entrusted Gendarmes and the Poller, which remain loyal to the Government.
Wochow Renctions.
News reaching from Wuchow, under date of Saturday, is to the leet that the military authorities thefe have epon commandeering lifts, and that the evacuation of
his Cartonese troops Kwungai Commes are control of the city.
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to contain a great store of treasure inpis lazul, colected by the an- cients in the arens that comprise the present fabulously weathly dia-
South-West Afrien. progress,
Pers
wax
The ruins were first reported by the American traveller, Farini, in The ceremony was attended by 1871. He relates that a large gathering of pupils, pareata trekking in a northerly direction ill close to a long and friends, among these present had one evening pitched camp at being Mr. Fung Ping-shan, who the foot of
The of China. distributed the awards, the Rights of alines, which he likens ta toms were of enormous size and Reverend Bi-hop Valtorta, itev. Fr. the Great Wall Byrne and other Jet Fathers.
Several musical Hems were pre-in places were bound by cement, sentes after the prizes bat ben Fle followed the course of the wall for nearly a mile in a semi-circle, given away, the contributors and on the inside there lay, at about The report that General Chan|the students nd the
Ale with thehaps the most interesting item en jevegy 12 yards, a row of masoned
oval. It strikes the outsider as cu ion-
Kwang troops in supported by the programme was the exhibition
Farini and his men carried out that the opposition plmadd
Rumours proven by Prod. Mauriem and his ago From Naaman. from the Government schools, hat,
fut auch a portality have burzugt eine pupils, who delighted the audience dealtory escavation and ins that
Master car bed a look made of hip stones. of strength. of course, the fet
rent for the best part of a year, with reats
be They took photographs and made Government well in Pukien are
buf the now lippiour to have a Charles Chanatong, add to
sketch of the place, Ingy mutoriously inefrient, and no doubt
basis tart.
"Haarkom's strongest there game fear beat Bes Shockd
{presented with a gold medal by Mr. Central Bank notes in Warham Hoy lan, very wel with one
the endmaster of not compare
nad showed his +42 will Fan! accept come in for so mich aber in ge
physient proves by there at all O exart helps p
Prof. Mauricio, with the anist Cent VORT
it is reported that Kuribsien, the ance of Dr. Yeol and Mr. Lo Roon outpect of the Cantone e torver haskan, hold the audience spell-bound strength, Iwang with his exhibitle of Tex
twisting iron reils with his mouth Caml hands. One unique font was lying on a bod of nails, with Dr. Yeoh standing on his body, and this position the Intter gave an ex- bibition of Indian club swinging.
Was
of the Mission Schers will have have greatly depreciated in Wah Yan College's “weight-lifting. the Buch people, who tubl a similar i
ity that the effort w
FONN
Penerally
The Commbonier acknowledged to be a really higli- minded, public spirited man begins work in his
-
Troops.
morning at 7 am and does n leave it till ti ata, and hic example has a market influenes among the staff, Ching coat do with my more such men, and yet his 300 earnestness is Cas so often happens aromsinge hostility Trom whose Interests are endangered! Our Chien Correspondent.
blan
BODYFOUND IN
LOCKED ROOM.
MOSLEM'S FATE IN THE EAST END.
"THE SERANG.”
Loniton, Mar. 28. Till a late hour last night Chirl
DATE
•
Naukany. May i "Goed Ho Ying chin. Misto of War, has telegraphet from San chanting on the military situation in China. Official cireles fare reticent repaeiling Hay contents
of the War Minister's telegram.
Hen.
The . E. C. Intervenes,
Nanking. May 4. Suggesting that the political dif
Mr. Fung's Speech.
Mr. Fung Ping-shan's speech waz real in Chinese by his son, Mr. Fung Ping-fan, The Following is translation in Engdish:
a
Bigger Than Zimbabwe, Farini's aromat was verified by
Mr. -one years later to Ruger Jackson, a well-known and A porcelain Buddah Is wurveyor. actudy in existence that is suic to have been picked up somewhere in the Kalahari,
Anderson, a Swedish trader, is also reputed to have known all abouti
So, too, is George St. The ruins. Jeger Lennox, a finoms wanderer. He often spoke of the locality but never disclosed the actual site.
