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The Telegraph.
HONGKONG, 30th Sept., 1922.
ROADS IN CHINA.
SATURDAY,
has grown lukewarm. After a period of quiescence, the Associa. tion met, again the other day, when it could find nothing better to do than to recommend, in the name of China's sovereign rights, the construction of road to fence-in the Model Settlement.
In this wise an enterprise started with a national purpose is re- duced to petty par schialism. The influx of Chinese into the Inter- national area (for Shanghai is a "settlement," not an exclusive | "concession like Shameen) has necessitated Western residents
SEPTEMBER
DAY BY DAY.
30.
THE LINE OF LEAST RESIST-
ANCE LEADS DOWNWARD AND THE LINE OF MOST PERSISTENCE LEADS UPWARD.
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1922.
Between Ourselves
By Robt. MacWhirter.
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If a body were to judge correct bouquet, tells them what fin ly from the papers that come to fellows they are, and what a fin hand about this time o' year, it's a thing freedom is, especially for Queen's College aquatic sports perfect blessing that Providence the Straits, Somewhere in the are being held in the V.RC. bath invented Scotland. No', mind ye, middle of reel seven, Kemal Pasha on Friday next. Mrs. Severn is for the folk who live in the Land produces an ace from behind his to distribute the prizes.
of Cakes but for those who go left ear and before the Greeks there on An occasional visit. recover from the effect of their Mr. M. E. F. Airey has beening to a writer in the Bystander. kick-up from behind and beat it The reason is very plain, accord- recent victories, they get a swift appointed to the St. John's' Cathedral Church Body in place indulged in by the inhabitants of they had stayed on at the currant It is because of the simple life for home, wishing to goodness of Commodore Bowden-Smith.
this primitive land. All that's farm instead of extending their needed to the wardrobe line is a geographical knowledge in The Canton teacheres are not suit of homespun and it'll last you strange land. Symrna then moving into suburban districts. satisfied with the offers made to as long as your skin. So long as proceeds to get it in the neck
them by the authorities and the foundation of a suit In Shanghai, as in Hongkong,
was and tons of perfectly good raisins. threaten to strike on Octoberlaid in & crofter's the Chinese are numbered by the 1st.
cottage, will never see pudding, no' to fashion in Scotland apparently can speak of the houses that are burnt hundred thousand where Eu-
be scoffed at. Ony kind of old and the millions and millions of ropean are numbered by the The acting Harbour Master of clothes is good enough to wear good pounds sterling that have thousand. Where
Canton intimates that the 1st while on a holiday North of the gone Weat. Whereupon French Europeans
Bar Island Light has been re-
fweed. It would seem that it's papers forget all about 1914. have gone they havesat the native exhibited since 23rd. September. personality that counts there. Mons, the long years of mutual authorities a fir.. xample Its characteristice remain as By the same token it would siso fighting, our dead in their keep- in the work which the Association beretotere.
appear that it's piffle that counts ing, the Allied War Memoriale, in London. professes to bave it heart; yer
the League of Nations and hail Turkish victories as tantamountto that body would res.ict thres
British defeats! Suffering Mother, necessary developments on
a declared Dr. F. M. Graca Oz riol One leading London newspaper is enough to make ye weep. technical plea. Such a proceed to be duly elected a member is a so puzzled as to what Sot- Toe next item on the programme 'ng has
of the Sanitary Board for three land thought of her last install is when our Cabineteers sound dog-in-the-manger
years, with effect from the 7th.ment of visitors. But it needna' the toscin and the Dominions are suggestion.
March, 1922.
have fashed it's heid! Scotland supposed to fall over thems-Ives je a land where endurance is very in their burry to Gallipoli again.
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Chan's Apologia.
General Chan
King-ming apologia, a summary of which we published yesterday, it such a document as we would expect from such a man, who, we are convinced, has acted during the recent troubles in Canton with
His Excellency 'he Officer Ad- The Yearly Invasion. ministering the Government has!
There has been added to the great, and where, when neces I Ask You.
of the
What
list of medical practitioners the ary, proof is not wanting that name of Dr. Kaoru Ishimitsu, of thought
language is given to conceal Ay, I ask you. What of the Majima Hospital, 151, Wantsai grouse-killing invasion touches disarmament?
The yearly English League of Nations? What of
What Road, Bachelor of Medicine of the the old country very lightly, for limitation of armament? Medical College of the Imperial the Saxon tourist has, as University. Tokyo.
a of the war to end war? I ask rule, PL fairly well-defined you. For what? To help the track. So the average Scot is Greeks who dissolved a demo- A coolie was knocked down at no' compelled to study the idiocyncratic government under Pres- the sole object of serving his the junction of Pokfulum and crasies of his visitor except ident Venizelos and called the province and his country, having Queen's Road West by a motor through the mediu n of the autocratic German sympathiser ulterior motives in view. car yesterday and had to be re- picture papers. Outside ghillies Constantine from exile to rule A few years ago the National no
Vecessarily, he aad to explain moved to the Government Civil and porters then, the annual them? Or to punish the Turk? Road Construction Association, his break with Sun Yat-sen, bui Hotpital. The injuries received migration scarcely makes con- Can you tell me why he has a whose activities have become he has done so in sober terms were rather serious.
