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HONG KONG, SATURDAY, APRIL 25, 1931.

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FEELS TRIPLE BLUE PLAYS

NON-TREATY PORT

SAILINGS.

Special Approval of the Harbour Master.

ALTERATION IN LAW.

Psychology of the Washerman

"OLD ROGUISHNESS.”

Some Effects of Age-Old Environment.

"just too ente."

To Meet ex-Champion For Final To-day.

FAVOURITE DEFEATED.

thereof:

REPUBLIC.

Prepared to Fight to

the Death.

SENSATIONAL SPEECH.

Madrid, Yesterday. A sensational declaration by

DIPLOMACY.

Getting Rid of Distrust and Suspicion.

NEW SPIRIT NEEDED.

London, Yesterday.

Mr. Arthur Henderson, speak-

Press Association, said that at

SKYSCRAPER

'QUAKE TREMORS. 28-Storey City Hall Put to Test.

BUILDING SHIVERS.

Los Angeles, Yesterday.

London, Yesterday. The Government Gazette pub-Į The 28 storey city hall, which The triple "Blue." Leonard lishes the draft of a Bill to amend Very rare indeed is the casual foreign visitor to China, who was specially built to withstand Crawley, whose exploits have further the Merchant Shipping Senor Macia, President of the at a dinner of the Foreign

was put to the hitherto been mainly confined to Ordinance, 1899.

Catalan Republic, is reported in present we were in a transition having tonched the hem of the garment, is not prepared to dog-earth tremors.

Section 4 (2) of the Merchant which Senor Macia, addressingistic diplomacy and the post War Madrid newspaper, according to stage between the old individual- matise upon its texture. Rare indeed, is the visiting movie star test yesterday, when a medium to the cricket field for Esse, and strong earthquake was felt here. Cambridge, showed that he could

1899, is crowd at Barcelona on St. who will not miss a few columns of publicity by explaining how The building shivered but was hit other things than leg bound- Shipping Ordinance, she “just adores" rikishas, or how she found the Chinese theatre not damaged. The occupants of aries in the English Native Amma-amended by the addition of the George's Day, emphatically de diplomacy of conciliation and co- Hence the import- the higher storeys were very teur Golf Championship at Hun-following proviso at the end clared "Catalonia has temporari-operation. Rarer still is the masculine traveller who has alarmed and a number of win- stanton, Norfolk, in which he

ly sacrificed part of her sover-ance of arbitration and disarma- in the big stores of the reached the final to-day, defeat-

Provided further that it eignty for high patriotic interment. The former alone could nut a few words to say about the "deep, inscrutable Chinese-the dows

not make peace secure. cracked.ing one of the favourites, Edward

shall be lawful and shall be ests. Her aspirations for liberty The old spirit of suspicion, magic of Old Cathay-the quaint (why quaint?) native customs," coastal suburbs were

Otherwise the City suffered no Tipple, of Langley Park, at the

deemed always to have been as expressed by a plebiscite will

distrust, and insecurity would damage. Reuter.

twentieth.

lawful for the Governor in be, submitted to the Cortes, not effectively be banished until Throughout the championship Council to grant special ex- and if we meet with a refusal we Crawley won only one match be-

emption, which may be sub-shall fight to the death to achieve disarmament was completed. fore the eighteenth. He meets

ject to any conditions he may jour ideals."-Reuter. the ex-Chesire oil worker, William

impose, from all or any of the Sutton, the 1929 champion, for

requirements of this sub-sec- the 36 hole final to-morrow. --~-

tion in the case of any ship regularly plying between the cognize the new Spanish Govern- Colony and Dosing, Swatue ment.

Plot at Valencia. (Shanmi), Ping Hoi, Ma Kung,' Sha Yu Chung, Nam 0, Tip Fuk, O Tau or any other non- treaty port if the master and to have discovered a Royalist piot mate shall have passed a spe- in which members of the Artillery cial examination before the tire involved.

Rugby, Yesterday. Harbour Master and shall be

Speaking to-night at the an- approved by him for service on clading the young son of an Anual dinner of the Foreign Press

and so on.

must irresistably recall Robin Hood, Dick Turpin, and other heroes, to the British mind!

