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KHAKI COLLEGE.

CANADIAN SOLDIER STUDENTS.)

A CAMP UNIVERSITY.

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THE ADVENTURE

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[FROM OUR OWN CORRISPONDENT]

The Bunncial results achieved by the"

{BY CICELY FORD.] PERING, February 27th

Nippon Yusen Kaisha during the last

Once upon a time tradesmen used to- THE FDE WITHIN

That was before: Army Command such is call to solicit orders. Pessimism as a cult flourishes these half year are very remarkable.

In these days shopping is a "Khaki College," which within the last the war, days in Peking. Never was the outlook six months ended September 30th, 1914, within an more gloomy. The differences between the profits of this company amounted

Since three or four months has taken form and wild adventure. No ringing up on the North and South not yet arranged. Dis (taking the yen at 25.) to £470,878.~ Sin turbances and untest in the North as then they have risen progressively in the substance at Witley, Camp, in Surrey, the telephone, with a ouave and obsequious well as the South Military leaders con corresponding periods of 1915, 1014, and headquarters of & Division of the Cana shopnian at the other end, waiting, and £350,694, £1,977,564, and dian Army With its Chancellor, ita willing to deliver anything you like to ducting themselves as they see St. The 2017 to

For the same Senate, its professorial staff, its facul order. Instead you must be willing to Government impotent. Such is the China $3,147,020 respectively. of the moment,

Sporiods the total dividend distributions ties, its Bodleian," its class-rooms, its The acting Premier has been given have risen from 10 per cent to 15 per large number of enrolled students, it is, buy anything he will consent to sell.

indeed, a veritable university in an army.MA per leave of absence, and it a suitable man cent to 28 por seat. and now to 50

One does not care, in writing of Khaki I set off on my daily quest armed with can be found to take the substantive cent. The profits for the last half-your

College, to insist too strongly

a basket, a limited supply of cash, and ithopon its position ho will retire Nobody, how allow for, besides this dividend of 50 per

as a university, without directing unlimited hope My first visit is to the

to the somewhat

different ever, stems to be yearning for the onerous cent, the placing of £1,097,008 to

water to hearing the ominous words No

dairy.

I am confronted with a by the

* university post. The aeting Premier, who is ous reserve and dividend equalization

from the Atond time I should have turned the Overses as distinguished from nominally peting as successor to Wang funds and £35,000 as a special fund

the training

protection Bibility. As Wang also declined to accent ment of seamen. The mum of £31,000 is purely British type of mind. In the fully away. I know better now I in Shit-chen, declines to accept any respon

the directors and auditors Dominions all education has a definito quire if I may have a quarter of a pound allowed any responsibility, the country has been without a responsibls Cabinet for several fees and £100,000 as a special grant to and practical aim to prepare men and

the staff ashore and afloat,

eficiently Khe

Khaki College is the expresses if there are any half-pounds or quar- the directors propos sion of the spirit and ideal of a young ters, stowed away under the counter. It authority, so that the country ibin as At the same sad n plight as ever It was the nogi. that the share capital of the company best important pium is to help young is a very brazen shopkeeper who will conte

has no butter when It is dificult to say, what is posi-incraned from $4,400,000 to £10,000.000 tic to were dint

shares of Y.50 soldiers, whose studies may have been

T have known tion with regard to the prospect of com- by the issue .of 1,120,000 promise of of fighting between North and each. No official announcement has yet interrupted by the war, still to equip you set he has (though

something suspiciously like butter attract South, with the Centre, represented by appeared as to the vernis on which this themselves for the return to civil life and it done). Several paper bags containing my attention, and I renew my supplica- the Yangtze provinces taking a strong issue of £5,600,000 will be made but their national ideals –A

Khaki College came about almost by tions A

colloquy ensues with hand in the game. The concentration of when the last increase of capital was northern troops at Wachang does sur made a few years ago the ternis were very accident. At a camp there is little for the army, delight, a gest that the Northerners are bent upon favourable to the shareholders, and it the men to do in the evenings and those small pat is pushed towards me, with tho a military venture, but it requires an may be axceptional acumen to see and to know also assumed that the new terms will responsible for providing healthy recrea remark that Mrs. Bo-and-Sa had not be Bo According to the Japan tion for the Canadian soldiers, who are called for her share yesterday I find that they would prefer peace to war. Weekly Mail, the reason for this increase of a high average order of tducation and it difficult to believa such a statements For one thing the leaders are not quite of capital is said to be the world-wide intelligence, organized regular meetings but I go out in triumph with the butter.

