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try to the study of architecture. "To the intelligentsia he is o, He was the first commander to in- Liverpool owes this benefaction to clown, but to the peasants, coolice jtroduce the ideal of discipline among the generosity of the late Lord and a few reformers he has been China's rabble, soldiery. He was Leverbulme and the present peer at intervals the hero of China's post- the first to introduce education and It will be possibk for two hundred Empire political melodrama.” "school detail" in the army. young men and women to be taught Thus writes Upton Close of Feng He was the first to make his men (in the school.

Yu-Lelang in a thoughtful charac-¡work as well as occasionally fight, At a time when so many young ter-study of the "Christian General" ja revolutionary idea to Chinese sol architects are unemployed, it argues in the New York Times.

diers. faith in the future that the venture) should be launched just now.

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"I last saw the ex-Christian Gen- He was the first to introduce re- cral sitting on a stone in the court gular army pay, require non-inter of a tiny temple of sacred Mount ference with the citizenry, payment Tal, where he was residing under al for food, animals and quarters. Bri-parole granted him by Chiang Kai- Funds for these he obtained, of shek and Chang Hsueh-liang, who course, by levies upon rich land- had defeated him.

owners and merchants, who came to hate him as much as the populace hervised him.

New Bird-Study Centre It has come to light that a tish trust for ornithology, with a permanent institute at Oxford, is about to be formed. The supporters include Lord Grey, Lord Rothschild and Lord Desborough.

Breaking Parole

In the midst of the recent Japan- ese. Invasion he jumped the parole, He was the first to break down all

An increasing number of people made an unhindered triumphal pro-respect for temples and religious are cach year studying the habits gress through Peking and proceed-precincía, turning them into schools and movement of birds, ringing ed to Kalgan on the Mongolian bor-jor barracks. migrants, taking ochsuses of,der.

There he assumed command! His spectacular methods and rockerles, and observing the effect of the armies which were cut off farm-yard slogans prepared the way of birds on farmland.

from their base when the Japanese for the proletarian propaganda of · The institute, which already has neared Peiping.

The Communists, and it is natural

a counter-part in America, will serve! By this daring series of acts, that, for a time anyway, Feng found jas a clearing-house for this mass Feng injected his presence into himself eu rapport with Moscow.

of information and a research cen- the one situation where conflict: tre where all who are interested in could arise suddenly betwen Japan

“Making Headlines” bird life can obtain advice,

and Russia.

It was Feng who finished off the To the west of this Yellow River prestige of monarchism by chasing Bend country are the Sovielised Pu-yi and the remnant of his Man- Mongols while to the east are Mon-chu court over the walls of the For- gola who have allied themselves with bidden City, completely ignoring the of Manchukuo. Japan and become part of the State guarantees given them by the terms

{of abdication,

Your Daily Smile

tion, Washington is entitled to

REBUKED advise and to act. Indeed, it is

Chairman (to neighbour at public UTTLEY-MARY. On Friday, Sep-significant that complaints last dinner); Sir, you forget yourself! tember 8th, 1983, at St. John's month by both the British Min-There are microphones present. Cathedral, Hongkong, Dr. Ken-jister and the Spanish Ambas- neth H. Uttley, M.A., Hongkong sador regarding menace to their Government Medical Depart-national interests ment, to Miss Helen M. Mahy.

The China Mail

Hong Kong, Friday, September 8, 1933

Unrest In Cuba.

were made

WELLERISM

While Moscow will not fight, for Feng first made the headlines the Chinese Eastern Railroad,, when, in 1919, he joined Wu Pei-fu which is losing money, Moscow has in the latter's famous "strategic re no choice but to uphold the Com-treat" northward to drive the Ja- direct to the United States Am- "There's something in the heir," munist party in an affiliated part of panese-controlled. Aafu government bassador, showing clearly where as the fond father remarked when the Soviet Union.

out of Peking. Wu raised him in real and ultimate responsibility the baby swallowed his dummy.

rank, then became disgusted with Overcoming Defeat jis regarded as resting. Half a century ago, an even less dis-

