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SPECIOUSNESS RAMPANT IN CHINA.

There seems to be abounding Volunteer Headquarters (By kind proof that political philosophy in permission), on TUESDAY, Sept. 6th, at 5.30 p.m., to make arrange- China to-day is largely composed ments for the League competitions of speciousness, and that one of

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their school is passing through a period of blight, says the "North China Standard.”

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MATRICULATION, SENIOR AND JUNIOR LOCAL EXAMINATIONS,

December, 1927.

TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN

The collapse of the Nanking government furnishes a typica example of outrageous Insinceri- ty. For some months Chiang Kai-shek has been busily ex- plaining his platform whích, from

UNDER ECLIPSE.

ANOTHER TALE OF CHIANG.

KAI-SHEK.

A fortnight ago when Chiang Kai-shek was making his last,des- perate bid for partnership with the Ankuochun, says the "N. C. Standard", there was a moment when he nearly succeeded. For within the Mukden party was a little group known as the liberals, including Yang Yu-ting and Han Lin-chun, who are supposed to have the tacit support of the Tayuanghuai's BONI, and who worked hard in insisting that the idea of a junction should be ap- proved. One report current said that Yang Yu-ting got so far as a draft agreement and went to Tsinan to try and bring Chang Tsung-chang and Sun Chuan- fang into line.

But Sun was unfriendly to the

Kai-shek and re-establish himself to recover Shanghai from Chiang in his old provinces. Yang came back sorrowfully to Peking. Im- mediately afterwards Chiang col

the above xxminations standpoint will begin on MONDAY, December was excellent. Many of the scheidea: what he wanted to do was 6th, 1927. Forms of entry and mes outlined in words, if put into copies of the Regulations and the practice, would have set China. on Syllabus can be obtained on applica- the right road. Behind Chiang tion to the Registrar.

Entry forms duly filled in, should who apparently endorsed his con- was a group of administrators reach the Registrar, together with the statutory fees, on or before the victions and presumably should lapsed, and the conservatives of 17th September, 1927. Fees shall have been striving to effectuate the Mukden party were shown to be paid in accordance with the them. Bold and brassy broad. be justified in their attitude of no following acale -

sides were loosed at the enemies compromise. Yang Yu-ting and of Nanking, including the Han- Han Lin-chur are now in the kow ring and the Kuominchun day, which is another way of Western Hills, enjoying a holi- leader, Feng Yu-hsiang, who were described as fortune hunters saying that, for the moment, they

are under eclipse. and what not.

Matriculation and Senior

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An additional fee of $5 will be charged for each of the following subjects:-Foreign Languages other than French and Portuguese; Higher Mathematica; Hygiene and Physiology.

only,

(3) One Hong Kong Government Educational Scholarship, open to girl candidates from Hong Kong Schools. (4) One Hong Kong Government Educational Scholarship, open to boy candidates from Hong Kong Schools.

of

Local Examinations. H.K.820. H.K.$12. Candidates offering more than

What Is He Worth? With the collapse of Chiang five subjects in the Matriculation, Sentor and Junior Local Examina- we find, his henchmen transform- It is little over a month since tions will be charged an additional ing their political garb and offer- Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek fee of $1 for each subject so ing allegiance to Feng Yu-hsiang, was announcing his intention to offered.

Dr. Wang Chung-hul is selected capture Tientsin and Peking, and as an example of political para-so far as foreigners generally sitism, not because he is any knew at the time, he was in a way worse than the rest, but because to make good his bogst Tainan, he is better known to Peking and the provincial capital of Sban. Tientsin readers.

tung, and the ultimate base of The following scholarships, fur-| Up to the time of the formation Marshal Chang Taung-chang's ther particulars of which may be of the Nanking government Dr. army, as well as Sun Chuan-fang's DODWELL & CO. LTD. obtained from the Registrar, will Wang was an employee of the headquarters, was trembling with be awarded on the results of the Ankuochun, indirectly. He held excitement, excepting capture. Matriculation and Local Examina at least two posta, one of them General Chen at Klaochow had tions:-

being a liquidator of the Russo-revolted against Chang Tsung- (1) Two Peace Memorial Scholar-Asiatic Bank and the other the chang, and a Southern expedition

ships, each of the total value

Bureau. Other had occupied the port of Haichow, of £1,350 open to British boys Codification

honours, and salary bearing posi-within 50 miles of the Shantung

officials (2) Two

VII tions were bestowed on him from border. King

Various Edward Scholarships of the value time to time. How well he per- Shantung began to bolt, and all of £40 per annum, open to formed all these tasks cannot be seemed ready for the climax, British subjects only. Baid offhand, but the amount of when Chiang Kai-shek suddenly

liquidating done at the bank dur- turned tail. The offer to nego in his term has not sent the bank- tiate which had issued earlier ing world agog. As a matter of from Fengtien headquarters was fact this newspaper complained cancelled, and it became Chiang before his departure at the delays Kai-shek's turn to dwell on the connected with the wind-up of the virtues of friendly negotiation Russian bank's affairs, and the and the blessings of peace. (6) Four Hong Kong Govern- absence of official information

ment Studentships-in-Train- about it. ing, open to candidates from It is difficult to comprehend the Hong Kong Schools. (6) One Hewitt "Memorial mental and spiritual attitude of a Scholarship of the value man who will take a salary from of $800 per annum.

one person and express loyalty to (7) Four Montargis French another. Doubtless it is good

Prizes-two of the value business for the person concern of $50 each for Matriculation ed, but it shows a lack of common and Senior, and two of the decency and argues for the con- value of $25 each for Junior. tinued unsettlement of the poli- Bound copies of Examination tical seas in China. Dr. Wang Question Papers, set at past said, when he went to Nanking, Examinations, may be obtained that he always had been a mem- from the Registrar at $1 per set.

ber of the Kuomintang, which W..B. FINNIGAN, may have been all right, but how Registrar. much better to have said so to Hong Kong, 31st August, 1927. those who hired him up North.