They never competition which is expected to occur of men under a free in the Pine Grove sure of their own men.

It is also reported that to discuss questions of academic and

Quite laced with my suocess, I next. know when the soldiers under then ill after the war.

to schemes of the company provide for practical interest, and to listen to lectures visit n grocer. He is amorese sort of

PROTE

Teamed in the Command.. mutiny or desert. Consequently, they

man, and I realize instinctivdy that it hesitate to put the matter to tis test the construction of 50 vessels, mainly by the

the tons, and also for an extension of the beginnings of ancient Greek schools

A Vargas coinen verving under him Earopcan and American passenger ser of philosophy. Soon a drinard grote for and sugar shortage time request for

in all kinds of subjects. officers and men vices The latter plan is said to be based regular

ten meets with a flat refusal. Were he certain that they had not been on a permanent subsidy from the Japan and the would-be students were so mans

that the Chaplains Ya

I reflect that I may as well be hung (for authorities, and suborned he would probably try conclues Government, while the Nippon

Department of a shoep as a lamb, and in as casual a sions with his former colleagues of the Keisha nuthorities are credited with the especially the

tume as I can command nak for half a

of suger

He glares at me in-. Peiyang party In this he would unintention of

for rood, pound. Resolved to brazen it out, doubtedly have the support of the South. superior to any mustained by shipping ment's vast posibilities In Such a union would most certainly companies before the war. It is worth decided to organize Khaki The repeat dominate the country and catanisha reculling that the Nippon Yusen Karga Ragland, and, with the approval and all con gut olie of him.

Kaisha idea spread to other Canadian

months. Neither has the President any to be carried forwarding 208,451 women to earn their livings in the world to-morrow; at the same time craning my

and

Similarly, Li Shun, the head of the gosteamore, representing about 100,000 There is a parallel here with the car will be no use talking about the war as

CIGARETTE

AND FUND.

Etcamera

the

Canadian Army

Also

to

VARIED LECTURE COURSES.

the

move

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tan.

in camps. of the mung von den ty

To co&x more stable government than the untry is known to have has known since Fuan Shih-ka; died steamers of 10,500 tons in the latter half assistance of the High Canadian Comis

impossible,

fiut Cam But this belongs to the realm of chin. of 1914, which was a piece of good fortune; mand even to France: where there is now sugar, out of this kind of shopman, is a

established "The University of Vim fent well-nigh

bent on achieving tian. All that can safely be said is that orders were then placed for a further Ridge: Thus in the very field of battlä

The value of

While the things I have bought aro the several parties are looking as cech steamers of similar size

123,000 tons of shipping of the his period hold there and clums of civil learning being parcelled I stroll down to the bot other from their respective delences,

cient and modern during this their own. G of high freights can be image over THE FOE WITHOPTERY

Notwithstanding the apparent state the company has not had to minte, rumours of peace have been fro the greater part of its excess earnings quent during the past ten days or so the Government, as has been the case with In certain quarters there has been a the British lines, which, with their profits belief, based upon knowledge of import controlled and their business restricted, ant factors that a statement is deemed are in a less fortunate position.—Times. possible This belief has been strengthen- ed rather then weakened by the reports from the northern and western frontiers. These point to dangers arising from Bolshevik, Austro-German and Turkish uctivities, A Turkisk delegation is said to have entered Chinese Turkestan with the object of stirring up a revolution among the Mohammedans. German and Aus trians also, tre busy in this region. Manchuria is not, free from their baneful influenco. The dangers from without may, it is felt, induce the contending parties to compose their differences and show a united front to the enemy. An appeal to the patriotism of Ell should not be made in vain at this time, and it is greatly to be hoped that, in the interests of the many nations, who are banded together to combat German militariam the Chinese will sink their differences and work together for the common good.

It must be concoded that the problem of Siberis becomes more acuto with the final collapse of Russit. Once again is it possible for Germany to disturb the peace of the Far East, and much against their inclinations, both China and Japan will no doubt be forced to intervene in Siberia. Their own interests will do mand such action. The Cabinet has come to the decision to dispatch an aru O 20,000 to Manchult, the frontier stator of Manchuria on the Chinese Eastern Railway. This army will act in conjane- tion with an expedition sent by Japan, who will furnish the necessary finance and ammunition for this expedition.. Truly, this war has brought about

tom of the shop, where a door leading into an inner room is open. Just round The teaching staffs are recruited from the corner to a box of cube sugar! Tho situation is difficult and delicate; but. within the Canadian Army, and consist the emergency can be met Pointing to the box. I rentark: “You have a tile of distinguished university professors and