tact and so no new and stimulat- reputation for ill-treatment of the familiar under the title of the and has not resorted to undignifi-
ing mental processes are set in weak and the helpless when all Fd buse. - is opposition to the Good
A matshed occupied by quarry-motion. We certainly do not British soldiers who have fought Roads Movement, was
Northern Expedition was based men at Futaufat village, Shauki. worry about what the English against him generally maintain founded at Shanghai, and the on a belief that he considered it wan West, caught fire from an visitor may think of us. He is that he is a fair and honourable step was regarded as a happy both inopportune and impractic unknown cause yesterday and but a poor specimen who does opponent in a fight. Punishing sign of a more progressive spirit able. Events have now shown was burnt down.
The loss of pro- not feel the truth of more than he the Turk is like finding Mac that Sun embarked on the ven-perty belonging to the ten men knows or
can explain to Pherson in the house on a lodge on the part of at least a section ture without counting the cost who lived in the structure is enquirers. Just as the invasion meeting night. It would seem of Chinese. Dr. C. T. Wang, the or considering the practical valued at $100.
of a country never did, to ony next to impossible, for by a well-known reformer, was the difficulties to be overcome. That
great extent, affect its national tragic irony which repeats itself characteristic of hi chairman, and Westerners
A Chinese was taken to the life so the yearly rush to the regularly in history, the Turk as failure LO take account of Government Civil Hospital yes-North leaves us independent and has learned to regard the best- well as Chinese were members of practicalities. Chan's opposition terday suffering from the effects individual-a consumation no' to laid schemes of the Western the Association. The main pur was construed as a determination of a fail from a tramcar in Des be regretted.
Powers wi' cynical unconcern. pose of the institution was to to obstruct the venture, and thus Voeux Road West He was A Ricketty Entente.
So long hae he profited by their it came about the Sun returned endeavouring to alight from it
Joalousies and miscalculations educate public opinion in China to Canton from his headquarter: when he lost his balance and
Once upon & time there and indecisions that by this time n the importance and value of at Kweilin. There can now be came down heavily on his head.
were two dogs that were forever ho has come to have a strong road construction up to a point but little doubt that Sun's move
fighting one another. At last, belief in his own good luck. tired of warfare, they sat down When onybody or At the District Office, Hong to consider the which would constrain local, was not dictated so much by a
ony nation desire to shift bis headquarters
situation and once gets it into its head that provincial, and national auti or from Kweilin to Shuswan as too on October 6th., a piece of after a long discussion they Providence is on its side, it's no ities to undertake this vital but get control of affairs in Canton. be sold by auction. It contains pleasant and profitable. Hence- telling ye. But that doesna' foreshore at Tsing I Island is to agreed that friendship was more so easily frightened, mind I'm neglected work,
The scheme Chan realised that in time, and 26,793 square feet and the upset forth they would live in amity prevent the nations, in the name was splendid in its purpose and avoid bloodshed and destruction to reclaim the area, erect a sea good things of life. They had and again having another try at
he says that it was in order to price is $268. The purchaser has and share and share alike in the of humanity, from every bold in conception. It is a trite that he resigned his posts and wall and put up buildings valued just reached this conclusion and the war game as a solution of maxim that a country progresses returned to Waichow. We are $2,000 within two years.
were contemplating each other this racial problem. Who in the as fast or as slowly as its road- prepared to believe that that was his aim in dropping into the
wi benevolent eyes when au name of Tipperary, no' to men- building. To-day China's roads background when Sun appeared
Lieut. Col. A. Delacombe, adjacent window opened and the tion Piccadilly and Leicester are probably easily the worst of in Canton.
D.S.O., having departed for the guidwife threw out a bone and Square, wants to win wars ony- United Kingdom on 27th. instant, before ye could say knife the two way when the winning of them any country with claims to Definite Aime.
is struck off the strength of dogs were at each other's throats. means losing in the hinderend? civilisation. It would be more
It is clear from the conclud-the Command accordingly. The
Seems to me that this is some- The Uncertificated. correct to speak of the absence ing part of General Chan's duties of Treasury Chest Officer thing very like the present state
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How naive is the thing which at present being called economy was shown recently by the London County Council when it decided that a hundred unqualified girls should be drafted into the infant depart- ments of the London Schools, this being considered the easiest branch of education. The London Teachers' Associa-
of roads, a narrow track usually manifesto that he has very def and Command Paymaster will be of things in Europe. The nations Telling our Hongkong educa- sufficing, where even that con- inite aims in view for the future. carried out by Lieut.-Col. C. F. of Europe have known the futility tional Pooh Bahs onything is
Heard, D.8.0., R.A.P.C. He intends to carrry out his
and ruin of war; they decided to like giving a duck a bath-a venience exists. Such was not scheme of separating military and
try peace. They discuss; they were waste of breath. I came always the case. Under the civil affairs and to reform and A theft occurred aboard the s.s. agree; then up goes the bally across this bit in The New Age, Great Khan, China exhibited discipline his troops. Already Providence yesterday, the cabin window, out comes the bone and the other day which should, how- he has begun the task. As to of the chief engineer being enter- friendship is forgotten in the ever, interest all parents and remarkable development in the general political questions, he is ed, money and jewellery of the to- struggle for self-interest. The last ratepayers. work which the Romans under-sufficiently a Constitutionalist tal value of $503 being stolen from war was the war which was to
is to subscribe to the view that a drawer which was broken open. end war. We put up monuments stood so well.
