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SATURDAY, JUNE 1, 1938.
THE LEAGUE
IS NOT DEAD
The Dragon Boat Festival
GRIN AND BEAR IT
By Lichty
ROMANCE OF ANCIENT CHINA
By T. Paul Gregory.
N event of unusual picturesqueness is the an- nual Dragon Boat Festival which falls on the This is the spring! fifth day of the fifth moon. festival par excellence of the Chinese people, and was held this year on Thursday, June 2. In some respects it is a unique occasion inasmuch as it is celebrated in commemoration of one of China's most eminent statesmen of the past, Ch'u Yuan, or as he is known to the Cantonese-Wat Yuen- who lived about 250 B. C.
despair, he souglit to express the
of the mind
lenver
thousandCrowds turn out by
hollow
excitement. They press
staccato beat of brazen
On
gongs, and
Gays tell by Uhlië Palin syndİtik, Jac.
"Woow! I've discovered a new planet. Call up the Tweedie Observatory, and yeil, ‘Finders, keeps"!"
MR. PEPYS in
HONGKONG
May 26th-Up betimes and did cause of these raids for they doe walk about in my garden very early, lose the country all reputacon and noting this and for now there will harm the
passed last January,
but
31st-This day I doc cat
bee the prettiest contrived fint that
Practically every literate Chinese Dragon Boats' Search familiar with the story of this ancient worthy, and it is a striking As the story goes, the king at the commentary of the affection of the nows of the drowning of Ch'u Yuan, overcome with re esses, that he is the only one was suddenly Phone 27778/9, amongst the thousands of outstand- morse, and ordered his fleet of slen- ing sons of old China who is slagled der dragon boats to search the river out for especial annual commemora for his body. In vain did the crews tion. In fact, Ch'u Yuan may be scall their craft along the river; for suid to come next to the Sages in the corpse of the unfortunate states- popular estimation, and his memory man was never recovered.
It is said. is as much cherished amongst the however, that on the third day, his Chinese ng that of the Emperor spirit appeared to the king and com- Frederick Barbarresa amongst the plained of being hungry, so it was German peasantry, who are said to ordered that food should be cast in- dream of his return, much as the to the waters in order to appease his ancient Welsh did of King Arthur. hunger. Eventually, too, there grew The life of Ch'u Yuan is a rather out of the order of the king, a cus- polguant example of Chinese blogra- tem which has been observed for phy as it typilles the struggle of a nearly two
thousand years. righteous individual against the the fifth day of the nith moon, corruption of his environment. His- every household
the In tory records that he was attached prepares sung dumplings" bet so few flowers i must needs not wino way in Central Government
wrapped in
which are about ordering matters. After talk of an armada off Kwang Tung State of Ch'u, one of the several thrown
into the streams of breaking my fast, to my efflee where I doe believe it to bee a trick to kingdoms in which ancient China at the vicinity. Special prayers Bro Y am busy and like to bee more so divert troops to the south, and it does the time was divided, So blunt was offered up to the spirit of Ch'u Yuan, at the month end. Reading in the little save fight some very gallant
against his criticism of the shameless sycho- who is regarded as a species of demt-newes sheete I doc and to my great- nctions
unarmed fishing and greed phancy
of the satellites god in the Chinese popular pantheon. est possible dingust that the Diocesan junks. This
to the sick
visit around hla royal master that he made The great event, however, is the and Central British schools doc play and later to the Peake Clubbe where enemies right and left. At length, holding of dragon boat races on the each other at baseball, which nigh I doo find to my greatest possible no dangerous did their enmity be- rivers in a supposed search for the makes mee vomit for before they surprise people set to cards at four
well at Krickett, come that they formed a cabal and delfled hero.
did play pretty
tobles, a
there thing
bas
not been Villages
which are situate neur a this is the end of it, and their with all manner of guile so poisoned
these three years at least. And I the mind of their sovereign that he
doo much doo play with three pretty Ladies stretch of water vie with one straight bats. But I suitable Although it has been more or was constrained to banish Ch'u Yuan another in the holding of boat races. marvel that the Rev. Mr. Sargent but not very skillfully, I doc fear,
Mr. McLellan (or it moy Played Intc, my she-chlid being less abandoned by the Great from the royal Court. The luckless Crews are carefully chosen from and
statesman then commenced a series
Mr. Mulcahy) doc counter there too and home to dinner about Powers which were to have made of wonderings which take him to amongst the more athletic of the it, they being good players at nine of the clock, and so to bed.
younger men, and lucrative prizes unce its principles effective law for every, rection of the land. In his are awarded to the winners. Indeed, Krickett and keen upon the game. all the world, the League of hardships of his position in rhymed the oxford-Cambridge boat race on This evening to the Clubbo where nuncheon in my office out out my
Thames can compete with the Mr. G. Pentreath makes us laugh verse which surviver to this day dragon Lual event in token of general very heartily. It seems her had fent send out, as is my wont, for two small bottles of milk, I doo Icun Nations continues to do much under the name of the "Li Sao: An
a book titled
"Cross Roads of the that there is nono to bed purchased, Elegy on Encountering Sorrows."
