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FN A SMALL Manchurian
town two padded, blue- gowned little figures present themselves for their first lesson in English.
They arrived that bitter, morning, their Hong-iron-clad
delicate, slender, well-bred small hands well tucked into wide-mouthed sleeves.
Before entering the school-room each paused on the threshold and perform- courteous inclinations ed and uttered gentle words of smiling, respectful greeting.
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Invited to enter, they stood side by side in submissive silence till bidden to take their seats.
No extraneous chatter during the lesson, enger attention being | given to every utterance of the
instructor.
oc-
"Having frequent casion to use buses travelling schoolwards, I have been
most unpleasantly astounded at the liberties and discourtesies which Chinese boys and young men take, and are allowed to take, unreproached and uncorrected."
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The lesson ended, again low bows and courteous thanks,
Nor was this attitude "new boy" timidity. Throughout the whole of their instruction the conduct of these little Eastern smug young China lolls at his of it unencumbered by the care- Phones gentlemen was beyond reproach; comparative ease and in oblivion. lessly flung book-baskets. 27778/9 the father-himself a charming And the unfortunate
tem-
or street-the most that can be expected is a careless nod or grin. "Oh, but they must let off steam out of cins!"
Let us investigate ant, for our sins, participate in a teach- er's purgatory.
Noise, inattention, covert or even open insolenco to the in- structor are far from infrequent.
Upon the first stroke' of the "break" bell follows a hideous scrape of scrambling feet and hurtling bodies in this unseemly exodus.
Master's permission to rotire? Quite superfluous and, of course, unuttered, or if uttered would be unheard in the general din; nor are the final words of his peroration of the slightest use.
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SUCH ATTRIBUTES-m o s t disheartening to any friend of Chinn-quite possibly arise from an ultra molern idea, not peculiar to the Orient, unhappily, that to display politeness is to lower dignity and suggest sub- jection.
Schoolmasters tell me that the difficulty with students is not in instruction (the average Chi- nese adolescent is by no means unintelligent) but to instil into either their proteges any notion of the true nature of discipline is all but an impossible task.
old. fellow, superficially at least porary co-tenant of the double -constantly enquiring as to seat will probably find himself THE MODERN CHINESE stu-
gradually and painfully edged dent will not "cap" their progress and behaviour.
into the gangway, what there is master or headmaster on campus *
Man." JANNERS Maketh
There may be something
Thongkong Telegraph. "MAN
Wyndham St., Hongkong 'Phone 26615 March 2, 1939
Aid and Comfort
in it.
If so, future China appears to be in danger of emasculation.
Especially does young China seem unconscious of the benefits which accrue to himself and others, even in refraining from injury to feelings; and he might at times without undue search find an outlet for active cour-
All will welcome the news that moral suasion has ended the situation by which the Unitedtesy. States was supplying airplanes for Japan's bombing of Chinese civilians.
The US. National Munitions Control Board reports that applications for licences to to parts export planes and Japan ceased last year. This was in response to an appeal by Mr. Cordell Hull to aircraft mukers to stop this sorry busi-comfortably
ness.
Having frequent occasion to use buses travelling schoolwards, I have been most unpleasantly astounded at the liberties and discourtesies which Chinese boys Lake, and are and young men allowed to take unreproached and uncorrected. Not merely towards the general public.
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An expensively clothed, some- what bloated young blood, as
sented exiguous bus seating will permit, not only will allow his form- master to stand in the crowded vehicle, but will offer no sign of salutation or even of re-
over-
There have been some ques tions as to whether Japan was the only nation engaged in bumbing civilian populations.cognition. But Japan was a clear-cut case. I happen to know that this Moreover American publie master is a graduate of Oxford,¦ lopition's strong opposition to the whole of Japan's war itt China gave the State Depart ment unquestioned support in this appeal.
With the intensification since Munich of American feeling about some of the allies of Japan, the same public opinion in the United States may now demand cessation of plane exports to Fascist countries. Certainly be- fore American air fleets are developed on the scale now being
In proposed Washington 10 match German air armaments, į American exports of planes and motors to Germany should cease, The amount of these is in ques- tion, but one estimate recently published was to the effect that hundreds of German, military planes are powered by American engines or engines built on plans licensed by American companies,' Nearly U.S.$3,000,000 worth of air equipment went to Germany From 1932 to 1936.
The State Department has
and ponder upon canse jeffect, or vice versa.
anti
Old gentlemen and ladies of any age may sway and stagger and strap-hang at his side butl
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The trouble would appear to By Lichty be that old bugbear "loss of
Vasted Pealeza Benalmače,
"Got anything more exclusive in rabbit?"
face."
A Chinese boy will not, as a rule, accept deserved punishment cheerfully, get "chipped" a little·· by his comrades, and then forget the whole episode.
He cannot rid himself of the (probably innate) notion that in undergoing correction. he has lowered himself, not only in his awn esteem but in that of his comrades and his superiors-if he by chance acknowledges any such!
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CAST YOUR MIND back to the days of the old-type, long-
Chinese gentlemen- gowned there are still some surviving.
Recollect the honoured place which the tutor in the family or the master in the school occupied in the esteem of the father and the son.
The tutor remained bonoured and respected to the end of his days.
If the change is a regrettable one, to whom the responsibility. teacher or taught?
One theory is that the Chinese, like the Mongolian pony, cannot juke corn; or if he does, merely
transforme good grain
into monkey tricks, or worse.
FIVE GHOST STORIES
THE trouble about most ghost stories--and this is the proper season for them is their source. In general, the better the story the more it owes to imagination; and the more blood-curdling it is, the greater the difficulty of pinning the curdler to actual experience.
