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was obviously an exercise in vit uperation, and, that had no other prosition of moment. By picking it out for special study we have done no injustice to the letter as a whole:

HIDING IN SHÁNGHAL

LETTER TO PRESS.

bit rather the reverse, since readers JAIL BREAKER'S REMARKABLE who did not see the letter might well think we had dug the quotation from so thoughtful essay on proper and

method improper

of literary criticism instead of from such a discarsive farrago of abuse as that in which we found it. We did a similar

(Chine Mat SPECIAL. 1

SHANGHAI, Sept. 20,

A JOURNALISTIC CONTROVERSY.

HOW THEY SOMETIMES GO.

A SERIES OF EXTRAUTS FROM

FICTITIOUS NEWSPAPERS.

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER

21, 1921.

JAPAN AND COREAN ART. PASSPORT EXAMINATION,

.

[Special Article]

A NEW ARRANGEMENT.

In this age of world movements, nearly the whole of the human race

As the result of representations seems ruled by an overwhelming pas made by the shipping companies sion, which is to become, or remain through the Chamber of Commerce, "civilised." The civilisation which

the world has enthroned as its ideal the Government has agreed to modify The Penny Trumpet 2** The man who can descend to the is that of the Western world by the passport examination regulations, The Shanghai Times has received a level of the tirade thus briefly noticed which is meant the great countries of The police inspection of passports at thing in our leading article yesterday.emarkable letter from Amos Norman, does not deserve the compliment of Europe and Americs. The earth has sailing hour is to be discontinued and will be really surprised if any one of the American jail breakers. a serious reply: he is as contemptible witnessed the rise and fall of many shortly in view of the shipping cons respectworthy person holds it wrong. The fugitive complains that the Rus-as a cockroach. If this cap fit the great civilisations in the past, while panies under aking to make the pos

venerable cultures of China, Cores intending passenger a condition of We separated from its context in awonius. Vers Pohlman, is wrong head of the editor of the Whistle, he to-day there are the great and session of a. valid passport by an long leading article a sentence which fully in custody and says that she is is at liberty to wear it."

and Japan, trembling the issue of a passage ticket. Lists of brink of destruction. This is outgoing passengers will be submitted

le partly

to the current to the police anthorities for perusal

before sailing.

Reze our

spoke of the vogue of Shaker and the vogue of Buins." purpose was to show that the doable misuse of the word “vogue · was one piece of evidence calculated destroy the writer's pretension to the possession of intelligent judgment in literary matters. No part of the

to

in no way implicated in his escape. Norman says he intends to leave Shangbar but not China. He appears to defy the police. The fugitive is evidently still hiding in Shanghai..

DROWNING MYSTERY.

The Whistle: ↓

•

Ia his

issue of yesterday the driveller of the Trumpet referred to us as a cockroach. It will be enough to remark that this is language no gentleman would use.

on

ignored context could possibly qualify INQUEST LEATES IT UNSOLVED.editor of the latter paper in the itate the West. Should this more

or affect in any way the sentence so detached and criticised. Does the author of the letter still maintain that such innocent and fair divorcements from context are methods of argu-

China Mail SPECIAL.)

SHANGHAI. Sept. 21.

AGGRIEVED HUSBAND.

VOLUNTEERS AS WITNESS AGAINST WIFE.

fashion of Western cations in vaunt ing their superiority in the face of the rest of the word, and so, as a con- The Trombone: “An amusing sequence of this, we have certain controversy between our coatem sections of other nations, notably poraties the Trumpet and the Whistle | Eastern. despising their own customs |has been brought to our notice. The and making strenuous efforts to im-

course of it has offered & gratuitous ment continue, which God forbid, all afront to all cockroaches, which, nations would be brought to one out according to a passage in a kinder ward level. and what a drab and garten school composition by a small sordid place the world would be! In ment which reasonable men would At the resaned inquest on the niece of ours, are clean and in every place we should find the modern morning charged before Magistrate

creatures, and disdain to employ"? If so, it is

most city where dwells paverty, pride, Orme with having pawned a quantity mysterious drowning of Arthur telligent difficult to see how he can expect rea-Wasson, an employee for many years affectation be true, our confrere factory belching forth its filthy smoke, owner, a fellow tenant of a house in parents." Perhaps. if greed and wealth. and the great of clothing without the consent of the sonable men to offer any arguments of the Shanghai Municipal Council of the Trumper seant to compliment while within toil an anaemic race of Taumati, her husband volunteered to Ltd.