"(The box is big, and it others. The courses of lectures cover classics, history: modern languages, and literature, mathematics and engineering, is full. Do try to spare te half n business and agriculture, and the Senate pound. A murmur about not having to go round his regular custom- enongh is

in any establish classes,

CTS leaves me quite unmoved; and I TOBACCO prepared to

subject whatever for which

j there sufficient demand. The lectures are up remain obstinately, with my purse open, to university standards and students waiting for the sugar before I pay the The following is the subscription list from the Canadian universities Barving hill I get it

Fin the Arms,

will have their Khaki Cole we to date.

their almue Many grocers have formed an unplea-- loge work credited "** by

saut habit of asking you where you have Acknowledged to 2nd February,

maires.

If you ask

ask prominent Canadian officers. registered for your sugar supply.

is naked in a tone that im 1919

connected with the movement, to explain The question to you their own conception of its signi plies I know you haven't registered ficance, they will tell you that the Cada here" But shopkeepers who are difficult will dian soldier is the best soldier in the to manage in the matter of world, because of his higher intelligence sometimes permit you to buy tea; and and that Bit is all grist that comes to the food- and of his higher educit make for his seeker's mill in these days. When your theso very qualities, which

Since received M.S.8. sub. March Mr. F. G. Becke, Wham-

sub. February.. poë, SU A bet Collected by Mrs. W EL. Shenton, liat No 7 Collected by Mrs. Arthur, list No.

Expended to 2nd Feb-

ruary 1918 Since expended

5.000 cigarettes to 18th

Infantry 3,000 cigarettes to 74th

Punjabis

200,000 cigarettes sent to the troops at the front

$26,693.27

5.00

20,00 1.00

223.00

470.40

825,370.67

sugar

728.40 any other, it is that prise You may have been seeking jam for

and education, and quite unexpectedly you come across

825,421.67

545.30

-825.916.97

Balance on hand. 305.70

WA DOWLEY (Hon. Sec. and Treasurer) Hongkong. 7th March, 1918.

military success, are the qualities which spirits have sunk to zero, and your have created his national greatness, If ping ardour is

completely damped, you

glad sur this war has taught one lesson more sometimes get the shock of

weeks or months ne the case may be, when life depends upon this factor, after the war, will determine the pre-eminence of nationality. say that thousands upon thousands of Things are taking quite a Gilbertian young

Canadians, by entering the Army turn. Luxuries are to le had more easily have temporarily interrupted these than necessities, Bacon is as expensivo which their national as fresh-caught salrion was in the old have led them to start days Cheese, butter, teu, and sugar aro Khaki College will minimize the handi all controlled with the usual result cap wice place, over The intellectual when the war as

shop where you find a whole row of They neatly-labelled jars,

courses of aspirations

which military service

I have spent the morning cajoling, per

of

Any my offensionis army boa quarter of a pound of butter, balf s an army citizens, and it always

one

eye on civil life. Moreover, when pound of sugar, and two ounces of lea. demobilization Bets in, some time must One bag of controlled coal dust (I had elapse before the Canadian soldiers then ordered half a ton of the best house in England can be repatriated Khaki he

wrought by Aladdin and College, while equipping men for their return to civil life will prevent them his lamp charmed me in childhood To degenerating into vicious babita of idle day I find them pale by comparison with

VERY RIDGE UNIVERSITYA

NEICH

strange combinations China and that a number of the places visited by Japanese banded together in opposition to German militarian may probably the pest are now free from it, or pracness apt to epsue from a prolonged life my adventures among the shops. Daily Justify the Kaiser in his alleged dreadtically so. Pengpu, according to the in the base catos

report of Dr. Cochran, has no further of the Yellow Peril

cases of plague Peking is just as hap Notwithstanding the indecision which pily situated. The two contacts are said It is, indeed, this aspect of the move cial history, commercial geography, com has characterised the Government, the President has at length promulgated the to bo doing well. The authorities for ment which first appealed with especialmercial law, economics, and special several weeks past have bad huts arected force to the High Canadian Command lectures on salesmanship and insurance. regulations for the War Participation within the enclosure of the Temple of and it is to anticipate the problems of There are 150 students of history. 125 of Bureau. Tean Chi-jui has, consequently Heaven for isolation purposes and also the period of demobilization that she English, 75 of the classics, 100 of French, been encouraged to unter upon his duties outside Hsichihmen while other arrange. High Command has encouraged the stab 50 of mathematics, and smaller numberg as Director of this Bureau, which a monts have been claborated which would sent at the the tutives in other courses. Although Khaki Col

lege has only in existence for monte charged with raising an army to send to

quite a four months, examinations in all tho Europa. If events develop in Siberis prevent the epidemic spreading in this of Vimy Ridge.