There should be a change in the character of the politicians before any permanent settlement R. LI HON FUN begs to state may be attainable in China, and MR.

that he has been a teacher of men who are willing to stand or Chinese to European Officers and fall by the fortunes of their par Merchants in Hong Kong for more ties and alliances, must be than twenty years, that he has had brought to the front, considerable experience in training students for examinations in Chinese, and holds first-class certificaten.

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the case of Sennacharib, King of good he must feel tempted, like and chrysanthemums?, Assyria, it was the piety of Lord Clive, to stand aghast at his banks, too, are safer there, and Hezekiah that brought about the own moderation. Even the Union there is no embargo on sliver im- invader's discomfiture, but there Trading Corporation of Tientsin ports:

Chiang Kai-shek himself, it is is not much piety on either side put $10,000,000 or $15,000,000 in modern Asiatic warfare, which out of sight, under the guidance understood, places his downfall in is full of these bouleversements, of a returned student, so that the a most flattering light-flattering indicating the fundamental rot-generalissimo business would not to his own self-esteem. He states tenness of the oriental military appear to be so wonderfully pro- that he found himself an obstacle machine. The army gets unfitable when the risks are taken to reunion between Nanking and manageable, officers mutinous. into account; but it may be that Wuhan, and, therefore, he gen-. counsels divided, and the bottom the sum attributed to ex-General-erously retired. There might be. In isaimo Chiang is what the com- thought something magnanimous falls out of the boiler. Chiang's case the beginning of pany directors call a conservative about such self-effacement, espe- the end came when he fell out estimate, meaning that they have cially if it only cost the country Perhaps Chiang with the other "Nationalists" of a good deal up their sleeve. In $20,000,000. Wuhan.

any case it is not to be expected Kai-shek will go down in China's Chiang Kai-shek is reported to that Chiang Kai-shek the million-history as a noble example of self- have retired to the vicinity of aire will remain long at Ningpo suppression in the interests of Ningpo, his native place, with an recalling memories of innocent "nationalism." But it seems as

net personality accrued

of childhood. His advisers will pre-If the bottom had been knocked $20,000,000. His monthly in- scribe a change of climate and out of Chinese "nationalism" too. come from Shanghai alone complete rest, and where can Like a good gambler, Chiang has amounted to that figure, so that these be better found than in the taken his profits and cleared out if he is only $20,000,000 to the island home of cherry blossoms of the market before the luck

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barnly, homlag, the cable flesta. Lawes, right-CuDAN PESAN FERNANE Chai With the laying of a 70-mile stretch of cable beland via the Panama Canal some time ago, when it tween Bamfield and Alberm; B.C. by the cable was deemed necessary to cope with the incresaing ship Restorer under charter, by the Canadian Pa- cable business. The cable was!) ini twe) asetions, eifle Telegraphs, the all-red line Pacifle cable service weighed over 250 tons and was officially, inspected vas doubled. The new line is another Canadian Pa- and OK,'d by J. MeMilan, general manager of: Cena-) eifle Bok between Canada, Australia and New Zen-dian Pacific Telegraphs, who journeyed to Edgland:

Has Santigo for that purpose that as the site to do

The Pacific Cable Board, representative of British, The accompanying illustrations were taken during Canadian, Australian and New Zealand governments, the recent operations. One of the photographa shows laid the cable from Australia to Bamfield, on Vand the trip ship "Restorer lying near the wooded aborem courez Island and the line that connects the distant of the Island Off the starboard side and extending Surite of the Empire stretch across Canada to Hall-into the foreground of the picture can be sent a Upe fax and from there to the heart of the Empire - Thiá ng barrels which floats the cable until the time comes In the second all-copper libe that has been hailt by the to lower that; section to the bottom. A smart little Cadadian Pacific, and cleased to: the

Cable settlements, add sprung up at Bamfield around the

turned. His "nationalism" re- solved itself, after many high- Bown declarations, into bloodshed and plunder worthy of the pirates of Bias Bay but on a far grander scale. Yet this is the man, be- fore whose prowess the whole business community of Shanghai were invited to evacuate and go. home. If Mr. Trevelyan and his Labour friends in Parliament have any.conscience, they will close their mouths for ever on the subject of China.N. C. Daily Mail."

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The mysterious departure from Sofia of King Boris on a European tour, Incognito has revived interest. in his matrimonial plans. He is expected to visit London.

Bulgarian opinion is divided on the question of the most desirable queen. One quafter wants a Royal pedigree, and another insists that King Boris should aid the country by selecting an American heiress of good family 94

Boris III is the eldest son of Ferdinand of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, and the late Marie Louise, eldest daughter of Duke Robert of Farma. He was born on Jándary, 80, 1894, and succeeded to the throne on the abdication of his father, October 8, 1918.]

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