[If there are any readers sufficiently Bir. King the Carocer said that from the Whistle's editor, rather than to men and women. In a thousand give evidence. He told the Magistrate interested in this point, they will find the evidence he could only say the deceased was found drowned in the it further developed in a fictitious river Whangpoo. Watson left a will controversy outlined in another believed to have been written on the column of this issue.-Ed CM

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STIFF SENTENCE FOR

OPIUM RECEIVER.

insult him?"

When a Chinese woman was this

Sentence of two months hard- labour was passed.

the new place.

earth's fair that he married the accused when she The Trumpet: **

Byarface would be scarred and was 16 years of age. She ran away divorcing a few words from their disfigured in the mad rush to gain a from him a couple of months later context. they have managed to little more "wealth." Everywhere and had not lived with him since. represent us as saying that the world be the bustle of the efficient She was a bad character and capable Whistle writer was a cockroach, business man clad in the same type of doing anything mean. and on the strength of that accuse us) of tubular costume. Who would want of ungentlemanly language. What we to travel in times like these? Surely really said was that he was as con- then Messrs Cook's and the Japanese. temptible as a cockroach, and we Tourist Bureau would ere to exist. explicitly mentioned the condnet Probably the commercial traveller which justified that contempt," would alone be flying at terrific speed PADDY WORM POISONING. from country to country in his aero- plane.

Modern civilisation has undoubtedly

Farther evidence about the paddy given the world advantages and worm poisoning case was heard at the Police Court yesterday afternoon. benefits, the value of which it is impossible to estimate, but with these The accused was formerly a cook at the Yok Lau Tong medicine shop things" there hath pass'd away a glory and is charged with having attempted from the earth". It is the hideous side of our civilisation against which we, the to poison eight people on September is an illustration of the strange per- victims, should warn those who think by putting arsenic in their food. versity of the avenge newspaper we live in a paradise on earth. Was One of the witnesses yesterday reader who rushes into print. We

England, say, a better place in was Dr W. T. Cheung who was sum

moned to the shop on the night of never contended that cockroaches are Mediaeval days! In many ways affectionate parents. We quoted that much better.

the poisoning. When he got there he as the opinion of a little nieer of ours,

found six of seven Chinese vomiting." times. personal liberty and said that if it were true. the editor

property were none too safe, sad and he advised them to take white of addressed to the Superintendent of

A reader of The Whistle: ". The case in which a Chinese was Coold you inform us, Sir, what war- Major G. W. Oliveerona, En- charged with the unlawful possession rant the editor of The Trombone bas gineer-in-Chief of the Board of Coast No. 46, Battery Street, Taumati, for the contention that cockroaches servancy Work of Kwangtung, has of 24 tack of prepared non-Govem are affectionate parents?" No. We returned to Canton after an absencement opium, 12 automatics, two neve: read the paper referred to.-Ed. of over a month on a trip to Peking. revolvers and 211 rounds of ammuni- The Whistle.

tion, was concluded before Magistrate Orme this morning.