A "Clever" Poet.

On this subject of "indiffer- Reuter.

It is permissible for the seasoned foreign resident in China to pass over these vapourings with a tolerant smile. Every foreign resident has his own idea of China and the Chinese, founded full often, it must be admitted, upon a rather crazy, sub-structure of fact. Foreigners, in the main, it must be frankly admitted, are not in the habit of making any deep analytical study of the Chinese | ence" Mr. Lin recalls the periodi psychology, Sufficient that they "get along." albeit the Chinese are perhaps “a bit old in some things." "Don't try to understand too much," say the "old China hands," "it will only lead to dis- illusion. When you've known them as long as I have

CHNESE AS THEY ARE.

"Liu

He

of the seven poets, or the pleiade FAILED of the Bamboo Grove. Ling, a great poet, could go on a drunken fit for months. used to travel on a cart with a jug of wine, a shovel, and a grave-digger. giving the latter the order, 'Bury me when I am dead-any where, any time.""

It is woeful to have to relate that people admired him, and thought him clever! And yet, consider the case of Omar, who

TO OBSERVE

SIGNALS.

Cause of Train Tragedy

at Leighton Buzzard.

INQUEST ON VICTIMS,

such voyages.

Earlier News.

Tokyo, Yesterday. The Cabinet has decided to re

Valencia, Yesterday.

The Civil Governor is reported

Two arrests have been made in-

A successful disarmament confer- nee would go farther than any other single factor towards minimising the dangers of an economic depression.

Failure to settle difficulties like the Franco-Italian naval pro- blem might inaugurate building inter would destroy the value of programmes which sooner or

the London Naval Treaty.---- Reuter.

tillery officer who ordered 5,000 monarchist cockades from a mil Association, the Foreign Secre- Section 44 of the Merchant tary clothing factory, allegedly onary, Mr. Arthur Henderson, said Shipping Ordinance, 1899, All of which makes a thousands of years of cultural in

is behalf of an Artillery regiment, that we were in the transition London, Yesterday. amended by the deletion of the the Marquis De Sotelo (ex-Mayo stage between the old individual- study of the Chinese people, by fluence. "In a way, I myself

At the inquest on the six vic-words "a fee of one dollar" in the of Valencia) and leaders of the istic diplomacy and the new diplo- a contemporary Chinese, all they have become patient, indifferent,, and still has, his admirers. time of the Royal Scot express last line thereof and by the sub Patriotic Union.

of conciliation and co- It appears that the Monarch-operation. Much was being done its programme included a rising relations on a better basis.

to reconstruct the international at Cordova.

more illuminating to Occidental and an old rogue," he says,

"I

A Few Epigrams,

On the subject of "old

smash at Leighton Buzzard on stitution therefor of the wards March 22, a verdict of accidental "such fec as the Governor in In a recent issue of the China perience of every man who has roguishness" the writer waxes death, due to the driver failing Council shall prescribe."

eyes.

believe my experience is the ex-

epigrammatic. "The older grown up-in-Chinese_society."

people grow the more shameless Patlence and the Family. Patience he considers due to they become," he thinks. "Girls of twenty seldo:n marry for the family system, indifference largely to the lack of legal pró-money; women of forty seldom tection, and "old roguishness," marry for anything else." "When a man grows old, he develops a for lack of a better word," to a

genius for flying low

... and Taoistic view of life.

when he is past forty and does not become a crook, he is either feeble-minded, ur Д literary genius."

was re-

to observe the signals turned. There was no culpable negligence. Reuter.

REVOLT· ENDED.

ATTRIBUTED TO ECONOMIC

DEPRESSION.

macy

The Government set much Elections for June. This Ordinance shall not come

Madrid, Yesterday.

store by arbitration and disarma- into operation unless and until

The Cabinet has decided that ment. They had signed the op- the Governor notifies by Procla- the elections to the Constituent

tional clause and 84 nations had mation that it la His Majesty's Assembly shall be held in June, now accepted this obligation. pleasure not to disallow the same probably on June 21 or 25.