Last year roving bands of Buch-j men gave further details of the lost city to Mr. Fiet Grobler, Union Minister of Lands, during a visit
the borders l the settlements
the Kalahari. Mr. Grobler breume greatly Interested in the matter,
Mr. Headmaster, ladies and gen- theraen, 4 feel greatly honoured in giving away the prizes here to ference between Marshal Chiang | day at the request of Mr. Lâm Toy- and it is partly on account of this
Han-minat,
Though Kai-shuck and Mr. Il
the headmaster. [heart of the Conservative Party, can
Jusiness man of more than seventy that the present expedition is being af the settled by diplomatie incans, the
The years of age, I have been keen on organised. under the auspices of
Automobile Association Executive disenssing, in my private hours,South Africa. Kuomintang Central
education with my Committee has replial to Messes,
Matters
From all accounts, the last city Ku Yington. Teng Tab Lin Shen, the Kuomintang Super Friends who are interesteal in such
matters; and I cannot help consi- must have been considerably bigger
than Zimbabwe, visory Commissioners who made dering it greatly fortunate for me
against Marshal
t-day to be able to take this op Chiang Kai shek. The E
portunity of saying a few words
Constable Ashley and Superintens promises to effect a re-uning of all to you on the elugational problems ment of Chuin made a public -
dent Savage, of Scotland Yard's Big Five, were husy tryitut to solve site
elements of the Kontintang with Marshal Chiang Kai-shok,
Roshe
ad
of this Colony.
nouncement that henceforth
In recent years, Hongkong has Chinese language was to be employ The Canton declaration (suggest. witnessed remarkable progress ined in various documents of eastama of the must mysterious murders in London's dorkland for many years.ed the dissolution of the Kamin-matters of education. This is best and malls, and even in diplomatic proved by the fact that a much affairs. Judging from this, it is Shortly before midnight in Turstany at Xanking and invited
to greater number of schools than bebut natural that those who have; day police were called to a shop 14 Koronimane
fore has mane into existence, and children to look after, should edu Victoria lock-roat, Canning Town, visit
the number of students has steadily rate them both in Western studies This and in Chinese, R as to create increased from your to year.
l
Commissioners
1IE Caution to reorganise
Mukden 1eader,
I understood
The crime presented several pro- shek.-Rennha,
blems to Scotland Yard, for:
Three doors leading to the bed-j
Youth were locked on the inside.
The gas was left fally turned on.
Kai
EX-
This important fact emerges from the publication this evening of documents dealing with the poli- tient situation.
glav
Lucky Girl Selection.
Jack Tayne and The D. B. C. Dance Orchestra. 9893. Lady Mary-Voen! Gems.
Columbin Light Opern Co. 3419. The Windmill Man Selections.
Court Symphony Orchestra. 1526. 8.00 p.m.
(Local Time and Wen-
7.30-8.19.01. Operatic. Song-The Marriage of Figaro,
(Mozart) You Who Have Knowledge. Sung-The Marringe of Figaro,
(Mozart) Oh! Come a Not Delay.
Belia Balille (Soprano). 9374. Orchestral Paglineel. Selections
(Leoncavallo
New Queen's Ball Light Orch. 411. The Factotum of The Town. Song-Barber of Seville (Rossini) I' Sang-1 Travatore, (Verdi) Tempest
af The Heart,
Dennis Noble (Baritone). AGER Orextral-Mignon Selections
(Thom").
New Queen's Hall Light Orch. 3:08. Vocal Duct-The Mogie Pule
(Muzart).
The Manly Heart. Vol 1uct.Don Giovanni (Moxan 4). Gave Me Thy Band, 0 Fairest
Mirinto Linette and Pett
Noble, 950g. 22.00 pm, Bfalms Symphony No. 2. In D-Major Played by Walter Darroseh and The New York Symphony Deck, DAR to 70. 9.00-8.37 p. Pianoforte Solo. Grieg's Baluch In G Minor (Op. 213.
Leopold Godowsky. 47746.67747, 9.17-9.34 p.m. Vialin Sola. Sonata No. 1 in G Minor
(J. S. Bach).
Jesenk Szigeti, 1X127-LX128. 934.10.30 p.m. A Concert. Song-Parted Weatherly and Tosti).