The accused, it should be remember-

that

To-morrow morning Messrs, Hughes and Hough will auction aed, told the Magistrate at the last quantity of household linens, etc., hearing

the contraband, Bannels, boots, and shoes. In the which was contained in a locker afternoon the same auctioneers will box.

was placed in his custody sell a collection of postage stamps.

from California

by

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man

The Trombone:

The letter

at

It is

true that and

who paid him $3 to mind it. The of The Whistle had been compliment perhaps plague and strife were more egg. He also gave them a chit The offices and stations ofman promized to call later for theed, and had no insult to complaia prone to do their worst, but neverthe the Government Civil Hospital

Festival.

box but did not come. Accused

the

mover,

about.

the Chinese Maritime Customs for alleged that he did not know the box Kowloor and district will be closed to contained contraband when he took

"Hilarious in the Saturday Ser- public business on

Wednesday, charge of it-fa

moniser: The ignorance of the Spetember 28, Confucius' birthday, This morning the police said that average journalist in the matter of and Monday, October 10, the National they had made enquiries since the natural history or Zoology is thus once adjournment, and while they were more betrayed. It is not cockroaches satisfied that the accused was that are conspicuously affectionate as In reply to a question in the not

prime

he parents, but carwigs. The kinder House of Commons, Mr. Cecil Harms was one of a gang of receivers garten child referred to, had probably worth said the £108,000,000 which from regular saugglers, who sold the misremembered something read some Japan is spending on national defence contraband for a commission. The time ago in a Hongkong journal." Omnes: This correspondence must Tepresents 51.1 per cent. of the gross arms were of French and Belgian rational revenue (£210,000,000) for make. while the opium was Amer 1921-22.

drug.

The Magistrate passed sentence of twelve months' hard labour for the possession of arms, and imposed a fine of $1,000 or a further four)

The contraband was confiscated.

* According to a wireless message from Ichang word had been received

The China Mail. one en bed that that HIM. "Scarab," had been hit months in respect of the opium.

"TRUTH, JUSTICK, PUBLIO SERVICZ

Borekose, WEDNESDAY, SIFT. 192)

ETHICS OF CONTROVERSY,

reasonable men would disdain to several times. and one bluejacket behave like an underbred dog; but wounded. Sniping has been con- is there anything unreasonable or tinuous, both day and night, on both currish in taking a sentence or a sides. There have been large move- word from the context"? It appearsments of troops by both beiligerents, that this writer has the idea that the converging on leheng. whole of any literary contribution

must be examined as a whole, quoted

as a whole, and criticised as a whole.

An attempt to roh the morning which is not practicable. Analysis train of the Canton Kowloon Railway

A STRAITS VENTURE.

ENDS IN LITIGATION.

Dow cease.

LATEST DEVELOPMENT.

REORGANISATION SCHEMES.

less her people were "ful of pley, fremen well worthy to pleye; fremen, fre tonges, hert fre." Yes she was Merrie England," and her craftsmen loved their work and had an eye for beauty; now she has exchanged much

The hearing will be continued.

to-murrow.

national

of her happiness and beauty for a seems to be, eement; in a Rseudo- restlessness of spirit, and for what is Classical Strie which essentially clashes with the statelines of the sordid and ugly.

Those Westerns who are urging Corean structure. This is not by any the peoples of China and Japan to be means the worst anachronism which up-to-date" are, in many ways, has been committed. Between the blind guides. It is true that in these Main Gate and the Throne Room of particular civilisations there was. and the Kyong Kok Palace the Japanese is, very much to be improved, but are at present building the official why fill these people with the desire residence of the Governor General. BANQUE INDUSTRIELLE. to make a clean sweep of all the past? This edifice is built not in Corean The Progressives of these nations Style, neither is it an attempt to seam to think that they have only to adapt

architecture 10 destroy all vestiges of their past his-modern needs. No, it rises, a huge tory and hey presto! they will be pile of Ferro-Concrete, in a style such modern Western nations. One sees as is used in Ragland by the multi- this destructive tendency on all sides, millionaire grocer for his latest store. The French cruiser "d'Estrees," now especially in the direction of Dress The Japanese are an artistic people in harbon, has picked up the follow. and Architecture. The "Enlighten- and yes they permit this travesty of. ing radio messsage from Bordeaux, ed Easterner discards his native good taste. The old Barracks outside which has been kindly made available costume and dons a number of the Palace have the air of doomed by the French Consul-General in drain pipes." He pulls down his buildings, while many of the smaller Two Chinese women who embarked Hongkong, Monsieur Bexa:- beautiful buildings, many of, them buildings of the royal palace have We would almost like to say of the always involves separation of the bandits on Tuesday was frustrated upon an unsuccessful trading venture

