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LAND OF MYSTERY PORTUGUESE GIRLS

YESTERDAY'S TIHET, RALKS'AT

TO-DAY'S

"CLOSED LANDS" -

PARENTS BEE NEED FOR MODERN EDUCATION

PEKING NOTES

YELLOW TAXIS IN TIENTSIN & SHANGHAI

| THE ILLITERATE

EMIGRANTS' EARNINGS

"The present is a time when "cloa Lisbon.--Education in Portugal is Notwithstanding the order of the ed lands" find it all but impossible not popular with the masses, about Nanking Government that the name to remain closed. Prospectors, 70 per cent, of the people being of Peking shall be changed at once misalonaries and mere adventurers quite ¡literate. This is partly due to Felping, the residents of this city Blaze paths anywhere and nearly to the fact that attendance at school are continuing to print their everywhere. Traders follow close is not compulsory. In provinces stationery with the old name" and ly. Then travellers come. Aero- originally sparsely populated, and are otherwise disregarding the planes abet advances. Electricity further drained by a continuous decree of Nanking. The change reports progress: Neighbour states stream of emigration, every arm is from Peking-Northern Capital-to propose political agreements. Self-an asset, and as soon as a child can Felping--Northern Peace is to en determination begins to be talked help fis parents, either by work or phasise the removal of the capital to about and development of resources wage-earnings, help it must. Con- Nanking maille. is urged. All along the line a sensequently school days, if any, are eral modernising attacks age-old short. oral c conservatism.

A Yellow' Taxicab Company,

From all of which it follows that There are many Government in-modelled upon similar companies In there are next to no "white spots" fant schools, but the children of the the United States, has been organ on the cartographers charts. No Poorer classes do not frequent them feed by a group of Chinese and for longer is the Congo the inaccessible, much, while the children of parents dreamed of object of a latter-day in better circumstances are educated Joseph Conrad. Timbuktu is the at home until they reach the age of terminus of a trans-Saharan auto admission to the lyceums (10 years). trip and Tiflis a goal for trippers. The teaching in the lyceume is good, while superior education fa better still.

Yucatan is as easy to traversa aa-

is the Ukraine. Korea (re-christ- ened Chosen) is anything but "her- mit" whether in repute or fact. Samarkand is a household word, and Merv and Khiva way-stations on main-travelled ronds, and

Education in Portugal is generally confined to boys. There are lyceums and other schools for girls, but it is only recently that parents have Awakened to the fact that education is as necessary to them as to their brothers. Most girls are

educated

sign promoters to introduce this type of taxi service to the Far East. Shanghai and Tientsin are to be supplied with the first yellow taxin, with Singapore, Maulla, and other cities to follow. Call stations are to be established' near all hotels and amusement centres.

Mukden officials are now paying great attention to the encourage So, too, Tibet. Though.so long

ment of sericulture. They have promised special. consideration in doggedly resisting all outside in Quences, the Rome of Asiatic Budd- at home, rather fitfully and vaguely, various ways to those who under- take to raise silk worms or to de- hism has been drawn slowly but but as long as they can speak Eng-velop the industry which has surely into this present-day cur-lish and French, little more is reproved so profitable in other parts rent Tucked away, high up under quired of them,

the Himalayam eaves of the world-- Boys, of course, must be educated. if not exactly on the very roof yet For them there are the lyceums, the

Lhasa, whose "visitors" book” (had there been ones) could have shown but seven entries in the six centuries between Marco Polo's coming in 1278 and the adventures

capped. Madame David-Neel and

Portugal.

Was

of China.

It is estimated that, Chinese

Toothpicks made in China have it has not been able to insure longer polytechnics and the universities, the jealous seclusion with which it and though girls attend the unt-practically displaced foreign im- has veiled itself through genera- veraity lectures in ever-increasing portations. Although seemingly a tions of topographical ungelatable-numbers, they are still too few to small item, it is recorded that prior neas and the hostility shown strang- affect the statement that the educa- to the anti-Japanese movement-in ers by its gay and Ignorant, digni- tion of girls is neglected in 1916, more than $100,000 worth of fed and dirty people.

Japanese toothpicks were sold an- Lisbon possesses a unique estab. nually in Shanghai alone, while the lishment. In her "Casa Pia," a consumption of Japanese toothpicks amounted to charity school for fatherless boys of throughout China poor station in life. This

about $500,000 each year. The boy founded in 1782 by Pina Manique, cott resulting from the Twenty One of Henry Savage Lander in 1897, chief of police, and loyal co-opera

Demands gave the toothpick trade has been rather scribbled over of tor In the reforms of the famous to the United States for a time, but late. Within as many years in Marqule of Pombal, Minister of in 1921 the Chinese Toothpick Fac- quartet of well-known Europeans Dom Jose I. Pina Manique founded tory was established and since then have trod the all but endless cor- several such schools in Lisbon, but others have followed its example. ridors of the majestic Folala, the only one that remains is the towering, from its green slepes Casa Pla, attached to the ancient above the Plain of Milk, ringed Church of the Community of St. residents of the Malay. Archipelago {about by mountains eternally snow Jerome at Belem Here visitors are remitting about, $100,000,000 Sir Charles Bell just the other day will see groups of young boys play annually, to their relatives. In the came out of the country to writing in the wonderful old cloisters, mother country, while Chinese living about it, and Dr. McGovern and and there Is generally one bold In North and South America and General Pereira were not long be enough to enter into conversation in Europe are sending another halting English or more fluent $50,000,000 annually. According to French. The boys are given a solid figures compiled by the Yokohama. education, moral, physical and prace Specle Bank, based on the years If the passes now may be pierced tical, so that when the time comes 1924 and 1925, 1,170,000 Chinese vo| without too much trouble, so, also for them to leave they are prepared in the Straits Settlementa, 810,000 Is there something like an "up-to" to make their way in the world. in the Dutch Indles, and 250,000 fa. date" movement behind the ranges. Indeed, no boy leaves without having the Philippines. Bank and postal A telegraph and some sample *phones have been installed in

a place found for him suited to his ortlers show that the Chinese in the Lhasa. The butter lamps which so special abilities. Several old Casa Straits Settlements average $16 dubiously have lit the Potala for Pia boys have become famous as each, in their remittances home, centuries have given place to high Government officials, financiers, those of the Dutch: Indies 318 each candescent bulbs.

