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SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1926.

RATEPAYERS MEET.

PERSONAL ABUSE

FOREIGNERS WHO LIVE IN CHINA.

12.

SINGAPORE PAPERS "LAURELS?

ARTICLES IN SLAM.

A YEAR'S DIFFICULTIES.

Some very interesting observa- Singapore JournaHam must Book

THE CHINA MAIL

AMOY'S EXAMPLE.

UNIVERSITY PRINCIPAL

SPEAKSWAG

DR. LIM BOON-KENG

Five yours of remarkable work tions are made in a report of theto Ita lautols. Its proud elamwere summarised by Dr. Li Boon, annual meeting of ratepayers ofto supremacy in personal abuse is bhe Kulangen Municipal Counch being attacked by a low element konge Principal of Agioy Univer given below. especially where it in the Siamese Press, which has sity. Ingan interview with Straits: atated that business men cannot

been, so successful in this 'depart-Timos!" representative..

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(From Our Own Correspondent.)

Kulangsu (Amoy), Feb. 2. The annual general meeting of Kalangsu Ratepayers took place last Friday afternoon (January 29)

serve the public because of "surthement, of industry, that the aton-Dre Lim Boon-keng” is paying th. complications..

tion of la Majesty the King of rst visit to Stngapore since he Slam has been called to 1.

Have...up extensive bushiess activi Where the offending Singapore ties in Malaya, in 1920 to take journalist scores, is in the net

charge of the newly-foundưð" Unis that he levels his abuse at Biversity at Amoy, and the story lo Excellency the Governor (observes told of rapit, constructive work the "Penang Gazette") whereas in short, of the creation of a his rivals in Bangkok, and lae-modern, well-equipped centre of at the Kulangat Municipal Build-where in Siam, aim their shafts higher education in five year-lo ings. Speaking generally in his at a lower level and regale euch of parslcular Interest, port on the work of the Council

other with fraternal compliments, for the past year, the Chairman, which would put our old friends of Dr. E. 3. Strick, said: The political the "Eatonewill Gazette" and its unfest which has been so apparent rival in the shude: throughout the whole of China during the past few months haa affected to a limited degree, the peaceful progression of the Settlu Bangkok" and explain to them the thing that is good in Chinese the liner. When he awoke he was. ment, and has made administration nature of their duties and respon extremely diffeült..

its history."

alearly

Relations With Chinese.

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His Majesty instructed H.E. the Minister of the Interior; to call a meeting of newspapers editors at

or the

Amoy University meets the nece

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Erskine Gwynne, of Paris, nephew of Mrs. Cornellum: Vanderbilt, sow friends off at London, on the Mauretania," then went to alcop on

far out at dead Oh, hum," he said, "little sunshine at Palm Beach will not hurt. So he is now on his

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Hongkong, 21st January, 1926,

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Hongkong, February 3, 1926,

a university in South, Ching at which the Chinose, while rotaling their ancient culture, may attain a proper understanding of Europe. "My principle is to preserve every-

amputate what is bad and add to culture, improve what is defective, sibilities. In his letter of instruc "Feelings have arisen; and it tion, His Majesty referred to the what is deficient said Dr. Lima has been only by careful co-opera-general tone of the vernacular "As for Western culture, wo takoway to Florida. tlon and mutual understanding with preas of Siam. He particularly re-what is boat of it. Pure eclectism is our principle, although we main the Chinese authorities that a very grothed the character of many serious situation has, up to the articlos published in the Siamesetain the essential qualities and present, been averted..

newspapers, which is no way tend principles of the Chinese culture BANDITS TORTURE.

Asked whether such an institu- "The loyalty of the'majority of led to benefit the 'country, residents hus greatly assisted the people, as they were published tion taking the best of all civili Count in what has been the most solely as personal attacks. Fissations, was likely to produce a new SLOW-BURNING AN OLD sericua púriod in the unas Majesty added that it was greatly Chinese culture, Dr. Limi Bald. “We to be regretted that in some in-maintain the old culture in a re-

You cannot in stances those in charge of Biamese juvenated form. The sincerity of the efforts of newspapers wbro Tending them, prove upon the ancient culture, of FRENCH MASKED BURGLARS. the foreign ratepayers to bring selves to campaign of scurrilous China because it is based on the!

principle of producing the highest about more vordal relations Be-invective

It is mainly Memories of the damous-bandits The Editors of the vernacular qualities of“ man. tween them neil the Chinese resid ing within the Settlement was newspapers were assembled mora,uture and in a way to of the Somme, who reare ago ter-

reflected in a rescation told how they were transgreasi sembles the Nietzschen phonorised the country, have beer r submitted by the Counest and pass the canons of good taste. Perseraphy. Both aim at producing arrived by the feat of three masked ed by a large quejority. The Reso-attacks, wholly divorced from super-man, but the Nietzsche breglurs who in mail week says.

poles, were always to be regretted is based on a wrong idea of evoluà Paris report), broke lution is as follows:-

"Resolved: That the foreign rate-They were of no value whatever tion: he is a super-animal wherena isolated house near Abbeville. The elderly the State, but on the other the super-man of Confucius. is like only inhabitant was an payers consider it desirable, that to

man named M. Merchez, whose son she Chinese ratepayers have an ade-band, engendered a bitterness that the Greek aristocrat-a mai flt to

is a lawyer. quate representation on the Muni was opposed to the public interest rule and to serve mankind.”