Hining the banks of the Java Seas" to someone, hee kacw and this I doe take to mean that our useful work for humanity. It is This poem is considered to be one river, and with the utmost enthu not to whom, and it had not been supplies are not sufficient for all the
watch the sculling crews, returned. true that in the big political of the immortal classics of China, i wo
So he puts a notice in populace wee now have, so many and occupies as great. a place in the.
the newes-shecte Afty
and in twelve thousands
belas does squatting two abreast in boats
presently como problems of the day the voice of literature of the Far East as data or more feet in length, straining at hours he doth receive two copies from Canton owing to the aire-raids.
the "Divine Comedy" of Dante
ant their paddles, striving to keep time anonymously, the one being his, For myself it is a small thing but the League is no more than 33260" has been
in that of the West. The to the beat of a huge drum, whose whose is the second hee knows not. I trust there will bee enough for whisper to the consciences of
variously des to
And indeed, I die wish all who have the children and the sick. Bought reverberations encourage nations. It is not the stentorian cribed; by some it has been termed a them on--not alone for the sake of borrowed my books would return some lyme for my gorden, whence
veritable pindaric ode, and
and by other voice of authority. When war- "a lament, political character of their respective
the money
this morning I had a button-hole of prize--but for the honour them, even though I had to buy a Ptive villages.
new book case.
violets, which though small did planes shed their bombs crashing which makes vivid the background
As the sequence
27th-This day His Honour the of dragon boats a great people." among civilian people. the However it may be described, the move swiftly along the water, the Chief Justice goes upon holyday and smell mighty sweet. My papers be- pltall where I and the alck lady League might as well be mute poem a unique legacy of the crowds can scarcely restrain their Mr. Justice Lindsell doth art in his ordered in my office, to the Hos
place, Mr. E. Williams becoming drinking a fuggon of alo and she forward, Pune, Reading in the newes-sheete tells mee that she will leave there thoughts and susterings- straining for all the good its protest would man; for upon its completion, ho
their eyes 10" glimpse the I learn that M, J. Rold, who was on Friday of which I am mighty glad. bring. When nations march to commited suicide by drowning him- Winners, and when that is ascertains long manager of Talkoo chipyard, Later to Mt. A Jay's How home battle in search of new conquests scle in the waters of the river Milo, ed, burst into an unrestrained
as a protest at his being driven from of cheering, punctunted by hd which I had not heary of upon the Penke and I doe and 11 or for the sake of imagined imperial favour and his sorrow at the imperious, strident crackle of indeed but the other da where hee ever I saw in my life, albeit some-
hia sovereign's complete disregard of wrongs, the League is powerless his didactic instructions wear a whole strings of fre-crackers let off did return here upon a visit, but it what too spacious for one man, and to intervene, though at Genova had offered for the latter's wel as a sort of culminating crescendo to must be all of three or four years I doubt I must and him a wife.
June 1st-This day my Fa Wond fore, and that of his kingdom.
the wholesale opprobation of the as I suppose. To the Clubbe where multitude.
Mr. Povy tells me that in England the machinery exista for pre-
Thia year, however, owing to the Mr. Justice Addlasell hath ruled brings me my button-hole of pansies venting or settling such contro-
national struggle against Japan, the that a wife may not pledge her hus which is the first time I doc aver versies. All that the League has the help of Germany, Japan dragon boat races were indefinitely band's credit for dress if heo doe recollect to have had them bloom
make her already
in June, though they bee very small an adequato allowance; but 1 tell him hee is more the Government House I learn
though well-coloured. This day at lacks is power. The power that and Italy and other states which postponed until some happler day.
in the Colony, where they were like to bee glad of it than mee, But T. N. Chau is invested with the
Mr. should be vested in that politically abominate it. The carried out with all the colourful fan-
I after doe make a note of it to tell of the C.B.E. while Major M. John
order fare of previous organisation belongs once again League's work in fighting the fare of
yet undertaken with an extremely years, they were
to my wife, poor wretch, albeit I
son receives the QBE, in the milit- cannot compisyne of her. individual
and white slave traffic and bettering laudable patriotic note; for the pro- nations
for long and capable 28th-To Mr. Caldbeck's where I ary division
service. And I dóc at
most heartily find a merry company antagonistic groups. The aims the lot of children everywhere in ceeds which would ordinarily have
one of the wish these gentlemen joy of their clock and so drink a glasse of his well-deserved honours. This oven- of the post-war statesmen have well-known, and attracts, indeed gone to the crews of the successful craft, this season was expended on
Amontillado wine to the health been defeated, to a large extent, demands, the support of all the relief of their helpless com-
ing comes the news that a bill has pretty Lady. But the boy have been passed by the Council which his for they hoped the Langue would nations which lay claim to any patriots who were rendered homeless
Ing spilt some upon the floor
In all empowers ing my glasse, it was not to the eviction orders if they are harsh or the Judges to refuse through the ruthless Japanese nir
છે. guarantee the peace of the world, enlightenment. Japan has a raids of the last few days.
