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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1919.

MANNERS BRITISH AND AMERICAN.

Britons at times have a vast and pleasant candour about themselves that reflects the persistent desire for truthfulness animating the British spirit. We haven't always coincided with what literary observers like Dickens and Kipling and Bennett and Wells have said about is, but wher the novelists describe their own Eng

THE CHINA MAIL,

INDIA SCOURGED BY INFLUENZA,

TO-DAY'S CABLES.

MILLIONS OF DEATHS.

The influenza epidemic shows definite signs of abatement, wrote the Times" correspondent on November 23. Its ravages have been terrible. In Bombay city there were 15,000 deaths, and in Delhi city, on a population of 200,000, the death-rate at one time reached 800'daily!

land, we turn open ears, says an American paper. Here is Galsworthy on both of us, the English and our selves, and he approaches fearlessly

In the rural tracts beyond the some of the things that in a bloody and sacrificial war we have been reach of effective prophylactic willing to forget, some of the messures the loss has been tremend- peculiarities of both sides of the ous. A recent report shows that in Anglo-Saxon group that each side the Punjab it followed much the same course as in places attracting more public notice. The first signs appeared in August. In September it persisted in a mild form, and from the middle of October until Novem ber 8th it was acute. It is estimated

has still to understand in the other. Or that understanding, Galsworthy says in "The Yale Review," the future happiness of nations depends more than on any other cause.

"I have never held a whole heart ed brief for the British character. There is a lot of good in it, but mach which is repellent. It has a kind of that the number of deaths ranges deliberate unattractiveness, setting from 5 to 10 per cent of the popula out on its journey with the words:tion. The death roll is heaviest

Take me or leave me." One may respect a person of this sort, but it's amongst young adults and women. difficult either to know or to like The number of deaths in the Pun- him. I am told that an American | jab is estimated at 250,000. When the officer said recently to a British staff final results of the epidemic are -officer in a friendly voice: 'So we're going to clean up Brother Boche to summed up it will probably be found gether!' and the British staff officer that other provinces have suffered on replied: 'Really! No wonder Ameris approximately the same scale. No cans "sometimes say: 'I've got no part of the country seems to have use for those fellows.' The world is consecrate to strangeness and dis-escaped, although the visitation was covery, and the attitude of mind con-lightest in Bengal, and even the creted in that 'Really seems unfor dry and bracing Himalayan tracts givable, till one remembers that it is are reported to have been severely manner rather than matter which attacked. divides the hearts of American and Briton.

"In a huge, still, half-developed country, where every kind of national type and habit comes to run a 'new thread into the rich tapestry of American life and thought, people faust find it almost impossible to conceive the life of a little old island where traditions persist generation after generation without anything to break them up; where blood remains undoctored by new strains; demean our becomes crystalised for lack of contrasts, and manner gets set like a plaster mask. The English manner of to-day, of what are called the classes, is the growth of only a century or so.

One lesson of the epidemic is that

the United Kingdom is not the only country where an active reconstruc- tive social policy is imperative. The campaign is urgent in India, which vigorous prosecution of a sanitary cannot stand these drains on its mar-power. A scheme is now afoot to establish a Medical Research Ins titute in Bombay on the lines of the nations are promised, and the scheme. Rockefeller Institute. Large do- holds out abundant promise of pro- viding machinery for the investiga- tion of these destructive and baffling problems.

The population of the Punjab and the Punjab Native States is about 24,000,090, and of the whole of India about 315,000,000. If the influenza. death-rate proves as heavy through- give a total death-roll of over 3,000,- out India as in the Punjab, this would 000.