The Minister, therefore, appealed

The three man, who were armed The curriculum at the university cipal Council, and request the in-

includes the comparative sudy of demanded that M. Merchez, should show then where he hid his religion, philosophy, and sociologgal and courses in any, science, Matory,mune, and when he said that there commerce, engineering, hw, potiwas nothing in the house, his ties, and medicine. "The univeraitymoney being at Abbeville, they tied Unfortunately," His Excellency has no politieak es Dr. Bahis legs together and placed his the Governor of the Straits Settly-added, "and it prenches religious bare feet Before a blazing wood EDITED BY H. G. W. WOODHEAD, ments, being himself the object of toleration. One of its non object, fire. He streamed with pair for It should be mentioned that the the personal abuse, by which eers to bring about a common under hour before the bandit aurini- Settlement has long since outgrowtain Singapore journalists have standing with the natione fatired at the prospect of being over the iginal so-called "Land Regula disgraced themselves and brought mately connected with China, and taken by dawn pulled him roughly tions," issued about 1902, but under shame upon their profession, can we have done much to help the from in front of the fire and made which Kulangau is still governed. (not have them summoned and in-Chinese to understand the British Various efforts hrive been made structed in the enrous of decent people. That is nut an easy taakt. get them changed. The matter Busbehaviour: but if there is any but we shall succeed in time, and been before the authorities in scise of shame in them, they will hope that the support of British Peking for several years, without take it to beast that native journal people in China and all over the any action whatever. How, again, ists, to whom they should set" w world "will be accorded to the the foreign ratepayers press the good example have to be institution."

had question, faint hopes that lectured like a class of auughts Feking will hear, and make a real schoolboys. For imitating them fae effort to find a remedy..

conduct unbecoming to journalist and gentlemen..

coming Council to approach the to them to abandon scurrilous proper authorities to bring about attacks on individuals, to confine

principles such change in the Land Regula-themselves...” to tions that this representation of policies, and to raise the stand Chinese on the Council may effected!"

Regulations Outgrown.

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Twenty years ago Kalangse was a barren island on which was It is never too late to mendi smal Chinese village. Shortly reoncluded the "Gazette") and we after the Boxer aprising it became hope that this object Resson will a place of residence" for the two not belost upon OUT enring Kundred or so foreigneig residing || brethren of the Preas of Mulaya. in Amol and was made a foreign

settlement similar to Shanghai.

16 at 19, remiss the place of resid ence for the approximately two hundred! farolyn residents. of Amoy, but it has also become a have of refuge for some fly or sixty theound Chinese.

In 1905 the revenue collected by the Municipal Council was 323,220- 79 kush your was. $100000:59 a more than four fold increase in twenty years. Laws made to fit the condition of twenty-five years ago are no longer adequate. They do not fit and much irritation the litevytabla result,“

Election of Council.

A moat interesting-situation has arisen.

over the election of new Councilmen A full Cound) con

DEAN ASHAMED.

:

TOO MANY WOMEN IN CONGREGATION..

PREFERS, MORE MEN,

Dewn Inge preaching at Vikh Minster, said he felt a sense of [2 shame when he found himmelf prinching a congregation, 78 par. cent of which consisted of women.

Any preacher worth his nalt would infinitely prefer to preach to a congregation maluly consisting

of men than to a mixed congrega- tion, he said.

It was true, that women for li most part were more susceptible wists of six foreigners and that lo religious appeal than men, and number cannot be found in the that made it in a sense easier for Settlement, of those who are will-a clergyman to talk to them. ing to serve. Due to former strikes "But I confera," said Dean Inge, against some of the business."that when I see before me an houses whose "agents" happened to average congregation. containing be serving on the Municipal Coun-175 per cent, of women. I feel that cil these firms are now prohibit- there is something wrong in the ing their agents from assuming state of things which produces the this service., Others refuge. to result. 'serve because of dificulties con- nacted therewith. As a result only three men were willing to serve on

"I have oven a sense of shame. that the ministers of the Church who are commissioned to preach so.

the Council this year. This num essentially manly a message as thie ber constitutes a quorum; 80 it Gospel, ahould have presented it in was decided to carry on short-auch a way as to repel the majority handed until others, willing to of men Berve, can be secured: The three

elected Were Mears. J. 1. INTERIOR CLEANLINESS Bromfield, manager of Talt and Cois of paramount importance to all Dr. E. E. Stewart, dentiat, and Dr. who value youth, health and Kawaguchi, physician...

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