They had adhered to the General and thereafter it shall come. into

'It The voting age has been reduc. Act for Pacifle Settlement. operation upon such day as the ed from 25 to 23.-Reuter.

was impossible to overestimate Governor shall notify by the same |

the importance which they and or any other Proclamation.

he thought all parties, in Great Britain attached to the success of the forthcoming Disarmament Conference, which would do more than any other single factor to- wards removing the economic de- pression.

BUDGET SPEECH.

Critic, Mr. Lin Yutang con- tributes a lengthy, and very frank appreciation of his countrymen which may help to modify muny preconceived notions. He ori ginally gave it as a paper before the Pan-Pacific Association.

He begins with the reasonable premise that "no zoologist hus Mr. Lin is illuminating on the to show us a subject of patience. "We have ever been able dragon, . nor has anybody put up with more tyranny, an- ever succeeded in interpreting the archy, and misrule than

"In one sense," he continues, Chinese people to the world." Western people will ever put up "all Chinese are more or less old Nor, indeed, does the writer em- with, and seem to be able to re-rogues, the old ones being worse It is reported from Teguci-grant special exemption from the bark upon such

formidable gard them as part of the law of than the young," following upon galpa that

in requirements of section 4 of the the revolution task. But in the course of his nature. Christian patience is

following the Merchant Shipping Ordinance. to certain small steamers holding argument, it may well be said like petulance compared with this unassailable dictum with the Honduras ended

licences Hong Kong passenger that he throws much light upon Chinese patience. Perhaps had

Rugby, Yesterday. hitherto dark places.

regularly plying between the) our capacity for sufferance been

The Chancellor of the Exchequer Colony and places not open to gen Mr. Philip Snowden, to-day return- smaller our sufferings would also

eral trade. The practice would be less."

#

Long-Lived Culture. Mr. Lin claims that even the Chinese washerman, or coolic, "represents a people and a na- tion, which, in spite of its many manifest faults, has a long his tory of ancient culture, a work able philosophy of life, a tradi- tion of art and literature... a somehow nation which has solved the problem of social de- cay, which is a puzzle to all socio- logists. Biologically, it has a sorbed all barbarian conquerors, as well as the Jews in Honan. Its old culture, in spite of many short-comings, is a culture which has survival value."

any

But the family system is the training school. "In the big family where there is very little elbow room for individuals, one learns by necessity and from parental instruction from early childhood the necessity of mutual toleration and adjustments in human relationships."

explanation that "old roguish- ness" means "that quality of the people which render some incap- ble of high idealism, mocks at the hollowness of life, and re-

duces all human activities to the simple level of the alimentary canal, and other simple biological

needs."

Later, the writer saya that when "another old rogue, Li Yuan-hung pronounced heartily accepted formula the solution of Chinese political |

the for

problems, "When there is rice, let everybody ent' he gave the pro- foundest explanation of Chinese politics that I ever knew of."

REBELS KILLED.

Washington, Yesterday,

OVERCAST.

The Royal Observatory's weather report this morning states:

There is a depression over Central Japan, and an anti- cyclone over Shanghai and Nagasaki.

Forecast: E. winds, fresh to moderate; generally overcast.

Objects and Reasons,

It has been the practice

to

MR. SNOWDEN TO MAKE

PERSONAL APPEARANCE.

REVENUE PROPOSALS.

A serene International atmos- phere was one of the best guar- antees of material prosperity.

Progress Made.

Happily in disarmament pro-

evolved at gress had been made. The draft

disarmament Geneva enabled conference to open early next Mr. Henderson continued that it was useless to pretend that the spirit of suspicion, dis- trust, and insecurity which when he makes his annual Budget plagued the old diplomacy had

year.

seem to require an amendmented to Downing Street for the first of the section, which is relaxed time since his long and painful by its proviso in the case of river illness. During the afternoon he steamers and trawlers and which attended a Cabinet Council. He scheme recently

has made excellent recovery but is was further relaxed in 1917, in

still under medical care and as a the case of river steamers, for a period of 61 years, by Ordinance precautionary measure his doctors will be present o No. 13 of 1917 and Notification

House of Commons No. 482 of 1929. Section 2 of this Ordinance accordingly adds a third proviso to section 4 (2) of the principal Ordinance. Section

ernor

in Council shall pre-

statement.

an

two the Monday

proposals British

And here one must pause to reflect how different is the case in the Occident, where a different

In order to prevent any undue been banished. He did not believe spirit of individualism prevails,

3 amends section 44 of the prin- physical strain, it is expected that that they could be banished un- be less we completed the work of and where youth is (or used to be)

victory of Government forces on cipal Ordinance by substituting Mr. Snowden's speech will

disarmament contemplated in the Chinese Epitomized.