Doris Vane (Soprano). 9233, Octet-Scottish Fantasin (Mulder). Detet-Praeludium (Jarnefelt). The I. II. Squire Celeste Detel. 9006 Sung-My Sweetheart When A Boy
(Enoch and Morgan). Sung-Come Into The Garden Maud
(Tennyson at Baile). William Heselline (Tenor), 9587. Pina Sele-Hungarian Rhapsody
(Liszt).
Ethel Leginska. 3072-M. Vocal Duct.Come, Silver Moon Londonderry Air).
(Dowdon arr. Besly). Vocal Dust-Love's Dream
(Liebestraum) (Dowdon and Fist arr. ely).
Dura Labbette and Haberi Eisdell, 9612. Cello Sale-Nocturne In E Flat
(Chopin),
9158-
"Cell Salo-Mazurka (Popper). Antoni Sala. Soper-Traum Burch Die Bammering Cream In The Twilight) (Strauss), Song-Mandnach! (Moonlight}
(Schumann).
Alexander Kipnis (Bass). LEL 10.30 pm. Close Down.
THINGS UNDER THE EARTH. (Continued from Page 6.)
be able to detect anything under the earth, such as water, sil, Edg- ware, Highgate, or Morden, by the medium of a twig or wand,
these Many have dismissed "Diviners" as charlatans. Three hundred and fifty years ago tha metallurgist Georgius Agricola described this lucrative twigging as "purissimum Bolone," or words to that effect, Georgius would have appreciated the Exhibition of Ap- plied Geophysics (Admission Free) now in progress at the South Ken- sington Science Museum.
The exhibition constitutes, in
the to the methods of effect, the retort ef rational selen- lista Diviners with their rods, poles, and percentage of the prolits. In the showenses were instruments for detecting anything from conl to buried treasure. I became very ore-struck.
Fouad
Al 1, Party. 1 Terjem poultry draker, a Bengali ve
is, uf course, quite a gratifying con- really useful citizens for the coun- Moslem, dead near his bed with
tion. Bowever, there has been a try and to meet the necessities of Sanking. May 4.
defvet in education which, I think. the time. severe injuries to the besed. Weeps
rumave. Flat General we must try our best to ing hidians were
As far as I can see, there is Null sigilatting pound the body.
Chour Heuch-Fang will have here Most of the local schools lay too a common fault among the local “Ab, à sinde nun, was known in immediately after the formal opet auch stress upon Westers study Chinese students; they still the district as "the serang,"
ing of the National Convention and pay little or no attention to the more attention to Western study beatswain. He was native
a remit, than to the study of their own lan- morrow because of the tension in study of Chinese, As popular figure in the Bast End, and South China.
those students who have finished guage. The reason for this, 1 have in such schools. just said, is that they still think before he went into business with a
General Chang's immediate de. their courses native partner served on toucES trading between London and theparture for Peking to direct miti possess very little knowledge of that as soon as they complete their their own language, though they at-courses they may find a good job in Kast. He was regarded as an autary affairs in North China is sur
tain to a high standard in western the business circle without any dif
those gested by Marshal Chiang thority on Mosteni law.
subjects. When asked to write un ficulty. Consequently, among
for the Matriculation, ordinary letter in clear and simple who sat Invitation to Is Har-μVÈNE. Chinese, they cannot help thinking Senior and Junior Local Examina
that they are undertaking a difficult tions, only one ablained a disting- Nanking, May 3. task, and in certain cases, they tion in Chinese, hut those with din- Despite Chiang Kai-shek's
even have to give up the attempt tinetions in English and other scien- Ali's money was intact in a tiapressed willingness that the charges altogether. This condition. tific subjects were numerous. What underneath the bed.
So far as the police could aseer.against hiai be investigated by the think, is ludicrous; and such stu- a deplorable phenomenon!