The best ghost story I know- Henry James' "The Turn of the Bcrews superb artistic imag- ination: Ita horror is terrifle. These little storles, of mine pretend to nothing terriße. They are devoid of omgination. I know all the people concerned as well as I know myself, and I promise you that the stories are entirely true. How to explain them is another matter.
belittled the amount of Ameri 1.
can aid to Germany and has said That the granting of export per- mits is mandatory under the Neutrality Act to nations not at war. Two questions are involv- ed here. One is how far planes and motors listed by the State Department as for civil aviation have been devoted to military ht There is some evidence that planes used in the bombing of Spanish towns have had American motors. Also it may bo anked whether American supplies of civil aviation have not facilitated military aviation in Germany. The other question is whether the State Depart- ment can use its moral sunsion also to stop exports which aid Fascist arming.
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I will begin by saying that I once lived in a haunted house. I did not see the ghost myself, but I believe that he appeared twice.
There was a small party in my house-1 was away and the hostess and two guests were walt- Ing for the others to arrive. When they trooped in, the hostess was horribed to see that one of them had brought an extra and unex- pected giri-beg making an mi- even number-but her horror was quenched the next secund by the sight of a young man at the tall- of the invasion,
This young man behaved rather oddly. Ho turned away immedi- ately through the opened folding doors into my own particular roomt, which was deserted and in dark- ness. In the gush of greetings the hostess decided hurriedly that he might have gone to telephone, but when, after five minutes, he did not reappear, she looked for him. Bhe switched on the light. He bad vanished.
No one else had seen him, and her queries were treated na leg-
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fect recollection of his face, and made a sketch of it afterwards a sad young fellow, ciran-shaven. and a lttle monkeyish,
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months later arrived agah). The hoste had brought some friends home after the cinema. They were talking when the door-bell rang- a stranger who had mistaken the house. This Interruption reminded one of the guests that it was time He went into the hall to to xo. collect his hat, and came back lo report that he had seen me--he assumed it was I, though he had only seen a man's back-going into my room.
Again the room was found to be I did not come home for empty. another half-hour, and, when I prove my did. I was pincited solidity. It is interesting, perhaps, that this phantom had lo have the front door opened for him.
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Now let us go back to pre- var Ireland, where the Game hostess, then a giri
of thirteen, was holidaying with her sister on a farm near Bantry. The form icluded an ancient Danish fort-n mound about the -size of an average house-and the
Kiris decided to excavate it.
Local superstition was against them, for any disturbance of these forts was believed to cause death, particularly among livestock. The farmer's wife. however, was a cheery, independent soul who bado Bo they began them go ahead. digging out an old, choked well which was supposed to be con- nected with the interior of the fort by a subterrandan pas80 KC.
After two days, two cows fell
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pulling. However, sho, had a per-sick, and three calves died. On the
third day, the donkey lay down and The farmer's would not get up. wife, embarrassed and apologetic, though still elalming superiority to superstition, asked the girls t they would mild thing up their excavations; so they, obliged.
As they were tipping back the last stones, on a hot sunny after- noon. they both heard from over their shoulders, where no human betug was, a laugh. 1a, ha, ha! It came, in dreadful bursts. And, from that moment, the cows and the donkey recovered.
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AGAIN in pre-war Ire- -land
accom- this girl, panied by another sister and a friend, had a much more cerie experience. They were walk- Ing up drive to the friend's house when, rounding a bend near the ren, the girl saw, shovetted against the night sky, a tall, very thin man. He was standing on a bank, and jumped into the drive Immediately in front of them. What was 50 awful." told, was that he landed on the #ravel in absolate silence; and his head was so small us to seem a mere button on his long, thin neck. I could feel my hair stirring. began to cry. My friend, who told me afterwards that she had seen the thing before, turned us round the lodge. and hurried us back to She saw it, too, that time, and said that it followed us for about a hun- dred yards. But I didn't look. My younger sister didn't see anything. "We went back to the place the next day, and I found that it would have been impossible to see any- thing silhouetied against the aky, because the bank was topped by hes at least six feet high. Bo ho must have been backed by a curious slew of his own."
Sone years ago, long after 1 was
told this story, a paragraph, which I have before me, appeared in the old" Morning Post "about elemen- tal earth spirita. It described them is very tall. lean men mere rickles o' banes, to une a North Country description-with small triangular heads." I thought. this interesting. A woman I know Intimately told me that she once swa Agure, which this descrip- tion Ats, moving along a road near Crawley, In Sussex. It seemed to. her to have no head at all.
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Then there is the woman who told me that she and her sister. who were taking part some amateur theatricals in a country house, wondered who was the man with the dark moustache sitting next their father in the front row of chairs. There was no man,” their father said afterwards." Your aunt was on my left, but the chair on my right was empty."
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My own supernatural ex- periences are confined to
of
a chest of drawers and * cake
The chest Hoap. drawers was in a house where I Was slaying. One night, just after I had got into bed, it emitted a loud bang-no mistake about that The next morning I was told it had belonged to a woman-a friend of the family-who always closed the bottom drawer with a kick.
The cake of soap was in
in a Batter sen house, said to be afflicted by
The poltergeist or rowdy spirit. psychic investigator and I
Went there. We watched and waited: nothing happened. We went up- stairs. leaving the only other occu- pant of the house in the kitchen. We explored every room.
And then, in the middle of a sunlit passage, along which we had walked a minute before, we suw cake of yellow soap.
Facts, Mr. Gradgrind, simple facia. What is one to make of them?
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