etc.The Christian Science Mont- The coinage. system has been reformed. The tor." beginnings of a domestic postal service have been initiated.

A European union of associa However, the curtain is being tions for the breeding of fur-bear- rung up on these new scenes noting animals has been founded at without a few hitches. Yesterday Zurich. The countries belonging does not yield to to-day without to the union are Germany, Belgium, protest and, at times, more than just that, Indeed. At the close of May to give a single instance, albeit of noteworthy sort word came out of India that an exploring expedition led by Prof. Nicholas Roerich of

fore them..

and those in the Philippine Island $89 euch. A total of 2,460,000 other Chinese dwell in Annam, Burma, and Siam, and their con- tributions are estimated to swell the total to $100,000,000 annually."

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The public art museums, establish Holland, France, Italy, Austria, ed several years ago in the imperial Czecho-Slovakia, Finland, Latvia, palaces, are now closed tempor Esthonia, and Switzerland. The arily. The new government wishes headquarters are in Switzerland. to take inventory of the treasures and rearrange the exhibits. The

After searches, covering several pleasure grounds of the winter and

...........................000000 New York had only with great din years for the dreadnought "Free summer palaces, much frequented

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culty was its way south to Dar-Russia, which was sunk in the during the hot weather are remain- jeeling after having been held for Black Sea In June, 1918, the ex-ing open, as are also the public five months by the Tibetan author pedition has succeeded in locating libraries of the city. ities to the north of Nagcha-de-the ship at a depth of twenty-two

tained through that time, that is, in fathoms.

a wind-swept valley, 15,000 feet

above sea level, with the thermp.

A union of railway employees has been inaugurated under the leadership of Lee Lo-san, a member of the local committee of the Kuomintang. More than 200 all- way workers were present at the first meeting of the new labour. union

meter reading from thirty to forty years later he put through the ex- degrees bolow zero. - visting agreement with Great

To which may be added, in sug Britain, gestion of a good part of the

Here might well come in a dis- Tibetan public thought, that the cussion of Tibet's opportunities in electrical apparatus brought in for international politics save that that the lighting of Sblgatae was (as Mr. Kipling would phrase it) is Owing to the late rainfall this pitched over

a conveniant cliff another story; also a long one. season in Manchuria a late harvest. because obviously inhabited by Suffice it to write that this land of is anticipated in most crops. As a devils, and that the 400 fighting Kim's Lama is one more of the result of the great increase in im monks of Tashilumpo are refuse buffer states, hich is to say, of migrants this year the ares of land ing to pay taxes as a mark of their course, that here la another retell cultivated is much larger than be disapproval of the new Tibetan ing of rival bidders for various fore, wheat, beans, hemp, millet, army. This last may well be kinds and degrees of special corn, and the native grain called professional jealousy-man

favoura

Kaoliang being the chief crops.

Under the Dalai Lams of to-day Peking so bungled things tha: Despite the prolonged cold in north-

the moderating process is apt to

had all but faded from the ern Manchuria together with the at last forcibly ex scarcity of rain so far, it is believed not necessary to take that the harvest though late will be Chinese Influences. good one Christian Science

go through, however, albeit with picture such real jolta and fars as now are rumoured. He is almost as pro- seriously gressive a monarch as his "dear Russlan intrigue, traditional and Monitor. cousin, Amanullah, King of next unvarying while the Taare sat at

door Afghanistan. Sir Char St Petersburg, has amounted The Bell, who spent two years with totoo little to regard since munces him, partly at Kalimpong

Moscow has taken command. That telephone some of the time in Lahss, describes the Soviet power in near-by to him as frank, and sincere, no

Mongolia and Turkesan is genuine, Morpoco strict in all duties of his reli

however, Is

tht for the but also shrewd man

al extende thongh England is well in the lead State of to-day

mere detail that he living in fact, in eloquent

o a capacity beyond for, Dalal "Lamte) – “dis when about five years old, Invariably (till now]) disapp a dozen or fifteen years later

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All the world over where English is spoken, indignation has been aroused by the piracy of the British ocean steamer Ankiga

Two British officers of the Mercantile Marine and a Chi nesc petty officer sacrificed their lives in a gallant effort to stay the attack. The Master of the vessel still lies in hospita! from wounds inflicted by the marauders Another officer was also injured.

Altogether the pirates collected about $100,000 in cash and loot and seven unfortunate passengers are now in cap- tivity with a price set on

their

respective lives. A new rendezvous, next to the notorious Bias Bay, has been found, namely, Honghai Bay.

Immediately on receipt of information, Chinese troops set out in pursuit of the pirates.

These in brief are the features of one of the most daring and callous episodes in the history of China Sea out- lawry. The "Overland China Mail," the only illustrated weekly news budget published in Hong Kong, has

has printed full account of the tragic happenings which were aggravated by the fact that the bodies of the three dead defenders were dumped overboard.

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