Arrangements for the reorganisa- unique, and replaces them by bad already disappeared. What is to hap ethics of controversy what the author parts, some of which may be good, by the alertness of the railway police. to Singapore were litigants in an tion of the Banque Industrielle de imitations of a Western style, to the pen to the Gate-it blocks the view of

of snakes in Ireland, and zather and some bad. He is possibly suffer. A section of the line near the Heeun action beard in the Summary Court Chine include a scheme of a loan to loss of the whole world.

the Government Building? What is Ping Station was destroyed by to-day before the Paisne Judge (Mr. the Chinese Government, from which write about the art of it. Controversying from a delusion common to men

Now it is generally recognised that to be the fate of the Throce Room, martake of the nature of war, and who read without thought, and who the bandits the previous night, but J. R. Wood). One woman claimed would be taken the necessary amount the Japanese are an artistic race, for the space between it and the nything of the nature of ethics about repeat like parrots such fragments as fortunately the damage was discovered from the other a sum of $260 re- to secure the repayment of all the but unfortunately they are badly in new structure is very small? Wil it must be more Hague Conventions, they happen to remember. They do, the railway police, who notified presenting half the losses on the Bank's liabilities.

fected with this virus, which causes these historical relics, of value to all more often cited by those who get in fact, the thing he now alleges to be the station master and had the transaction.

The following discussions are also them to despise what is their own, and especially to the Corean nation, hurt than by those who do the hurt-wreng, and divorce words from their destroyed section repaired before the In support of the claim Mr. F. X. taking place:-

It is said that certain sacient buil- be preserved?"All Corear culture ing. These thoughts refer, naturally, context. It is wrong to separate arrival of the train. More troops have d'Almada tendered evidence show-

(1.According to the terms of the dings in Japan were only saved from is to be preserved," say the Japanese. now been assigned to reist the railing that the plaintiff pawned Transactional Settlement Law, of 2nd destruction owing to the protests Let us hope that this is true, but why to real controversies, where passionate any word, phrase, or sentence

diamond ring and convictions are involved and some from any content that qualifies it. To way police to have the line adequately a

Bame July, 1919, no creditor can be granted of, not Japanese artists, but of disfigure this culture with foreign and to be expected emit "I said in my haste" from protected, says the Canton Times.

jewellery in order to raise $500 a privilege, but some of the biggest foreigners. real emotion is

incongruous buildings? There have Hague Conventions do not apply to All men are liars" is a good example

as capital. The arrangement was to creditors, namely, the Consortium To-day the Japanese people have been vandals enough in the past, our ham fights, and it is hard to ser of a bad practice. To denounce the

At the recent miecting of the Bri-e "fifty Sity" one and both Group of Banks formed in January in their care, the extremely beautiful own land has not been free from them where ethics can concern a shera COD-uscription of motives is by such people tish Medical Association there was stock at jewellery, soap, toothbrushes preparing the reorganisation scheme, ago and some of them in modera and we do not wish ection in Japan women went down to Singapore with a last, and the present Banking Group structures raised, some of them long as the antiquary knows to his sorrow, troversy, Where the "debater is un-common in controversies; whereas it shown Thomson's machine for armless and other miscellaneous articles. are willing to accord a privileged times, by the people of Corea. In the repeat itself in this direction in Japan trained, there is the probability that is only ascribing of imputing, with men, the invention of a working After peddling their ware around Sings position to the purely banking credi-eyes of the Western artist these build- and Corea. the sham will become the real, when proof, that is wrong. There is no die foil has hurt, and bad temper wrong done when a critic separates by an armless man who has also pore, Ipoh, and Taiping they found on tore (for bills, drafts, current accounts, ings possess details of construction hirata for blood. Here perhaps we from the context, for separate co-lost one of his eyes. He returning to Hongkong that their deposits, etc.) in order to resume and omament not found elsewher what is proadly called Gothic Style, my say that ethics do enter, and that ment, any word, phrase, or sentence at a table and by means of levers expenses had exceeded their receipts 2e first ethical principle should be that is not qualified by what he worked by his feet he operated a pair established in some such formula as ignores. If it were wmag. all con of mechanical arms, apparently made for whom Mr. G. R. Haywood appear It was contended by the defendant, ..keep your temper." There are, of vincing literary criticism whatever of lead piping, and by means of theseed, that there was no agreement be course, rules of debate," but these would be made impossible. As the comfortably ate a meal, using all the tween them but his Honour decided mare necessities for the conduct of Japanese say, it wood were poison; usual instruments for the purpose, lit that, although all the evidence was meetings where many men join in a more carpenters would be dead." discussion with the object of reaching Since, as he says, and as we heartily with a pair of scissors, and wrote bis entitled to get judgment with costa

