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SCIENCE IN CHINA
LATE EARL JELLICOE
GENEROUS GERMAN
TRIBUTE
TWO PHILOSOPHICAL SYSTEMS IN CONFLICT An extremely interesting address entitled "China and Western Science" was delivered by Professor L. Forster!
Berlin, Nov. 21. in his presidential address to the
The Commander-in-chief of the
Admiral Hongkong Teachers' Association at
Navy. King's College yesterday evening..
Raeder, has given Reuter the fol- The urge towards scientific study |lowing message:
German"
von
in China to-day, sald the speaker. "The German Navy sincerely
Jellicoe, who was highly esteemed by the entire German navy as a War, and especially at the Battle chivalrous opponent in the World of Jutland.
KOWLOON AFFAIRS
DISCUSSION BY RESIDENTS: : ASSOCIATION
The following extracts are taken committen from the minutes of a meeting of the Kowloon Residents Association held on Wednesday, November 19:
There wore present, Mr. Li Chor- chi (President), Mr. T. B. Wilson (Vice-President), Mr. J. H. Shaw Fung, W. Galdenborg. C on. Secretary), Messrs. C. M. Hau, Manners,
M.
were To Kern, Lam Ming-fan, the Rav. J. Apologies for absenco coived from Mossra Bey and Lt. Col. Messrs. R. Pestonji, D. W. R. Higgs and Dr. B. de Sousa.
E. D. Matthews,
arose both from the fear of foreign mourn the death of Admiral F. C. Mow in I. N. Murray, domination and from the desire to improve material conditions. These turn the science faculty which the tan motives were absent in the past Government of Naniting requires as the foundation on which they propose to rear the superstructure of the modern state."
Munton,
The German Navy regrets the
"Letters regarding Bus Services and sudden death of the Admiral the more because they know of his Shelters, Hongkong Telephone Com S, Stationery word read and op- The philosophy of the Chinese had desire to visit the young German pany, Kowloon Canton Ballway and been such that they had been content Navy and its leaders, and becauso
Kowloon, Motor Bus Company to necopt with resignation the" condi- it was intended, to ask him to proved. tions which nature had imposed upon honour the Gorman Fleet by taking advise that the question of faros, them. Instead of protesting against the severe tasks and the terrible part, in the spring of 1936, in the etc. is still under discussion and they service of commemoration in hope to give a complote answer to tho sufferings inflicted by nature in hor most violent moods, and instead of honour of the men, German and Association's letter of April 18 in the seeking to control theas forces and English, who fell at Jutland, subdue them to their own will and purpose, they had yielded with a kind of blind fatalism to floods, droughts And disease.
The entire German Navy lowers its fing in honour of the great Ad- miral of the British Fleet,- Reuters Special Service..
Press Tributes
London, Nov. 21. Warm tributes are paid in the press to the Admiral of the Fleet, Lord Jellicoe, who as announced last night, died suddenly after a brief illness.
Lord Jellicoo who was in his 76th year set an example of integrity, and self-control dignity which was recognised by friend and foe alike.
courage,
His life was one of disinterested public. serviceBritish Wireless.
Not only would China have lighton- ed the burden of life and lessened her sorrow by the adoption of science, but her scholars, by establishing their mastery over the forces of nature, would have raised still higher the dignity of the "superior man, the creation of whom was the chief mo. Live behind the Confuelan doctrine.
prido of Ilad the intellectual Chinese scholars in the past not been so great, and had they not assumed that they were already in possession ht of the richest possible vens knowledge, they might
stumbled have the facts which would have enhanced their dignity. Selente re mained the blind spot in their minds. The
study of selence was bound to disrupt the ethical system upon which China had reared the state, for science was always revolutionary in
London, Nov. 21. aim. The ancient cult of China and modem science could not live in (From Router's special correspon- of the harmony side by side for the one dent with the Northern Armies).
The three chief allies bound 10 excito contempt for the other therefore, could not Ethiopians, tho weather, the moun oro combining
Was
ITALY'S ENEMIES
near future,
Utility Charges
Hongkong
The reply from, the Telephone Company on the matter of utility charges was "read and it was decided to allow the matter to stand over.