April 23. Twenty-nine persons the words "such fee as the Gov- shorter than usual and will not Versailles Treaty and in article 8. expected to make its own way

"As a people," Mr. Lin con- were killed in the revolt, which

last much more than an hour. He after the preliminary "push-off"cludes, "we are great enough to is attributed primarily The Chinese race, Mr. Lin into life.

until the Nations placed greater. to the scribe" for the words "a fee of will probably curtail references to of the League Covenant. and draw up an imperial law code. economic depression. --- Reuter's

one dollar" which is considered the Anancial results of the past reliance upon the solemn obliga- thinks, owes much to its con-

"Indifference."

but also great enough to distrust American Service. tinued infusion of barbariun

tions of the League. Chinese "indifference" pro-lawyers and law courts. We are

an inadequate sum to charge for year, devoting most of his speech blood. Chinese history shows re- vides Mr. Lin with some interest- great enough to have elaborate stated:-The revolutionary fever is to be supplied under the sec

[A message dated April 19 the informative abstract which to

Wirelcan Service. gular cycles of peace ing reflections. It seems to him rules of ceremony, but great has reached Honduras.

tion. Section 4 of this Ordin- by that Chinese youths are as public-enough to treat them as part of decadence, followed

According to wireless reports ance is the suspending clause foreign youths, (a the great joke of life. We have a revolt flared up at Progreso at usual in the case of an Ordinance perioda of northern invasion. spirited as And then goes on to make the suggestion that few will be pre- no use for impracticable idealism, two o'clock in the morning relating to Merchant Shipping. rather startling suggestion that pared to deny at this date!) He as we have no patience for doc- Several hundred armed men are what China needs to-day "is prob- even adds, rather ingenuously. trinaire theology. In one word. at present marching on the im- ably the infusion of new Mongo-"young Chinese hot-heads show ve recognise the necessity of portant fruit-shipping centre of lian blood. At any rate, the as much desire to meddle with human effort, but we also admit Tela. northern Chinese .

and

have public affairs as those of other the futility of it. This general Scattered outbreaks occurred supplied us with all the imperial countries." Who will not agree, attitude of mind, therefore, has elsewhere. brigands who later became found- incidentally?

a tendency to develop passive de- It is at present unknown whe- ers of Chinese dynasties."

But Mr. Lin shows a little offensive tactics

which ther the capital, Tegucigalpa, is No southerner has done this, the traditional "indifference” can be more terrible than any affected. Mr. Lin claims; and after enu- himself when he blithely con-tactics of aggression.

From Washington it is report-

CAMERA FIENDS.

THREE FRENCH OFFICERS

RELEASED.

APOLOGY TO GERMANY,

revenue

VACCINATION.

"PERIOD OF GRACE" MUCH

LOWER.

The Foreign Secretary conclud- ed by saying that interest in per- manent peace had been the prin- ciple object of our aetive parti- cipation in International affairs. It influenced our policy with re- gard to the Rhineland and other questions, including the Franco- Italian Naval "Negotiations. He SUMMER ALLOWANCES.

felt that a settlement of the Franco-Italian Naval' problems In the Government Gazette is would greatly help the Disarma- published a draft Bill to amendment Conference and failure the Vaccination Ordinance, 1928. might sooner or later destroy The objects and reasons state: the value of the London Naval This Ordinance reduces the Treaty. Our position on this period of grace for unvaccinated issue was typical. We interven- Berlin, Yesterday.

children born within the Colony ored partly as a European Power to The three French officers who admitted to school therein, from help settle a Europeas problem, were, arrested at Koenigsberg for six months to six weeks. and re- and partly as an extra European photographing manoeuvres have peals the sub-section of section. 14 Power in the interest of World bean allowed to leave Germany, of the principal Ordinance which Peace and friendly International going hurriedly, via Poland. exempted. guardians from penalties relations.--British Wireless Ser-

The French Ambassador at Ber- for not causing, children to be Buimer lin apologised for the behaviour vaccinated during the

Sub-section (3) of that WINDSOR CASTLE. -- of the officers, and the German months.

