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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER

POWERS"ENDE

1925.

RIGHTS AS “NATIONAL. VALUE INCREASES 300-FOLD

STICKMA

"DISAPPRARING INSTITUTION.'

IN 172 YEARS,

FOUNDLING HOSPITAL'S VOTURN.

In an article sympathetic with

A contract was signed, "The the viewpoint of the Chinese, the Daily Chronicle" fearus, for the Christian Science Monitor (Bose sale of the Foundling Hospital site in Bloomsbury and the adjacent ton) refers to what it terms the estate, which is the property of the change in the import of extra-hospital, for £1,850,000. territoriality from a necessary pre Fifty-six saros in all, the estate Cautionary measure for protection of includes a number of leases of va

ing terms. It is inderstood that the nationals of other powers lo ai no definits decision has been ruch. *stigma of tulional backwardnessed by the purchasers ns to be pro

perty's-futuro,

CHINA CHANGI 15

WERE OVERNIGHT:

PLAA

TOLERANCE.

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000 people in the wo

900,000,000, are on the Pacifo hide, (and thy question arisest-How. Joog Ewill the white races be able to wiite Bread the pressure of these teem ing millions that are making mental progresų“ in a measure that excels Anything that has ever been know in world history? Then let it not pathatic understanding of ideals of these are under their own gov

Emphasising the need for sym, be forgotten that the large majority the recognition of which have ernments, and are hot ruled by the changed Chins, as it way, over white race.. night, the Christian Science One thing is evident; the bellicosé Monitor appeals in the following nud superior attitude that is tod article for the giving way of "the often adopted by Americans of bellicone and superior attitude too home, as well as abroad and by often adopted in support of national the press in which national in interests and to the exclusion of all terests are stressed to the exclusion universal welfare."!

of all universul welfare, must give China's demand for surrender of T1 is probable, however, that at The constant featuring of news way to a mulhetic understanding the rights of extraterritoriality least one important thoroughinge that has a definite bearing on the and an unselfial co-operation, if claimed by foreign nations within will be cut through it, and that buacial problem of the world to-day strong foundations are to be laid for ber boundaries, states this journal news premises on a large scale will affords opportunity for forgetting mutually helpful development. draws attention to a disappearing | lu- built.

that this stupendous issue is grow. institution surviving from the Mid- Purchasers of the property are ing increasingly important, and ale Ages, or from early in the pre the Foundling Estates, Limited, a must be faced and studied with sont modern period, but having its company which was formed last May sympathetic understanding by those roots in concepta of government for the purpose. Its chairman is Sir who would seek to find the solution previously held extending back to Arthur du Crow, and other members on a plane where all merely cational the earliest recorded times. An insure Mr. J. D. Wu, Mr. Siday and commis interests may be sub- teresting and timely contrast is Van den Bergh, Mr. Edmund 8. ordine tod to universal welfare and furnished by comparing thoas early

Progrées. A recognised nathority on oncepts with present-day practice

he Far last has said recently, thatt mong modern governments us to

we must forget all that we ever the recognition of extraterritorial

know about the Ching of ten years rights.

age if we would understand the China of to-day.

and weakne. '*

Spyer, and Mr. Philip II. de Cros, all of whom are interested in the Parent Trust and Finance Company, which holds or controle practically all the shares of the Foundling Estates, Limited.

AFTER 200 YEARS,

DEATH IN TIDE.

SHOOKING TRAGEDY AT BOULOGNE

Only a step upward from the an cient tribe and its patriarch was the aristocratic city state In the former, blood relationship in the

A large preliminary deposit bas tribe constituted citizenship in its

been paid to the hospital governor tutsiders who sought mission to by the company, and completion of organised government, and any Ita exclusive mika were required.tus sale will, of course, necessitate tual combat, not only the tradi-into the sea. It proved a denth-

of the Foundling come the sinves and personal pro- Hospital from London, after nearly ntial two centaries of enpation of its perty of more or members of thy tribe. The city Present site. state likewise made citizenship within it highly prized, and exclud ed aliens from all but the most mengre privileges. This character- istic tradition was perpetuated in

Thirteen little boys were drowned the bench below the sand dunes Sardelot; near Boulogne, The children, all between mine and 18 years of age, were the sons of working class folk at Roubaix, and were spending this holiday in school camp on the const under Over a thousand periodicals the charge of several priests. In | Chino are published all the the forenoon comple. of score of Tennesses, published in Peking play in the sand dunes on a desert- year round.

