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THURSDAY, MAY 10 1923.

KONGMOON MINES. 7

NAVAL ACTION UNLIKELY.

INTERNATIONAL LAW POSITION:

THE BOAT RACE.

(By Sir. Phillip Gibbs.)

THE CALL OF SPRING.

THE CHINA MAI

STYLES IN SWEARING.

FOLICE COURT OATHS.

Among the archives at the Sydney Police Court is a book that is never handled by the clerks or policemen.. It is wrapped in many sheets of paper, which may not be unfolded by any but a Mohametan.

This book is a copy of the Koran, and on it Mohametan witnesses

It is, of course, more than a boati race. It is a national tradition, a rite belonging to the old spirit of our folk, touched a little perhaps In connection with the wireless with the pagan erstasy of the ⚫ message from H.M.S. "Moorhen," spring bound up with that, love of regarding the mining of the en-outdoor life and sport where is our trance to Kongmoon, Junction heritage as a people, and in our Channel and West River, by Plover blood, however crushed down by Island, particulars of which were the imprisonment of streets and published in last night's issue, aofficers and city life,

swear to tell the truth. When it is China Mail reporter called on

Frequired it is taken from its wrap- Lieut-Commander Worthington

Yesterday the call of Spring and | pings by the interpreter. (Secretary to the Commodore) this

Youth was never heard more The witness places his right morning. The naval authorities

the following clearly on a day in March, it was hand flat upon the Koran and his lave received message from H. M. Consulate answered by a great multitude left hand on his forehead, and then

which went streaming to the brings his forehead down upon t-S General at Canton, which is translation of a notification appear Thames by every kind of way. the book. After looking at it for ing in the vernacular papers in Across Putney Bridge there was some time he declares that he is one endless tide of omnilauses, bound to tell the truth. The inter- Headquarters announces that motor cars, and "taxis," and many preter closes the book and wraps Ch'en Ts'e requests that all vessels hours before the race began the it up himself before it is pur away both warships and merchant towing paths were densely packed again.

Most of the people called as vessels be warned that he has laid Above was a slate blue sky with tines in the West River at Pak-eeey clouds, and the sun shining witnesses in the courts take the Kingsha, 2 Oi Hei (Near Bamboo through a thin baze made a golden usual Christian oath by swearing Islands, Kongmun), 3 Had Ssun Pathway down the river. There on the Bible to tell "the truth, the Kong, (By Plover Islands), 4 Chu was a glint of green in the whole truth, and nothing. but the and there truth" Now and then, however, tae Shan, (By Forrester R. K. bushes, and here

Canton :

omnibuses.

manner as a Christian, except that that he keeps his hat on while the oath is being administered.

COVENANTER'S VOW."

taking the oath in the usual way, A Scotch Covenanter, instead of

holds up his right hand while the

Junction Bend), 5 Tung Ma Ning, were flowering trees and shrubs there comes: a witness who takes (By First Cliffs Junction Bend), as though April had already the oath in a manner strange to who do not subscribe 6 Sai Ma Ning, (N. W. end of Chan come. The people made a patch-those

his religious beliefs. A Lin Islands to Mainland), and at work of many colours because to

most of them carried streamers, Jew is sworn on the Pen-! Eng Ko."

Asked whether the British naval or wore the rival blues, or floated tateuch the first five books of authorities were likely to take any toy balloons above, their heads. the Old Testament in the same action, the Commodore's Secretary Looking up to Putney Bridge, one pointed out that it was one of the saw that half the girls were wear tenets of International Law that ing blue in their hats, and that the country possessing land on flags were flattering from the both sides of a river ipso facio

The air was filled with queer was owner of the river. It will

sound, whistles were blowing, thus be seen that the Chinese there was a musketry of rattles, authorities ar perfectly within their rights in laying the mines, and down below the Star and Gar Of course in the event of the mines ter on the Surrey side some brave fellow was blowing the bagpipes. proving a source of danger to British shipping, a protest might be Laughter and cheers came across lodged with the Peking Govern- the river in gusts on the quiet Overhead an acroplane ment on the instructions of the Bri-breeze. tish Foreign Office. It is not known droned as it flow low with the sun whether pilot ships are being on its wings. provided by the Chinese authorities at Canton, nor whether any indica tion of the position of the mines Is been furnished to H. M. Con- sulate-General at Canton as a guide to masters of ships trading along the routes mined.

Bible is open before him, and says; According to the religion I pro- fess, and as I consider an oath bind- ing upon my conscience and I shall answer to God at the Great Day of Judgment--I will speak the truth, the whole truth, and nothing

but the truth.”

The strangest oath of all is that taken by a Chinese. He can choose either of three methods of being Sworn-he can blow out a match, smash a saucer, or cut off a rooster's

ally employed. head! The first method, because of its greater convenience, is generi

Up the river came all manner of. craft laden with sightseers, so that Old Thames came to life after the winter months. The "Hurlingham," crowded with rowing men of both Viscount," where the Leander cap Universities, lay alongside the The action of the Canton was visible in little bunches.