Foreign Office is not taking the section is altered ag as to allow London, Yesterday.

Elx weeks instead of one month.as Incident seriously. Reuter. H.M. King George received [It was reported from Berlin on the period of grace in the case of Alfonso at Windsor April 18 that three French officers children brought here for the first Castle to-day-Reuter.

dressed in mufti, including the time. This Ordinance also repeals French Military Attache at Berlin, a sub-section of section 21 of the were arrested at Koenigsberg, principal Ordinance the effect of photographing soldiers drilling. which is spent.

merating the northern birth- tinues, "between their twenty- "If a boy in a restaurant ised that the United States light places of many of China's pro- fifth and thirtieth years, they all rude, you can do something, and cruiser Memphis has been order- minent generals, he concludes become wise. Some learn it by complain to the management-ed to proceed to the north const with the saddening reflection their native intelligence, and But if the boy replies in the most of Honduras.] that "Kiangsu "has produced no others by getting their fingers elegant manner, coming, com-

ALFONSO RECEIVED AT

vice.

COTTON CONGRESS.

TWENTY-TWO COUNTRIES TO

BE REPRESENTED..

distinguished general, but has burnt. All old people play safe. ing and does not bring the food, KING MEETS EX-KING produced some very fine hotel because all old rogues have learnt you can do absolutely nothing boys."

the benefits of indifference in a but pray or curse in an elegant Good and Bad Qualities,”

society where personal rights are manner also. Such, in brief. is The chief qualities of the not guaranteed, and where get-the passive atrength of the Chin- Chinese people to-day, both good ting one's fingers burnt once is ese people. It is the strength of and bad, Mr. Lin gives as: bad enough."

the old rogue." Gallant Bandits! sobriety, simplicity, love of na-

And such, in brief, is the de- Indifference, then, is not ture, patience, Indifference, old

lineation of the Chinese charac- roguishness, (a strange quality, high moral virtue, but a social at ter by a Chinese journalist. ex-King this!), fecundity, industry, love titude imposed by the absence of Critics may say that he has put of family life, cheerfulness, and legal protection. This being so, his case high. It is not certain,. sonsuality: They might all be it in highly interesting to learn perhaps, that all his theories are FRENCH ATTACHE. included under the term mellow-that "Chinese robbers and bantenable, or all his claims justin bi nese, suggestive of calm and dits. who do not depend upon fable. But the lucid and con- M. BONAVITE APPOINTED TO passive strength, rather than legal protection, are not an in- vincing manner of their exposi BRONEERED PEKING. youthful vigour and romance. different class, but the most tion cannot be questioned. Mr. egin

The German Foreign Offen made. The Yarmouth County Farmers represented at the congress of Patience, indifference, and public-spirited and chivalrous Lin's article. one thinks, le de

representations to the French Em- Association, during 1980, awarded the International Cotton Federa "old roguishness," he considers class of people we know." (Alas, finitely helpful to, the foreigner

Paris, Yesterday.bassy concerning the affair. It four scholarships to the Agricultion on June 28, including 21 are the effect of culture and so for these preconceived notions() who seeks the proper perspective: Chlef of Battalion Bonavite has was said that the officers had been tural Collage et Truro, as well as of the Federation and the United cial environment, They are not "Chinese chivalry, under the

been appointed Military Attache visiting the battlefields of East aiding in junior-club work and in States, which is not a member. on Chinese mentality.

The delegates will total 500 or necessarily part of the Chinese name of hoo-halo is invariably

to the French Legation at Pek- Prussia with the knowledge of the general agricultural progress by a

600,--Router. serica of meetings. |ing --Havas.

| Gefman authorities.] mental make-up, but result from associated with robbers." Which

·B.B.

ANASTAS

but the cameras were confiscated.

They were subsequently released

U.S.A. NOT A MEMBER.

Paris, Yesterday. Twenty-two countries will be