There was probably nothing at all like it in the days of Elizabeth or even of Charles the Second. The English manner was still racy when the inhabitants of Virginia, as we are told, sent over to ask that there might be despatch- ed to them some hierarchical assistance for the good of their souls, and were answered: D-n your being tickled by that question: Now, souls, grow tobacco!"

am I really a better man than he? "But this British self-consciousness | Exactly what proportion of American is no mere fluffy gaucherie, it is our blood at this time of day is British F special form of what Germans would know not; but enough to make us de call Kultur. Behind every manifest-finitely cousins always an awkward. ation of thought, or emotion, the relationship. We see in Americans a Briton retains control of self, and is sort of image of ourselves; feel near thinking: That's all I let them enough, yet far enough, to criticise see'; even: That's all I'll let my- and carp at the points of difference. self feel. This stoicism is good in It is as though a man went out and its refusal to be foundered; bad in encountered, in the street, what he that it fosters a narrow outlook; thought for the moment was himself, starves emotion, spontaneity, and and, wounded in his amour proper, frank sympathy; destroys grace and instantly began to disparage the ap what one may describe roughly as pearance of that fellow. the lovable side of personality. The. "Probably community of language English hardly ever say just what rather than of blood accounts for our comes into their heads. What we sense of kinship, for à common means call 'good form, the unwritten law of expression cannot but which governs certain classes of the Briton, savours of the dull and glacial; but there lurks within it a core of virtue. It has grown up like callous shell round two fine ideals- suppression of the ego lest it trample on the corns of other people; and exaltation of the maxim: Deeds before words.

mould

thought 'and feeling into some kind of unity. One can hardly overrate the intimacy which a common literature brings....

"The American and Briton, especially the British townsman, have a kind of bone-deep defiance of Fate, readiness for anything which may türn up, a dry, wry smile under the A Frenchman, Andre Chevrillan, blackest sky, and an individual way! hose book, England and the War,' of looking at things, which nothing I commend to anyone who wishes to can shake. Americans and Britons understand British peculiarities, used both, we must and will think for our- these words in a recent letter: 'You selves, and know why we do a thing) English are so strange to us French, before we do it. We have that you are so utterly different from any ingrained respect for the individual other people in the world. Yes! We conscience which is at the bottom of

are a lonely race. Deep in our hearts, all free institutions. Some years

I think, we feel that only the Ameri before the war an intelligent and can people could ever really under cultivated Austrian who had lived long stand us. And being extraordinarily in England was asked for his opin- self-conscious, perverse, and proud,we ion of the British. In many ways, hel do our best to hide from Americans said, I think you are inferior to us: that we have any such feeling. Itwould but one great thing I have noticed distress the average Briton to confess about you which we have dot. You that he wanted to be understood, think and act and speak for your- had anything so natural as a craving selves. If he had passed those years for fellowship or being liked." .in America instead of in England be There is something touching and must needs have pronounced the same terrifying about our character, judgment of Americans. about the depth at which it Under the pressure of this war i keeps its real yeargings, about there is, beneath the lip service we A the perversity with which it pay to democracy, a disposition to disguises them, and its inability to lose faith in it because of its undoubt- show its feelings. We are, deep ed weakness and inconvenience in a down, under all our lazy mentality, struggle with states autocratically the most combative and competitive governed; there is even a sort of race in the world, with the exception secret reaction to autocracy. perhaps of the American.

On those lines there is no way out "This is at once a spiritual link of a future of bitter rivalries, chican- with America, and yet opeery and wars, and the probable total of the great barriers of the failure of our civilisation. The only 'friendship between the two people. cure which I can see lies in democra We are

not gure whether wetising the whole world and removing are better men than Americans. the present weaknesses and shame of Whether we are really better men democracy by education of the indi- than French, Germanis, Russians,vidual conscience in every country. Italians, Chinese or any other race, Goodby to that chance if Americans is, of course, more than a question, and Britons fall foul of each other, but those peoples are all so different refuse to pool their thoughts and from us that we are bound, I suppose, hopes and to keep the general welfare secretly to consider ourselves super- of mankind in view. They have got for. But between Americans and to stand together, not in aggressive ourselves under all differences there and jealous policies, but in defence is some mysterious deep kinship arid championship of the self-helpful, which causes us to doubt, and makes selfgoverning.. live and let live us irritable, as if we were continually philosophy of life."

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GERMANS IN 'U.S.A.

The number of Germans registered

(Reuter's Service to the China Mail, in the principal cities of the U‚§.A.

MINERS FAVOUR STRIKE.

LONDON, Feb. 23. The ballot of 800,000 members of the Liners Federation continuée in favour of a general strike. The figures at midnight yesterday were 308,059. in favour and 38,835 against.

