1920-05-01 — Page 12

*TO

Westinghouse

Electric Fans

THE CHINA MAIL.

SINCERE

西貨品

香港先

限公司

SATURDAY, MAY

B

"MY CHINESE DAYS.”

There are others who only comem-long since decided that if anyone foreigner,cacehilly, but they don't And plate the Political aspect. With them wants to exploit the wealth of their anything nice about him. Above all, No! the title is misleading. 1 amit was onec Russian, then German,country they must do it on a fair besis. they find nothing to imitate in the and to-day Japanese aggression that Half and half. The Chinese do not habits of the English and American occupies their minds.. When the Chi- object to the foreigner trying to make Missionaries who have made trouble nese Eastern Railway was planned, money, but they will not allow him to ever since they first came to China. the Cassini convention agreed upon, make all the money.

There are many novelists, such as when Germany. seized Kiao Chau, Now, dozens of novels have been the author of "My Chinese Days,"

not writing about the days 1 spent in China bur about a collection of short stories writen by Gulielma F. Alsop and published by Hutchinson which those who possess half-a-guinea can purchase.

...!

THE HEIGHT -

STORM IN THE COMMONS. Mr. Hogge rose to a point of order?

A NEW PROCEDURE

This procedure, he said, was new, and without challenging the ruling of the Chair, he wished to know whether the minority had not the right to claim a division, and to go into the lobby. The Chairman repli-

ed that if the hon member would

For this paltry sum, pal- and when japan presented her famous written about Chine and almost all are who give us clever descriptions of wrong end of the stick. There aren't close of the present financial year read. Standing Order 30, 29 arcended

ty I mean in the eyes of the post

which happened 10 #

exist.

to the lullaby of lione roaring round.

Chair.

For the purpose of getting through the outstanding estimates before the

should cease each evening at eleven last year, he would see that the mat the Horse agreed that discussion o'clock and that affer that hour there was left to the discretion of the Chair, purely formally. When the man'e reason for refusing to allow a estimates, should be put from the

Mr. Devlin demanded the Chair:

recently, there were upwards of fifty the minority would obviously have guillotine came into, operation division to be taken on a vote when

members were understood to have made up their minds that a division the House. In an impassioned out- should be taken, os each. Time burst he insisted upon his right, "as

time members

a representative of the people un through the division trammelled by the coupon," to record to record

bis vole: .* their vote.

tramped lobbies

and

The Chairman repeated that under

OF ADVENTURE.

air-route from Cairo to the Cape as The people who are falking of the though there would soon be passenger Services running have got hold of the

twenty-one demands, the Politicians influenced by one or other of the above China. but the Chinese who appear Cairo booking-office for a time. But going to be any queues waiting at the war paperists. you may procure a book of Chine squealed loudly. But Rus-schools of thought. Putram Weale in such stories are not real live with many beautiful illustrations and sia went down before japan Ger- has lived all his fe in China; he people; they are simulacra. For there for sheer joy of adventure and turmoil twenty stotes of Chinese ddventure many collapsed in November 1918, knows more than any other novelist is no sympathy between the author to a frazzle both the Transatlantic of experience.the African ropte beats nurse in an and Japan, the bug-bear of to-day, who has written a Chinese novel, but and the people described." American hospital in Shanghai. All will also find that her vast schemes he never forgets that he is a Euro- The Chinese move through all the On the sea-flight log and snow and

flight and the journey to Australia the tales are well written and full of for securing control in the Far East pean, and, above all; & Politician. Chinese novels as the shadows move exciting incidents, and all give the must meet the inevitable fate of all. Therefore, clover as are his books, in the Chinese shadow plays. We storm were the chief enemies; on the votes outstanding, and a number of included a quarter of the members of

road to Australia, blizzard and hur typical picture of Chinese 'life. who attempt to conquer China and the they, all present the picture from the see the figures on the screen and we

China has an extraordinary effect | Chinese.

European point of view. They are often laugh, but we know that they ricane and the dangers of a forced upon the European. It compels him

after Now, all the thousands of books incomparably superior to any other are not alive. They are made to landing in desert or jungle or the sea. to write books. Almost every Euro- written about China are written by novels written about China, fo: Pur move in a certain manner, conditioned But all this is a plain dich beside which Africa is as appetisingly varied pean who has ever visited China has one or other of these schools and fol- nom Weale is a master of prose; he not by the psychology of the actors written something somewhere. Prob-low these lines of thought.

