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Boomy County!

Revolt In The Ranka

A Springboard To China's Future

Scores of years ago in an age she also won an honoured place in when China, perhaps, boro more the military annals of the world, resemblence to the Western World the nequired a militarist clique of the time than at any other and a tradition, and tho happily stage of her carpet-roll of history, net out on the road to future-dis- a Mongol Emperor of the Yuan astor, Dynasty built a bridge and, hon- oured ono of his councillors by -naming-it-after-him-

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about his vast accumulation of the wealth, and in due time will go to amusement.", his rest without caring very much about what anyong thought of him! The Westernized Chinoso will în 1800, 1900, 1910, 1920, 1930 or always be in the minority; --It-is- 1040,

Impossible for 400,000,000 to go abroad. He will always return to The foregoing

Ho docs enro, however, about be met by the amused smile of the journalist's impatient-reply-to-the the abuse of the inherent trait in hat-1 necessity in this world of aeving lente. China works slowly. The like their old ways and their

the Chiness character of festima unfortunately, are riglit. They kalfonge. Here the kal-fonger The honoured councillor

two sides to every question. The The Human Chain Aerons the Raging was to outlast the moss-growing ons is two per cent more correct menta

Messer Marco Polo and his bridge two sides exist. The point is that fortunes of her small traders grow ideas and at the great yearly

first in miserable yearly incre River --

weare of two of China's most bril--than the other. The Collegnof

on their accumulated festivals letters reach the dean of

ann at the westernized univer SABU liant dynasties, Traffic passed Cardinale in the mediaeval past wealth, the progression is arith-

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ing the number of angels who them could find seating accommodation on the point of a pin. A multitude of writers, of every age, of either nex, of every race and creed and

and the Manchu governmental tightening-grip of the Chings. Then came the 10th of October, 1910, and the gradual in-sweep of the modern world of the West.

In Marco Polo's day there had been more of Asin in Europe and more of Europe in Asia than there. is, perhaps, to day. His bridge Juoma as a symbol. It does not exist any more. One of the first victims of Japan's attempted im print upon the destiny of Asia, it was one of the monumenta of the past that was the first to go.

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It would be quite incorrect affirm that the war with Japan started on July 7, 1937, It han rnged continuously throughout the whole of Asiatic history. In the pereantry past. however, Japan find ver been power.

** navics were mondly tronnerd again and yet again by the Koreans, and a navies they never dominated any stretch of the Pacific.

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tion.

The Chinese who inquires of the Went ns to whether his country will live to see tranquillity and industrial importance in his

Madame Chiang Kai-shek photographed at the dinner party given in Chungking in honour of Admiral Sir Bruce Fraser, who paid a courtesy call on the Generalissimo scon after his arrival in Hong Kong aboard his flagship, H.M.S. Duke of York. From right to left, the photo shows Madame Chiang, Sir Horace Seymour, British Ambassador, General Shang, and Dr. Kang Ngat- kwang, Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs.-(M.O.I. Picture).

colour will present in time their views in historical perspective of the Sino-Japanese struggle uf 1937-46.

The first Japanese war with a China in 1895 marked the begin- ning of the Japanese rise Lu menace as a military power. Ira the Russo-Japanese war of 1906, Kussin lost the war "on paper" through inefleitncy supplies and communications, There was no strategic conception of the im. portance of the four roen behind the

was at the front. one who Russia won the

on paper pence and, perhaps, in fact. Her major were perhaps more important and There more contributive to the release of psychological forces than the re- volution of 1910 or the past eight bitter years. Psychologically they changed the whole picture of the Orient, economically their ulti- mate importance will in a thouing all about the West and nothin a hurried scramble for a now.

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The two wars here referred to

sand years from to-day be deemed scarce worth a line.

The 10th of October will ever loom. Here again, not in ita im- portance 18 a spring-board to China's future or its contribution toward an eradication of all that was so tortuously slow in the past. Pettima lente is as true of China re. in the 27 years between the volution and the war as it was of China under the Manchus.

generation in the man impatient of; festima lente. Unaware of his national strong point, he is loat in a western wilderness. The men who attempt to speed up China be- yond the pace at which she is will- ing to march are the mon who re- tard her,

The bane of China has always been the roturned student know-

ing about the golden tradition of his sages, poets, painters and en- gravers, The man who starts to:

The solution calls for of humour

80180 of the on the part young and the realisation that age too har something to say for it- self.

It is in the adaptation of the westernized youth of China to the realisation that a miracle can- not be achieved overnight that the progress of China lies.

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work in great hustle and bustle and finde in due time that the village elders are only puzzled and a little ruffled by it all. In the many essays written by Lady Southorn in Hong Kong there is one very much to the point. This article is not written for the hasty render, and he is advised to "take pains to find this essay himself, to recognise it and profit by it. The essay has nothing to do with hustle and bustle but picks out only a subtle shade in the Chinese conception of what is really hum- SAME AS and

ourous. This particular however, once recognized,

Exit the Chings. Enter the

China flected in the forgotten and noble careers of men who worked much behind the scenes and whose his

whose contribution is tory and now totally forgotten other than by some aging men in Hawaii, in the Philippines, in Malaya, in the Chinatown of San Fran- cisco.

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reams of amazing detail in the tribution. The gentlemen are period between 1840 and 1910, a They were disinterested in good deal of insight into the real plaudits of the crowd, they Cathay may be acquired.

These looked with growing suspicion at writers were Customs men, retired the growing Japan, they married Army officers, missionaries, off their sons and daughters, they pioneer traders, travellers, but wrote with their camels' hair each and every one, on page 27 or brushes, and the large part of 311, oponed his curiosity to some- them are honourably dead; and thing and unconscionaly hit an er honourably" buried.

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One of their reflections is here in Hong Kong. A man praised, abused and denounced in his time, ho sometimes chuckles over the past, does not really care so much

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