One of these, them were taken by two priests to and run by a group of young part of the shore beyond Harde thinkers, challenges to intellee lot. After a time the children went

those of China itself. Chinese illiteracy was the great barrier to at right angles to the coast and den was a firm strip of sand running ont the spread of modern thought, but vending swiftly into deeper water at A new Chinese script, very much idly this is rapidly being broken down either side, and the tide wes rising simplified, has been adopted by the tovernment and is being taught inevitable happened. With the water Tu few minutes the almost in- all the schools, both native and for sing several inches a minute some the laws of succeeding democracies,

eign. To-day, after three weeks of the boys found themselves im federations and empires, and when

In 1758 when the tempital was study, a man can return to his nursed Sinddenly up to the chin governmental power. waned the built, the site was bought from the tive village able to read the Newslend of 10 the armpite. One ot ruditional sesive relationships then Barl of Salisbury for £55. Testament, and any news that comes to lost their footing and grabbed within trial or fendal units re-exactly 300 times in the course of

It has thus multiplied itself in value to him in the new script. #ppeared.

mercial facilities within their

cided where the new hospital will The governors have not yet de- be built, nor is the approximate dale of removal yet known. It is certain, however, that the new site will be in a country district.

172 years

During the Middle Ages the pre-

Handel gave the chupi orgaand tice developed among powerful rulers of gauting guarantees and can of his pictures to the uat gallery, and often played on it, Bogarth gave one domains to accredited subjects of insborough painted decorative, other kingdoms and independent panels. cilics. These rights were covered by chartera, or expitulations— torm derived from the form in which i

wot down

2.

Western literature, the American films, radio-all these have con tributed to the awakening of the state of consciousness in which Chinese people, and haye prodice discontent with existing conditions is paramount.

But more then all

MISSIONARY EFFORT,

and

ths, it is the recognition of the ideals of liberty, brotherhon and justice, so jealously prized by the the provisions of these grafts were same system has been followed by free peoples of the world, that he "chapters." Auch countries as Persin, Chin, clanged a nation overnight and former times, the sovereignty of Japan and Siam.

this recognition bas come through the state was held to apply only to

Newborn power and pride among the medium of liberal education in- its subjects, and the capitulations the Western nations dictated the troduced into China by Christian clearly emphasized their exclusive governmental policy of responsibility educationists, missionaries, affect. When the number and in for their nationals in whatever other agencies. terests of the foreigners became so country, and hence of demanding great as to require that they should capitulations wherever native gov be accorded some governing law, ernment was found in a state of Strong it was held that this law should be organisation to warrant it. their own, and theirs also the re-governments, naturally, have re- sponsibility for administering it. So fused to abdicate their sovereignty, suspect and excepted from legal oven to such limited extent though protection were all foreignera !

all upw accord extraterritoriality to embassies and other official estab lishments of foreign nations as an exchange of courtesy. Similarly, it is not surprising that states having yielded such capitulations should chafo under those restraints of their national sovereignty, in proportion

ORIGIN OF MIGETS.

were pulled under. The rest were at their comrades, who in their turn

the water edge was torn into form sized with unic, and in a moment

drowning children. by a mob of screaming, scrambling

Li

The two priesty did all in their boys, but they could not do much power to extricate the struggling mid so many and in such con fusion. Eight of the children wer recovered on the beach by artificial respiration, but the others were be- yond aid.

dead when they were pulled out.

Four of the children were already

An hour or two liter four more corpses came ashore lower down the post. At seven o'clock in the even-" ing another two were fished out of the sea at Saint Etienne. After nightfall another three little corpore drifted on the bench.

The old, yet tenacious, belief that the development of so-called heathen autions is the responsibility of the Christian missionary, and that race progress will be made only in pro- portion to the growth of Christion institutions in the country, must be ARE GYMNASTICS GOOD FOR discarded in the light of modera developments and established facts. Admitting that a great deal of miss signart effort has been of the very highest order, and has been carried

GIRLS! :

Interview With a London Instructress.