is a great writer. His "Indiscreet bur, by that of the person who palls as hors-d'œuvre, You land here, and always in the best of humour. When the Standing Orders. the matter was sthains catalogue of second-hand Chi- The student tries to become a Letters from Peking "is a classic, and the strings in the pupper show. Comic elephants come nosing round the Mr. Adamson, desirous of talking in the discretion of the Chair. "Why

camp, You land there, and you sleep with a member of the Government, nese books contains 2,265 diferent) Sinologue, and usually strains his ranks with Marco Polo, Cellini, Bor- or tragic as the impulse swings this

took his seat temporarily on the the exercise of this new procedure?" was this particular vote chosen for books all Bealing with China and brain in the attempt to think like a row, and other great authors who have way or that. suppose that at least another 2,000| Chinaman. It is an impossible tasit presented their personal impressions. Now I think that the action in all ou land in a dry swamp and are Treasury bench,

He wants to be inquired Captain Redmond. Was A good many people make China one-fourth as old as the Chinese All his novels are far beyond the aver-pendent upon the mentality of the troops: mosquitoes and centipedes, one, and the jibe- was taken UP- Mr. MacVeagh, for the course because the European brain is only of life with vivid flashes of genius. novels should be inevitable, and de. Deset by Apollyons, not singly but in Wardle's successor," suggested some there any precedert." asked seriously, and spend meny years in train, and you might as well expect age, and his descriptions of China are characters. Futnam Wale never animals" surely the orontosaurus, Mr. James Sexton wore a hat, a soft and the Chairman replied that the crocodiles and large bellowing Almost alone amongst the members. which. bad. been adopted ? studying the language, which they can a child of five to compete in hammer only accurate but also pictures- makes a mistake, in his Europeans had the but been seen.. You get up. felt. It was, apparently, confiscated Standing Order had only been never speak correctly, and the litera- throwing with a trained athlete of que. Yet I am astounded that a man They do what their character forces and are driven by a sandstorm which during one of the divisions, but was amended last year. After listening ture, which they can never under- twenty. We see the converse in the living the whole of his life in China them to do and fate. and fate-alone stand. These are the Sinologues Chinese student who goes to America should always be moved by the same impels them to the denouement propels you 366 miles in less than three restored to its owner when the mem-to-several further protests, the Chair solemn body of men who look upon or Europe and tries to acquire Western impulse. He sees the grandeur of But neither he nor anyone else can feet you wrestle with innumerable

hours, and at a height of 7,000-8,000 bers returned to the House,..

man said firmly that it must be themselves with great respect

ideas. He comes home and prattles Peking, the industry of the Chinese, endow a Chinese with a Chinese whirlwinds caused by the furious member wishing to raise a point of further challenging of his decision.

By the rules it is laid down that understood that he could allow no There are others who rush through baby talk to the Mandarin and to his their love for money, but he has mentality and make him act consistent heat. Or you don't get up, and there order after a division has been called China, see roads in bad repair, tem- neighbours. They smile contemptu- never got inside their lives and their ly up to the last chapter.

On the next vote the Chairman minds. They remain a mystery ples numbing down, mandarins taking).ously just as we do when grown which he does not solve. He is in things done. by a Chinese man or rushing through trees." You have Mr. Devlin found himself in the post this case being greeted with fronical We can all describe the actual you "scuttle about with your tail i must do so seated and." covered." alowed a division, his decision in squeeze, dust in the streets, smells people talk baby walk to each other. everywhere, dirty peasants, bound The Lord Charles Beresford type sympathy with the Chinese up to a woman because we have seen them things brought to you on camels, ton of wanting to address the Chair, cheers from some of the members. feet, no milk, butter or bread, and go of man is even more foolish. Because point, but beyond that point he stops. done, but we cannot say They did Nile you are spied on from the came to his rescue by calling to Mr allowed to drop, and Colonel Wedg- obliging natives fetch water from the but as he had no hat Mr. Will Thorne But even then the matter, was not he finds a temple tumbling to pieces He never seems to realise that the this one year, therefore by the law of bush by armed and hostile Dinkas Sexton, a fellow Labour member. wood declared that the bargain had. be thinks this an emblem of the Chi-Chinese are superior in every way to their nature they must do that in the (such wretches well deserve the "Jimmy, where's your 'at? The been broken because the agreement But there are some who have lived nese Republic. You might as well the foreigner. He does not think they next year; for we don't know what name); everywhere you go you experi- House was delighted, and "Jimmy, that had been entered into permitted in China, many years and who have prophesy the collapse of the British are. He will tell you what is going they will do or why they ever do any-ence luxurious hospitality, althoug] Chamber. But the House is "very It remained for Mr. Bonar Law to

where's your 'at?” echoed round the a division on each vote. accustomed their noses to the smells, Empire because Kenilworth Castle is to happen-politically. His opinion is thing,

that might slow down with the excur their eyes to the decay, their throats in ruins.