Central Control Committee, it is dents who, being Chinese. fail to I may point out to you that in tain he had no enemies.
stated that the impeachment made exercise a complete mastery over all the civilised countries, people He was last seen alive af 3.30 an
deserve will not learn any other langunge Tuesday afternoon, mid the body four of the Committee's mem-their own tongue, quite
be the ridicule showered upon them until they can master their own. was not found until after 11 o'clock.bers at Canton will not even
by people of civilised countries. This being the ease, why not let us considered. The discovery WAN maste by
This grave and impardonable mis-copy their examples? Further, in Ghedalia and Johnson, two natives who live with their wives above the
lake is most probly due to the the Secondary and Public Schools fact that the fathers of such stu- of European nations, classical and shop.
dents are apt to think that once biblical subjects such as the plays of knocked on Ali's door." said
take up Western Shakespeare, the poetical works of Ghedulla to a News-Chronicle re-
It is also revealed that Wu Te their children
school porter yesterday, “but got a reply chen, former police chief at Can-study, they can easily obtain a post Tennyson, the Old and New Tesla- With Johnson i went to the shop ten, has wired urging the Canton or profession as soon as they finish ment, are included in the
However, they are blind such subjects are also taught in the door and found that locked also, ese-in preserve the unification of their courses and so their future is curriculum; and, as far as I know, The shop blinds were drawn. On the country, declaring that Chiangsured.
English Schools of the Colony. going to the backyard we found the Kai-shek and other Government to the fact that in the pout, those
but net members are urging lu Har-min who studied Western languages most of the European Universities, bedroom window closed,
to attend the National Convention were few in number, and so they a special faculty is devoted to Greek secured.
could easily obtain some work in and Latin study for the purpose of European firms, whilst now the con-looking deeply into their culture. those Is it not a deplorable fact, then, that dition is entirely changed; versed in Western studies are count-Chinese Classics and Literature are less, and consequently, firms that blindly considered useless by those formerly wanted only people with who ignore the importance of cul-
Chinese classica and literature are demandturo? the Western knowledge now
not worthy of being read and care- Chinese Classics, thone with both Western and Chi-
fully studied. On the other hand, Canton situation to-day. The nese learning,
Indeed, Chinese classics are the the thorough aludy of both langu. belief is expressed here that the Moreover, the study of transla-
our Chiness and agoa by both trouble is purely local and duction is the best lool for linking up perennial spring of Chinese civilian- chielly to personal disputes be- Western and Chinese culture. But tion, morality, politics and philo-Western friends will surely promote tween General Chan Chal-tong, one whose knowledge of Chinese is sophy. Every word or every line our mutual goodwill and mutual
General Chan Ming-shu.
dead poor, can never translate well. In in them is practicable for daily use, understanding. Father Macdonnell, and
in the
coures of his speech deliver- It is expected that the Govern- view of this, therefore, the study and, as compared with the
ed before the Hongkong branch of ment will shortly issue a state of Chinese is highly essential.
languages of Greek and Latin, they are far more practicable and valu- the English Association, well said, ment on its attitude, and it is.
A Different Chinn.
As regards tha Intrinale The more we strengthen the bonds nble. understood that General Chau
that, really bind us the better for There is one important point, worth of Chinese literature, it haa
the world. The more the litera- Ming-shu will be neverely repri
tures of East and West are made ac- mantled for his "serious blunders" ladies and gentlemen, that I want long been recognised by the world. from his post, to touch upon. China is now com-Judging from the fact that poems
cessible to the whole world, "the and removed General Chan Chal-tong boing pletely different from the China and dramas. are taught in schools asked to reorganise Kwangtung-of yesterday. I remember that only of. Western countries, it must be more strong shall we find to ba
our mutual sympathies." Renter
quite recently the Central Govern- then a fallacious theory to say that
"I pushed up the window and so as definitely to disprove reports
Was IL of his detention.-Reuter. climbed through. There
strong smell of gas, and I told John son to turn it off. By the light of a match I saw All lying on the
flour.
No Sign of Struggle.
The bed clothes half-covered the body.
and there were extensiva wounds beltind the right car and at the back of the head. There was no sign of a struggle.
When the police, entered the shop they found three chaira arranged round the fireplace, as though three men had ant talking or playing cards.
They took away a bhunt instru- ment with which it is believed the man was killed. All the keya wore left on the inside of the locked doors, but the window catch had been snapped off.
"Personal Disputes."
Nanking, May 2.
that It fa understood Government leaders discussed the
In
I shouldn't be surprised if this exhibition creates a boom in pros- peeting. Ere long you will find a
suit-case. week-end
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