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MRS. ARCHIBALD. LITTLE'S

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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 25r¤, 1918.

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LONDON, December 5th.

Mrs. Archibald Little lectured last night to a numerous nudience of members and friends of the China Society at the Cax ton Hall on "Changes I have noticed in China"-the observations being based on the impressions of her tour. in the East- last year.

Mra. Little took her audiebes on a brief round of her visits to various places, and then exhibited some of her excellent lan- fern slides of China, especially of the Yangtze Gorges. She seems to have enjoyed her return to Hongkong greatly and in have been much pleated with the | improved tramway service. Speaking generally of the Chinese she approved of the cutting of the queues,

Er Shanghai she was impressed by the Gre Y.M.C.A building and the very happy appearance of the young Chinese there. Passing on to speak of the revolu-, tion. Mrs. Little told of several instances. of Chinese, bravery that were mentioned to her, and especially eulogised the way in which the Chinese lady doctors and nurses had gone to the battlefield and tended the

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way.

At Peking there was a Y.M.C.A. on- vention in successful progress, as anothor proof of the distanse China has travelled since she was there before. Under the guidance of a young Chinese educated al University College, London, who was sent to her by President Yuan Shil-kai, she saw the House of Representatives, and noted how well dressed and dignified the members looked and how calmly they, While

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conducted themselves in debate. the old China traveller was apt to vegres the disappearance of the pictur- esque and beviriiful Chinese garb, she had no doubt that the adoption of Western dress was helping the Chiness forward. She found in Peking a tendency for students in Western institutions to study too hard and to be disinclined to spend time on recreations. Then who passed to the opiam question, acknowledging at the

Dr. JAMES CANTLIE, who was in the outset that some of the audience would

She found it disagree with her.

achair, spoke of the Chinese brain as the dreadful idea that England should be largest in the world, which was due to concerned in the storing of 20,000 chests four thousand years of education. Under of opium in Shanghai that the Chinese new conditions the Chinese brain would were bound to allow to enter into China still grow and develop a progress in a She contended that the one thing Eagland few years that would take centuries for could do for Chine was to leave her to a less sophisticated people to achieve. deal with her own opium problem. The Defending the Chinese type of face, be Chinese had made stupendous efforts and a new born baby had almond eyes. It was the development to free themselves from the drug," and and a flat nose.

of a bridge to the nose that saved Western it should not be forced upon theis.

She found the Manchus in parlous people from almond eyes, As bearing out! plight in Peking and their prospects the contention that the Chinese were sceened pitiable, but what had taken brave, Dr. Contlie notierely cited instances of soldiers in the revolution place in the revolution she thought was a grand thing for the Chinese themselves, leaving the hospitals before they were and she hoped they would succeed in cured and soon reapparing in the hos making their way to successful adminis-pitals from the firing line with more tration. Nevertheless, she thought it wounds, but spoke as well of his own rather ominous that so many governors experience in Hongking in fighting the and viceroys had made arrangements for plague, when all the Chinese medical houses and sites in Shanghai and else-studenta volunteered to serve as assistants where as a precaution against possible in the plague hospitals. The Chinese untoward events,"

were a truly great people and had a great Finally she wased onthusiastic over the part to play in the world, for they had great improvements in the road along bravery, commercial instinct and diplo the waterside at Canton, in contrast with matic skill. Finally Dr. Canilie declared the narrow alleys of the place. So his belief tha: Confucianism and Chris- also, she argued, would the whole of tinnity could be blended to strengthen China gradually develop and go forward and develop the ideals of the nation towards. improvements, while the things A section of the audience evidently they loved and respected in the land wanted the Chairman to in tulge in com- would, she hoped, remain as memorialsments on the present situation and he of the ancestors of a great people.

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DISTRICT.

Hongkong & Neighbourhood-

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Mr. Play fair moved a vote of thanks said he had better not, declaring he was to Mrs. Little, and Mr. Arthur Diosy in a dangerous man to have on that Fri seconding said he was glad to hear that platform." A vote of thanks to him, on the President made haste to show Mrs. the motion of Mr. Byron Brenan, was f Satar. 97 m 30 38 4 4 3 360

Little the House of Representatives while it was still in existence. (Laughter.) He, too, eulogiced the Chinese women and said some of them had a great influence in bringing about the revolution. It was customary in England to talk rather saveringly of Young China. There was always a sert of annoyance in England when some foreign people did what they wers, not expected to do-(laughter)-end the crime alleged against the originators. of this Young Chiod movement mainly their youth. (Renewed laughter.) But no great movement that had shaken the earth has been inaugurated by the old Progress belonged to the young. (Cheers.) What had happened in China new had its origin really in what

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