these should be handled by Par Captain Paulen Ducas, of the on both sides of the Channel at Considering the tremendousliament. His own attitude of steamer Ducas, was similarly vic- the unveiling of which there is extent of the task, geographical non-interference is shown intimised, a sum of $130 being much handshaking and kissing and financial, to say nothing of the remark that "I sincerely stolen in his case,
on both cheeks; we visit our deal on foreign soil and we and they the hindrance caused by the hope we military men will not interfere with the same." All he
make ourselves dry speechify- military and political commotion, wants to see is the Constitution be pleased to learn that Mr. and swap picture postcards and Music-lovers in Hongkong will ing; we adopt villages and towns the Association showed admir- completed and reunification be Mishel Piastro,
the Russian able perseverance, and tangible tween North and South 'carried violinist who will be remembered four line paragraph in a news-tion replied wi' great sense and
and, I say, it only needs a lying out. That done, he is prepared by his former visits here in 1915 tokens of its spirit are to be met to hand over his mistary power and 1918, is again with us for a MacPherson's blackwood sofa, is paper and the Entente, like with in the shape of modern roads. to the Central Government and few days. He is passing through nearly in bits. Of course, only the fringe of the retire into private life. His ideals the Colony on his way to Ame problem has been touched; but the and his means of putting them rice, where he has had
into practice are good. It is bis successful stay of several years, fact of a start having been made policy, so long as North and South giving concerts in all the princi- when the Greeks were holding It's something like a year ago. was an encouraging indication. are at variance, to do what good pal cities and earning
high the Afiunkarakissar Kutabia- A comparison of the Bund and he can in at least one Province appreciation, Mr. Piastre has Eskeshehr-Biledijik line
and then, when the differences
and the maloos at Canton with the have been composed. to leave to in the City Hall on Wednesday cut off and thinking
been persuaded to give a recital the Turks were supposed to be labyrinth of alleys behind them others the task of carrying on afternoon next, when he will be gel.ing
about gives an idea of what the change The manifesto breathes the spirit assisted by Mr. Harry Ore.auctioning off their harems, that'
of a patriot who puts his country Booking is first and himself last. We hope derson's. that affairs at Canton will remain a sufficiently undisturbed for lengthy period to enable him to carry out the plans he has in mind. The Macao Affair.
now open
most Mainly Historical.
their scimitars and
moderation in this wise:
Work done in the infants de- partment is the foundation of educational work in the senior departments, To trust that foundation to unskilled and un- qualified persons is to endanger the whole super-structure and is false economy. It is worse; it is the decision of people who have neither sense nor im- agination.
I've often wondered if a branch
of
our
means in the life of a country.
at An-I advised yon ex-raisin raisers of the National Union of Teachers Unhappily, a change for the
no' to gut their fish until they got out here wouldna' do a lot o' good them. But d'ye think they took in the matter of our children's worse has to be recorded. Dr. Wang was called away from
objections to them on the part of any notice of what I said. No' a education. No, mind ye, that I the Portuguese authorities. It is
bit. I suppose they were ower think onything savouring Shanghai in connection with the!
busy
and Trade Unionism can be good for drinking aherbert well to learn that, as may be in-swapping hes to pay ony heed. the arts--and teaching is a retrocession of Tsingtao. and the
ferred from the Foreign Com-Then Reuter lost sight of them great art-but if such a body reactionary element has gained Our contemporary in the South missioner's letter, the terms pro-and in the meantime, France, could help to rid us of
China capital, the Canton Times, posed by Canton are the upper hand in the councils has received a communication stringent as was indicated. Now made a pact wi' the Kemalist teachers it would do the com- oto without consulting her associates, amateur and artless uncertificated of the Association. "Foreign" froni the Commissioner for that the acerbity engendered by
I could members are looked at askance Foreign Affairs in that city deny the deplorable disturbances has Turks to be followed later by munity a great service. (except, apparently, in so far as ing that the terms demanded of had time to modify itself, a settle Italy conducting private negotia- go on for hours on this subject- That there as ment ought to be practicable. tions wi' the Constantinople or but what's the use. they are likely to be particularly stated by that journal. We re- Meantime we await with interest Lloyd George gets up on his bind educational facilities
anti-Kemalist Turks. Then Mr. is something wrong wi' our useful), and it is not surprising viewed there conditions yester- an official statement of the con- legs and hands the Greeks & Continued on Page 7 if the interest of these members day, and indicated probable ditions,
the Macao Government are
is now
i