But as everybody knows, tho nge of the Renaissance brought great

The rich Oriental en changes. pires which had condescendingly prescribed their tolerant capitula

After the death of her husband, who tions were gradually, almost sudden to their advance in civilisation.. D with great sacrifices and mar was killed in the war, Mra. Passenger, ty, outdistanced by the new mari- Such is the clunge in a few convellous evidences of unselfishness, it of 67 Kingale Road, London, became a time antions of western Europe, and fries in the import of extrateri- must be admitted withal, that the teacher of gymnastics to young ladies. the latter in the flowering of their toriality, from precaution in self-results, judged from statistical re-recently, Mrs. Passenger expressed no Interviewed by a London Journalist power presently demanded the main-protection to stigma of national cords, have been pitiably small doubts as to the value of judicieus tenance of their rights of extra-buckwardness and weakness; and Look at the facta in the cold gymnastle training to girls, but gave' li territoriality for the sheer pretce such appears to be the attitude of light of things as they are, or up as her experience that there are times tion of their material interests and the Chinese people toward it to-day. pear to ba, one is forced to co-est be set aside, and other means when atremods physical exercises hind their advanced standards.

They have seen the neighbouring cede that the almost sudden awaken-

adopted to build The first capitulation concluded Empire of Japan, in the enjoymenting to, national consciousness on these can be safely and profitably the system before UP by the Turkish successors of the of its great advance in modern civili the part of the people of Chine resumed. As instances she quoted the Byzantine emperors with a foreign sation, liberated from the barden-confused though it is at present cases of her daughter and of a girl state, according to recognised al of capitulations, and they now as by many conflicting ismes is due, papi, daughter, Irene," said Mrs. thorities, was that of 1585 granted sert the right of their Nation to be not to a demonstration of Western Passenger was very delicate from to the French, which became prace similarly relieved. The foreign a virtues and ideale, but to a recog birth. Fow expected her to live, the Lically the prototype of its modern tions there enjoying the privileges nition of the ideals which west seemed so frail, As time went on she successors. Its terms "amounted to of extraterritoriality are prepared, erners, as enlightened people, have did not improve, but grew into a feeble, treaty of commerce and a treaty as a matter of course, to surrender failed to live up to in their deal-pale-faced child weak and nervous, allowing the

She was nickly with her food, and establishment of them whenever the. Chinese Nation ings with the people of the East often refused things I had got specinily Frenclumen in Turkey and fixing the may demonstrate its ability to guar And those ideals have been furnish- for her. Year after year Irene went jurisdiction to be exercised over antea adequate protection to the pered to them through the medium of on like this, and at 15 she was annemic, them; individua] and religious sons and interests of foreigners, un Western educational curricula. pale and nervous, liberty is guaranteed to them, the der just laws and in clear accord- The students of China,, India,

"My husband having been killed for King of France is empowered to ance with modern accepted stan. Japan, have taken the best of the the war, I had to and Irene

"she obtained a Docupation, and

position appoint consuls in Turkey, the con-dards.

Western thought and are now a where her duties were very Hght, but plying it to their own problems. even this proved too much for her and What are the books that the British she had to give up her work.” She grew Government decreed should be used worse than ever, her nervousness in the eurrieniu of schools and headaches. Iepted doctor and increased, and suffered from severe colleges in India, for instance? he gave me to understand that the only John Stuart Mill on Liberty thing that could save Irwin was for her Milton's Areopagitica and yet to

operation, but Hindu editore have been imprison did not Hika, the depa ed for believing, in and practising time was one who had become se white

Among my gymunaltia 'pupils:aît

that the doctrine of the liberty of the and annemlevary zupak Hike Leon press!--Burke on the American that she immuld not Dolouies and the French Revolus three mpath, fater, tion; and, more astounding still turned to her gymn Cromwell, the great rebal, ordained i

Bufs are recognised as competent Whether the time has come to to judge the civil and criminal attempt this progressive change will affairs of French subjects in Turkey, be one of the most important issues According to French law, and the in the International conference consuls may appeal to the officers of sought to be held, to adjust China's the Sultan for their aid in the execu- present alient difficulties with re ́tion" of "their sentences. The spect to international relations.

a special study by the and then to, and government Think of the them olbar treatment sanda of boys and young, mah duk - pilla Tiléckled, “

Thing, had the SARSI

bibing these strong, pot

left with nothing so

Such is the fruit of.)

dispensed with libe panied with no

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