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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPHI, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1988.
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A group of patriotic young women, who recently returned from the "front", who were present at the open-air meeting
of the Chinese National Women's Relief Association and the Women's Section of the New Life Movement (H.K. Branch), which was held at. the Hongkong Football Association grounds, Happy Valley, yesterday-King's Studio,
N the life of every man and woman there are several regular and un- avoidable crises. Starting
[lot.
SCHOOL
FOR
ALL AGES
Hongkong Telegraph. should be such a terrible crisis? Cambridgeshire villages forms a matters and rural crafts.
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1938.
1937-1938-1939?
to breathe is one; starting indeed, it is all-important. We to talk is another. Probably shall see in a moment precisely to most of us starting to be why this is so. an adult is the worst of the Let us glance at a typical
example, the key village of Bot door arts of workshop and In some ways a good public
ten other
counting house but in farming school is the best kind of club, Is it necessary that this last tisham, which with
a club to which your parents But that is not all: it is, in have paid a life subscription. If Need leaving school or the uni- group having together a popula tion of just over 6,000. If you versity be a crisis at all?
have wisely chosen your parents every sense, only the beginning. Consider
what it is that from among these 6,000, the You are now a full-grown citizen you have any brains you will schools have to do. A school is Bottisham Village College will and the Village College will make good (if discreet) use of a factory where boys and girls welcome you in its Halley Ste- can Women's Institutes, the this club; if you have none, your British Legion, athletic clubs, membership will do a lot to The Japanese successes along are turned into little men and wart Clinic even before you are dramatic clubs, debating clubs, soothe the pains of failure and
may come to the
horticultural societica, societies the Wuhan "Maginot Line", women (there are those other born. You
mediocrity. factories, too, of course, where welfare centre a little later, and
for natural history, photo- culminating six weeks' bitter little ladies and gentlemen come if your parents live in the cen- graphy, chess. Under its roof But really the use you make bombardment in which until from). Upon leaving this fac- tral village you will want to join are your meeting rooms, your of membership is immaterial. this week the Chinese have held
the child is suddenly the nursery school as soon as hall, with its stage and special What matters is that the cor- steadfast against odds that launched upon a strange and you can walk.
acoustic devices, your common would have crushed many a difficult world. It is like a tree
From 5 to 11 the junior school room, with its armchairs and its porate life of the school is follow- Western Power, need not be uprooted just as it is coming is open to you. After the age of cheerful panelled walls.
ed by a corporate life-however feeble, however scattered-in taken as an indication of the into bloom.
11 and for the rest of your life, early fall of Hankow. Every The child cannot recall that the Village College is yours in
the years, that follow. All the thing points to the city which other violent egress some years whichever of the villages you
ties are not broken, though-the- will spend
kitchen, gates behind you may be closed. cradled the Chinese Revolution before, but it may perhaps be may reside. You
aware of a reception your school years till the age of
the showerbaths and twenty-seven years ago remain- vaguely
Yes, the gates do close, every- ing inviolate until well into that was not cold or unfriendly. 15 or 16 in the "post-primary" other things are still yours. As
This time it has to meet the school, with its wood and metal à Parish Councillor you will at where; everywhere else, that is, 1939.
full. untempered blast. Can workshops, its art room and tend your Council meetings in except in the Village College. nothing be done to alley the science laboratory, its school the College committee room, and That is why the Village College severity of this process?
tory
I HAVE just discovered
the
The College
By Christian Barman
In the north, where the Japanese have severed the Peiping-Hankow Railway, their vanguards are still 200 miles distant. In the north-cast, where they have attained the
answer to this summit of the Tapich range of mountains in the face of obsta-question. Not only is it possl- ble to do something, but some- eles which many military ex- perts believed unsurmountable, thing is actually being done here in England this very moment.. they have yet to traverse 180 Readers have already had news miles of some of the most of an institution created in the difficult terrain in China before County of Cambridgeshire eight garden, its gymnasium and play- local government in the village the Wuhan cities lie below years ago and known as a Vil- ing fields. them.
Startling though the lage College. But many people naval advance in the Yangtse are aware of the existence of
and the military advance along
the north bank of the river have
who has made a study of Village Colleges, the new centres of rural life for people of all ages. Above are buildings of the Village College at Bottisham, Cambridgeshire,
will acquire a new dignity and importance in your eyes.
is so utterly and completely dif-
ferent from anything that we know. Its school is open to the world, free to the fresh winds of actuality. And when school- days are over the child is not shut out. The same kind of life
goes on, the same guidance is available, the old friends are. about.