Mr. F. C. Mow Fung reported that tho commitica had altended
of the he
Street Sleepers' meeting Shelter Society, and gave a brief outline of the work which they hope our. Both he and Mr. Kern gave bour. to do on the Kowloon side of the har- their private views on this matter, and after discussion it was decided
ation of donation
to $50 to make a Society's funds. Members were asked to contribute what they could towards Secretary was this work, and the
Government instructed to write to
the
and ask if they could not give some naalstance in the matter.
The
Secretary reported having
MOUNTAINS, MUD, AND received an acknowledgment from the
INSECTS
become scientific without sacrifieing / Lains and the fian operationa
much of her ancient, creed.
China's Position
to slow up the
Headmaster of the Central British School to letters regarding stationery, and a member of the Committee ad vised that prices have now been re- duced fifty per cont.
This concluded the business of the meeting.
which aim at liquidating current, HELENA MAY CONCERT
by the time that Marshal Badegilo arrives, to avoid delay in from the attempt to encircle
in marked Part new tactics.
where conditions were congenid :: Tarant
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EXCELLENT PROGRAMME BUT
SMALL ATTENDANCE
The only regrettable feature. of yesterday's Helena May Institute con- cert, was the poor attendance. The
rendered, every item being excellently received.
Mr. Lindsay Lafford revealed him- self as a pivot round which to centre many similar entertainments in the future, his exquisite touch
on the piano in the few pieces he played de- lighting over
everybody.
Ohina's position was
A contrast with the principles which lay behind the scientific spirit of the Ras Seyoum the recent oporations have been designed to eliminate the west. According to Langdon Davies,
whose sudden and the pursuit of scientific knowledge in guerilla bands,
silent onslaughts in the darkness do Europe received its stimulus from
the Italian morale. the religious impulse to find out the not help" true nature and attributes of God. Headquarters acknowledge the suc-programmie was a lively one and well The real scientific spirit was. like cess of such an attack, near Hausien, poetry a spontaneous growth and on November, 18, when the Italian
Com included. Cavalry fatalities be forced. It could not
to mander. Rinaldi,
rains are em its expression. The solentille spirit The unscasonable
the West was the product of the barassing the progress particularis In noblest impulse springing from a of the tanks, while the
houlder-strown tracks in the moun-
D. J. Valentine-har a powerful desire to learn the
about truth
ortains are boating the wheeled trafic,
with a, wide range, spirit reality. The religious
contralto voice curiosity about the nature of reality, and the insects are killing the mules, and she sang several solos of which
with compls, ато replacing
choicent was "Forest perhaps the however, was not part of the Chinese
nised
trafile. mentality, if we took Confucius and
The principal impression of the Echoes" by Montaguo F. Phillips, a Lao Tze as representative of the
journey from Makale, from which I soulful song capable of rare feeling.
Mrs. D. M. Richards, soprane, and have just returned, was the large- The western student is distinguish number of mules from Sicily, lying her husband who is a tenor, were also solaists who earned well-merited ap- very ed from the eastern by a restlessness in the roadside dead from mosquito plause. Mrs. Richards has a and alertness produced by the quest bite.
race.
of knowledge. The eastern student No wheeled trafe har yet pene-sweet volce, and gave full expression feels that his work can never surpass trated to Makalo, and road making to the charming sentiments of "The that of the great masters who have for the further advance is a stupen- one covered all fields of Imowledge. At dous task owing to the nature of the
the incurably insul best, he may expound, but he cannot country, also
surface. stantial character of the hope to create.
which Tho ronds
were passable The question arose then whether when I went up the lino wero in a
returned. there was within the Chinese mind at parlous state when I
The time is approaching when the present a sufficiently strong conviction that a life-time devoted to the study Italians will have to import tor and of science, for its own sake, cement to ensure that the roads Inst worth while. The fact of it was that longer than three weeks-Reuter,
.