The Royalty seemed the ship of The interpreter strikes a wax authorities is presumably as a precaution against attack from that Old Blues and Dons, with their match and, handing it to the wit- portion of the Chinese Navy still wives and daughters.. Tugs from Bess, tells him if he does not tell the lower Thames came to the the truth his soul will be exting- loyal to Peking.

The Shanghai section of the upper river with roughlooking lads uished, like the light. The witness Chinese fleet is said to have been aboard. A queer little bootshaped signifies his assent by blowing out bought over by General Lu Yun-boat, called the Sabot, was passed the match. hsiang, military governor of Chek-by a motor-boat that leapt out of ang province with his head-quarters the water, with a ruffle of spray like at Hangchow. This section has an angry swan.

Shortly before. five-the umpire's rebelled against Peking and as- sumed a neutral attitude. However, launch swept round the waiting it is known that a certain portion steamers and took up position. One of the navy remains loyal to the figure in it was recognised by the Northern militarists. At present crowd on the banks and heartily cheered. It was Lord Balfour, these units are believed to be in Hankow waters. It is to provide bearding acoross the river as a man against this danger, probably, that who loves old Thames, and youth,

and English sport

the mines have been laid.

WITH RED CHEEK.

DRESSED AS GHOST.

PRIVATE DETECTIVE'S CLAIM,

THE START.

Oxford won the toss and chose the Surrey side, The tide was run ning very light. There was hardly aripple on the water. It was Ox- ford's weather, said the experts. The Dark Blues were first to paddle down stream to their station and an immense gust of cheering hailed them. In their boat they sat waiting impatiently, moving their arms and wrists a little. They looked magnificent, perfectly fit,

If the possibility of an extingui- shed soul is not sufficient to keep a Chinese on the straight and nar- row path of truth, he must bring along his own saucer or Shanghai rooster, as he prefers.

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Saucer-breaking is uncommon; and roosters are beheaded only on very rare occasions. At Gunnedah Ik wealthy Chinese appeared in the court in Oriental robes,

with a rooster under his arm. When his turn came to give evidence he produced a sharp knife and executed the bird as neatly as it could have been done in a guillotine.

Another vath that seems peculiar to Christians is that insisted upon by some Hindoos. Occasionally one appears who demands to be sworn on the water of the Ganges, their sacred river. The Hindoo who wishes to be sworn in this way must drink a little of the water.

This, also, is a type of oath that

The trials and tribulations of a private detective who was said to have beer engaged to secure evidence in a prospective divorce case, were told in the Rockhampton and, I thought wonderfully con-is rarely administered, but there is (N.S.W.) police court.

fident. They smiled as they stared no shortage of Ganges water when The case was one in which over to the cheering crowds, and the occasion requires it. A tumbler- Edward Nathan Hart sought to then up to the lines of heads on ful is produced with suspicious

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spoken in the greater part of China,in many, in fact in most, cases.ar but only about five per cent of the the present time, they are placed Chinese have been able to read or parallel to the regular. Chinese write it. Ninety per cent, it is characters. hoped, will soon be able to enjoy to some extent at least the benefits of education through this new script medium..

Without a doubt, in approving the adoption of this new medium the ance behind. It was not easy to PRICE OF PREJUDICE.

Government was aiming at the attainment of the standardization pany with defendant, and ascer- "Nothing to choose between see by how much Oxford led. We

Until quite recently the work of tain the movements of the latter's them I" said the old expert by my could not see what any one man

typesetting in China has required The phonetic syllabary looks to of the spoken language of China. wife. On one occasion defendant side.

was doing, but could count the beat Surprising things were told by a a remarkable memory and con- the accomplishment of a common It also had in view the achievement was disguised as a nun. On fol. 'I'm not so sure!" said a young of the stroke, thirty-two, thirty graceful lady, with white, ex-siderable labour, for men thus em speech in China, with the national of an easier recording of the lowing occasions defendant dress-man with a dark blue comflower four.

pressive hands, at the Queen's Hall ployed have been faced with the arousing of human sympathies and spoken tongue and the expansion ed as a ghost, with a fearsome red in his buttonhole. "They look God 1" said a low voice. in Melbourne recently. She was necessity of handling, some 40,000 unfolding of social relations con- of monosyllabic to polysyllabic- gash painted on his check.devilish nervous, The most ex-Cambridge is spurting. What Mies. Clara Codd, from the different characters, or ideographs, sequent thereto. Not that in the language.

To further this reform, and as a Another time he made up as a pre-aggerated needle!"

Theosophical Society in England. as they are called. Thousands of years gone by there has not pluck) Alittle later he said again We never get an ounce of little compartments have contained been in one sense a common lang-natural product of it there has possessing girl. ...