health of her dachshund which did
and then vomited incon- unconscionable; and moreover it doth But some good has come out of representative on the Advisory
Poem To The Dragon tinently.
Let me set up a means to adjudicate a fair Geneva; and in a non-political Committee on Social Questions.
a booke and there seems Boat Festival
the more bolshevistique of sphere the League still is a factor
appoint of refugees and cholera. So home and take my muncheon mighty late. the tenants who doe hold that of importance.
Landlords should adven- I did visit a sick lady at the Hospital whom they did cut for an ture their capital to build hous them to livo in at a appendix on Tuesday. But as she for doth demand u steak and a Dagon of rental
returns no profit. ale I make no doubt she recovers Talking with Creed over this in the apuce. Dined with my children and Clubbe he tells mnce that the houses in Prince Edward Road when built so to bed. "No-yuet ng p'a lung-chau A-p'oh p'o suen chul-ngol you; 20th (Lord's Day)-Up pretty bo- should have fetched $200 per men-
times
and having broken my fast sem es rent to return a fair and Ma-na trol-ra Kei tung 132,
moderate Interest on the capital. Tre-tse ch'ue-chung chae hadt-k'au; did the tour and Lord how I But, so dull was the market, they Chue ho haai-k'au funtg tao-sin, vegetable garden, and Lord! Saam kwani kau-k'au naal ta'ing did sweat. But I believe it was good have been let so low as $00 per men- albelt unpalatabe-an for mee. Then having bathed and cem, and so Chue-yukc moon poon kai-iltamed myselfe to a long chair in increase of nigh 100% would bec
moon tip, Kau ahon taz-ful maan-nin." "On the fifth of the Afth moon (it In the custom) to paddle dragon boats Grandma varrles her grandson in her arms and goes to watch: Whilst mamma In the house wraps rice dumplings. In up lie leaves, And big sister in the kitchen pre-
pares haal-kau
offers After they are made, she
them as sacrifices to the spirits of the ancestors. And goes through the ceremony of the "three kneelings and the ulno kowtow" The basins are filled with ronal
pork.
with and the dishes
Firemen Use Coffee chicken,
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Tulsa, Okla. to offeringa) beseech the gods to grant Volunteer fromon used coffco and A premonition of death must have happiness for ten sousand soda pop to extinguish a blaze at the directed thieves to an address on St. years."
Junch stand of Mrs. Rose Gwin here. Germain Street. The address is a Hari-k'au is a kind of delteuer The blaze was discovered in a paper-coffin factory and the Joof consisted
made from crab meat,
to
It runs thus:
A reliable barometer of social progress brought about through In conclusion, one may quote a The League has been called the League's influence is to be popular Cantonese rhyme which ex- presses succionise the C which can the World's Ministry of Health, found in the ratification of the of the underlying purpose of the and it might well be termed the relevant League conventions. whole series of festivities on this day. Ministry of Charity and Social The 1921 international conven-i Welfare of all Nations. For as tion for the suppression of the| long as the political aspect of traffic in women and children things is forgotten or avoided, has now been ratified by fifty nations can still sit at Geneva countries. Forty-eight Statos and accomplish womething for are parties to the 1923 conven- the botterment of mankind. In tion for dealing with the kindred. a recent Issue of the Quarterly | evil of obscene publications. Review tribute is paid to As for the scope of the} Gonova. The essential tech-Langue's child, welfare work, nical services which the Lengue somo iden of its possibilities| is performing are so indispen- may be gathered from current on the sable in our modern complex problems appearing of interdependent communities agenda of the Committee meet- items include tho ing. The that if the Geneva in-
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upon en- of one of His Majesty's frigates and assured. Later I we did drink flaggons of ale and quiry that there bee no shortage of will be avall- later sherris sack, all very merry. milk and my supplies After I did read beneath my plane able to-morrow, of which I am glad free which is more heavily leaved both for the body publick and my now having profited from the prun- own as лow I need no more drink nuncheon. strong waters ing it got in the big typhoon.
30th-Much anger on all sides at Visited the sick and after played at the savage bonbing of Canton by cards in the Peake Clubbe. Won the Japanese, where are many killed four florins. Home to an excellent and wounded. And I know not the mixed grill, and so to bed..
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