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FUNERAL OF SIR W. LAURIER,

LONDON, Feb. 28.

werp:

Philadelphia Boston

St. Louis

Chicago.

12,000

3,000

8,000· 27,000

San Francisco...... 8,500 New York, including

nearby New Jersey pein to

80,000

TO-DAY'S ADVERTISEMENT,

NOTICE.

BANK OF CHINA;

Ottawa reports that the remains. of Sir Wilfrid Laurier have been lying

HONGKONG. int state in the House of Commone NDER Instructions from "Head size Wednesday. Interment took ahore Bank has this day been establish

Office, Peking branch of the place at Notre Dama Cemetery toed in Hongkong at No. 20 ad 31 Con day. Government offices and places naught Road and the following officers of business are closed, and buildings sign on behalf of the Bank.

have been appointed and authorised to druped with black fings at half-mast. Simultaneously the bells were all tolled. Requiem services are being held throughout Canada.

Mr. Truyes Pai

6.

Manager.

M D. McEuen......Sab-Manager. Mr. Li Hri Yin...Assistant Manager. Hongkong, Feb. 25, 1919,

TO-DAY'S NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.

HONGKONG ST. ANDREW'S SOCIETY

19

WAR BOND DRAWING

The Committee of the Hongkong St. Andrew's Society War Bond Drawing have pleasure in announcing that the Winning Numbers for the Drawing which took place on Friday, 21st inst., were as follows

&

The Winning Numbers.

TO-DAY'S ADVERTISEMENTS.

NOTICE.

LL Persons interested in dogs,

A poultry, and

to attend & moeting to be held in the Music Room of the City. Hall ou THURSDAY Daxt 37th ina, at 6 F.. to discuss the advisability of holding * combined abor in the neat future.

Hongkong, Feb. 25, 1919.

NATIONAL LOAN, OF THE

"LOURTH YEAR OF THE

REPUBLIC (1915)...

CUBSCRIBERS to the shore Loan

Se hereby notified that redemp tion of the bonds drawn at Feking on the 27th January last will begin on the 17th February, 1919.

Payment in cash or its equivalent will be made at the Bank of China and Bank of Communication or any of the branches of the abors Banks and also at the Shanghai Office of the Hongkong and Shangbai Banking Corporation.

Any Bond of which the following are the two terminal numbers, namely: 01, 04 T, 18, 22, 21, 37, 13, 56, 66, 60, 73, 79, 81, 93, in a drawn Bond.

F. A. AGLEN

Inspector General of Customs.

NATIONAL LOAN OF THE FOURTH YEAR OF THE REPUBLIC (1915).

TN connection with the first drawing of the above, Lona holders of drawn Bonds are requested to upta that Coupon No. 8 maturing on the 19th April, 1919, will be available for pay ment to the extent of TWO-THIRDS of its value any time of or after the 17th February, 1913. The remaining third of the value will be held to represent the unexpired period from date of redemption to date of maturity fand no claim for interest will be

admitted in respect thereto.."

F. A. AGLEN;

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"Inspector General of Customs,

THE BANK OF CHINA.

GOVERNMENT BANK,"

行銀國中

(Spocially authorised by Presidential

Mandate of 22nd November, 1917),

- Prize

No.

1

Value.

$17,610

Winning Ticket.

Prize

No.

Value.

Winning

Ticket

∙15033

09

$210

15093

7,050

OSOLA.

30

210.

22073

7,050

11409

31

210

01320

7,050

04784

32

210

18857

7,050

20126

33

210

- 1645

7,050

08344

210

20400

3,320

12236

140

19395

Anthorised Capital.....8e0,000,000.00.

700

24830

1340

07605

700

19143

140

Paid-up Capital ... 12,579,800,00

09092

700

25686

140

23174

Reserve Funds.2,107.400.00

350

13939

̈140-

07221

"350

20363

140

14378

350

27676

140

18977

250

05864

140

16379

350

00066

140

07104

350

11949

140

19083

17

280

24201

14532

280

22296

25931

280

12900

04187

250

03913

260

02010

280

04018

250

11710

51.

980

06751

210

00824

310

91347

210

· 10468

210

04441

888888888888888

24232

04820

06555

11638

28012

02106

25107

50

03997

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