More than any other of China's his whime, and side-tracked him in

the loess badlands of West China. turbing situation would have

modern war lords, all of whom seem He ran a car and a house, and to have the secret of the phoenix, given a country like the United Uved in the lap of luxury all on the Feng demonstrates ability to

But when Wu was fighting for his States an easy pretext not only misery of his fellow-men. He sold from the ashes of defeat and con-come down out of Manchuria in the rise life with Chang Teo-lin, who had for interference, but for estab-wedding rings. lishing an undisguised protector-

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hope of succeeding the Anfus, it was More than any other he has been Fengis regiments, then under the all things to all men, and yet more highest religious discipline, that Ilon than any other he remains truly made an amazing march through the

defiles and saved the city.

man. I know that sort of woman.

ate, with no pretence of any time Quellers of the Stoutest Heart. limit. But at present the times Cuba is not one of those coun-are not propitioue to projects of near Nairobi was scared by a wo-Chinese.

A news item saya that a tries which are happy i having that sort, The strongest Powers no history. Following o its are, almost without exception, discovery by Columbus, piracy averse to adventures of which Improving the Proverb. the slave trade, and intestinal the end can in no wise be seen, struggles disturbed its early life if only for the excellent reason Men about to be married are

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do the unexpected thing.

First Cultural Influence

Between Feng and the scholarly, strong-tempered, cynical, unicom- municative Wu there could not long Feng was born in a home so poor be co-operation, and in Wu's second

a Spanish possession. As that financial stringency forbids given housekeeping lessons in a Spain weakened, a strong desire, the cost of expeditions which Hertfordshire church hall. On the that even Chinese culture and tradi-trial of strength with his Manchur often openly expressed, arose in may prove ruinously expensive principle, I suppose, that a new tion meant little in it. The first an enemy Feng attacked his chief the United States for the ac elements in many

This is a fact of which turbulent grabm sweeps clean.

cultural influence in life was that suddenly in the rear, eliminating quisition of the island, and more than Cuba are daily taking the other places

type of Christian missionary tehim from affairs. than one President shaped autmost advantage. Any action,

cently described by Pearl Buck. He policy directed to that end. Cor-then, to which one or more for-ed nose for £7. A man can get one at the age of 16 he saw an Ameri-Fenx for some time governed Pek-

A woman can now precure a tilt-once told me, in Honan patois, that rupt administration by the cign Governments may have re- for nothing by talking politica with can spinster beheaded by the Box-up" administration, during which Spanish officials led to a series sort in Cuba is certain to be an Irishman.

of civil wars, culminating in the undertaken with considerable re-

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gosh, if a fellow could only meet

fera, "She never moved a muscle of her face and she was only a wo- man" was his comment.

It struck him that he had a good

ision work was resumed after the

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Making an alliance. with Chung,

ling, giving it a picturesque "clean-

the old capital began to know paved streets, vice crusades and puritan restriction of luxury,

Gradually Chang pushed Feng out,

bad left the farm to become a sold-most of his disciplined army. a girl like that in real Ufe in-or got himself baptized. stead of in a song.

To Christianity, as far, as he was able to grasp it, Feng has remained

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The narratives of FORTUNE LEFT TO

Israel ispired him tremendously. This He saw himself a Gideon leading the Children of China against the Philis-

to

PRETTY GIRLS ·

His Heirs.

tines; a Joshus realating the ener Beauty Show To Select vating influences of foreign customs Samuel trampling out luxurious living and lasciviousness. He so captured the imagination of mis- atonaries in China that a book, pres

A preparation of rubber has been senting him as the saviour of the

ECCENTRIC CHEMIST'S

SUICIDE

offer and proclamation by Spain luctance, and only because of MY IDEAL WOMAN. of autonomy. But before this defensive measures being render-She didn't want a car or frocks, could become effective, the United absolutely imperative. No