a cigarette, rat cut paper patterns satisisctory, the plaintiff was a decision either unanimously or by a agree, the fast business of a writer name in pencil. The instrument majority. They do not take cogni- should be to make his meaning plain, must be regarded as the 'greatest sance of a controversy between two let us take his own letter as a help triumph to ingenuity in the art of persons (or newspapers) where in the We have "divorced from the con- what is now generally called pro- nature of things each party must speak text" our passage of it as a text for thetica. 12 proper turn, one one day, the other this discourse. Have we thereby done the next. One of the local papers something that reasonable men would during such a controversy has pub-disdain to do! The proposition we ished a letter in which the interve selected is a proposition able to

A GOOD SUGGESTION," Der postulates that "to divorce and by itself. The words before it

RC Coan berlaina Tale's wl en sentence or a word from the context and the words after it do not qualify lilous organstipated. Vare and to worry it like an underbred dog it in any way. They have no bearing certain to be with pissed with them. a method of argument which on it, and do not even refer to it. They are easy to fateand-pleasant-ig offact. For s'e by all £Tomiste, and reasonable men would “disdain" to 1 We took it as the only hit that Sto skeep 74

is

gasfitter. The demonstration wa

sat

by $520.

business.

There is a Bank in Seoul built in.

in the world. What is Japan doing but could William de fens, or Alaa (II.)-The above arrangements re- with these art treasures? She has de Walsingham see it, they would be ton of all the liabilities, and their dis of pottery, metal work and painting. It is to be hoped that in the future a quire, of course, a very precise valua- collected. many beautiful specimens appalled by this travesty of their art. crimination, with a view to a settle and exhibits them to advantage in new type of Eastern Architect will ment. All these questions are now museus. in course of realisation.

The artists and antiquar- arise, who will endeavour to model ies of the world thank her, but...native styles to the needs of modera (III)-The scheme will have to be Sometime ago one of the chief features tines. May, such a type come before: approved by the Chinese Government of Seoul, the dignified; Nandainfon it is too late! before the loan can be issued. The Gate, was nearly swept away because The above is not written front negotiations with the Chinese authori-hideous rattling tramesis could not political motives, or in a spirit of ties are being favourably pursued, pass through it. The Gate was saved unfriendly eriticism of a great nation, but it seems that s definite agreement by the foreign residents of Seoul It but as are appeal from a layer of cannot be reached before the end of is, perhaps, hardly fair to beauty of one nation to those of The telegram quoted below was October.

quote this incident which happened another. It is an appeal to preserve received by the local, American A Banks Syndicate has been al- sometime agu. Nevertheless re- and develop, and not destroy ether Consulate General from the Manila ready constituted in Paris to secure rently,

authorities. have their own past glories, or those of Observatory

the issue of that loan, and another built a Police Box at the foot of the another nation for "there are the 9. a'm Bept 21

syndicate is in course of formation to Gate No one would quarrel with the clamps that knit one generation to Cyclone or typhoon W. of the secure the isso of the new preference building had it been in harmony with another Cherish those things Northers ladrone or Mariana Islands shares be the Banque Industrielle de the architecture of the Nandaion which your father eyes have moving NNW. or N.

Chine.

Gate, but instead it is built of, what looked #

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