WAS
China had hitherto been seeking the not of
definition of
"truth" as the
been
תער
Banks of Allan Water" which was of the series of Songs In a Farmhouse which concluded the evening,
The Rev. H. W. Baines, wds in good voico and started the evening well with two fino baritone solos: **Silent
and "Yarmouth Fair." Mr. ng "Drink to mo only with thine eyca" and the solo part of "John Peel, but perhaps his bent eantribution was to the quar tettes, which would have been encored
had; she had DINNER AND CONCERT again and again had time permitted. concerned about
about
hoc much more doing than about knowing,
the human behaviour than about behaviour of nature, and more about the practice of goodness than about the right conception of truth.
Where the Danger Lies
ST. JOHN AMBULANCE SAILORS AND SOLDIERS" · HOME
~WITH MATINEE
A most successful and encouraging HARMSTON'S CIRCUS TO AID ovent in the winter programme of the "S&S took place at the Ilome on
of n Mr. Harmston, proprietor of Harms- The danger that sprang from a Wednesday evening, in the innova- tun's Circus has promised to give a form of education that elevated the Visitors' Night. This is an
Saturday, importance of applied science. sald tion, having for its main object the matince performance, on Prof. Forster, and concentrated upon fostering of social relationships be- November 23, part of the proceeds Services and civilian of which will be given towards the it from one angle, namely the Relief tween the
of the New Territorica of Man's Fatate, was that it degraded Rections and I took the form of a dinner expenses
Medical Benevolent Branch of the social life by vulgarlsing it. The followed by a concert.
Organisation of St. John, which is in seriect of the nine arts, and of the That the idea had "caught on" was urgent need of funds if it is to con-
and spiritual and humanistic studies, or early apparent from ticket sales, tinue its humanitarian work amongst their subordination to the interesta finally confirmed by the attendance the sick poor.
at 9
110
of material
of
dinner, which was Ωστ
· ទូលំ guests for
Mr. Harmston has for disposal a progress inevitably led to a debasement in the quality of
of served in
Hall. In the main Assembly
cach including tax)-there are humsa life. This would be in direct The variety concert which followed number of front seat tickets ($2.20
the tradition opposition to the
China, at of
was given
and "Peto by
boxca. It is hoped that supporters to on au- of the
St. John, Ambulance Brigado for her superiority lay in the fact his Marauders",
to-150, will rally to the call and give their with the enervating, luxurious condi It is very difficult to tions that had at times enmeshed and ticular act for special praise, but ance. While enjoying the afternoon's finally destroyed various civilisations. "Pete" and his colleague in their entertainment they will have the cross-talk "Hopera" turn were special satisfaction of knowing that they are
that she had been able to dispense dience which had increct any par- patronage to this special perform
In conclusion, Prof. Forster said ly good. The ventriloquist of the relieving suffering and distress. that the chief incentive to the party gave a very clever exhibition, There are also seats priced at $1, (plus tax) adoption of western science in China and also the tap dancers and 50 cents, and 30 cents
of word did not spring from any of the guitarists deserve
which may be purchascil. praise. sources that Europe know, She was Foto and his party are certainly to not curious about the nature of the bo congratulated on a very fine effort. universe
was desire for
Before the concert ended, the Be- material comfort, particularly strong.cretary of "the Home expressed the At 2.30, 5:20, mate
Sho was primarily and dooply con- thanks of the Entertainments Com- cerned 1.20 & 9.20 p.m.
nation, wittes to these prosent for their up- security se and to acquire the physical strength port, and alad to concert party for and force to resist extinction as a their fine show. Ho mentioned that self-governing community. For the it was the Committee's intention to present, she
she was compelled to abandon
don hold the Visitors' Night on the third adherenco to her old philosophic Wednesday of every
every month, with the Ideals because of her ever-present exception of December, when a Christ-
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fears and threats. It was significant mas party will be held instead. Other that the first response made by China functions worthy of note were the to the scientific influence of the whist drives held every western world was
held tho establishment of the areenal at Klang-nan in 1885.0
evening, and the special da aturday drst Wednesday In each month. In the first instance then, western During January there will be a science had been introduced into further event of special importance, China because of its efficacy as in the form of a concert which Mr. weapon of destruction, and though it Anderson Miller is very kindly was still inflicting untold suffering on arranging for the benefit of the funda tho people, its constructivo and of the Home Further detalls of this wholesome powers were beginning to concert will be available shortly, and ̧bo, realised in the social life,
will be published in the anal manner,
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