city. Tsinan, in which it was reported indeed, established on a

held and these trained Chinese troops may be that plague had appeared, is believed to elaborats as the parent institution. I faculties have already been

studente took the papers. The called upon to play a part in Asin itself be clear. At anyrata this will be dealso, has ita Chancellor, teta Rite have not yet been published, bu and to fight for the Allies just as much finitely ascertained by Dr Cochran, who

Its brigade schools, and as if they were in France. Needless to has proceeded thither from Pengpu some idea of the scope of its work by the long list of lectures on

Thai

some 390.

ar all kinds of diplomatic problems Fengchen has had no deaths for professorial start the papers ret are of a high order and

WIRELISH

the

fully up to

furnished

standard. The matriculation ཐས

housed 1 in a large hus for quiet study and research.

will arise but wat may supply a sola-days, and it is reasonable to hope that history and economics applied soienc Libra indicated, has its and literature the reference library already comprises. tion which could not be found by diplo this. sorely-tried city is also free. Tho1usiness, as set forth in the mats. No one knows what a day may fifth city to be recorded as free, or nearly and bring

forth. Big events are pending, is Tingehow, on the Peking Hankowity Ca

Calendar Especially interesting some 500

500 carefully chosen volumes, which Railway This recital of facts ought to the course of lectures on the problems of have been

presented by the Canadian department Much interest has been aroused by the justify a belief in the efficiency of the reconstruction, a course whose character YM.CA and there is also a announcement that the Peking Govern- precautions taken by the responsible reminds one of University Extension Lec where the recommended text books ATD

tures. Tais

course particular

includes on sale. Beveral hits have been set aside ment has signed an agreement with the authorities.

the demand for

for use as class and lecture rooms,

ms. The Mitsui Company for wireless installa. Regarding the Pengpu outbreak it is lectures on the new order, tions throughout China. No details have interesting to learn that the child sc new methods, the lessons of the war, the whole movement is purely voluntary, and

significance of

no fees are charged to the students, be been given by the Ministry of Navy companying the soldier who is supposed to social and political The Japanese Legation is equally to have travelled from Kaigan to Petignu scraps of paper the cronomico yond a registration fee of 18., which on

Bouroeg of the Empire the Canada of ables the student to attend ficent. A few months ago a Danish firm did not die in the train, but in a cart obtained a contract for wireless instalnorth of Peking. This proves that the reorganization of industry it is not desirable to go to and to-morrow the agriculture of lectures he may selecto into further

BARINEnough has been on and commerce, the cool ble

public furnish an idea of the possibilities contract, and also by the Japanese Now The requisite quarantine stations bons resurs of triation

the the contract has been awarded to a having been established on the Peking

ation, and so forth for good which this movement presente. The seed has been sown in fertile ground, Japanese frm Questions suggest them. Saiyuan Railway, the line will be re. But leaving Vimy Ridge and returning and the demand amongst coldiers to be selves, but it will be discreet not to ask opened as soon he regulations he opiate to the principal English of students come enrolled as students

centre it is in them at

1 at present.

up. Dr. Dilley has expressed the opiaten teresting to note

faculties of the college that railway traits might be resumed enrolled in various classes. There are 200

poran but this TIGHTING PLAQUE

200 from Fangchen on February 20th, but the studying scientifle agriculture and The confidence in the plague prevention authorities will probably re-open at first taking the business course. The agrical

with the good will of the Ceaadion which with

the ill measures arried out by the Chinese only the section between Käigan and rural course includes lectures on animal

High The husbandry, field husbandry, horticulture. come B PARALL PERIG, dux so days ago by the report that the plague Hurgeon-General Chuan has appealed Tarm bookkeeping and arithmetic, and perishable renown for itself by itadords

UUND VOLUMES of the HONGKONG authorities was somewhat shaken a few Peking

had appeared as far distant as Pengpu for additional assistance and the Appeal English. The business course includes the bed but as the pioneer of thi and in the capital itself, but that con- has been responded

one shorthand, bookkeeping. With Inn, Pra VM. On Sale at the Daily Paine Office or On Sale at the HANGTONE DART Passfidence will be restored by the knowledge hundred teachers and opt from arithmetic, typewritin

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