always sound... But he cannot tell Mr. Hillier the manager of the sion traffic, and at the finish finish fickle in its moods, and when most pour ell on troubled waters. In the to the dr and are obsessed by the Those who discuss the Yellow Peril you how the Chinese think for he has Hongkong and Shanghai Bank, has ft to, quicken the most sluggish blood casily amused is usually most easily suavest. of tones he stated as his vest hocds of industrious placid mov. have sounder ground to stand on. never got inside the Chinese mind: lived in China all his life and is much

offended. All went merrily till Mr. personal opinion that the action of ing cinzes who only need co-ordina- The Chinese are a braye race and it No foreigner ever has a beloved by the Chinese. But he said you see from the air and photo Whitley, the Chairman, exercised an the Opposition was a violation of the tion and lodhip to conquer the is conceivable that, as in the past,

Backhouse is not a novelist, unless to me "The longer live amongst graph the great Zambesi falls. This undoubted right under the Standing Or spirit but not the letter of the gree world. There are the Yellow Feril- they might be moved by some great that wonderful diary in China under them the less I understand them, is indeed, the pith and marrow of dere Under certain circumstances pent. Mr. Hogge, then, startled the ists.

impulse which would" weld them to the Empress Dowager" Là novel and Sir John Jordan, also much love adventure packed into a few crowded he is entitled to exercise his discretion House by the perfect frankness" with- And again, we get another section gether, and that they would find a and not a real diary, but he does poca by Chinese, made a remark of the hours and it may well be as they as to whether he should allow a divi which he declared that the action of say that the skilled airman thinks alon. All he has to do is to call upon the Opposition in challenging divi obforeigners living in China who per- great leader who would drill them, sionally show signs of understanding like character. I mention these two little of the difficulties and dangers the Ayes to stand up, and then the slons was part of the game we all ceive a corrupt Government, an, im- arm them, and overwhelm Europe. the Chinese mind.

names because both men are univér- mense population devoted to trading. I do not think it likely because the have a collection of novels deal salty loved by Chinese, and, there. But le passenger, doute man, will "Noes," and then to give his decisión play at times. Seeing the surprise

think a lot

The rule had not previously been put he had caused. Mr. Hogge hastened a vast country lacking means of trans- Chinese are a practical race, devoted ing with Chinese life. Some are pre- fore, presumably in touch with their port, and therefore partially undeve to money-making and contemptuous of posterous, as “Mr. Wu" which many intimate thoughts and aspirations.

into practice in this Parliament, and to explain that as the Opposition loped. They look upon the Chinese militarism. But we must not forget think a remarkable study of the Chi- But they are only strangers in China ent but we must not presume 100 was exercised in regard to an Irish estimates they could only record the resort to it led to trouble. It could not speak against these high as a greedy cowardly race without any the Taiping Rebellion or that of the nese mind. Many are written by mis- if by that word you imply a severance much upon that patience. -

vote, and this raised the indignation their protest by voting against them. Nausnal feeling and only worthy of Boxers. No one dare prophesy apoutsionaries, and, I presume that Myof thought and ideas from the people. Do not forget that a rate of four of Mr. Devlin, Captain Redmond and Mr. Bonar Law said he thought it being plundered. Such people are the future of the Chinese race. They Chinese Days comes under this you are living with fundred millions of industrious people. Mr. MacVeagh The Committee would be a great pity if the aEICES always crying out to their Legations were a great military nation in the category. Most of the missionary There is a real danger in these who were civilized when we were was asked to vote money for Ireland, ment fell through wing to any out to forco China to build railways, past, they might revert to that type novels are patronising. The author Chinese novels. They have built up savages is a force which, If roused, but no matter here was an attempt burst on the part of members and roads, ships and heroplanes, to open The concession hunter works of says in effect Poor heathen Chinese, an entirely false idea of the Chinese, would be irresistible

to rob them of the sacred privilege the storm subsided as quickly as it Ap mines oilfields, plant cotton, tea, course, with the Panitical student Bouye dewe you turn to the West All They have contrayed it think We do not undertoned them but of voting against the Government had eprang up, thirteen votes in SLC Silk in short, al that a western mind want to make money out of China baptised and year, European clothes, that the Charleed fro a decadent race, time is no reason why we should as Having called upon the Ayes Looks upon as indispensable for what and both think of spheres of influence, give up ancestor worship, rice eating capable of being eternally bullied. I sume a ridiculous air of superiority we call Progress." Such people of grabbing all they can. They gor Fung Shui and all your Eastern am afraid that one day we shall find The Chinese resent this but they are Want to exploit Chinthey are the their claws into China in the days of habits?" Look at us how good we that we have made a mistake. The too polite to show their resentment. Concession Hunters.

Lễ Hưng Chang, but the Chinese have are." The Chinese do look at the Chinese take long views and are pati« i New Wärest,

home and write long screeds about the Break up of Chinn

•

ވ

cension being allowed to no through and then the Noes to stand, the without a divisions Chairman declared the vote carried Amongst the unchallenged votes There were loud cries of "No" from was one for £20,000 for the mission. the Liberal and Labour benches, and of the Prince of Wales to Australia.