NOW that
And in this social centre the
the Village children "go to school." It is
College has come into these Village Colleges (of which there are now three, with 1
put these words existence, let our local authori- As soon as you leave necessary to without fourth being built)
school the juvenile into quotation marks, despite ties clearly realise what it been in the past 72 hours, clearly realizing what a Village employment officer (he, too, is the fact that in every other res-
means. If they do, if they can Japan's difficulties in this sector | College means.
part of the scheme) will help pect the school is just a school, are increasing with each mile.
The Village College is a social you to find congenial work; the where the things are taught that grasp the significance of this From Kitow to Hankow Reach
County Council new social invention, there can lies Home of Generalissimo and cultural centre for all ages. County library (in the College a better-class Chiang Kai-shek's greatest for- The social centre is the whole building) will lend you the books usually teaches. It is not the only be one course open to them. of which the school is a part. you did not have time to read at curriculum that is different, it is From now on, to build a school tifications, each of which, as the This relation between the centre school; evening classes will in the way the school is attached to of the old-fashioned type where Chinese defenders are pushed and the school, this subordina- struct you not only in the in- real life. back towards their pivotalition of one to the other, is vital; == point, will become more difficult
to reduce. South of the Yang-
tse, the Japanese have made their hundreds of abortive at- comparatively little progress tacks in the Tehan areas, will since their
offensive grent started on September 3, al-need more than courage to drive further away from the Yangtse though their claim that Aikow River. They will need heavy has fallen will, if substantiated, reinforcements, which can be possibly prelude the fall of -spared from the other sectors Tehan, around which one of the driving on Hankow, and con. greatest battles since 1918 hastinuous and lengthening lines incessantly raged for six weeks. of communication through dif-|
It is improbable, cable des-ficult and hostile mountainous patches tell UN. that the Japanese in the southern sectorsha is still some hundreds of regions. And, above all, Chang- Hankow will drive for
if
miles distant. they succeed in their long and arduous task of crushing the The Indomitable will of the stubborn Chinese defence along Chinese people and the bitter the western shores of Lake determination of the Chinese Poyang and around Tehan. troops are proof against ́any | More probable, it seems, this direct attack on Hankow Japanese Army
strike until 1938 becomes a year past and 1989 bc- southwards towards Nanchang of the
which boasts that its 22 comes the third year of the miles of walls have never been Christian Calendar in which scaled in the eight centuries of bloody and uncivilised warfare their existence and Changsha, has raged in China. China the vital city on the Canton-may take heart from the fact. Hankow Railway. The fall of that, in the first fifteen months Changsha would undoubtedly of the Great War in Europe, hasten the end of Hankow, since much of France and all of Bel- along this vital railway flows gium and Servia were in invad- much of the war materials useding hands. The outlook for the with German thên, in the defence of the Wuhan Allies areas. But the Japanese forces, armies at the doors of Paris, almost decimated as they have was much blacker than is the boon repeatedly flung back in outlook for China to-day.
will
GRIN AND BEAR IT
By Lichty
and then she gave my letters to her lawyer, What a fool I
·was-me-toith half a dozen pluošta?"
conditions make a Village Col- lege possible is going to be a grave misapplication of educa~ tional funds.
THRILLS
him Have
EAD the murderer's confes- ston: "He had invaded the sacred territory, forced self into the sanctuary,.. you read the story of the priest and the man who desecrated his temple? He poisoned him with the Communion wine-and his con- science was at rest.
Only rock climbers can tell whether rock climbing makes you feel that way about fellow rock climbers you don't like. Anyhow, that is what happens
is
In Newton Cayle's Sin'ster Cmg (Ool
hold lanca, 7a.. ed.). Result: chiselled off and three men fall to their death
There are some well-dono descriptive; stult and some fuirish detecting with a sprinkle of authentic sounding techni calities. So don't hold that confession. against Mr. Osyle. Those helghta... Helen McCloy's medium in Dealgn. for Dying Heinemana..1%. Od) is a; alimming drug that leaves a corpse glowing hot in the snow, Her fantrap fot murderets is a psychiatrist who detects through "psychle fingerprints." A good old-fashioned check-up might have
got there more quickly but hardly. as entertainingly. And I commend · a. good new motive, long overdue,
A mad doctor a rided grave, a Bur mess growing mis-shapen nimost na you that is David Whitelaw's look Ilotter on the Koch' (Wien, 78, 64.). Oh, and missing-rubles. Horror; indeed,