Rubbish. I never saw victory"That's pluck!" These nocturnal visits were so visible. It's a perfect eight!”, There was silence for a few mo- vitality from what we eat, she the desired symbols and the uage in China, but this was to the been. Invented a typesetting machine for this new script, which evidently known to defendant's The Dark Blues were throwing ments on our steamer. A man was declared. "Vitality comes to us position of each must be remember- eye and not to the ear. wife. One night it was said a re, jerseys into a rowing boat along breathing hard in front of me. By from sound and fight and aired that the type may be obtained. The same ideograph, that is to reduces a thousandfold the effort volver, loaded with a soap bullet side. One of the jerseys had a heaven,, it's a great race! said through a part of the body that and later replaced for further use, say, has had perhaps a half dozen of seiting type by hand. It is a was fired. Thereafter defendant wetting, and there was a laugh from someone, d

specialises in it the spleen says the Christian Science Monitor, sounds in various sections of the linotype and should aid in rapidly lives and was more careful. While Hart was the crew. I liked that laugh. It Oxford, was still leading, but not She then mentioned "those China, it will be recalled, became country, as distinct as if they were revolutionizing the creeping up to the house one right, came from men sure of themselves. by much, not by much,

physical vampires, who, sitting be a republic rather more than a de- completely different words. It is mental processes of millions of defendant, threw stones towards A flag dipped, a siren called Overhead an aeroplane, was fol- side you, can absoth your vitalitycade ago. Soon thereafter, at the no wonder, therefore, that this new Orientals.

Interestingly enough, when the the house, but his pitch was short, They were off, with a flash of lowing, crossing and re-crossing A successtal sinuse was, she initiative of the Government, a movement is regarded with con- and Hart got hit with two stones, blades, Cambridge seemed to get the river.

thought, a maghetic healer. Nurses Conference was convened in Pek-stantly increasing interest by many conference of Chinese scholars Defendant disappeared into the away quickor, led a little. Oxford "Who wins?" asked an excited had to be particularly strong, being, to take up consideration of the Chinese men of affairs who see agreed on a standard pronunciation darkness.

was more leisurely with what young gentleman."The Light cause magnetism-drained from subject of a phonetic alphabet of therein a factor of primary, impor of considerably more than 5000 When Hart saw defendant next looked like à longer stroke, " 7. Blue are drawing close,"

them. The hands and eyes were the Chinese language, in the hope tance in the larger development of charicters and adopted thirty-nine day he said the job was no good to A THRILLING EXPERIENCE. `-- Not close enough, though with the most vital and magnetic things that a common pronunciation their country, aby od symbols as a phonetic alphabet, it him. He said he wanted payment j Our steamer went after them, tremendous effort at the end.

Stadion might further education. Before the achievement of the voted down the use of Roman lete in full at the rate of £1 a night. in the wake of the empire's launch, A rocket went straight up into Our psychic body permeates As a result, the national Peking conference other attempts ters, adopting instead simple Plaintiff stated in evidence, that but not so, fast as those two boats, the sky, and a red light dropped the physical body" she said. "Why phonetics syllabary was evolved had been made to launch a similar strokes taken from the Chinese so far as he knew defendant's wife making a wonderful pace. It was down to the purple highway of the else should people crossed in love This scrip to-day constitites reform, none of which, however, dictionary, "was very respectable.

the first time I have followed like river A

sometimes become very ill?" recognized medium of intercourse met with any marked success.In. It is not expected by even the Defendant gave a general denial that, and a thrilling experience. Oxford had won by three A docton that she knew had er in China's various provinces and the quarter century, prior to 1911 most enthusiastic advocates of this of the whole thing. He admitted The draina of it seemed to rush at quarters of a length, Sp perimented; upon a soldier who brings a literate China at least 12 when China became a republic, new system that it will lead to the engaging Hart for the purposes us those vast crowds waving, A tumult of cheers, swept along had been wounded, so that the within reach of thought

that is to say, various systems had complete abandonment of the use stated in consequence of something shouting, clapping, making both banks, minute after minute digestive organs con'd be watched. It was not the purpose of the or been propounded, but they did not of written Chinese ideographs, for he had heard. He said he did not picture like a move" passing while sixteen men lay over the When he was worried the iginators of this script entirely to do have the necessary backing to in it will be remembered that the go to the house in fantastic attire, before one's eyes on a flickering ours

digestive juices did not fow away with the ancient ideographs, eure, their general acceptaices adoption in Japan of a simplified Though on one occasion he had a screen, and those two boats in the A voice through gaphone properly. An American doctor those charaatons which conveyed Now, however, the National type of writing has not resulted in woman's skirt with him. His wife pathway, of the sun, with the was speaking in deep tones which whom she knew had

rac Ideas by symbols instead of letters, Board of Education of China has any, loss of the ancient written. did not shoot at him. All he owed rhythmic rise and full of their oars came over the water..

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and has authorized the Soon it is hoped that there will plaintiff had been paid -

which held one's eyes and made "Oxford won!"

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