(Or hats or jewels, ́or wine or choce religion for a fighter, and when mia into the Mohammedan north-west ed States intervened, and the reason exists for supposing that she never gossiped, thought no Boxer dare-up the young giant, who and the Gobi Desert, where he lost Spanish-American War resulted Cubans as subjects. No matter Oh,

any nation desires, to have the wrong. In the termination of Spanish how genuine some of the local authority on January 1, 1899. grievances may originally have The United States, always dis-been, it may be taken for grant claiming any intention of annexed that, as on all such occasions, tion, carried on a system of mill-every seditious force will seek to It'll be a Lovely War. tary rule until May, 1902, when embitter the issues. This in it- The Four-Power Pact will ensure the first Cuban Congress met selt gives a certain degree of peace for ten years, I read. under an agreed Constitution, moral backing to even the least will give the nations a chance This document bound Cuba not satisfactory Government. View prepare for a really good war. to incur unjustifiable debt, anded as a whole, the situation, a affirmed the right of America to thoroughly familiar one, gives Facts You Did Not intervene in case of serious dan persist in believing that forms little edification to those who ger to life and liberty-obviously of government are the things fairly substantial modification that matter rather than the of complete independence. The character of a people. Cuba is, invented Into which plants can be Chinese and the Justification of a value of that particular clause is like so many other republics, a dipped to protect them from cold hundred years of missionary effort,

Belgrade. vividly realised. In such disturb-model State-on paper. She and disease when stored in cold was distributed throughout Church his wordly goods to 10 of the After distributing his wealth and Jances as are now taking place, possesses a Constitution, as irre-weather,

As a matter of fact, America, proachable theoretically as was

prettiest, giris in 'the village,'of consequent on misrule and the that of Weimar--and as ineffee Scientists employed by

Kamenitzinear, Novi Sad, Josip threat of anarchy, has stepped in tual, if lacking national stability. French government are making exwhen the Church was becoming em- for Vienna.

It is characteristic of Feng that Alivirt; a' 70-year-old chemist, left once already, exercising power The world-wide depression is tensive experiments with television barrassed over his anti-foreign at Two days later news reached between 1906 and 1909.. The proving a severe test, not only of in an effort to make it a commercial trances and Soviet leanings, he Novi Sad that the chemist had com- Republic was then for a second individuals,, but of, whole races. success. time Inaugurated, and the last Some react to it in one way,

saved it trouble by announcing that mitted suicide in an hotel in the American troops withdrawn.some in another; but what is Containing 8,084 pages and Christian-that he had discovered lie announced his decíafun to be was no longer to be considered a Australian capital by taking poison. Population, wealth, and pros-revealed thereby is not the fit-weighing 1,094 pounds, the world's something better. Yet the only edu- give away his wealth by town- perity thenceforward showed a ness or the failure of any parti-largest Bible has been completed cated men he has about him to-day crier and the 10 beneficiaries were steady increase until the false cular system, but the strength or after two years of labour by a Los are Christians of apparently very elected the following morning in boom of the war years was suc- the weakness of racial stocks. Angeles printer.

the square before his house from Feng's egotistical defecilons from the throng of pretty girls who had In second revolt threatening, fairly have been expected, but about 49,000,000 dozen egga and allled have caused a large share of vitation-Reuter.

Free State exporta levary group with which he has been responded to the town crier's ins recurrence of the disorder atten- perhaps somewhat better. That more than 30,000 tons of butter to China's turmoil of the last fifteen dant on the successful uprising is in part owing to her natural Great Britain and Northern Ireland years, Ket he is perhaps the most last month against President resources, and also to the fact annually, Machado. That the present civil that the Republic is virtually

ceeded by the inevitable slump, Cuba, All things considered, the The Irish Free Today a state of turmoil exists, mot merely done as well as might

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troubles should occur immediate underwritten by the United To provant theft of gasolina, from

ly after a hurricane had ravagStates. While the good

led the island places the country lasted, this was recogni in a desperate plight. Under the advantage. In advan Platt Amendment to the Constituever, it tends to be mos

automobiles, locking m dey! been. Invented that prevents, the 1portion of hose far enough to

the <fual

circles in the United States.

Changing Convictions

{high type, an

historical Agure in that period. Hi milestones in China's political ave drastic actions, appear aventually an

the whims of his active, faë stant mind become ideala

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